Melissa Gordon – Vital Signs: Writings on Gesture Australian Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

Institutions and the machinery of the art market complete this disposition

and points up its paradoxes

Scenes where emotions are revealed

Melissa Gordon – Vital Signs: Writings on Gesture Australian Ronan and Erwan BouroullecVital Signs brings together writings by artist Melissa Gordon, which she has performed live over the past decade in various contexts. Focusing on the role and behaviour of gesture in her painting practice and that of others, Gordons texts move between topics of dropping out, (female) genius, con jobs, how one speaks in painting, and notions of suckcess. Gordons writing emerges from a history of feminist organising and editing. Vital Signs shows the