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¶ A parody of a mouth: say, a mouth-theatre, say it.
¶ Operating on the peripheries of a pathological discourse, Treatment penetrates the interstices of modern queer consciousness to medicate a multiheaded body of work. With no cure in sight, the text moves from violence, cowboys, iconography, illness and image to the death of Yves Klein and a fear of dentistry. Bridget’s reflections pose a dissection of novelistic cliché that attends to the repressed remnants of a queer romance. Played out in an interpersonal run of vignettes or “treatments,” rather than any death of the novel Treatment propositions a mischievous and travestying performance anchored in putrefaction. A serious play with the decay of forms, Treatment is a rendered reading of our ability to talk through the process of degradation and an ironized analysis of the desire to write it down. In Bridget’s “mouth-theatre” sit Allan and Allen—two precarious, spectral characters set against an eerie backdrop of clinical isolation. Framed by a nameless narrator, these mirrored figures undergo forty text-treatments across four artificially generated days that survey their feelings of angst, adulation and disorientation against the slow tick of a clock. A mash-up of love story, pornography, art criticism, literary appropriation, and essayistic meditation, Treatment pushes an anatomical body to its limits in a parodic portrayal of a mouth on the hunt for a tongue and its teeth.
¶ Copyright © Adrian Bridget, 2019 / Afterword © Dominic Jaeckle, 2019 / Edited by Christophe Chauvet and Dominic Jaeckle / Copy-edited by Samanta Oon / Proofread by Jon Auman / Designed by Tomas Laar
¶ Published in 2019 by Adrian Bridget
ISBN 978-1-9999702-1-5
Softcover, 192pp
196 x 128 mm
¶ Listen to reading
[@ rile* x Montez Press Radio]
¶ Review by Jonathan Kemp
[@ Queerguru]
¶ A parody of a mouth: say, a mouth-theatre, say it.
¶ Operating on the peripheries of a pathological discourse, Treatment penetrates the interstices of modern queer consciousness to medicate a multiheaded body of work. With no cure in sight, the text moves from violence, cowboys, iconography, illness and image to the death of Yves Klein and a fear of dentistry. Bridget’s reflections pose a dissection of novelistic cliché that attends to the repressed remnants of a queer romance. Played out in an interpersonal run of vignettes or “treatments,” rather than any death of the novel Treatment propositions a mischievous and travestying performance anchored in putrefaction. A serious play with the decay of forms, Treatment is a rendered reading of our ability to talk through the process of degradation and an ironized analysis of the desire to write it down. In Bridget’s “mouth-theatre” sit Allan and Allen—two precarious, spectral characters set against an eerie backdrop of clinical isolation. Framed by a nameless narrator, these mirrored figures undergo forty text-treatments across four artificially generated days that survey their feelings of angst, adulation and disorientation against the slow tick of a clock. A mash-up of love story, pornography, art criticism, literary appropriation, and essayistic meditation, Treatment pushes an anatomical body to its limits in a parodic portrayal of a mouth on the hunt for a tongue and its teeth.
¶ Copyright © Adrian Bridget, 2019 / Afterword © Dominic Jaeckle, 2019 / Edited by Christophe Chauvet and Dominic Jaeckle / Copy-edited by Samanta Oon / Proofread by Jon Auman / Designed by Tomas Laar
¶ Published in 2019 by Adrian Bridget
ISBN 978-1-9999702-1-5
Softcover, 192pp
196 x 128 mm