Have you ever heard a zen story of a woman who has just lost her only child? If you don’t, you’ll probably find it somewhere in the middle of this book. “A” Is a place of twisted, mirrored space & time, but it’s not a safe dreamlike rabbit hole, it has nothing to do with the so-called “Carnival”, a concept originated by russian narratologist Mikhail Bakhtin. On the contrary, this world is filled with alienation, neurosis and dynamic motions that lead to nowhere, and it’s decay continues since it’s birth somewhere in the late 1990’s. But don’t be alarmed, It’s quite safe to visit it as a tourist these days, at least until the next big event comes on the scene: A-40, messenger of the ultimate piece of art.
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Introduction
Thirty-eight
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egakcerW teJ a no ydonerhT :93 .pO
Op. 39 :Threnody on a Jet Wreckage
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msitercnyS cirotsiherP
Peaceful Identity Crisis
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yrots neZ
“Garden of Delight“ by Ronnie Landfield is an acrylic on canvas piece behind this work. Other influences are: Gaspar Noe’s film “Irreversible“ and a photo of young John Cage & David Tudor by an unidentified author. Deconstructing “film noir“: popcultural aesthetics transform into a horrific and at the same time hysterically comical chronotope; white becomes yellow; postmodernism ruins neo-romantic avant-garde naïvety. Array! Surrection.
Garden of Delight
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syaR nosmirC emoC
Come Crimson Rays
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The fall
Fin Again
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Death of a dead day
Lfie of a living day
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Vlada-Regina Trubacheva, a convenient body for a goddess, Eternal Maiden, or Juno. The flight ends spontaneously, all is lost but a threnody on a jet wreckage. As said, the score will never be performed. Her face is blurred, she has no other choice but to accept the rules and stay in that condition until the maailmanloppu, the end of the world begins. Thus the ritual should be performed permanently. End here.
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peels lanretenU
Uneternal sleep
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allirreuG yaG
Gay Guerrilla
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A -39
2012