“ ” #4 GCC / Internal Affairs 2013 - 2018 (quotation mark series)

GCC is an acronym that does not stand for but alludes to the Gulf Cooperation Council, the intergovernmental political and economic partnership that connects six countries in the region. The artist “delegation” or collective GCC was formed in 2013. Its eight members, all of whom have close ties to the Arabian Gulf, are scattered across the globe. Internal Affairs is a collection of selected images and conversations from GCC’s five-year WhatsApp archive.

Edited by Adam Gibbons and Eva Wilson, “ ” (quotation mark quotation mark) is a series of books that looks at the forms and roles of publishing as and within artists’ practices. Each issue initiates a dialogue with an artist or artist group, through which a body of work is introduced. The series hosts conversations with artists who work at the intersection of publishing and exhibition-making: through circulation, dissemination, spamming, dispersion, print, data, language, myth, parasiting and infiltration.