Institute of Contemporary Arts

Sanctuary

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Brian Dillon's work immerses itslef in space, place, ruins, and the residues of memory.

Tom McCarthy

Sanctuary is a work of fiction set in the ruins of a Modernist building. It is a story about what survives—of bodies, ideas, objects and the artistic or literary forms that might describe them—in the wake of catastrophe. Dillon's writing invokes that of Samuel Beckett and the cinematic landscapes of Andrei Tarkovsky and Chris Marker.

Brian Dillon is the UK editor of Cabinet magazine and AHRC Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Kent. He is the author of Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (Penguin, 2009) and a memoir, In the Dark Room (Penguin, 2005). His writing appears regularly in such publications as frieze, Artforum, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, and the Wire.

Sternberg

ISBN 9781933128870

11 x 15.5cm,  90 pages, Hardback.