William Kentridge - The Head & The Load - Xavier Barral 2020

Original Title: William Kentridge The Head & The Load are the trouble of the neck.

This book is a record of the theater production The Head & the Load, made by a group of musicians, actors, dancers, writers, composers, and video editors with costume, set, and lighting designers. The project is a record of the inadequately known history of the African porters who were part of the First World War in Africa.
The book contains the libretto of the piece, images of performances, reflections on the process of making the piece, and expansions on themes that arise from the project. The production took as its principle the concept of history as collage, bringing different fragments together to find a provisional history. In the book we try to follow a similar process, allowing the reader to construct a sense of the production from the libretto, texts, and images.

316p - EN (+ insert FR) - 31,4x23,4cm - clothed hardcover - mint