You Are Of Vital Importance

the long version

You are of vital importance is a group of 62 pieces of prose fiction marked by common preoccupations with the construction of characters, professional personas, communication knots and the social economies of art making. A variety of tones, approaches and different conditions of writing are employed to create proximity to, and distance from, characters, communities and objects. The book’s title is taken from one of the pieces .You are of vital importance to the art community' which also exists as a work for exhibition.--Artist's website. A collection of short stories and vignettes concerned with the dynamics of social interaction and the construction of character. These stories employ a variety of tones and forms to examine proximity and distance between characters, communities and objects. Tripp is preoccupied with the critique of narrative, the structuring of unstructured activity and the translation of bodily experience. She works with the forms of anecdote, film, performance and printed words; rooting her practice in observation and experience. Her works are marked by the use of multiple perspective, episodic structure and suspended denouement.--Publisher.