Cannibal Actif : a gutter emerges
Rochelle Goldberg (Author, Photographer), Leah Pires (Editor), Frances Perkins (Editor)
"Rochelle Goldberg's Cannibal Actif is a publication that challenges the formalities of the material and narrative elements of the artist book. Thick pools of crude oil envelope bathers in Baku, and leak onto a floodline, or seep out as a glossy stream of text. Oil poured over gears and out of portals does not stop at the page's edge. These spills are free of constraint--the drainage collects elsewhere onto another page, as a new image: a face, a hand, a snake. The arc of Goldberg's story follows the cannibal's consumption and digestion, and the material limits of the design process were pushed to reflect this narrative track. Through consumption, the cannibal augments itself, but the reader must cross the swamp, or mirror, the pool of oil or crystalline water, to reach this enhanced state. A new life of texts and tones greets us on the other side of the mirror."--Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2017
Sequence Press : Totem Press, New York, 2017