The Singing Sculpture 1969-91 [print], 1993

This edition documents one of Gilbert & George's earliest performances (Singing Sculpture, first performed in 1969) and illustrates their radical approach of presenting themselves as living sculptures. In London’s Cable Street, they appeared with bronze-painted faces and hands, wearing their characteristic flannel suits, and presented a precisely choreographed, mechanically-appearing singing and dance performance to Underneath the Arches by Flanagan & Allen. This work marked the beginning of their consistent artistic practice, which consciously dissolved the boundaries between art and life.