Artist of the week 138: Edwin Burdis

You can't fit this performance artist's bulging, bawdy body of work into any kind of box (even an Ikea one)Nothing ever seems to go right in Edwin Burdis's performances. Witness him in the guise of his former alterego Ed Laliq, caught in the spotlight, tangled up in a microphone lead, somehow tying the mike stand to his back as he tries to master these liquorice strings of cable. Even something as simple as putting his beer down becomes Sisyphean slapstick, with the bottle repeatedly tumbling t...

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