The Cesspool of Rapture

THE CESSPOOL OF RAPTURE is a collection of Joseph Noonan-Ganley’s writing from 2012 to 2024, structured by three themes and contexts that emerged during the process of assembling the texts:  STUDIO, UNIVERSITY, and EXHIBITION. Responses by Simon Watney, Sarah Tripp, and Tom Dillon end each section.

‘Working in my studio, teaching in universities, and presenting art in exhibitions demand distinct and contrasting kinds of labour that do not easily lead from one to the other. Persisting in any one of these areas is premised on the work and learning undertaken in the others. This assembly demonstrates why I continue to move between these, why movement is generative, essential. This book reconstitutes connections that are suppressed by infrastructural, institutional, and psychic compartmentalisation. These texts were not written to be compiled. They collectively comprise their themes, demonstrating diversity rather than synthesis [...] Objects host shared encounters: when I visit them, I come into contact with the desires of others, and they become contaminated by mine in the process.’

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180 Pages