{"product_id":"jack-o-brien-cue-the-cue","title":"Jack O’Brien – Cue the Cue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis publication accompanying \u003c\/span\u003ehis most comprehensive exhibition to date\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexhibition is Jack O’Brien’s first monograph. \u003c\/span\u003eConceived by the artist himself, it complements the exhibition in both form and content, documenting his practice from 2021–2025 and transfers it into a different medium. Developed as an artist’s book it stands in direct relation to the magazine collages in the exhibition. The torn book cover, perforated paper pages, and a shoelace sealed under cellophane make the publication itself a sculptural gesture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eO’Brien negotiates themes such as staging, visibility, queer identity, and the circular dynamic between consumption, body, and performance. The title refers to the English 'cue'—a theatrical cue—and at the same time to its repetition. This double meaning reflects O’Brien’s working method, in which material, form, and gesture continually oscillate between suggestion and withdrawal, presence and dissolution. O’Brien works with found and discarded objects, which he transforms through gestures of wrapping, binding, and perforation. His sculptures, installations, and collages use industrial materials such as cellophane, shrink wrap, and synthetic textiles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue brings together the first substantial essays on O’Brien’s work. Alexander Wilmschen introduces the exhibition, in which chance becomes the driving force of reordering, and situates O’Brien’s work within the context of queer phenomenology. Kristian Vistrup Madsen examines the sadomasochistic dimensions of the work. Juliette Desorgues reads the sculptures as embodied punctuation. In conversation with Jeppe Ugelvig, O’Brien reflects on his artistic methodology and language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a monograph which also formally works with the moments of controlled instability that are so striking in the exhibition: floating, supported and warped.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bierke Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49947798372591,"sku":null,"price":99.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/3927\/files\/IMG_0938_6c39c67c-d3be-4d01-93f7-3955f2491abb.jpg?v=1782180412","url":"https:\/\/www.perimeterbooks.com\/products\/jack-o-brien-cue-the-cue","provider":"Perimeter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}