High Wire A history of performance art

A history of performance art

‘This big book is a generous

in detail so particular that it went right down to the level of the street lights

’ — Graham Reid

‘Written with great style and rigour’ — New Zealand Listener

High Wire A history of performance artA unique storybook for grownups High Wire brings together Booker finalist writer Lloyd Jones and artist Euan Macleod. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made for grownups and designed to showcase leading New Zealand writers and artists working together in a collaborative and dynamic way. In High Wire the narrators playfully set out across the Tasman, literally on a high wire. Macleods striking drawings explore notions of home,