Theater of Love was a 2018 photographic performance work created by artist Amanda Shank in response to Ronald de Sousa’s 1992 essay “Love as Theater.”
It has since expanded into an ongoing creative exploration at the intersection of autobiography and erotic philosophy. Works contain elements of performance, collage, autofiction and portraiture and are currently focused on artist books as a form of temporal literary theater.
SEASON CYCLE 01matrilineal, is there a sadness inherent in nature?, photographic field notes, desert gold, detritus, lucille clifton, fear of flying, hecate, love as an animating force, “thick ritual”, a feeling of incredible wellbeing, cy’s poems to the sea, her death
Artist Book:
2021
5.5 x 8.5
32 pages
Staple bound
Limited edition of 20