Life of the Party by Harmony Holiday


ISBN
9781635902013
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
136

An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday's first solo museum exhibition, Black Backstage.

Life of the Party is an archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture-its poetics and its realities and its ruins, both seen and unseen. Produced concurrent with Black Backstage, Harmony Holiday's first solo museum exhibition, the book acts as a blueprint, a script, and a ledger for this exhibition as well as a stand-alone record of the territory it covers. Holiday assembles artifacts from this tradition, especially found photographs taken of artists backstage, to tell the story of the culture within the culture, retrieving a secret history of the gestures, murmurs, shouts, and reversals that occur offstage and off the record. Colliding image, text, and even audio (in an album accompaniment to the book that Holiday will also produce as part of this series of works), Life of the Party reveals the backstage as by turns mundane, vulgar, and glorious- a site of sacred ritual behind the spectacle of performance.
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