Ria Pacquée - Slammm, Ramble, Perform - Occasional Papers 2018
Slammm, Ramble, Perform is the first monograph devoted to Antwerp-based performance and visual artist Ria Pacquée. Since the 1970s, Pacquée has been at the forefront of a burgeoning performance scene in Belgium, pioneering interventions in which her body plays the central role. Yet unlike many of her peers, Pacquée’s performances avoid the pitfalls of the subjective or the corporeal: her characters, such as Madame or the elusive It figure, are conceptual stand-ins, evolving characters in the larger drama of her oeuvre.