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Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (Hg.): A Sinister Assassin

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (Hg.)

A Sinister Assassin
Last Writings, Ivry-sur-Seine, September 1947–March 1948

Übersetzt von Stephen Barber

Broschur, 152 Seiten

PDF, 152 Seiten

Yes, magic exists!

A Sinister Assassin presents translations of Antonin Artaud’s largely unknown final work of 1947–48, revealing new insights into his obsessions with the human anatomy, sexuality, societal power, creativity and ill-will. Artaud’s preoccupations are seminally those of the contemporary world. Those last writings form the most extraordinary element of Artaud’s entire prolific body of work—and is the element now most enduringly inspirational, for artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers, choreographers, and others inspired by Artaud, through their fiercely exploratory, extreme and combative forms.

 

Artaud’s last conception of performance of 1947–48—following his Theatre of Cruelty provocations of the 1930s, and finally incorporated into fragmentary writings and drawings as well as into sonic experimentation in screams and percussion—is that of a dance-propelled act of autopsy, generating the ‘body without organs’ which negates malevolent microbial epidemics. This book assembles Artaud’s crucial writings and press interviews from September 1947 to March 1948, undertaken at a decrepit pavilion in the grounds of a convalescence clinic in Ivry-sur-Seine, on the southern edge of Paris, as well as in-transit through Paris’s streets.

 

Drawing from extensive consultations of Artaud’s manuscripts, and from many original interviews with his friends, collaborators and doctors of the 1940s, this book brings together translations of all of the many manifestations of Artaud’s final writings: the contents of his last, death-interrupted notebook; his letters; his two final key texts; his glossolalia; the magazine issue which collected his last fragments; and the two extraordinary interviews he gave to national newspaper journalists in the final days of his life, in which he denounces and refuses both his work’s recent censorship and his imminent death.

 

Edited, translated and with an Introduction by Stephen Barber, A Sinister Assassin illuminates Artaud’s last, most intensive and terminal work for the first time.

 

Inhalt
  • 7–20

    Introduction

  • 21–62

    Last Writings from September 1947 to February 1948

  • 63–78

    50 Drawings to assassinate magic

  • 79–86

    The new Tutuguri

  • 87–102

    Last Letters

  • 103–118

    Final Interviews

  • 119–142

    Last Notebook

  • 143–150

    Glossolalia. The Projection of the true body, 1946–48

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Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud

(1896–1948) is one of the seminal figures of twentieth century writing, art and sound experimentation, known especially for his work with the Surrealist movement, his performance theories, his asylum incarcerations, and his artworks which have been exhibited in major exhibitions, at New York’s MOMA and many other art-museums.

Stephen Barber

Stephen Barber ist derzeit Fellow am Käte Hamburger Kolleg für Apokalyptische und Postapokalyptische Studien an der Universität Heidelberg. Ansonsten ist er Professor für Kunst und Film und Co-Direktor des Visual Culture Research Centre an der Kingston University in London. Er ist Autor von drei bereits bei Diaphanes erschienenen Büchern - White Noise Ballrooms (2018) Film's Ghosts (2019) und The Projectionists (2020) - und mehreren in Vorbereitung befindlichen Büchern, darunter Wasteland/Apocalypse. Außerdem hat er für Diaphanes zwei Bücher mit Schriften von Antonin Artaud – Artaud 1937 Apocalypse (2018) und A Sinister Assassin (2023) – übersetzt. Seine Bücher wurden von der britischen Zeitung The Times als „brillant, tiefgründig und provokativ“ beschrieben.
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