The Triumph of Crowds book cover
May 1, 2019 | Litmus Press | 978—1—933959—39—9

The Triumph of Crowds

Brigid McLeer
$15.00

The Triumph of Crowds is a lecture as performance, or performance as lecture, distributed between the voices and gestures of ten performers. Written in conversation with Nicholas Poussin’s painting The Triumph of David (1631), The Triumph of Crowds asks the question “What does it mean to appear politically?” In McLeer’s invented form of the “distributed performance lecture,” the author undertakes an aesthetic experiment in leveling the structured spaces in which political discourse and actions occur. Triumph unfolds in the space of a “pause” and scatters its performance “across so many bodies, images, objects, voices and sounds” to explore the politics of public assembly, protest, and becoming “us.”

Brigid Mc Leer is an Irish artist based in London. She trained in Fine Art at NCAD, Dublin, University of Ulster, Belfast and Slade School of Art, London. She completed a PhD by practice in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art, London. Currently she works as a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her performance lecture The Triumph of Crowds was selected as winner of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers in 2016, and was performed by theatre company The Relationship at Downtown Art, New York in December 2017 directed by Fiona Templeton. McLeer has also published critical and art writing, and her essay “Returning in the House of Democracy” was published in the book The Creative Critic: writing as/about practice edited by Dr. Emily Orley and Katja Hilevaara (Routledge 2018).

Format
Paperback
Pages
90
Dimensions
8"x5.5"x0.25"
Weight
4 oz.

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