- Venue
- RIBA bookshop London
- Date
- Tuesday, January 22, 2019
06:00 PM - Address
- RIBA Bookshop Royal Institute of British Architects 66 Portland Place London W1B 1AD
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- RIBA Bookshop London
The Day of the Duck employs the twin forms of play script and ornithological instructional manual to dig away at the muddied idea of Englishness. This ‘Duck Noir’ story follows a Muscovy duck as it questions the residents of a rural Fenland city. Waddling past the Maltings on its journey from a footpath in the Fens up to the Market Square it applies a cool forensic analysis to behaviour in public space: how humans stand, how they converse, sit on a bench or wait for a bus. In looking for answers to why its brethren have abruptly disappeared, this duck-tective begins to understand how small daily acts offer both opportunities and challenges to new arrivals, to those perceived as different or un-deserving or un-English.
RSVP Marmalade Publishers of Visual Theory: [email protected]
The Day of the Duck evolved out of A Day with a Duck, artist’s residency and gallery presentation at Babylon Gallery, Ely in 2012, exploring alternate/unplanned places, focusing on city territories and contrasts between the urban and the wild.
The Day of the Duck is published by Marmalade Publishers of Visual Theory: Series editor: Gordon Shrigley. Graphic design: Paul Oldman of Smith Design. Printing: Biddles Kings Lynn.
Limited edition Artists’ Book of 500 copies. ISBN: 978-0-9933373-3-8. Retail price: £15.99. Distribution: Central Books, London.
