Coup de Grâce
Clark and Faria
November 11th - December 31st, 2010
Liddington’s performance A Working Class Arrangement for Eight Hands furthers the possibilities founded in theatricality, as related to two distinct and important milestones for the working class culture. Through an aesthetic, historical and theoretical investigations the work traces the decline of dueling in the late 19th century and second, the rise in popularity of the American rock ballad. The central character, a “Working-Class-Dandy-Springsteen-Flâneur”, dressed in hybrid Springsteen-Dandy leather jackets and blue jean pantaloons conflate autobiographical moments with populist characterizations of the working class from the late 1970s to early 1980s.
November 11th - December 31st, 2010
Liddington’s performance A Working Class Arrangement for Eight Hands furthers the possibilities founded in theatricality, as related to two distinct and important milestones for the working class culture. Through an aesthetic, historical and theoretical investigations the work traces the decline of dueling in the late 19th century and second, the rise in popularity of the American rock ballad. The central character, a “Working-Class-Dandy-Springsteen-Flâneur”, dressed in hybrid Springsteen-Dandy leather jackets and blue jean pantaloons conflate autobiographical moments with populist characterizations of the working class from the late 1970s to early 1980s.
