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Discover the profound insights of Fiona McGregor in her compelling book, Buried Not Dead. This collection of essays intricately weaves together themes of art, literature, performance, sexuality, and activism, brilliantly capturing the vibrant life of the city. With an ensemble of performance artists, writers, dancers, tattooists, and DJs—both renowned and emerging—McGregor creates a rich tapestry that serves as a vital cultural archive. Famed figures like Marina Abramovi? and Mike Parr share the spotlight with influential voices like Latai Taumoepeau and Lanny K, offering readers a unique glimpse into their intersecting worlds.
McGregor, an artist deeply embedded in the realms she portrays, explores the evolution from a time of uninhibited creativity to the contemporary landscape of cultural constraints. Her essays reflect her participation and witness to these dynamic scenes, providing an artist’s perspective combined with novelist’s depth. Through her writing, she not only chronicles the vibrant community of radical art-makers but also unveils the personal stories that inform her own journey.
Quotes from notable reviewers highlight the book's significance: 'Compromise-averse, dangerous, this book is also a precious archive of radical art-making witnessed firsthand.' – Maria Tumarkin. 'Cutting across the boring divides between high art and low dives, Buried Not Dead is alive to what's alive.' – McKenzie Wark.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Condition: BRAND NEW. ISBN: 9781925818604. Year: 2021. Publisher: Giramondo Publishing.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781925818604
Year: 2021
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Description:
Novelist Fiona McGregor'snew book, Buried Not Dead, is a collection of essays on art, literature and performance, sexuality, activism and the life of the city. It features performance artists, writers, dancers, tattooists and DJs, some of them famous, like Marina Abramović and Mike Parr, while others, like Latai Taumoepeau, Lanny K and Kathleen Mary Fallon, are important figures but less well known. In her portraits of these performers and artists and the scenes they inhabit, McGregor creates an intimate and expansive archive of a kind rarely recorded in our histories.
Fiona McGregor has a deep and enduring involvement in the worlds she represents. She came of age as an artist during an outpouring of performative queer creativity, in a community that celebrated subversion, dissent and uninhibited partygoing, and in her writing she observes the shift from that moment to new forms of cultural repression. McGregor is a participant in her essays as well as a witness — she sees through an artist's eyes and records what she perceives with a novelist's insight. In excavating the lives of others, she reveals her own, and shows the possibilities that exist beneath the surface of our culture.
'Compromise-averse, dangerous, this book is also a precious archive of radical art-makingwitnessedfirsthand.' — Maria Tumarkin
'MacGregor has a fine eye for the moment, in a text or performance, when the marvellous happens. Cutting across the boring divides between high art and low dives,Buried Not Deadis alive to what's alive.' — McKenzie Wark
'In a world that bludgeons you in
McGregor, an artist deeply embedded in the realms she portrays, explores the evolution from a time of uninhibited creativity to the contemporary landscape of cultural constraints. Her essays reflect her participation and witness to these dynamic scenes, providing an artist’s perspective combined with novelist’s depth. Through her writing, she not only chronicles the vibrant community of radical art-makers but also unveils the personal stories that inform her own journey.
Quotes from notable reviewers highlight the book's significance: 'Compromise-averse, dangerous, this book is also a precious archive of radical art-making witnessed firsthand.' – Maria Tumarkin. 'Cutting across the boring divides between high art and low dives, Buried Not Dead is alive to what's alive.' – McKenzie Wark.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Condition: BRAND NEW. ISBN: 9781925818604. Year: 2021. Publisher: Giramondo Publishing.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781925818604
Year: 2021
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Description:
Novelist Fiona McGregor'snew book, Buried Not Dead, is a collection of essays on art, literature and performance, sexuality, activism and the life of the city. It features performance artists, writers, dancers, tattooists and DJs, some of them famous, like Marina Abramović and Mike Parr, while others, like Latai Taumoepeau, Lanny K and Kathleen Mary Fallon, are important figures but less well known. In her portraits of these performers and artists and the scenes they inhabit, McGregor creates an intimate and expansive archive of a kind rarely recorded in our histories.
Fiona McGregor has a deep and enduring involvement in the worlds she represents. She came of age as an artist during an outpouring of performative queer creativity, in a community that celebrated subversion, dissent and uninhibited partygoing, and in her writing she observes the shift from that moment to new forms of cultural repression. McGregor is a participant in her essays as well as a witness — she sees through an artist's eyes and records what she perceives with a novelist's insight. In excavating the lives of others, she reveals her own, and shows the possibilities that exist beneath the surface of our culture.
'Compromise-averse, dangerous, this book is also a precious archive of radical art-makingwitnessedfirsthand.' — Maria Tumarkin
'MacGregor has a fine eye for the moment, in a text or performance, when the marvellous happens. Cutting across the boring divides between high art and low dives,Buried Not Deadis alive to what's alive.' — McKenzie Wark
'In a world that bludgeons you in