My Barbarian
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Edited by Adrienne Edwards, Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon, and Alexandro Segade; With contributions by Joshua Chambers-Letson and Lia Gangitano
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An unprecedented look at the contemporary collective’s theatrical art, charting their performances and exploring their social and creative commitments
The first monographic publication on the art collective My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon, and Alexandro Segade) offers new insights into the work of this singular group of performers. My Barbarian has used performance to theatricalize social issues, adapting narratives from modern plays, historical texts, and mass media; this volume accompanies a major retrospective celebrating the group’s twentieth anniversary. An overview essay relates their work’s formal qualities to several historical moments over this span: the club era following September 11, 2001; postcolonial theater after the 2008 financial collapse; and political theater responding to the pressing issues of today. Other contributions read the collective’s output through a lens of queer and other critical theory, and contextualize it within the twenty-first-century experimental performance scene. A richly illustrated visual chronology features texts on each of My Barbarian’s past works written by the artists. Performances and video works are re-created using stills alongside photos, drawings, scripts, and personal materials drawn from the artists’ archives, many never previously published.
Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art
Exhibition Schedule:
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(October 29, 2021–February 27, 2022)
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles
(September 2022–January 2023)
Adrienne Edwards is Engell Speyer Family Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(October 29, 2021–February 27, 2022)
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles
(September 2022–January 2023)
Publication Date: February 22, 2022
Publishing Partner: Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art
400 color illus.
