Ibiza black flags democracy, Ian White

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A catalogue produced for Ian White’s 2010 exhibition at daadgalerie in Berlin. Presented together for the first time and proposed as a trilogy, a reading for ‘The Flicker’, Black Flags and Democracy are three solo performances by Ian White, which he performed at DAAD in different combinations at daadgalerie. The publication includes an essay by Catherine Wood, Curator of Contemporary Art/Performance, Tate Modern, and scripts and transcripts documenting all three works. “Each performance initially assumes the format of a lecture from which it then radically deviates. In the process multiple vectors between authority and subjectivity are simultaneously figured via the recounting of sexual encounters, Tony Conrad’s seminal 1966 film, conceptual theatricality, PowerPoint, Tate Modern’s ‘interpretation’ policy, the BBC World Service, Queen Elizabeth I, ‘dance’, gesture, still and moving images, love, hope, despair and friendship. The voice (and the body) is obliterated, obliteration is resisted, words are spoken into the wind as fanfares play and the artist leaves the room.” – Ian White