{"product_id":"group-works-9781531502706","title":"Group Works","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exciting new reflection on the role of artistic collaboration, collectivism, and the politics of group formation in the neoliberal era.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe artist and author Ethan Philbrick’s \u003ci\u003eGroup Works \u003c\/i\u003ere-imagines the group by undertaking an historiographic archaeology of group aesthetics and politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten against both phobic and romantic accounts of collectivity, \u003ci\u003eGroup Works \u003c\/i\u003econtends that the group emerges as a medium for artists when established forms of collective life break down. Philbrick pairs group pieces in dance, literature, film, and music from the 1960s and 1970s downtown Manhattan scene alongside a series of recent group experiments: Simone Forti’s dance construction, \u003ci\u003eHuddle \u003c\/i\u003e(1961), is put into relation with contemporary re-performances of Forti’s score and huddling as a feminist political tactic; Samuel Delany’s memoir of communal living, \u003ci\u003eHeavenly Breakfast: An Essay on the Winter of Love \u003c\/i\u003e(1969\/78), speaks to performance artist Morgan Bassichis’s 2017 communal musical adaptation of Larry Mitchell’s 1977 text, \u003ci\u003eThe Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions\u003c\/i\u003e; Lizzie Borden’s experimental documentary of feminist collectivity, \u003ci\u003eRegrouping \u003c\/i\u003e(1976), sits alongside visual artist Sharon Hayes’s 2014 piece on Manhattan’s Pier 54, \u003ci\u003eWomen of the World Unite! they said\u003c\/i\u003e; and Julius Eastman’s insurgent piece of chamber music for four pianos, \u003ci\u003eGay Guerrilla \u003c\/i\u003e(1979), resonates alongside contemporary projects that take up Eastman’s legacy by artists such as Tiona Nekkia McClodden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy analyzing works that articulate the politics of race, gender, and sexuality as questions of group formation, Philbrick approaches the group not as a stable, idealizable entity but as an ambivalent way to negotiate and contest shifting terms of associational life. \u003ci\u003eGroup Works \u003c\/i\u003epresents an engaging exploration of what happens when small groups become a material and medium for artistic and political experimentation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ethan Philbrick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42959963455606,"sku":"9781531502706","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_ab04f29c-4261-477f-b0b6-08f7b8d246c2.jpg?v=1778362000","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/group-works-9781531502706","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}