Paraperformance

PUBLIK UNIVERSAL FRXND (fka Richard John Jones)

This first publication brings together texts, documentation, scripts and reference material relating to the body of work PUBLIK UNIVERSAL FRXND (fka Richard John Jones) started in 2013. Marking a new cycle in their work the book makes a claim about the status of performance in the context of their wider practice and the function of documentation and image regimes in our current times. The book is claimed to be a form of ‘paraperformance’, meaning a collection of materials that have circulated alongside or chosen to represent the live moments created in their work over a five year period. It represents seven distinct works of installation, sculpture, and performance by the artist including a new work that is made specifically for the pages of this book. This collection of materials touches on diverse sources and references including the Radical Faerie movement, the Spanish magazine ‘Party’, Liberace’s libel trials, images of uncontacted Amazonian tribes, the political writing of Jean Genet and an early performance work of Vito Acconci to name but a few. The thread amongst all of the works included in this book is the subtle interweaving of discourses around theatre, performance, the law, representation and politics and the oscillation between urban space, the public sphere and a queer wilderness. More widely the book uses the specificities within PUBLIK UNIVERSAL FRXND's research to consider the role that performance could play within the art field and, by extension, how documentation and representation of our everyday lives impacts on how we understand our world at large.

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102 pages - 5 colours Riso printing -
190 x 260 mm - 170 numbered copies.
Authors and contributors: PUBLIK UNIVERSAL FRXND, Denise Ferreira Da Silva, Calogero Giametta, Caspar Heinemann, Frances Ruiz et Jessica.
Texts in English
Graphic Design : PUBLIK UNIVERSAL FRXND
ISBN : 979-10-90298-06-4 - 2018