A Sinister Assassin
These black-and-white aerial photographs were taken for Antonin Artaud’s A Sinister Assassin, edited and translated by Stephen Barber and published by Infinity Land Press in 2022. The book illuminates Artaud’s last, most intensive work, undertaken primarily at a pavilion on the grounds of a convalescence clinic in Ivry-sur-Seine, and recounts the events surrounding his death.
Taken during a field trip to Paris and Marseille in the summer of 2021, these photographs capture the only remaining tangible links to Artaud’s presence in Ivry-sur-Seine 74 years on: the topography of streets and parkways he frequented, trees that surrounded his pavilion, and the locations of his first and second burials (Paris 1948; Marseille 1975).
Publication
Selected photographs
Book release video trailers
Two video trailers created for the online book launch of A Sinister Assassin: Antonin Artaud’s Last Writings, Ivry-sur-Seine, September 1947 to March 1948. / The video features footage from the field trip to Paris and Marseille with an original soundtrack, crucified christ figure by Martin Bladh, drawings, notebooks and text by Antonin Artaud as well as found visual material.
Related projects
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The Projection of the True Body / 2022
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Artaud 1937 Apocalypse / 2018
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SUCCUBATIONS & INCUBATIONS / 2020
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On The New Revelations of Being / 2018
View More →Multimedia work based on Antonin Artaud’s apocalyptic manifesto from 1937
