Elizabeth Fischer Solo Performance: Stand-Up Tragedy
1989
Creative Access Description
One piece of ledger sized paper in landscape orientation. On the front side a poster graphic spreads across the page, featuring artist and performance titles oriented ninety degrees clockwise from reading alignment at the left and right side of the spread. The centre of the page is dominated by a drawing of a textured fish head that fills the left side of the spread and half of the right. A background of a starry night sky backgrounds the fish. Superimposed on top of the fish are a stylized portrait of the artist, a woman with long black hair holding a wine glass, as well as a various pieces of text including the artist's name, and short texts reading 'Dr. Fishbreath on a good day..." and "In the murder museum".The reverse of the document features a full spread collage of photocopied review articles as well as pull quotes arranged in reading alignment and ninety degrees counterclockwise to reading alignment. Article sizes, fonts, and layouts are varied and include two images of artist Elizabeth Fischer, a dark-haired white woman dressed in black, a portrait and an action shot of her singing into a microphone in front of a keyboard. A small portrait of Tom Harrison, a long haired white man and one of the review authors is also included in the collage.
Description
Two sided poster for Elizabeth Fischer's performance Stand-Up Tragedy featuring a graphic on the front and a collage of photocopied review articles on the reverse.Identifier
1990.0914 MUR D006Extent
1 posterLanguage
Subject
Elizabeth FischerRelated program
Murder Museum (Related)In copyright. For uses beyond Fair Dealing, research requests, corrections, takedown requests, or other inquiries, please contact grunt gallery: archives@grunt.ca