An in-depth document of Marcia Farquhar’s collaborative 12 Shooters project (2007). The cloth bound book includes full-colour film stills, production stills, preparatory drawings and contextual documentation.
12 Shooters, the book
Acts of Clothing 7 Up, National Review of Live Art
“Marcia Farquhar [has] a hectic, colourful past that she lines up for us in the guise of a clothes-rail dangling with talismanic frocks of varied vintage. As she zips through them, Farquhar sustains a giddy commentary on the ‘why, when, where and who else was there’ of each outfit.”
Black and White and Red All Over
Marcia Farquhar’s Black and White and Red All Over will be a live consideration of the magical meaning of glamour, the uses of enchantment, and the semiotics of good girl/bad girl fashion. Always telling or retelling stories, engineering unexpected social interactions in which the distance between audience and performer is repeatedly breached, Farquhar probes the nature of biography and autobiography and grapples with storytelling as a strategy that is forever renegotiating its relationship with truth.
The Dangerous to Know Society
In an effort to prove the spirit of Byron alive and well, Marcia Farquhar has amassed a collection of testimonials and confessionals from the Byrons in her life, and the women who have loved them.
12 Shooters in New York
“I first watched Marcia Farquhar’s 12 Shooters in a Chelsea Hotel room one night in March 2008. The Chelsea’s shabby lobby, lined floor to ceiling with darkening paintings accepted years ago as rent, is only a cipher of all that has been made and shown there. “