An Empire: A Performance-in-Print in 7 Acts
Richard Hancock & Litsa Kiousi

Embossed cardboard box containing 22 photographic images, a folded print, paper booklet, china paper wrapping, string, imitation gold leaf, and the ashes of burned paper boats. Edition of 200. 16,5cm x 23cm x 2,5cm.

Investigating the notion of the ‘papers of the empire’ as the material through which empires have commonly attained, consolidated, and perpetuated their powers and legacies, Hancock and Kiousi have developed a ‘performance- in-print’ in seven acts.

The seven acts of An Empire unfold over a series of 22 photographic scenes, and a text — written in Ojibwe — by the artist Isaiah Lopaz. Each scene holds a moment of knowledge, longing, and desire that may be pulled from the ashes of history as a meditation on loss, damage and deception.

An Empire is available directly from the artists in Berlin.
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