Michael Rakowitz

Sabreen - Live in Jerusalem 2010 (The Breakup), 2012

Vinyl LP record with poster

12 × 12 × 1/4 in | 30.5 × 30.5 × 0.6 cm

Part of a limited edition set published in an edition of 500.

"Live in Jerusalem 2010 is a deluxe gatefold vinyl LP recording of Sabreen's concert published by Bidoun. The cover concept for refers to Live Peace in Toronto 1969, an album documenting a September 13, 1969 performance by the Plastic Ono Band at Varsity Stadium, Toronto. For the cover of Live Peace, John Lennon and Yoko Ono began with Blue, a painting by Yves Klein. The work depicts a sky of pure, sparkling azure; John and Yoko introduced via photo collage the image of a single cloud. “By us putting a cloud there,” Ono said, “it suddenly became the real sky—and the real world—as opposed to perfection.” Live in Jerusalem takes the same Klein painting, collaged now with a photographic image of the aerial bombardment of Gaza in January 2009, correcting the utopic perfection proposed in John and Yoko’s gesture by imposing a darker cloud upon Klein’s idealized sky."

I don't know / don't think it was ever wrapped in plastic, the record has never been opened.

Item is as described, no returns or exchanges.