Overview
COOP documents Swedish artist Fia Backstrom's (born 1970) performances of two recent scripts, continuing her exploration of language, marketing, disorders and performance. The first script operates according to two distinct logics: a four-part linear base structure and text material that was chosen and read during the performance through chance movement of the performer's body across a grid. This publication was especially designed to reflect this type of unpredictable and spontaneous movement. Mathematical symbols have been embedded into the text and these symbols link to ones on the upper corner of pages with nonlinear material. These indicate where the text could be inserted during a performance, thus incorporating the form of performance into the book. The second script serves as an epilogue to the first and was performed by four voices, reading from beginning to end without assigned lines, sometimes simultaneously.
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Publisher: Primary Information
Imprint: Primary Information
Dimensions:
Width: 18.80cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 21.80cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9780990689645
ISBN 10: 0990689646
Pages: 134
Publication Date: 25 October 2016
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General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Backstrom's writings, installations, and performances originate from her social context...and by adopting personas from an amateur to a bureaucrat, she fluidly challenges prevailing institutional power dynamics within communities of artists and intellectuals. Her new book COOP A-Script, which experiments with poetic language and its visual and physical manifestations, reminds us that reading is an irresolvable negotiation with the present.--Sam Korman Art in America
Backstrom's writings, installations, and performances originate from her social context...and by adopting personas from an amateur to a bureaucrat, she fluidly challenges prevailing institutional power dynamics within communities of artists and intellectuals. Her new book <i>COOP A-Script</i>, which experiments with poetic language and its visual and physical manifestations, reminds us that reading is an irresolvable negotiation with the present.--Sam Korman Art in America
Backstroem's writings, installations, and performances originate from her social context...and by adopting personas from an amateur to a bureaucrat, she fluidly challenges prevailing institutional power dynamics within communities of artists and intellectuals. Her new book COOP A-Script, which experiments with poetic language and its visual and physical manifestations, reminds us that reading is an irresolvable negotiation with the present.--Sam Korman Art in America Backstrom's writings, installations, and performances originate from her social context...and by adopting personas from an amateur to a bureaucrat, she fluidly challenges prevailing institutional power dynamics within communities of artists and intellectuals. Her new book COOP A-Script, which experiments with poetic language and its visual and physical manifestations, reminds us that reading is an irresolvable negotiation with the present.--Sam Korman Art in America
