M.I.A first sent flutters into our heart in 2005, with the opening bars of ‘Galang’ and she’s been a fixture there ever since. If like us, you can’t get enough of her and her music (and we are breathlessly waiting on the release of Matangi, if you’re reading this) then this news will be right up your street.
If you ever got the sense she was such a creative and talented artiste, the music industry didn’t have a box or a genre big enough to contain her, well you’d be right. Now, she has a book. On October 23rd, publishing house Rizzoli released ’M.I.A: The Book’, which sounds exactly like the kind of personal, idiosyncratic collection of scribbles we would kill to get a look at:
“A groundbreaking and always controversial musician, M.I.A. is an influential artist and an important cultural figure of the last decade. Here is a documentation of her entire visual output and a telling of her story in collages, photos, and prints from her early years in art school at Central Saint Martins London through to her hugely successful three albums, mixtapes, and live performances at PS1 MoMA, Coachella, various exhibitions, installations, and music video shoots. The artwork is comprised of a wide variety of materials and media: video stills turned to stencils pieced back together to make animated installations; spray-painted canvasses scanned then made into digital collages; photographs videotaped, then run through bad computer connections to create graphic prints; artwork on nails, walls, prints for T-shirts, handmade stage costumes—anything she could find while she was touring. Also included are assorted lyrics and portions of an exclusive interview in which she discusses candidly the personal events and themes which informed her art and music at the time of each campaign. Includes foreword by Steve Loveridge, friend since her art school days and frequent creative collaborator with M.I.A.”
When a coffee-table book has a trailer, you know it means business! So we shall just sit here patiently, awaiting word on an international release. And that album.
M.I.A. The Book, is available here for you lucky North-Americans:
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