Headstreams

Name: Headstreams
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781667841601
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Headstreams is a compelling collection by Chris Corner, known as IAMX, showcasing his journey through depression and mental health struggles. The book blends photographs, sketches, lyrics, and poetry created during his five-year therapy period, revealing his deep psychological insight and artistic evolution. It offers a raw and intimate view into his battle with illness, transforming abstract thoughts into poignant lyrical and visual art.
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This book will resonate with fans of IAMX, as well as readers interested in the intersections of mental health, music, and art. It is particularly suited for those seeking candid exploration of psychological resilience and creativity.

Description

Chris Corner as IAMX is a multi-dimensional singer-songwriter, electronic producer and visual artist with an existential drive and fascination with all things psychological.

In 2013, in the midst of a world tour, Corner fell into a deep depression that left him paralysed with chronic insomnia and mental health issues. Confronting this reality would lead him into a reclusive long bout of therapy, healing and relapse over the next five years.

Headstreams is one of the projects to emerge from this period. Inside is a collection of photographs, sketches, lyrics, and poetry created by Corner as he looked inward and struggled with his illness. Here, unfinished abstract sentences morph into fully formed lyrical structures and nasty cartoon scribbles into high art photography. We get to know Corner not only as an exceptional music maker but a piercing, viscerally open writer with a natural insight into both the fragility and strength of the human condition.

As gratitude to his followers and the IAMX community for supporting him through his darkness, Corner invited his fans to submit artwork in response to the concept. These images have become a sublime complement and integral part of the book.

Headstreams is a beautiful, brutally honest body of work that is not only a symbol of love but also a symbol of the ongoing fight against the stigmatisation of mental health.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781667841601

Publisher: BookBaby

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 July 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: BookBaby

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 5.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 154g

Pages: 62

Collections

Arts & Culture IAMX Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Chris Corner launched the independent project IAMX in 2004 after his foundational music group Sneaker Pimps went on hiatus. As X, Corner sought the artistic freedom that evaded him in the commercial music industry. His raw visual artwork, androgyny and confessional lyrics allowed him to transcend music and emerge as a simultaneously enigmatic and iconoclastic figure. Focusing on topics from sexuality to modern disillusionment, the act quickly gained a devoted international audience, touring globally and releasing six albums in its first eight years.

After a world tour in support of the 2013 album The Unified Field, Corner returned home and fell into a depressive and insomniac state. In an unprecedented fashion for the time, he openly shared intimate details of his depression with his online fan community through the blog Insomnia Schizophonica. Corner's brutal honesty about his struggles opened the door for many fans and followers to find support and to start conversations about mental health that would alter the direction of the project. After a move to sunny Southern California, IAMX released the cathartic album Metanoia (2015) and its addendum Everything Is Burning (2016) as a reflection on the darkness he fought through. These were then followed by four more albums as IAMX, including the transformative record Alive In New Light (2018) which reflected his healing, and the long-awaited fourth Sneaker Pimps album, Squaring The Circle (2021).

In addition to his work as a musician, writer, and visual artist, IAMX has become known as a devoted advocate for mental health awareness, and an outspoken champion against the stigmatization many people face when trying to seek help. With assistance and drive from his long term collaborator, label manager and live band performer, Janine Gezang, IAMX began to host in person gatherings on the topic while on tour and started the mental health podcast, Headnoise. The gatherings and podcast have intimately connected him to his fans around the world and have collaborated with organizations like The You Rock Foundation, and individuals as diverse as super producer David Bottrill and iconic electronic musician Gary Numan.

In 2021, Corner moved the IAMX headquarters to San Diego County and, alongside Gezang, founded his own record label and production company, UNFALL, which he hopes will provide himself and other artists with the creative freedom that he has always pursued.