ON VALUE by Triple Canopy and Ralph Lemon

Triple Canopy, 2015 First edition, 276 pp., 4 1/4" X 6 1/2" Softcover

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On Value is a collaboration between Triple Canopy and choreographer and artist Ralph Lemon. The book is a multifarious conversation about the value of artworks and of the labor and bodies that make them, especially as defined by institutions with whom artists have often had fraught relationships. In essays, poems, interviews, and artworks, nineteen contributors consider the allure of artworks that, by nature, resist institutional parameters; how and why performers, choreographers, and dancers might go about making art institutions into proper venues, even caretakers, for their works; and how race figures into assessments of value. (On Value is the culmination of the series Passage of a Rumor, which began publication in August 2015 and includes digital versions of several of the projects in the book.)