Productions, The Book to Come
Lucía Onzain. 72/49. The Book To Come, Session 17
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A space of seventy-two years separates Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard and Broodthaers’ Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard (1897 to 1969, respectively). Broodthaers, a writer, “abandoned” writing to work as an artist on a book by another writer, Mallarmé, who prolifically investigated the concept of the book and forms of reading in search of the Total Work (or Book).
John Berger’s father, Tilda Swinton’s father.
Don Giovanni as an example of what is not spoken but is there; El Burlador de Sevilla (The Trickster of Seville, circa 1612, attributed to Tirso de Molina), where the cashier slips from “d” to “s” in a sort of 17th century “post truth” or alternative fact.
The last session of The Book To Come will use these issues to take a look at the idea of transmission.
Lucia Onzain (Bilbao, 1964). Trained at the Fine Art Faculty, Barcelona, Universidad del País Vasco, EHU/UPV, Accademia de Roma, New York University and Arteleku, Donostia-San Sebastián. She considers art to be not only a way of life, but a form of knowledge in which exegesis is increasingly necessary; and this is why she is a member of The Book To Come reading group.
The Book to Come is a project by Corpus, network for the practice of performance. Members of Corpus are Bulegoa z/b (Bilbao), Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution (Amsterdam), Playground (STUK Kunstencentrum & M-Museum, Leuven) y Tate Modern (London): www.corpus-network.org.
Corpus is co-funded by the European Union Creative Europe programme.
