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Garrett Nelson, 'Head Bimbo', (2017). Performance documentation. Courtesy the artist + Lyles & King Gallery, New York.
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Garrett Nelson, 'Head Bimbo', (2017). Performance documentation. Courtesy the artist + Lyles & King Gallery, New York.
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Garrett Nelson, 'Head Bimbo', (2017). Performance documentation. Courtesy the artist + Lyles & King Gallery, New York.
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Garrett Nelson, 'Head Bimbo', (2017). Performance documentation. Courtesy the artist + Lyles & King Gallery, New York.
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Garrett Nelson, 'Head Bimbo', (2017). Performance documentation. Courtesy the artist + Lyles & King Gallery, New York.
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Garrett Nelson, 'Head Bimbo', (2017). Performance documentation. Courtesy the artist + Lyles & King Gallery, New York.
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Garrett Nelson, 'Head Bimbo', (2017). Performance documentation. Courtesy the artist + Lyles & King Gallery, New York.
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Garrett Nelson, 'Head Bimbo', (2017). Performance documentation. Courtesy the artist + Lyles & King Gallery, New York.

Romantic self-destruction: Garrett Nelson’s Head Bimbo at Lyles & King

, 13 March 2017

Garret Nelson performed Head Bimbo live at New York’s Lyles & King on February 26, 2017.

The event happened in conjunction with Yves Scherer‘s A Bigger Splash exhibition running to March 19, and featured Richie Shazam and André Vauthey as ‘co-stars.’

Garrett Nelson, ‘Head Bimbo’ (2017). Performance documentation. Courtesy the artist + Lyles + King, New York.

The performance was accompanied by a text/press release, written by Vance Aiolos, where Nelson describes ‘head bimbo’ as a “meeting point, melting pot of all kinds of fashion, vandals soviet drag queens exiled, latin american dictators have free admission every night but socialites are also welcome…romantic self destruction in a couple of weeks.”

The Switzerland/Mexico City-based artist, writer and filmmaker works in performance and installations that straddle “philosophy lectures and poetics, becoming myth theory for talks about silence, iteration, or word/language ontology.” He will be releasing a book of poetry prose via Basel’s Pyramid Press in 2017.**

Yves Scherer’s A Bigger Splash with Markus Selg + Anahid Mishek is on at New York’s Lyles & King, running February 19 to March 19, 2017.