Eating and Time by Marvin Heimburger: A Guide to Chronophagy takes the form of a fictional diet book proposing the “Chronophagy Diet” — a method for losing existential rather than physical weight. Loosely based on Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time, the book introduces the fictional author Marvin Heimburger, who uses diagrams, instructions, and pseudo-scientific reasoning to demonstrate how the burden of existence might be reduced simply by consuming time. Through humour and appropriation, the work transforms philosophical inquiry into the familiar language and visual conventions of a self-help manual.

Artist’s book, author’s edition, offset, 42 pages, edition of 20, 2016.