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By: Kirsten Law
Date: 27th Feb 08
Format: Book
Motivation: Improves creativity by osmosis
What:
My Birthday Party: a chronicle of artworks and life
Where:
Launching at Don't Come, Lvl 2, Royal Arcade
When:
Launch Thurs Feb 28, 6-9pm (with DJ Emillionzzz)
Exhibition runs until March 15
How much:
Book $39.95
Launch entry free
Win:
We have copies of My Birthday Party to give away. To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘it's just my stupid life'
"But it's not a movie, it's just my stupid life."
In Martin Bell's phenomenal new book (already named "the most awesome book ever made" by one illustrious critic), past and present collide in domestic snapshots and present day meetings of flesh and plastic.
In Bell's world, life is lived in cubby houses and under overpasses, or heading cross-country in a caravan. Boundaries are frayed between real and imagined places of play; cream-filled supermarket cakes are smashed and raw meat is lovingly devoured by toy dentures. With Care Bears®, Transformers®, bacon and eggs and John Steinbeck all receiving the MB treatment, My Birthday Party is a collectors' item like no other.
Essentially a catalogue produced to support and document Bell's installation Mountains and the performance ‘My Birthday Party', this is one of the greatest things to come out of Melbourne in the past year and very nearly makes the written word obsolete.
Alfred E. Neuman says: "My Birthday Party is so wonderful because it's YOUR Birthday Party!"