Listen to the bloody machine: creating Kris Verdonck's End

by Marianne van Kerkhoven, Anoek Nuyens

With End (2008), the performance artist Kris Verdonck created an apocalyptic performance about the possible end phase of human society.
The creative process behind this remarkable performance has now been documented and described in detail in Listen To the Bloody Machine – creating Kris Verdonck’s END. The book contains interviews with everyone involved, a rehearsal diary, the script of the performance, photos, technical drawings, a DVD with a trailer, etc.

320 pages, Paperback

Published December 14, 2011

Reviews

[Jorge Garcia]

Este livro corporaliza o processo de construção de uma perfomance através de vários formatos, que incluem entrevistas, diários, descrições, excertos suporte visual.
"The artwork itself used to be the tangible outcome of a moment of concentration. It could take the shape of a painting in a museum, a musical composition in a concert hall, a play performed in a theatre, etc. Today, an artwork - or, rather, the work of an artist can assume all shapes and guises, including that of a virus spreading through a city, a metamorphosing space, a text handed out at the entrance of a museum whose words are the prism through which we see the exhibition, and so on."