About the Book
This book, by artist, Kevin Townsend explores the intersection of obsession, our phenomenological experience of time and contemporary art practice. Through a series of brief writings, Townsend proposes a new definition for obsession. Presenting it as a phenomenological time-space, a storm of attention, an antidote to the increasingly polychromic experiences of our present and a means of agency production in contemporary art practice. Throughout the text, the word obsession appears in bright pink and crossed out—the trace of a negating thought across its letters like a scar—marking a new, non-clinical definition of this term.
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Kevin Townsend
Boston, USA
Kevin Townsend in an internationally recognized, Boston-based, interdisciplinary artist/educator. He is a professor at both Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) and School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA). Kevin’s time-based work centers around mark-making and obsession. His current work often brings together elements of drawing and installation and are performative, public, durational, and temporal.