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Billy Childish - Volcano, for the ICA London, 2011

Name: Billy Childish - Volcano, for the ICA London, 2011
Brand: Billy Childish
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Billy Childish - Volcano, for the ICA London, 2011

Gestetner duplicator print on pink recycled paper
Hand signed , stamped and stamp numbered 000064/73
Framed in a handmade wood frame under UV plexiglass
Measurements:
Framed:
10.75 inches (vertical) x 14.5 (horizontal) x 1.5 inches (depth)
Artwork:
8.25 inches (vertical) x 11.75 inches (horizontal)
This edition was produced by Billy Childish for the second in a series of Live Editions events staged at the ICA and held in the ICA Studio on 3 June 2011. During the event, Childish created Volcano exclusively for the ICA, in front of an audience using his vintage Gestetner Duplicator machine. The signed, numbered and stamped edition was strictly limited to the number of prints produced by the artist during the event, with the edition number announced at the end of the day. Artist, musician and writer Billy Childish is a cult figure, and one who has gained an international following. His prodigious range of activities can best be understood as a total work of art - one which centres on his own persona. The ICA was the first public institution to hold an exhibition of the artists' work with Billy Childish—Unknowable but Certain (2010), and the first anywhere to have brought together a major solo exhibition that encompassed Childish's extraordinary career spanning all the media he works across. The ICA Live editions events were an experimental series of events unique to the time. Drawing on the historical context of 1960s Happenings, the events simultaneously exalted and critiqued the exercise of creating a multiple achieved through revealing the processes involved in production and allowing the audience to become a part of the series. Produced at an exciting time for the ICA (when the institution was re-developing its studio space), having the events physically occuring within the studio space added a further layer of context and a deeper line of interrogatory questioning. Childish has employed the image a volcano throughout his practice as another metaphor for the artist’s attempts to order his experience of the world.