Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The artistic practice of Geoffrey Farmer integrates forms of collecting and scholarship employed by cultural historians, and draws on a diverse repertoire. After extensive research, the artist builds collections that unite aspects of visual art, literature, music, politics, history, and sociology, and crystallise in sprawling theatrical installations. This publication, offers a detailed insight in Geoffrey Farmer's complex installation Let's Make the Water Turn Black, and contextualises it with his other script-based sculptural and kinetic works since the early 1990s. Published with Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich; P rez Art Museum, Miami; Kunstverein Hamburg; and Nottingham Contemporary. English and German text.
Synopsis
Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer (born 1967) devises collections that unite aspects of visual art, literature, music, politics and history, and that eventually culminate in sprawling theatrical installations. This publication offers detailed insight into the artist's installation entitled Let's Make the Water Turn Black.