“ ” Badlands Unlimited Act 1 by Badlands Unlimited
read by Darius Ahmadian, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Adam Gibbons, Elsa Gray, Alexandra Heimes, Lorenzo Sandoval, Jill Winder, and Eva Wilson for “ ” (quotation mark quotation mark)
Set behind the scenes of an artist-run, New York-based publishing company, the play Badlands Unlimited Act 1 follows seven characters as they launch an erotic novella, deal with internal conflicts, and imagine the promise and threat of technology between the pages and in our lives. Badlands Unlimited Act 1 is a comedy of errors that morphs into a deeper meditation on art and mortality.
Badlands Unlimited Act 1, written by Badlands Unlimited, is issue #5 of the new series “ ” (quotation mark quotation mark), edited by Adam Gibbons and Eva Wilson and published by NERO. At Pro qm, the play will be read by Darius Ahmadian, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Adam Gibbons, Elsa Gray, Alexandra Heimes, Lorenzo Sandoval, Jill Winder, and Eva Wilson. (All persons fictitious, all rights reserved.)
“ ” is a series of books that looks at the forms and roles of publishing as and within artists’ practices. Each issue initiates a dialogue with an artist or artist group, through which a body of work is introduced. The series hosts conversations with artists who work at the intersection of publishing and exhibition-making: through circulation, dissemination, spamming, dispersion, print, data, language, infection, fashion, networks, disturbance, myth, parasiting, and infiltration.
The first three books in the series that have been published are:
#2 James Hoff in conversation with Marian Kaiser
#4 Internal Affairs 2013–2018 by GCC
#5 Badlands Unlimited Act 1 by Badlands Unlimited.
Upcoming issues include #1 Olaf Nicolai in conversation with Alexandra Heimes; #3 Becky Beasley in conversation with Claire Scanlon; #6 Tyler Coburn in conversation with Adam Gibbons; and #7 Heather Phillipson in conversation with Eva Wilson. “ ” is commissioned and edited by Adam Gibbons and Eva Wilson.
