titel: Emily Wardill - We are behind
auteur(s): Emily Wardill, Ian White
uitgever: Book Works, de Appel arts centre
redactie: Gavin Everall, Jane Rolo
ISBN: 978 1 906012 27 4
jaar: 2010
ontwerp: A Practice for Everyday Life (APFEL)
taal: English
Info: 160 pp, 23 x 16 cm, f.c.&b/w, softcover

Presented as the blueprints for three public lectures, We are behind proposes alternative routes through Emily Wardill’s work and represents three different attempts at embodying and dissembling knowledge. Using different formal textual devices, from which they also deviate—a standard lecture, the subject of which becomes something felt, not taught; an a-chronological conversation; and the transcript of a play rendered as a formal essay—each section describes the different facets of an ongoing dialogue between the authors. Fragmented not only by dialogic turns, appropriated texts, images, a score and quotations, and containing extensive reproductions of Wardill’s work, the book’s content and design reflects the labyrinthine, and sometimes hallucinogenic quality of her films and their radical combination of form, content and idea.

In the beginning, middle and end of the exhibition Emily Wardill and Ian White have given Public Lectures that were conceived as a triptych evolving around essential themes in Wardill’s work. This triptych is the structure on which this book is built.

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