Buried not dead : essays / Fiona McGregor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGregor, Fiona, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 pages)

Place of Publication:

Australia : Giramondo Publishing Company, [2021]

Summary:

Novelist Fiona McGregor'snew book, Buried Not Dead, is a collection of essays on art, literature and performance, sexuality, activism and the life of the city. It features performance artists, writers, dancers, tattooists and DJs, some of them famous, like Marina Abramovic and Mike Parr, while others, like Latai Taumoepeau, Lanny K and Kathleen Mary Fallon, are important figures but less well known. In her portraits of these performers and artists and the scenes they inhabit, McGregor creates an intimate and expansive archive of a kind rarely recorded in our histories. Fiona McGregor has a deep and enduring involvement in the worlds she represents. She came of age as an artist during an outpouring of performative queer creativity, in a community that celebrated subversion, dissent and uninhibited partygoing, and in her writing she observes the shift from that moment to new forms of cultural repression. McGregor is a participant in her essays as well as a witness -- she sees through an artist's eyes and records what she perceives with a novelist's insight. In excavating the lives of others, she reveals her own, and shows the possibilities that exist beneath the surface of our culture.

Contents:

Intro

Dedication

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Incantations

Where Your Cabaret Comes From

Dear Malcolm

Manifestations

Looking for Lanny K

Last Remaining Relative

The Experience Machine

Buried Not Dead

Ocean of Country

Fabricated Realities

Not the Story of a Tattooed Girl

Wicked Women and Whipped Cream

The Hot Desk

Crooks and Shadows

Finales

Fortress Mardi Gras

Eleven Lives

Surro

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-925818-62-4

OCLC:

1257078722