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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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My Barbarian

My Barbarian

Edwards, Adrienne
Gaines, Malik
Gordon, Jade

Hardcover

Art HistoryIndividual ArtistsPerformance Art

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ISBN10: 0300260121
ISBN13: 9780300260120
Publisher: Whitney Museum Of Amer Art
Published: Feb 22 2022
Pages: 168
Weight: 2.40
Height: 0.79 Width: 8.19 Depth: 11.73
Language: English
An unprecedented look at the contemporary collective's theatrical art, charting their performances and exploring their social and creative commitments

The first monographic publication on the art collective My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon, and Alexandro Segade) offers new insights into the work of this singular group of performers. My Barbarian has used performance to theatricalize social issues, adapting narratives from modern plays, historical texts, and mass media; this volume accompanies a major retrospective celebrating the group's twentieth anniversary. An overview essay relates their work's formal qualities to several historical moments over this span: the club era following September 11, 2001; postcolonial theater after the 2008 financial collapse; and political theater responding to the pressing issues of today. Other contributions read the collective's output through a lens of queer and other critical theory, and contextualize it within the twenty-first-century experimental performance scene. A richly illustrated visual chronology features texts on each of My Barbarian's past works written by the artists. Performances and video works are re-created using stills alongside photos, drawings, scripts, and personal materials drawn from the artists' archives, many never previously published.

Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art

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