Email print derivative curtain call with Bruce Hainley



> On 11 Jul 2023, at 14:08, Brian Fuata <brian.fuata@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear Simon and Clara,
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> In 2017-2019 I experimented with printing all the email performances. To redact addresses I used collage and inked glyphs referring to Ray Johnson's moticos.
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> I left this project on the washing line and never returned, I even moved house. Mainly because the fixity of the printed matter felt so terrestrially alien, not extra. 
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> I like that misted.cc may offer re-ghostment the body of paper could never. 
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> Some background:
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> The collage is of an email performance from 2013. I introduced myself to 70's Australian conceptual artist Ian Millis through performing the attachment of two documents: 1) a seminal essay he wrote in the 70's and 2) a concrete poem I made of the audience addresses in bcc called Block Apartments
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> After two attempts with no reply, all to a select public audience in bcc, I realised I typed his email incorrectly. He eventually replies. 
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> re the collage, the pink sheet was merely the divider the printers used between each email performance. 
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> The curtain call is cut from the room sheet of Larry Johnson: On Location at Raven Row London written by Bruce Hainley. 
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> Here's my submission, Email print derivative curtain call with Bruce Hainley
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> Warm regards,
> Brian 
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