Casco Issues XI: An Ambigious Case,

Titled An Ambiguous Case, Issue XI has been edited by Emily Pethick, Marina Vishmidt and Tanja Widmann, and was developed through the process of a conversation on the subject of openness. This inquiry led into a discussion around a number of related terms – criticality, fractures, ambivalence, ambiguity, undecidability and conflict, to name a few – as well as distinctions between recognising openness as a condition, and practising, or doing, openness. The editors opened this question out to a number of artists and designers, including Babak Afrassiabi and Nasrin Tabatabai (Pages), Gregory Bateson, Gregg Bordowitz, Judith Hopf, Jutta Koether, Runo Lagomarsino, Agency (Kobe Matthys), Metahaven, and The Otolith Group.
The publication also includes a conversation between the editors and two ‘Metalogues’ by British anthropologist & sociologist Gregory Bateson; conversational speech acts that could be seen as creating a form of openness, producing moments of conflict, suspension and indeterminacy.


Contributions
Babak Afrassiabi & Nasrin Tabatabai (Pages), Gregory Bateson, Gregg Bordowitz, Judith Hopf, Jutta Koether, Runo Lagomarsino, Agency, Metahaven, The Otolith Group, Emily Pethick, Marina Vishmidt, Tanja Widmann
Edited by
Emily Pethick
Marina Vishmidt
Tanja Widmann
Design by
Julia Born
Laurenz Brunner