Book of the day (and book signing tomorrow (10/1, 4-6!) > Randi Malkin Steinberger: No Circus. Published by Damiani. They’re in most neighborhoods in Los Angeles - houses shrouded in brightly colored vinyl tarps being fumigated for termites. Noted photographer Randi Malkin Steinberger first encountered these tented houses when she moved to Southern California in the early 1990s. In her new book No Circus from Damiani and DAP, tented houses have become sculptural abstractions and enigmatic monuments inserted into the ordinariness of suburban streets.
Steinberger’s sixty-nine color photographs are accompanied by D.J. Waldie’s essay that ranges from the mating habits of termites, to the chemistry of fumigation, to the phenomenology of a shrouded house. “Houses haunt themselves” he writes. “While we’re away, the chair improvises a sitter, the door frame a passing figure, and the bed a sleeper. To be something more than a windbreak or a covering from rain or a frail barrier, a home must have dreamers inside. A house undreamed in is already neglected.  Joining us along with Ms. Steinberger and Mr. Waldie will be the book's designer - and Deadbeat Club head honcho Clint Woodside - along with a special musical performance by composer Gavin Gamboa. Evoking the language of insects - both real and imagined - as well as the sounds of quarantine, Mr. Gamboa of The Teaching Machine collective will provide a backdrop of chirping, clicking, whirling, buzzing oscillations to the event! @123randi @gavartgamhag @artbook @ damiani_books