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Headless Commercial Thriller
Alexander Provan

A digital project, part of Active Rot, Headless
  • Alexander Provan is the editor of Triple Canopy and a contributing editor of Bidoun. He is the recipient of a 2015 Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and was a 2013–15 fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. His writing has appeared in the Nation, n+1, Art in America, Artforum, Frieze, and in several exhibition catalogues. His work has been presented at the 14th Istanbul Biennial, Museum Tinguely (Basel), 12th Bienal de Cuenca (Ecuador), New Museum (New York), Kunsthall Oslo, and Hessel Museum of Art (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York), among other venues. Measuring Device with Organs was recently published by Triple Canopy as an LP.
“Headless Commercial Thriller” is the preface to Headless, a mystery novel by the fictional author K. D., to be published by Triple Canopy as a print and digital book in the coming months. The names of certain individuals described in “Headless Commercial Thriller” have been changed in order to protect their identity. “Headless Commercial Thriller” was published as part of Triple Canopy’s Immaterial Literature project area, which receives support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston, the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Tags: Fiction, Money, Mythology
18 Active Rot
  • Ride the Recoil, by Adela Jušić
  • The Dynasty Handbag Show, by Jibz Cameron & Hedia Maron
  • Headless Commercial Thriller, by Alexander Provan
  • This Time We’ll Keep It a Secret, by Martin Beck
  • Danny Boy, by Rebecca Bird
  • Adaptation after Metalogue (Part 2), by Boru O’Brien O’Connell
  • This Can Happen Now, by Peter Fend
  • Gray Rainbows, by Antonia Hirsch
  • This Is Your Brain on Paper, by Isabelle Moffat
  • History Works, by B. Wurtz
  • Sons, by Sara Greenberger Rafferty
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