Gerry Bibby is one of four artists commissioned by If I Can’t Dance to produce a new work as part of Edition V – Appropriation and Dedication (2013–2014).

Over the commission period Bibby will install himself as a shifting functionary of sorts, a shadow actor amongst the ongoing machinations of creative production and the apparatuses that sustain them. Training his sensitivity towards grammars of belonging upon the shrouded zone of the ‘backstage’, Bibby will be designated as a roadie – a ‘man in black’ tramping through leads, hazards, (dis)organisations of appearance. The commission will culminate in a publication project, the first such discrete book – perhaps in the guise of a paper-back – to arise from Bibby's ongoing textual and poetic production.