RSSTom McCarthy is exhibiting Black Box Transmitter, a flight-recorder that
transmits INS propaganda messages non-stop around a forty-kilometre area, in Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, in the exhibition Eclipse: Art in a Dark Age. The exhibition, which also features work by Paul McCarthy, Mike Nelson, Dana Schutz and others, runs from May 31st to August 24th. The Museum will also be publishing Tom’s 2003 INS report Calling All Agents: Transmission, Death, Technology in Swedish. Tom will take part in a live panel discussion with the other artists in the Eclipse exhibition on 31st May. A book accompanying this Moderna Museet Exhibition (by curator Magnus af Petersens), comes out next week with Steidl Verlag, in English and Swedish.
The following day, on June 1st, Tom will appear at the Festarch literature/art festival in Cagliari, Sardinia. He will be discussing his novel Remainder onstage with festival curator Gianluigi Ricuperati. Tom writes: “Vito Acconci is appearing at exactly the same time in the next room, so you can also see him instead. I’m tempted to blow my gig out myself for that”.
On June 11th, Tom will be in conversation with philosopher Simon Critchley
at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, to mark the publication of his latest work, The Book of Dead Philosophers.
The new Oneworld Classics edition of Alain Robbe-Grillet’s novel Jealousy is out in June, with an introduction by Tom McCarthy. The introduction is also appearing in the June issue of Artforum, which is reprinting diagrams Tom made years ago “when trying to understand Robbe-Grillet’s work”.
The Believer are running an interview with Tom in their June issue. They will also be announcing the winner of The Believer Book Award 2007, for which Remainder is shortlisted.
The Empty Page: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth — which includes a story by Tom — will be published by Serpent’s Tail in June.
Remainder comes out in Italian (Deja Vu, Edizioni ISBN) and Korean (published by Minumsa) at the end of May. Tom will be doing a press event in Milan on June 3rd.
Tom also has a great new Wiki entry.