The Perfect Kiss (QQ)* *Questioning, Queer

The Perfect Kiss (QQ)* *questioning, queer is a curatorial and creative undertaking for artist Matt Morris, who has taken the life and oeuvre of American conceptualist James Lee Byars ((1932-1997) as an object of research. Incorporating Byars works into an installation of Morris' own objects and interventions, he considers how connections are made between art histories and contemporary praxis, between exhibitions and the museums who host them, and amongst a global network of collectors, curators, couturiers, and other cultural producers complicit in the scripting of stories that characterize how an artist is understood behind his work. This volume contains exhibition documentation accompanied by essays from Steven Matijcio, Gordon Hall, Steve Reinke, Annie Nocenti, and the curatorial collective Triple Candie.