by Ian Byers Gamber
Coming Soon
100 Pages, 6.75 × 8.25 inches
Published by Pharmacy Books
Designed by Michael Ipsen & Saskia Globig
I Come Creeping is a historiographic project that excavates the ongoing struggle over the memory of Blair Mountain. In the century since 10,000 West Virginian coal miners defended their lives and their livelihoods from extreme state and paramilitary violence, this history, alongside the legacy of the broader labor movement, has been forgotten, dismissed, and otherwise co‑opted. This book traces current efforts by the community to preserve the miners' legacy, ideological and material, in contrast to the lacunae in textbooks and other archives of power. Taken altogether, I Come Creeping therefore serves two ends: one, didactic, to celebrate a long-silenced example of leftist uprising; and two, translative, to survey the history's continuing urgency and extend its lessons to the present.
www.ianbyersgamber.com
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Ian Byers-Gamber is a Los Angeles-based artist, art documentarian, and collaborator with roots in Bloomington, IN. He holds an MFA from Rutgers University. His work has been shown at the Mid-Atlantic Research Center for the Humanities, Westbeth Gallery, the Chan Gallery at Pomona College, Rutgers Mason Gross Galleries, Yucca Valley Material Lab, CSU Dominguez Hills, the Re Institute, and more. Through photography, sculpture, and installation, he investigates silenced histories and hidden archives. Byers-Gamber makes work in the service of a liberatory politic, celebrating community within and around the institutions that shape how we engage with the world.