2013
Edited by Serkan Özkaya
With contributions by Christopher Eamon, Christina Goberna, Alanna Heiss, Spyros Papapetros, Hrag Vartanian, Ines Weizman, Urtzi Grau, Pedro Gadanho, Liza Béar, Lynne Tillman, Michael Morris, Eva Franch i Gilabert
Design: Pentagram

7.75 x 5.25 x 0.5 inches
164 pages, 402 illustrations
paperback

Double was the second publication to be born out of Storefront’s Manifesto Series. Double includes a group of artists, architects, critics, historians and theorists discussing the effects, desires, and implications of the act of doubling, replicating, or copying.

Storefront’s Manifesto Series was an event based encounter that intended to develop and expose fresh and new ideas. The purpose of the Manifesto Series was to encourage the formulation of positions in relation to specific topics and instigate spirited discussion and exchange in a dynamic and polemical context. The events aimed to reinvigorate and reinvent the manifesto format as a way of exchanging ideas, compelling participants to denounce a certain past or present condition, proclaim an alternative present, past or future situation, and indicate a strategy or method of action. This publication is a matured version of the manifestos presented at Storefront for Art and Architecture on March 6th, 2012 on the occasion of the arrival to New York of David (inspired by Michelangelo), a double-size, golden replica of Michelangelo’s David by conceptual artist Serkan Özkaya with a transcript of several conversations around three paella dinners (Paella Series).

Society has constantly regulated the act of copying. Almost as an instinctual impulse towards originality, the desire and need for constant innovation has been protected and regulated throughout history by public shame, bureaucratic forms, or even trials. While copying constitutes the early stage of any learning process, contemporary advanced forms of creation are invested in the definition of taxonomies and development of tools to apprehend preexisting forms as the first step towards contemporary modes of production that are more incisive in responding to contemporary issues. The production of sameness and difference is the issue at the very core of this publication. This compilation of manifestos explodes the understandings, potentialities and possibilities embedded in the act of copying opening a path for learning by copying, and ultimately copying better.