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y separately published work icon Buried Not Dead selected work   essay  
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Buried Not Dead
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'Buried Not Dead is a collection of writings on art, literature and performance, sexuality, activism and the life of the city. In these essays, written over twenty-five years, Fiona McGregor documents performance artists, writers, dancers, tattooists and DJs, some of them famous, like Marina Abramović and Mike Parr, while others, like Latai Taumoepeau, Lanny K and Kathleen Mary Fallon, are less well known. In capturing these figures and the scenes they inhabit, McGregor offers an expansive archive of art and life of a kind rarely recorded in our histories.

'Fiona McGregor’s immersion in her subject matter comes from a deep and enduring involvement in the worlds she represents. She came of age as an artist during an outpouring of performative queer culture, in a community that celebrated subversion, dissent and uninhibited partygoing, and in her writing she observes the shift from that moment towards new forms of cultural repressiveness. McGregor is a participant in her essays as well as a witness – she sees through an artist’s eyes and records what she perceives with a novelist’s insight. In excavating the lives of others, she reveals her own, and shows the possibilities that rest beneath the surface of our culture.' (Publication summary)

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    • Artarmon, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Giramondo Publishing , 2021 .
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      Extent: 288p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published February 2021
      ISBN: 9781925818604

Works about this Work

Fiona McGregor, Buried Not Dead Felicity Plunkett , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 6-12 March 2021;

— Review of Buried Not Dead Fiona McGregor , 2021 selected work essay
Fiona McGregor, Buried Not Dead Felicity Plunkett , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 6-12 March 2021;

— Review of Buried Not Dead Fiona McGregor , 2021 selected work essay
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