Frozen Tears I

Staged as an expanded artwork FROZEN TEARS (since 2003) is a MULTI-PART, MULTI-VENUE project built around the production of three 800+ page books each containing THEORY/HORROR texts and images from a range of CELEBRATED international artists/writers. MORPH-FUCKING the INTRADISTINCTION between VISUAL and the LINGUISTIC as both FAUX-READYMADE/COMMODITY and also ADDED performative and critical EXPLORATION of the possibilities of self-institutionalisation and the FICTIONING of the artwork as social interstice.

-Artist's note

With texts by: Art & Language, Fabienne Audéoud, Dave Beech, David Burrows, Ccru, Jake Chapman, John Cussans, Johnny Golding, Inventory, Martin Mcgeown, Lucy Mckenzie, Esther Planas, Graham Ramsay, John Russell, Clara Ursitti, Andrew Williamson.

• Published by ARTicle Press, 2003. Softcover, 800 pages. Exhibition: John Russell Presents Frozen Tears, Cabinet Gallery, London, April 26 - May 17, 2003
• IBSN: 1-873352-68-9