#308 May 2016 merchandising “Ways of Living” at the

“Ways of Living” at the David Roberts Art Foundation

Lisa Ruyter

◯ What Did Happen or What Might Have Happened or What Can Never Happen

Rafman also designed a special cover for Flash Art

by Benjamin Weil and Éric Troncy

#308 May 2016 merchandising “Ways of Living” at theFollowing the death of Italian novelist, semiologist and philosopher Umberto Eco, this issue takes as its point of departure questions posed by Ecos eponymous theory of the open work. Ecos collection of essays Opera Aperta [The Open Work] was published in 1962, when chance operations and indeterminacy became constitutive elements of the creative process. In todays cultural climate, Ecos thinking on openness remains relevant to art practice and