Handholding: 5 Kinds

By Tracie Morris

Poetry. African & African American Studies. Performance Studies. Hybrid Genre. Music. Foreword by Charles Bernstein. Includes digital download code for audio. HANDHOLDING: 5 KINDS is a collection of experimental poetry as a creative response to 5 artistic works by innovative American, African diaspora and European-based artists' work: Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate (recited by his son, Ernst), Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons , John Akomfrah's 7 Songs for Malcolm X , John Cage's 4'33 and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut . Each of these pieces strongly contextualizes Morris' own work and practice, dealing with the undertones and overtones of race, sexuality, class, gender, ethnicity, power and art-making. Each section is introduced as a reflection of what each piece means to the author and how they came about. The collection contains experimental text as well as 6 audio files (17 digital tracks). One is a "real time" response to the Kubrick film, the other is a collection of sound pieces inspired by the other artists, often recitations of the page-based texts. This is the first text and sound collection of Tracie Morris' that is comprised of exclusively experimental work inspired by other innovative artists.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188855391X
• ISBN13: 9781888553918
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Kore Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.5" x 7.0"