THE ULTIMATE FEINT: magic trick for peeled tangerine and moist toilet tissues, accompanied by the sound of an unknown beatles track

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the poet/writer jozef van rossum chose the format of a lecture to embroider on the theme 'feint'. _cross-stitchwise he threaded the subjects cinema, music, literature, the internet and the visual arts on one string. He continued with the environmental hazards of the use of moist toilet tissues and concluded his contribution with a magic trick. _costumier: barbara witteveen

 

THE FEINT IN CINEMA

van rossum reflects on his cinematographic memories by the light beam of a defective film projector

 

THE FEINT IN MUSIC

van rossum plays a recording of the vorsetzer (a piano-playing automaton), playing opus 51 no. 3: 'winged poem' by alexander skriabin

 

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THE FEINT IN LITERATURE

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van rossum deceives listeners of radio central in antwerp by reciting his poem 'harbour poetry 2' with an electronically distorted voice from the heated studio and not from the suggested chilly phonebooth. (broadcast 'universal programme' by jozef van rossum and hewald jongenelis, december 20, 1987)

 

ABOUT THE FEINT IN VISUAL ARTS

van rossum's response to damien hirst's skull-piece 'for the love of god': "I would have made a low cost version of ordinary plastic with fake diamonds. _that would have made it into real art!"