Simultaneous Soloists - Paperback

by Anthony McCall (Artist), David Grubbs (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Branden Joseph (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

Simultaneous Soloists is an artist's book emerging from the exhibition Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works and its accompanying performance series Four Simultaneous Soloists, organized by David Grubbs. It documents these ephemeral events through multiple means: an extensive conversation between McCall and Grubbs detailing a decade of working together, interviews with sixteen participating musicians, writings by art historians Branden W. Joseph and Swagato Chakravorty, and visual materials ranging from McCall's drawings and archival materials to photographs of the exhibition including images sourced from social media. The "simultaneous soloists" of the title variously refers to a grouping of McCall's sculptural volumes of light, to gatherings of improvising musicians, and to McCall and Grubbs themselves--sympathetic artistic sensibilities proceeding in suggestively parallel practices.