O' Reilly Zinik Semeiko

Published on the occasion of Andro Semeiko's residency at PEER, 14 January to 14 April 2013"--colophon.

This book is full of misunderstandings, flights of fancy, the mingling of metaphors, mixing of personal histories and proposing of impossible tasks. Its main protagonist is Andro Semeiko, who was selected out of over 180 applicants to undertake a three-month residency at PEER from mid-january to mid-april 2013.

London-based and Georgian born Semeiko’s primary activity is as a painter, but his interest lies in the complex construction of narrative installations that call upon the language of satire and the absurd through his work with writers and performers.

Semeiko has collaboratively employed the wordsmithing skills of writer and curator Sally O’Reilly and Russian novelist and broadcaster Zinovy Zinik, to concoct an array of references from which this project has evolved. Semeiko has identified intriguing kernels of historical information from the local area, which have sown seeds of free-associative and swashbuckling fancy.

Language: English