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In this playful exercise and original reimagining of psychogeography, Brouwn collected maps and routes drawn by passersby whom he had asked for directions, then rubber-stamped them “This way brouwn”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConceived over two days in 1961 but not published until a decade later, “This Way Brouwn” remains one of his most performative artist's books. He literally transformed the everyday act of walking into art, in parallel with contemporaries who likewise adopted walking as an artistic medium, from the Situationists' explorations of psychogeography to Richard Long's “A Line Made by Walking” and Robert Smithson's “A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic,” among others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“This Way Brouwn” is a walkscape in its own right, carrying both poetic and political resonance. As Francesco Careri writes in his seminal text Walkscapes: Walking as an Aesthetic Practice: \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou have to learn how to lose time, not always seeking the shortest route, letting yourself get detoured by events, heading towards more impenetrable paths where it is possible to ‘stumble,’ maybe even to get stuck, talking with the people you meet or knowing how to stop, forgetting that you were supposed to proceed; to know how to achieve unintentional walking, indeterminate walking.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54031039856979,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/ThisWayBrouwn.png?v=1781792883"},{"product_id":"tatvan","title":"Tatvan","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStanley Brouwn's conceptual practice was centred on themes of distance, movement, and physical mapping as means of moving beyond abstract visual representation towards literal and minimal forms of depiction. This volume, published by Aktionsraum 1 in Munich (one of the seminal German independent spaces for Conceptual art), distills Brouwn’s exploration of numerical representation to its essential form.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe artist travelled to Tatvan, in eastern Turkey, in 1970. Known for being the terminus of an important railway line, the city set on the western \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eshore of Lake Van\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is particularly scenic. After having photographed the landscape in the direction of the railway's imagined continuation, Brouwn decided to sublimate the imagery with the numerical. The book thus consists solely of a sequence of possible distances, one per page: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ex – Tatvan 1 km\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ex – Tatvan 1,000 km\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; and so on, continuing “ad infinitum” into increasingly large numerical values. The work reduces the idea of place to numerical distance alone, proposing a conception of space that exists independently of visual description or pictorial and geographic representation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54063581954387,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Brouwn.png?v=1782129417"},{"product_id":"week-programma-amsterdam","title":"Week Programma Amsterdam","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis cultural information booklet includes a contribution by Stanley Brouwn in the centre spread, featuring a street map of Amsterdam's Kinkerstraat neighbourhood with a printed arrow on Kinkerstraat pointing towards La Paz. A text on the lower right-hand page reads: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"stanley brouwn. la paz. the section of Kinkerstraat between Nassaukade and Bilderdijkstraat points exactly in the direction of La Paz. On 6 December at 10 o'clock, at the above-mentioned location, stanley brouwn will walk 100 steps in the direction of La Paz.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e [loosely translated from Dutch] \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLa Paz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was both the title of Brouwn's conceptual art exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and of the accompanying publication. The project invited participants to follow directional arrows and walk prescribed distances aligned with cities around the world, transforming orientation and movement into conceptual gestures. Like many of Brouwn's works, this intervention reflects his obsession with numerical and directional systems in place of conventional visual representation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eListed in Harry Ruhé's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStanley Brouwn: A Chronology\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, this \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeekprogramma\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e leaflet is among the most elusive pieces of Brouwn's printed ephemera.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54063953576275,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/LaPaz.png?v=1782132290"},{"product_id":"100-this-way-brouwn-problems-for-computer-i-b-m-360-model-95","title":"100 this-way-brouwn-problems for computer I. B. 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Whether the response took the form of a sketch or a verbal description, the resulting document was authenticated with the stamp \"This way Brouwn,\" transforming everyday acts of navigation into conceptual artworks.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book, by contrast, consists of one hundred problems addressed to the IBM 360 Model 95, including requests such as: \"show brouwn the way in all cities, villages, etc., on earth from point x to all other points in those cities, villages, etc.\" Far exceeding the computational capabilities of the period, these instructions were never intended to produce practical solutions. Instead, they expand the conceptual scope of Brouwn's “This Way Brouwn” project by positioning the computer as a speculative interlocutor. The work thus anticipates later artistic explorations of human–machine dialogue, proposing a mode of inquiry in which the value lies in the question rather than its resolution.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54188502876499,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/IBM.png?v=1783089223"},{"product_id":"afghanistan-zambia","title":"Afghanistan - Zambia","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStanley Brouwn's conceptual practice revolved around themes of distance, movement, and measurement, using physical mapping to move beyond abstract representation towards radically simple forms of depiction. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Gegenverkehr e. V. Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst in Aachen in May 1971, this volume records the artist's \"total number of steps\" in a series of countries, from \"Afghanistan\" to \"Zambia\", transforming numerical data into a performative act of journaling. Through this deliberate redundancy, Brouwn offers a conceptual and poetic way of representing the world: not through images or maps, but through the thousands of steps he literally took.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54206650024275,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Afghanistan-Zambia.png?v=1783244594"},{"product_id":"la-paz","title":"la paz","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSoon after arriving in Amsterdam in 1957, Stanley Brouwn became associated with the Dutch Nul group, and later developed a practice aligned with Fluxus and conceptual art. Centred on distance, movement, and physical mapping, his work replaced abstract visual representation with literal and radically minimal forms of depiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, this artist’s book distills Brouwn’s interest in walking as an artistic medium. A gesture in psychogeography, it consists of 21 instructions for short walks, ranging from “walk 95 m in the direction of la paz” to “walk 5 m in the direction of guatemala”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book’s spare structure alternates each instruction with a blank page, leaving the reader to envision a journey towards a distant destination.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrouwn’s propositions resonate with the work of Robert Smithson and Richard Long, whose practices similarly engaged with movement and space. 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