Holly Childs - Danklands (Australasia limited edition)
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*Ships 17 December 2014*
The hottest day of summer. Two swans kissing on a hill. A $4,000,000 luxury boat on fire. A stolen Maserati. Thigh-high wading through a swamp that’s not on maps. An electromagnetic frequency shield worn as a belly-button ring. A three-and-a-half-month-long power nap.
Danklands is a work of fiction that enfolds art criticism, out-of-bounds spaces, and characters that dissolve. Of the book, Sydney-based author Astrid Lorange writes: ‘Most books promise a lot,or else apologise for not saying everything.This book is casual — casual in its claims and casual in its brilliance. Childs can offer a critique by simply gesturing towards the uncanny play of capital flow in its avant-garde performance. She can offer a theory (for sex, language, aesthetics, politics) by knitting a loose half-list of unlike entities. For this reason, Danklands can be read as a long poem — an affiliative (rather than narrative) inquiry and constellation of propositions.’
Oceania limited edition of 100 copies.
112 pages. 2014. Published by Arcadia Missa.