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Publisher Note

Tripple Dribble is a long term project by French artist Julia Borderie. It was initiated in collaboration with basketball players in Montreal (2015) and Val-de-Marne (2018, with Céline Bouffard) and explores the common space between basketball and the visual art discipline. Conceived as a guide, this edition proposes that the reader re-appropriate and re-invent the principles of an existing game, to determine new rules and new gestures for play. The book teaches its readers not only a new interpretation of basketball but an attitude that applies to many spheres of life. Even if one is not able to change the rules (of a game) on a large scale, one is able to change them in a small social unit. The French sociologist Michel de Certeau speaks in his famous book “The Practice of Everyday Life” [Arts de Faire] about so-called “spaces of actions” [espace d’action]. He describes how individuals can change social rules by creating their own spaces of actions within an existing system. Tripple Dribble is without doubt such a space of action, a vivid example that change is possible without changing the entire game but by adding new dimensions, values and also barriers into it.

Artists’ Book

How to play Tripple Dribble

— A guide for sculptural basketball players

by Julia Borderie

Publisher
Release Place Vienna, Austria
Edition 1st edition
Release Date October 2020
Credits
Artist: Julia Borderie
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-3-903353-03-9
Work  
Language English
Dimensions 10.5 × 14.5 cm
Pages 88

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