At once forensic and intimate, the biography traces the extreme discipline and literary strategies Acker used to develop her work, and the contradictions she longed to embody.
10 practitioners from different backgrounds reflect on the broad themes of participation, audience, criticality and writing in a series of short essays and provocations inspired by their own practice and numerous works in Compass Festival 2014.
Commissioned by Newlyn Art Gallery to mark their extension and the opening of The Exchange Gallery in Penzance, in 2007. The book is the outcome of an extensive process of cataloging and extracting repeated words and phrases from the gallery visitors book from a three year period.
Artist/Author: Ju Gosling | Reference: D2258 | Type: DVD
Video. Commissioned by the Science Museum and Apples and Snakes as part of the Faltered States show. Performed at the Science Museum on 21 March 2003 and at Battersea Arts Centre on 28 March 2003.Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
