{"title":"Spalding Gray","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"kathy-acker-spalding-gray-talker-5-giles-bailey-2018","title":"KATHY ACKER \u0026 SPALDING GRAY — TALKER #5, Giles Bailey, London, 2018","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdited and published by Giles Bailey, London, 2018. Self-published as part of the TALKER interview-zine series. Staple-bound, risograph-printed wrappers and pages; pink and blue duotone throughout; 24 pages; 28 × 18 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e very good; light rubbing and minor handling wear to wrappers, with slight edge and corner softening. Internally clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTALKER publishes long-form conversations concerned with the processes and conditions of live practice. Issue #5 returns to an event held at the ICA, London, on 5 February 1987, where Kathy Acker introduced and interviewed Spalding Gray as part of the institution’s In Conversation series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGray had recently completed Jonathan Demme’s film adaptation of \u003cem\u003eSwimming to Cambodia\u003c\/em\u003e. The discussion moves between writing, theatre and autobiographical performance: how material is developed, how spoken language becomes form, and how a life is reorganised for an audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA live exchange enters the archive as transcript, then returns three decades later as a self-published edition. Acker appears not as the subject of the publication but as host, reader and interlocutor. Gray’s performance survives through her questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fluorescent two-colour printing places institutional history inside the visual economy of the contemporary zine. Event becomes document. Conversation becomes issue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54099954336082,"sku":"ACKER-TALKER-INV-2018","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Acker_Kathy.Gray_Spalding.Talker_5.2018.jpg?v=1785064407"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/spalding-gray.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}