An Empire: A Performance-in-Print in 7 Acts
Richard Hancock & Litsa Kiousi

Embossed cardboard box containing 22 photographic images, a folded print, paper booklet, china paper wrapping, string, imitation gold leaf, and the ashes of burned paper boats. Edition of 200. 16,5cm x 23cm x 2,5cm.

Investigating the notion of the ‘papers of the empire’ as the material through which empires have commonly attained, consolidated, and perpetuated their powers and legacies, Richard Hancock and Litsa Kiousi have developed a ‘performance- in-print’ in seven acts.

The seven acts of An Empire unfold over a series of 22 photographic scenes, and a text — written in Ojibwe — by the artist Isaiah Lopaz. Each scene holds a moment of knowledge, longing, and desire that may be pulled from the ashes of history as a meditation on loss, damage and deception.

Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR.

An Empire is available directly from the artists in Berlin.
50€ plus shipping.
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