Gerry Bibby - The Drumhead

Gerry Bibby - The Drumhead
Author: Natasha Soobramanien (Ed.)
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Language: English
Pages:
Size: 13.2 x 20 cm
Weight: 200 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9783956790652
Price: €18.00
Product Description

Gerry BibbyThe Drumhead

Edited by Natasha Soobramanien

Artist Gerry Bibby’s first publication is a work of fiction that expands on the use of text in his sculpture, performance, and image work. Evoking William Burroughs’s The Wild Boys and Robert Walser’s The Walk, these “language costumes” pay homage to an unruly tradition of radical and queer literary presences over the last century. Their captivating passages brim with wit, wry observation, and (occasional) disgust, offering viewers “ways out,” even if only while reading.

Commissioned by If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution, The Drumhead follows a two-year collaboration with KUB Arena of the Kunsthaus Bregenz, The Showroom London, CCA Glasgow, and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. The book immodestly distills these institutional encounters into a multipart narrative that delves into the lives and psyches of those in the service industry. Exhaustion and frustration besiege a set of characters and the architecture that barely contains them, all of which are cipher-like in their multiplicity (and duplicity).

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November 2014, English
13.2 x 20 cm, 118 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-3-95679-065-2