Book – David Noonan -A Dark and Quiet Pl

A Dark and Quiet Place accompanies Noonan’s moving image work of the same name. Both the film and the book present a meditation on performance, its associated apparatus and the physical and imaginary domains they inhabit. That this is Noonan’s first film work in over a decade is significant, as his practice since has frequently referenced both the material qualities of film and projection, and an ongoing interest in the slippages between figuration and pure abstraction. For the book, the artist has worked closely with award-winning design studio A Practice for Everyday Life to disassemble the film work back into a rhythmic sequence of still images, employing both the language of design and Noonan’s characteristic strategies of layering and manipulation.

Paperback: 224 pages, 235 x 300 x 14 mm,  ISBN: 978-0993156328