Super Sad True Love Story (2014)

SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY by

SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY BY COLE LU [This page is intentionally left blank]

First Edition 50 copies

Contents:

Preface:

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CURRENTLY UN-ABLE TO GIVE A FUCK

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THIS IS WHERE YOU LEFT YOUR ÄPPÄRÄT, WIRELESS

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SOLUTION 101: LOVE/FUCK (INTERCHANGEABLE) 24

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INTIMACY/ SUMMER AS VERB, NEW YORK

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CRYING HELMET, FULLY STOCKED

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IMPERCEPTIBLE STATE THAT MAY OR MAY NOT RESOLVE OVER TIME

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EX-FACTOR

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NOTES

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This is an exhibition about attempting not to give a fuck.

GEE, BABY AIN’T I GOOD TO YOU?

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CURRENTLY UNABLE TO GIVE A FUCK 10

Urban dictionary:

Give a fuck

To not care in the least bit (about something).

SYNONYMS: "give a flying fuck,� "not give a fuck" NOTE: It's sorta fucked up, but to give a fuck is the same thing as to NOT give a fuck. I wonder why. Shit, actually, I (don't) give a fuck.

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Light box as SOS to the world

KISS ME KISS ME KISS ME KISS ME KISS ME 14

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THIS IS WHERE YOU LEFT YOUR ÄPPÄRÄT, WIRELESS 16

“Life, then will, always contain an inevitable surplus, a margin of the gratuitous, a realm in which there is always more than we need: more things, more impressions, more memories, more habits, more words, more happiness, more unhappiness.�

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THIS IS WHERE YOU LEFT YOUR ÄPPÄRÄT, OR SMART PHONE, OR PAGER, OR ANYTHING THAT CAN RECEIVE WIRELESS RECEPTION.

ÄPPÄRÄT (n.) the device that replaces your heart in order to feel or avoid to feel any emotional connection.

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What is your fuckibility?

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3.

SOLUTION 101: LOVE/FUCK (INTERCHANGEABLE)

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How do you get X, when you need Y to get X, and X to get Y? There are at least four correct answers: 1. Slowly 2. Painfully 3. Unfairly 4. Untruthfully.

When you try to get lucky, these are the questions at hand: How do you get ____ when you need ____ers to get ____, and ____ to get ____ers? And how do you ____ them, if you can’t ____ all of them at once?

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____, n. A temporary insanity curable by ____, or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he/she incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nation breathing pure air and eating simply food enjoy immunity from its ravages.

It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to patient.

“____� is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen.

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INTIMACY / SUMMER AS VERB, NEW YORK 30

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The perfect love letter is I write I Love You bac kwar d in the air

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CRYING HELMET, FULLY STOCKED

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I AM CRY ING NOW

I AM CRY ING NOW

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I AM CRY ING NOW

I AM CRY ING NOW

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I AM CRY ING NOW

I AM CRY ING NOW

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I AM CRY ING NOW

I AM CRY ING NOW

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I AM CRY ING NOW

I AM CRY ING NOW

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I AM CRY ING NOW

I AM CRY ING NOW

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IMPERCEPTIBLE STATE THAT MAY OR MAY NOT RESOLVE OVER TIME Coffee maker, toy gun, silver paint, 2014

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Gift-wrap available.

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With your left brain, close your eyes.

Stick out your tongue to the universe.

Deeper.

Relax.

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Stare at yourself in the mirror until you feel a burning sensation.

Now remove your head completely: your head is floating in the air.

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EXFACTOR

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NOTES

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NOTES Oct 31, 2014, Friday. At Washington Ave. loft, morning before breakfast: Nat King Cole Quartet, Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You (1943) – YouTube Mix by Classical Good Moods.

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Ibid.

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Cole Lu. “CURRENTLY UN-ABLE TO GIVE A FUCK”, Lightbox, C-print, 30” x 24”, dimensions may vary, St. Louis, 2014.

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“Give a fuck”, Urban Dictionary, last modified May 28, 2013.

Quote from Florence King, original text: “Very” is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. For example, would you rather hear the mincing shallowness of “I love you very much” or the heart-slamming intensity of “I love you”?

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Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wall: (Intimacy), (New York: New Directions, 1969), 82

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Cole Lu, “INTIMACY/ SUMMER AS VERB, NEW YORK”, Cprint, 16” x 20”. The last letter from Lulu in Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Wall: (Intimacy), recite with brown crayon on letter size paper, folded and unfolded, 100 times. Composed at Sara D. Roosevelt Park, NYC. July 19, 2014.

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me as a cue-Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987) is the 7th album by– “The Cure”.

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Title from James Lee Byrars’ performance The perfect Love Letter is I write I love you backwards in the air, 1974.

Illustration by Steve Power. Featured in “Lenny Hearts Eunice”

by Gary Shteyngart, New Yorker, June 14, 2010.

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Cole Lu. “CRYING HELMET, FULLY STOCKED” , Head guard, tissue paper holder, tissue papers, kitchen cart. St. Louis, 2014.

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I am crying now- intensively

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I am crying now- exclusively

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Cole Lu. “IMPERCEPT-IBLE STATE THAT MAY OR MAY NOT RESOLVE OVER TIME”, K-cup coffee maker, toy gun, silver paint, Ikea LACK coffee table. St. Louis, 2014.

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Ambrose Bierce, ”LOVE”, The Devil's Dictionary, Ebook #972, 2008 [last update: April, 2014] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/972/972-h/972-h.htm#link2H_4_0001

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=give%20a%20fuck

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Light box, n. A boxlike object having a uniformly lighted surface, as of ground glass, against which films or transparencies can be held for examination. i.e. “Typically, light therapy involves sitting in the glow of a light box which emits a spectrum of light mimicking daylight.”- Dictionary.com, accessed November 9th, 2014. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/light+box

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James Woods, How Fiction Works, (New York: Picador, 2009) Cole Lu. “THIS IS WHERE YOU LEAVE YOUR ÄPPÄRÄT, WIRELESS”, Add-on carrel, vinyl text, 24“ x 31.2“ x 45.8“, St. Louis, 2014.

Emily Segal, “Getting Lucky”, in SOLUTION 247-261: LOVE, Ingo Niermann (Ed.), (Berlin: Steinberg Press, 2013), 35

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Lyric extracted from The Books, “Group Autogenics II” in the album The Way Out, 2010.

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lbid.

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Cole Lu. “EX-FACTOR”, Skype video messages, single channel video, color sound,15:53 mins. iMessage extraction from L. Liu to Cole Lu, performed by Catalina Ouyang. St. Louis, 2014.

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iMessage screenshot from L. Liu to Cole Lu.

BCK

Oct 14, 2014, Tuesday. At The Improv Shop (St. Louis, MO), message and autograph from Gary Shteyngart on his novel Super Sad True Love Story (2011).

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I WANT TO

KISS THESE PEOPLE

THANK YOU JESSICA BARAN CATALINA OUYANG BRANDON ANSCHULTZ GALEN GONDOLFFI RACHAEL TELLERMAN EMMELINE SOLOMON STEPHANIE KANG ILA SHEREN JAN TUMLIR ADAM HOGAN LARA HOGAN

HEATHER BENNETT LAUREN CARDENES JOSE GARZA LYNDON BARROIS JR. ADDOLEY DZEGEDE DAYNA KRIZ GARY SHTEYNGART FORT GONDO COMPOUND FOR THE ARTS THE DEDALUS FOUNDATION REGIONAL ARTS COMMISSION ST. LOUIS SCHLAFLY BEER