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La Houle
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HRR-07
Futurism’s Bastard Son
During the life of an artist countless photos are taken, numerous videos are shot and plenty of text is written. In the case of a performance artist this material is even more extensive and also more important, because it gives us a witness report about a past event. When we noticed that Billy archived all the material about his work very accurately and everything was already there we decided to use only the accumulated images and texts, such as: stills and off-voices from Billy’s video documentation, newspaper articles ranging from local press to international art critique, TV-Excerpts, lyrics from Billy’s songs.
Futurism’s Bastard Son
claims Curmano as an heir to the Italian Futurist legacy. It documents several decades of eccentric work from somewhat traditional objects to conceptual plans and live art. It includes 3-days buried alive, a lengthwise Mississippi River swim as performance and environmental statement, 40-day Death Valley Desert Fast and performances for cows and other under-served audiences. It’s an artist’s life as art in 128 letter size pages with 164 black and white images and French Flap Covers. The text is in English from multiple sources including his own words.
Astrid Seme
is the designer and co-publisher of the book. She received her M.A. at Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem, Netherlands after graduating at the University for Applied Arts, Vienna. In addition to her design and editorial practice, Astrid Seme elaborates sound works growing out of her interest in the written and the spoken word and the relationship of both. She is part of Mark Pezinger Verlag, a publishing house for artists’ books that serves as a discursive platform for her own sound editions.
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