Selma,
Selma, asks, what is life like with the experience of manic-depression? The project’s main focus is the performance-manuscript (132pgs), told as a series of ethnographer’s field notes. Part of the text documents a journey to Johns Hopkins University hospital to meet with Kay Redfield Jameson, a leading researcher of the illness, and Selma, uses Jameson’s own memoir on the diagnosis as its ethnographer’s starting point. At Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions in Hollywood I hosted a Dust Jacket Signing for the work, as Selma Avenue, a backstreet of Hollywood Boulevard and adjacent to the gallery, is a character in the text.
[LISTEN TO EXCERPT (NO.1) FROM SELMA, , 6:40min]
[LISTEN TO EXCERPT (NO.2) FROM SELMA, , 3:45min]
[LISTEN TO EXCERPT (NO.3) FROM SELMA, , 4:25min]
[LISTEN TO EXCERPT (NO.4) FROM SELMA, , 3:25min]
Dust Jacket Signing, performance, 2007
Selma, Dust Jacket, ed. of 100, 2007
