Rippin' for Gordon - #051 - Corpo Fast Forward Forgotten

Corpo Fast Forward

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Este livro é publicado por ocasião do Porto 2001, Capital Europeia da Cultura

This book is published as a cellebration of Porto 2001, European Capital of Culture

Concepção de Projecto _ Concept

Paulo Cunha e Silva

Porto 2001 - Área do Pensamento, Ciênca, Literatura, Projectos Transversais e articulação com Roterdão

Porto 2001 - Thought, Science, Literature and Collateral projects and articulation with Roterdam

Direcção, edição e produção _ Direction, edition and production

Dinis Guarda

Coordenação e edição _ Co-ordination and edition

João Urbano

Direcção Artistica, Videostills e imagem

Art Director, Videostills and image

V-UR

Co-Coordenação ciênca _ Science co-ordination

Paulo Urbano

Design

[RE] size* _ Sofia Gonçalves * Carlos Abreu

Traduções _ Translations

Margarida Bessa

Lidia Vaz

Paulo Pereira (francês-Português _ french-portuguese)

Colaboração em folio visual especial

Special collaboration with visual folio

Paulo Henrique

Revisões _ Proofreading

João Fagundes

Rafael Dioniso

Pedro Marques

Publicado por _ Published by

NUMEROMAGAZINE: fast forward

da Associação e editora _ association and editorial house

ÓPIO - arte e cultura

R. Pinheiro Chagas nº 28, 1º dto

1050-178 Lisboa

tel. 21 314 39 73

fax. 21 315 98 09

www.numerofestival.com

info@numerofestival.com

Pré-Impressão _ Pre-printed by

Grafilis

Impressão - Printed by

Heska portuguesa

ISBN 972-97705-4-9

Impresso em Portugal _ Printed in Portugal

21,0 x 20,9 cm, 304p, softcover

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On 21 January 2018 I ripped the 304 pages from Corpo Fast Forward, tore them in half and threw them in the Hole I've been Diggin' for Gordon in a basement at an undisclosed location in Antwerpen since 20 February 2006.
The title refers to Gordon Matta-Clark whose last and major work ‘Office Baroque’ in Antwerpen I illegally visited at the start of my career as an artist. The performance/installation evolved into a ‘mash-up’ with ingredients from the works of various avantgarde artists from the 70’s. For instance a slant row of florescent lights inspired by Dan Flavin takes care of lightning and an endless ladder as imagined by Vito Acconci makes it possible to get in and out of the hole. The work was made visible through a number of side actions and performances where I used some of the dirt I had been digging up. Most of the dirt was used to fill up James Lee Byars' tomb.
As of 9 September 2017 the Hole is filled with precious books from my private library.

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