Civil Twilight & Other Social Works

Hunter, Roddy

ISBN 10: 0955392713 / ISBN 13: 9780955392719

Published by Trace: Samizdata Press, Cardiff, 2007

About this Item

In a colour pictorial soft cover with dark brown titles to spine and front. No dust jacket. 172 pp. with numerous black and white photographs. The book is in very good condition with just very minor shelf-wear to the extremities of the cover and slight bruising of the corners. The pages are clean and unmarked.

Seller Inventory # 910501

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Civil Twilight & Other Social Works
• Publisher: Trace: Samizdata Press, Cardiff
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0955392713
• ISBN 13: 9780955392719
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

'Civil Twilight & Other Social Works' explores the performance artwork of provocative Scots artist Roddy Hunter. Through the artists own texts and archival documentation Hunter introduces us to his methodology of research into the idea of urban civic centres as places where collective identity is formed. In these works, Hunter spends extended periods of time walking the central squares in cities like Sfântu Gheorghe, Sheffield, Dundee, London, Minsk, Timisoara, Nové Zámky, Barcelona, Belfast, Los Angeles, Tel Aviv, and Budapest, encouraging passers-by to engage with him in conversation on issues of civil importance: alienation, architecture, capital, change, culture, heroism, identity, ideology and utopia - all subjects symbolically related to the actual spaces where the performances occur. The events take place between the hours of sunset and sunrise - that is, during 'civil twilight', an astronomical term referring to the time when outdoor activities require artificial illumination.

About the Author

R. Lanny Hunter has practiced medicine in Flagstaff, Arizona, for thirty-eight years. He served as a medical officer with the 5th Special Forces in Vietnam. He and his brother, Rev. Victor L. Hunter, are the coauthors of What Your Doctor and Your Pastor Want You to Know about Depression from Chalice Press.