Rippin' for Gordon - #046 - Leopold Sacher-Masoch Saw Invitation in His Eyes and Depth in His Hole

Leopold Sacher-Masoch
Bed of an Empress

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This book is copyright. No portion of it may
be reproduced without written permission.
First published in U.S.A. by Belmont Produc-
tions Inc., New York. This edition published
1965 by Brown, Watson Ltd., Digit House,
Harlesden Road, Willesden Green, London,
N.W.10.

Reprinted July, 1965.
Made and printed in Great Britain by Richmond
Hill Printing Works Ltd., 23/25 Abbott Road,
Winton, Bournemouth.

10,8 x 17,9 cm, 194p, softcover

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On 2 January 2018 I ripped the 194 pages from Leopold Sacher-Masoch Bed of an Empress, 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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Rippin' for Gordon - #035 - Jay Anson is Frightened by the Scariest True Artwork He Has Seen in Years

Jay Anson
The Amityville Horror

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First published in Great Britain 1978 by W.H. Allen
This edition published 1978 by Pan Books Ltd,
Cavaye Place, London SW10 9PG
2nd printing 1978
© Jay Anson, George Lee Lutz, Kathleen Lutz 1978
ISBN 330 25599 1
Printed and bound in Great Britain by
Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk

This book is sold subject to the condition that it 
shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, 
hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior 
consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which
it is published and without a similar condition including this
condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

11,0 x 17,9 cm, 194p, softcover

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On 11 November 2017 I ripped the 194 pages from Jay Anson The Amityville Horror, 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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Rippin' for Gordon - #018 - Ian Fleming Never Digged Twice

Ian Fleming

James Bond
You Only Live Twice

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First published 1964 by Jonathan Cape Ltd.
This edition published 1965 by Pan Books Ltd,
8 Headfort Place, London, S.W.1

© Glidrose Production Ltd, 1964

Printed in Great Britain by
Cox and Wyman Ltd, London, Reading and Fakenham

11,2 x 17,7 cm, 194p, softcover

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On 10 October 2017 I ripped the 194 pages from Ian Fleming James Bond: You Only Live Twice, 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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Rippin' for Gordon - #017 - The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century

The World's Worst Disasters
of the Twentieth Century

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First published in hardback in 1983
by Octopus Books Limited
59 Grosvenor Street
London W1

Paperback edition first published in 1984

© Octopus Books Limited

ISBN 0 7064 2146 9

Second impression, reprinted 1984

Made and printed in Great Britain by
Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Limited
Bungay, Suffolk

14,4 x 21,0 cm, 194p, softcover

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On 8 October 2017 I ripped the 194 pages from The World's Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century, 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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