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I cancel all my works at death
- Title
- I cancel all my works at death / James Lee Byars ; written and directed by, Triple Candie ; dramaturgy by, Jens Hoffmann.
- Author
- Byars, James Lee.
- Publication
- Detroit : Museum of Contempoary Art, ©2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | N6537.B9 A4 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 137 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
- Summary
- Titled after James Lee Byars' famous proclamation, 'Triple candie's i cancel all my works at death' posits that Byars and his work are better misremembered than reexperienced. Triple Candie is a fugitive institution operated by two art historians that produces exhibitions "about art but devoid of it" that are realized without the involvement of artists. This book includes documentation of the exhibition as well as two recollections (by the artist's teenage sweetheart and a late-life acquaintance), essays on creative reconstruction and Byars' relationship to Detroit, a conversation between Triple Candie and a lawyer on the legal ramifications of artistic cancelation, and an assortment of quotes by Radiohead, Ivor Cutler and others that have nothing and everything to do with Byars and this show. The book is available in two different dust jackets. Exhibition: Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, USA (2014).
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- "This publication accompanies the exhibition James Lee Byars : I cancel all my works at death, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and presented there from February 7 to May 4, 2014."--Colophon.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Foreword & acknowledgments / Elysia Borowy-Reeder -- Introduction / Triple Candie: Shelly Bancroft and Peter Nesbett -- Letter from Detroit (to Thomas McEvilley) / Dolores Hart -- The first story / Lewis Hyde -- Without a trace: James Lee Byars / Jens Hoffmann -- I want to have control (Creep) / Radiohead -- Once upon a time: Byars in Japan / Yoann Gournel and Elodie Royer -- To be whispered between ears / Dorit Cypis -- Imperial yellow / Hans Theys -- For those of you / Peter Sellars -- Exhibition views / Triple Candie and others -- You are already dead / Dirty Projectors -- The imperfect obituary : composite of obituaries / published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Il Giornale Dell'Arte, Het Parool, Liberation, the New York Times, NRC Handelsblad, Der Spiegel, and The Independent -- The perfect obituary / The Detroit Free Press -- When we die / Ivor Cutler -- Life after death / Triple Candie and Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento in conversation -- When I was an alien (Territorial pissings) / Nirvana -- Agamben's in praise of profanation, altered / Triple Candie.
- ISBN
- 9780982389638
- 0982389639
- OCLC
- ocn889738124
- 889738124
- SCSB-1813102
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library