Dear Stranger, I love you: the ethics of community in Rajni Shah Projects’ Glorious
- Year
- 2013
- Author/Artist
Becky Edmunds, Mary Paterson, et al
- ISBN
- 978-1862203068
Published by Live Art Development Agency and Lancaster University, 2013
14 x 21 x 20cm, two books (120 and 40 pages) and DVD (32 minutes), housed in a card envelope
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Dear Stranger, I love you offers an in-depth exploration of artist Rajni Shah’s Glorious, an experimental performance project that began with a series of conversations between strangers and ended in a large-scale theatre production involving local residents and musicians in each location where it was presented.
The publication brings together four ways of looking at Glorious: a short film made in response to six performances of Glorious by filmmaker Becky Edmunds; a music video shot in and around Lancaster and Morecambe by Lucy Cash; a critical overview of the process behind two iterations of the project by Elizabeth Lynch; and The Glorious Storybook, a collection of memories from throughout the process, edited and contextualised by writer Mary Paterson.
The publication is designed to reflect a process of letter-writing between strangers that lay at the heart of the project, and is packaged within a cover that can be posted directly to each recipient, resulting in a uniquely personalised book cover each time it is sent out.
