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    Black Minutes of Memorial Snow, 2010

    In a short and legendary life, Alfred Jarry created a unique and large body of work that included plays, novels, poetry, journalism and other less definable speculations and texts. His writings form the essential bridge between the European avant-garde of the 1890s (Symbolism) and those of the Twentieth century (Futurism, Dada, Surrealism).

    His science of ’Pataphysics has informed the recent writings of Deleuze, Baudrillard and Eco, among others. The College of Pataphysics, founded in Jarry’s honour, has numbered among its members luminaries such as Cortázar, Duchamp, Ionesco, Leiris, Queneau and most of the  writers of the “Oulipo” movement.

    Black Minutes of Memorial Snow is titled afterJarry’s own Black Minutes of Memorial Sand, an irreverent and apocalyptic Symbolist text. It borrows Jarry’s hallucinatory and apocalyptic metaphors to tell the tale of  a family’s dystopian journey to the mountains of Innsbruck.

    (This project arised from a collaboration with Quart magazine & author Cyrus Sharahd. Please refer to essays section of the website to read the text that accompanies the images).