Book Release Party Steve Reinke’s The Shimmering Beast
@ Gallery 400
400 South Peoria Street, Chicago IL
Opening Tuesday, November 1st, from 6PM - 8PM
Steve Reinke’s book The Shimmering Beast is out now. Join us for an evening of readings and screenings (which will include a sneak preview of a work in progress), and a celebration with snacks and refreshments. Copies of The Shimmering Beast will be available for sale and Reinke will be on hand to sign copies.
Collected in The Shimmering Beast are Reinke’s best recent prose pieces. Hybrids of criticism, fiction, and personal essay, these pieces all engage—by pillaging, honoring, scrutinizing, cannibalizing—another’s work: the films of Frank Cole, the videos of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, the photos of Doug Ischar, the writings of Dr. Paul Brouardel, and the psycho¬analysis of Melanie Klein, to name just a few. Funny, absurd, and tartly poignant, these texts document the process and reach of a truly artistic mind.
Co-published by Gallery 400, Coach House Books, and WhiteWalls, The Shimmering Beast accompanies The Tiny Ventriloquist—Reinke’s 2010 exhibition at Gallery 400, which featured a suite of videos commissioned by Gallery 400, as well as works in various other media and Reinke’s collaborations with artists Dani Leventhal, John Marriott, Jessie Mott, and James Richards.
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