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Item: Confidences / Majority

2022

Artist Novel, 11 x 18 cm, 208 p., language : English, publisher : After 8 Books, ISBN : 978-2-492650-05-5.
Materials: ink, paper

Collection: M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2031/970).

Literary synopsis

Gilgamesh “Gil” Gupta is a theatre maker and self-defined “avant-gardist.” As a young vampire, Gil’s alienation from time, body, and identity only increases with the murder of his sire, Patrice. Seasons pass in spite of this, and Gil endeavours to circumvent inter-species edicts to foster a meaningful audience. Recognition becomes a vocation. Confidences / Majority is a novel that presents entertainment as critical gospel. Seething a trail of cultural debris, Majority is the second instalment in Ivan Cheng’s Confidences series, which deploys a version of the vampire and performance as sites for transformation and maintenance.

Novel's website

Authorship: Artist Author.

Creative Strategy: No Link to Artworks, Novel Score for Performance.

Genre: Gothic.

Publishing: Art Books Publishing House.

Theme: Community, Performance.

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