WILDPLASSEN
$27.78
- Paperback
73 pages
- Release Date
12 October 2024
Summary
dove / Chris Kirubi’s WILDPLASSEN is a finely-wrought debut collection. The weather surrounds, as subjectivity is carefully interrogated through typographic gesture and image. Thinking with Sembéne, Glissant, Nourbese Philip and others, we are ushered into a space of translation and study reflecting on dispossession, native informants and racial categorisation. “Wildplassen” is a legal term for public urination in which wildness is invoked as an inappropriate occupation of public (urban) space. This collection transfigures the borders of air, city and landscape; language, lyric and page with instability and waywardness.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781068644603 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1068644605 |
| Author: | dove /. Chris Kirubi, Chris Kirubi |
| Publisher: | The 87 Press |
| Imprint: | The 87 Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 73 |
| Release Date: | 12 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 101g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
WILDPLASSEN seems to tremble with sound and bursts of language, causing the reader to listen hard, linger and slowly tune the dial — a motion different to the rushing and moving that racial capitalism would like. —Esther Kondo Heller for The Poetry Review
WILDPLASSEN made me long for the London I once lived in, for being able to move about on packed buses or having the kinds of conversations with writers and artists, such as Kirubi, who helped prise out of me what I couldn’t otherwise name alone about the dysmorphia of living inside this colonial power’s borders. —Taylor Le Melle for Art Monthly
dove /. Chris Kirubi
dove / Chris Kirubi is a poet-artist based in London. Recent projects and performances include The Archive is a Gathering Place at Tate Britain in collaboration with Rhoda Boateng, The Blue House co-founded with Daniel Baker-Wells, and a collaborative improvisation at Décalé with (petals) Petero Kalulé. Recent commissioned texts include Fabulous Musics published in response to Shenece Oretha’s UAL 20⁄20 commission with Hepworth Wakefield and a note on audrey mbugua’s dog published in the Jerwood Survey III catalogue in response to Ebun Sodipo’s work. They are a lecturer at Slade School of Fine Art.
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