Sibyl's Mouths - A Pure Fiction Publication
Sibyl's Mouths - A Pure Fiction Publication
| Author | various |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Sternberg Press |
| ISBN | 9783956796449 |
| Idea Code | 23017 |
Sibyl's Mouths is the most recent in a series of publications by Pure Fiction, a writing and performance group with shifting members active since 2011. From February 12 to March 6, 2022, Pure Fiction presented an exhibition and performance program at the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne titled “Shifting Theater: Sibyl's Mouths”. The starting point was a collective reading of Mary Shelley's 1826 novel The Last Man, in which the narrator discovers a collection of scribbled oak leaves scattered in a cave outside Naples. Alleged prophecies of the Cumean Sibyl, the textual fragments inscribed on the leaves foretell the story of an epidemic that ravages the globe in the 2100's—a period where solitude, intimacy, and the perception of time is radically renegotiated.
| 304 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, hb, English |
Sternberg Press
