Performance nude / Fiona Banner ; [designed by Jason Beard].

By:

Banner, Fiona

Contributor(s):

Beard, Jason

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Other Criteria, 2009.Description: 96 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:

9781904212461
1904212468

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

709.2 BAN 22

Contents:

Life writing / Michael Bracewell -- A sort of portrait / Stewart Home, Fiona Banner, Cosey Fanni Tutti -- Shy nude / Fiona Banner -- Marianna / Fiona Banner -- War porn / Fiona Banner -- Nude film / Fiona Banner, Tony Marcus.

Summary: "This book is based on one project, which took on various forms between 2006 and 2009. The first nude performance, at the Port Eliot Literary Festival, was an experiment with an audience between Marianne Hyatt, my model, and me. Since then, I have instigated several performances in the studio, and more publicly. During this time, I have worked with various people in this spirit of collaboration; I want to give special thanks to my models and co-performers Marianne Hyatt, Ame Henderson and Samantha Morton."--Colophon.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	709.2 BAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100677252

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A book showing the unique working style of British artist Fiona Banner, a Turner Prize nominee, who uses a nude model and then rather than painting the image, describes it in words painted on a large canvas.

"This book is based on one project, which took on various forms between 2006 and 2009. The first nude performance, at the Port Eliot Literary Festival, was an experiment with an audience between Marianne Hyatt, my model, and me. Since then, I have instigated several performances in the studio, and more publicly. During this time, I have worked with various people in this spirit of collaboration; I want to give special thanks to my models and co-performers Marianne Hyatt, Ame Henderson and Samantha Morton."--Colophon.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Fiona Banner (b. 1966) is a British artist who was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2002, and is seen as one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). She was born in Merseyside and now lives in London . She completed her MA at Goldsmiths College in 1993. The next year she held her first solo show at City Racing . Following her shows at the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen , and Dundee Contemporary Arts, she was nominated for the Turner Prize. More recent shows include The Bastard Word , at The Power Plant, Toronto, and Live/Work, at MOMA, New York.Fiona Banner's medium is words. The possibilities and limitations of language as a tool of communication lie at the heart of her practice. Building huge pictorial texts, she takes language apart, stripping it bare in order to make and unmake meaning. Much of her work is influenced by feature films; these works include Point Bre ak (1991), The Desert (1994) and particularly The Nam (1997), a 1,000-page book which describes the plots of six Vietnam films in their entirety: Apocalypse Now , Born On The Fourth of July , The Deer Hunter , Full Metal Jacket , Hamburger Hill and Platoon .The wall of her show in the Turner Prize at Tate Britain was dominated by a large text piece, Arsewoman in Wonderland . This caused a certain commotion in the media, as it was a vivid description of a pornographic film. The Guardian wittily reversed the widespread question and asked, "It's art. But is it porn?" calling in "Britain's biggest porn star", Ben Dover , to comment. [1] In 1997 Banner formed The Vanity Press , through which she publishes her own works, such as "the Nam", "The Bastard Word" and "All The World's Fighter Planes".