Author : Brandon LaBelle
Publisher : Errant Bodies
ISBN 13 : 9780997874495
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (744 download)
Book Synopsis Party Studies by : Brandon LaBelle
Download or read book Party Studies written by Brandon LaBelle and published by Errant Bodies. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The party as a model for new forms of togetherness, with examples from communist Hungary and Spain From social get-together to scenes of delirium, this publication aims to unpack the party as a complex, vertiginous construct that provides a dynamic view onto questions of community. If the party functions as an intensification of togetherness, what lessons might it provide in negotiating a given social order? This first volume on the topic considers the house party, and in what ways domestic space is reworked in support of an extension of the family unit. Including a series of interviews with those active in flat events in Budapest during the communist regime and today, essays on hospitality, the politics of rest, and erotic knowledge, and documentation on Sala 603, an informal house-theater in Curitiba. The publication is the first in a new Errant Bodies series developed in parallel to a set of party-workshops initiated by the artist Brandon LaBelle held in different locations in Madrid, each of which performatively investigates states of partying, posing the party as a scene of study.