Set The Record Wrong

By L.G. Williams

This is the highly unanticipated and unnecessary memoir from LG Williams , arguably the most irrelevant and irreverent post-truth transdisciplinary visual artist in 21st-century Los Angeles. "I'd come from a country called The Ozarks, a land a long way off which I had started a long way down. But, bollocks, Destiny never manifested itself...I felt like it was looking right at me, but, uh...I was delusional." So writes LG Williams in Set The Record Wrong , a profoundly despicable book exploring meaningless junctures in his pathetic life and miserable career. Through Williams' eyes and plugged hive-mind, we leave Table Rock Lake circa 1985, when he first arrives in Los Angeles. Williams's LA is a fanciful city of possibilities--smoky, nightlong parties, artistic dead ends, intransient loves, and betrayals. Feeble jabs of binged-blurred memories, superficial and forgettable, punctuate cliched observations. With the book's side trips to Hawaii, Japan, and Israel and points downward, Set The Record Wrong is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of nothing much at all. By turns forgettable, dull, passionless, and tedious, Set The Record Wrong is a broken lens into LG Williams' ignorance and missteps. LG's voice is distinctively Ozarkian: parsimonious of spirit, disengaged, superficial -- but mostly clueless and deplorable. Utilizing his unparalleled gifts of stupidity and complete unawareness, which are the hallmarks of his art, LG Williams turns Set The Record Wrong into forgettable and unreadable babblings on life, love, homelessness, desperate poverty, and the remarkable people and places that ignited his cataclysmic failures--not to mention his 'art' (if anyone would dare call it that). ..... "A horrible effort, and like Bob Dylan, Charles Bukowski, or Henry Miller's worst personal writings, this is a book that should never be opened if one wants to understand anything at all -- particularly not the times that it portrays while revealing nothing whatsoever about the possibilities of the human artistic spirit." -- John Lau, Art In America "I finished reading this rubbish: LG is raging mad...haughty, arrogant and offensive, but ultimately pathetic. A sick individual with delusions of grandiosity. This volume is basically a cold-call sales pitch masquerading as a critical response. I could expand, but, honestly, it would be a waste of everyone's time! I hope [this] gets the attention it deserves: NONE! Predictably, it ends with LG attempting to sell his artwork! Oh, he's a grifter, too." -- Anonymous Artworld VIP Name Withheld By Request "I actually feel sorry for [LG], but even more so for the people who live in fear [of LG] and might be manipulated by [his] disinformation." -- Leopard Fairy ..... LG Williams is a Los Angeles-based artist and recently the Endowed University Instructor at The Academy of Art University; Robert Hughes Distinguished Visual Artist-In-Residence at The Lodge in Hollywood, CA; and the Emmy Hennings Distinguished Professor at D(D).DDDD University. LG has exhibited in various national and international venues, including The Internet Pavilion of La Biennale Di Venezia , and has appeared in Artforum , The New York Times , Times Literary Supplement , The Guardian , Japan Times , Los Angeles Times , La Stampa , Bookforum , Purple Diary , Mousse Magazine , The Brooklyn Rail among others. PCP Press is an independent publisher of avant-garde books and insurgent authors. Over the past three decades PCP has grown into a consistent publisher of books, special editions and rare publications from an array of the world's most respected authors and cultural institutions. # # # # #

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D4J7JZZC
• ISBN13: 9798324769550
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 491 Pages
• Weight: 2.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.2" x 7.0"