Parthenogenesis exposes the battleground between archaic dualities. Symmetry and proportion wage war against annihilation and the visceral. Ritual practice and mystical questions attempt to regulate an inner barbarity that threatens to strangle and destroy. The Eden myth is resurrected and explored as an archetypal division; what constitutes each aspect? Much of the text in Parthenogenesis comes from the artist himself, but interspersed throughout the work are the words of over thirty thinkers/artist/writers exploring the same archaic divide.

This artist’s book is an attempt to map out the conceptual and poetic terrain of Dudeck’s large-scale Parthenogenesis performance/installation, a trans-disciplinary production merging drawing, sculpture, video, performance, installation, sound and text.