Gerry Bibby New Art Commission Residency

In collaboration with If I Can’t Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution (Amsterdam), CCA will host a residency and co-commission a new work of fiction, The Drumhead (And Other Language Costumes), to be launched in November 2014.
Over the past half-decade, artist Gerry Bibby has inserted narratives and instructional texts into his artworks as acts of tactical withdrawal. The Drumhead is Bibby's first publication, and includes a series of his 'Language Costumes' or fragmentary texts which, like the Burroughsian 'routine' or Walserian 'microscript,' attest to an offended intelligence.

Gerry Bibby’s artworks move across performance, sculpture and writing, taking form at the uncomfortable fissures between the three. His ‘Language Costumes’ arrive at these junctions as self-styled instructional texts, photocopy machine manuals, drinks menus and poetic passages. His captivating passages brim with wit, wry observation and occasionally with disgust, offering viewers ‘ways out’ even if only at the time of reading.

The project is undertaken as part of a commission initiated by If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution in partnership with Kunsthaus Bregenz, CCA Glasgow, and The Showroom, with the support of the Mondriaan Fund, Arts Council England, Outset and Bloomberg. With thanks to Biennale de Lyon and Frieze Art Fair. The project has also been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.