Being Work
Being Work
Edited by Dorothy Dubrule
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Paperback, full color, 110 pages
Dimensions: 6.69" x 9.61" x 0.29"
ISBN: 978-1-947322-14-1
LCCN: 2023952327
Cover price: $40.00
Being Work is a collection of essays by dance and theater artists that offer access to varied experiences of performing in live exhibitions. The authors capture a spectrum of mundane and profound moments that arise within performance gig work in visual arts contexts such as museums, galleries and art fairs, detailing the day-to-day practice of inhabiting art work as well as reflecting on broader questions of how they got there and the impact it has had on their outside lives. While providing very personal, human perspectives on what it feels like to perform in visual arts spaces, Being Work asks its audience how a performer’s labor is perceived and valued in these spaces, and what new possibilities might unfurl within the, at times fraught, coexistence of the two mediums.
Contributors include: Mireya Lucio writing on being the work of Marina Abramović, Casey Brown on Maria Hassabi, Jessica Emmanuel on Xu Zhen, Kestrel Leah on Julien Previéux, Allie Hankins on Gordon Hall, effie bowen on Narcissister, Paul Hamilton on Bruce Nauman and Dorothy Dubrule on Tino Sehgal.
Book cover design by Gil Omry-Barel.
Illustrations by Eileen Echikson.
Purchase limited edition archival inkjet prints of illustrations from Being Work by Eileen Echikson.


