"A mixed-media production housed in a hi-tech aluminum case, which contains Felicia Rice's artists' book with performance texts by artist/writer Guillermo Gómez-Peña and critical commentary by art historian Jennifer González; video by artist Gustavo Vazquez; and sound art by Zachary Watkins."--Publisher website. Full list of contents of the aluminum box: one artists' book, one hand bound pamphlet with essays and performance texts, one folded prospectus for the work, one audio disc, one videodisc, and a handmade Mexican professional wrestler's mask. The inside lid of the box is decorated with spotted and green faux fur trim and round mirrors. Within the box are mounted an audio speaker and eight compartments of fetish items covered with a plexiglass lid. Includes writteninstructions and a power cord. An edition of sixty-five copies of the accordion-fold book feature Gómez-Peña's performance texts and Rice's relief prints and typography. Critical commentary by González and other essays appear in an accompanying pamphlet. Vazquez and Gómez-Peña's video collaboration and Watkins' sound art are housed with the book and pamphlet in a clamshell book box. A deluxe edition of fifteen copies housed in aluminum cases contain a mirrored altar and a cabinet of ritual curiosities, "opening the case lights the altar and triggers Watkins' sound art, pressing buttons within brings up specific compositions"--Colophon
Summary:
"In this sequel to Moving Parts Press's 1998 publication, CODEX ESPANGLIENSIS, Felicia collaborates once more with performance artist/writer Guillermo Gómez-Peña and art historian/critic Jennifer González, as well as video artist Gustavo Vazquez and sound artist/engineer Zachary Watkins"--Publisher's website. "The object itself carries within a crisis of identity: What is it exactly? A stage for an intimate one-on-one performance? An unusual video screening room? A personal multi-media altar? A "vanity" used for preparing for a performance? It is all these things and it is also an original book devised by Felicia; a book in search of a new format and a new audience. Each element (the book itself, the vanity/altar box, the performance video, the critical essays, the aural experience) stands by itself, but together they form an indescribable whole. And it is precisely this whole that we are after--Guillermo Gómez-Peña"--Publisher's website.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)926050117
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.