TANK Book Talks: Victor Burgin and Leslie Dick

TANK Book Talks: Victor Burgin and Leslie Dick We listen back to a conversation hosted at the British Library as part of our Book Talks series earlier this year, between artist Victor Burgin and writer Leslie Dick. They discuss the web-based version of Burgin’s work Afterlife (a book and an exhibition are to follow), which consists of a series of full-screen images, most of which are digitally generated, and a brief text in which a scientist searches for his wife in a simulated afterlife. As they traverse the work’s themes, Burgin and Dick discuss immaterial objects, the iceberg theory of writing and the financialisation of the contemporary art world.