Clocking in at over four hours in two rich
parts, at least in the edited version debuting this weekend at Toronto's Lightbox, it's a landmark of seriocomic storytelling that is simultaneously a satire of biographical
tall -
tales, a depressive's bildungsroman, and an alternately tender and lacerating self - portrait, defending all the Joes and Larses of the world for their obscenity without sparing them the lash.
Collar's exhibitions and performances include: A rock that keeps tigers away, group exhibition, Kunstverein München, Munich, July 2017; a performance event and micro residency, Kunstraum, London, June 2017; Plural Melts at Yvonne Lambert, Berlin, 2017;
Tall Tales, touring group exhibition and performance, Freud Museum, London, Touchstones Gallery and Museum, Rochdale and Glasgow Women's Library 2016; Tarantallegra, group exhibition, Hester, New York, July - Aug 2016; Secret Surface, group exhibition, KW, Berlin, Feb - May 2016; 11/50, solo exhibition, Fig - 2, ICA, London, March 2015; Probably, Like a Melon Rolling Off a Table:
Part II, solo performance for Saturday Live, Serpentine Galleries, London, Jan 2015; Secret Agents, group exhibition, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Sept - Oct 2015; PALIMPSEST, performance collaboration with William Cobbing at Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, 2014; Let's Make Another Possible Now, group performance event as part of ANTIKNOW at Flat Time House, London, 2
Part II, solo performance for Saturday Live, Serpentine Galleries, London, Jan 2015; Secret Agents, group exhibition, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Sept - Oct 2015; PALIMPSEST, performance collaboration with William Cobbing at Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, 2014; Let's Make Another Possible Now, group performance event as
part of ANTIKNOW at Flat Time House, London, 2
part of ANTIKNOW at Flat Time House, London, 2014.