• Fonds: Collection Gordon Matta-Clark, 1914-2008
•    Série(s): Gordon Matta-Clark's Textual Records, [ca. 1962]-2008, predominant 1970-2008
•      Sous-série: Writings, 1970-1978

• Gordon Matta-Clark (artist)

Tonight August 3rd 1973 my only known cousin died in an incredible way...; [verso]: In LA time is space and a wheel to steer it by...

1970-1978

Blue and black ballpoint pen and black felt-tip pen

card: 7,6 x 12,7 cm (3 x 5 in.)

PHCON2002:0016:001:038.3

• card (information artifact)

card is recto/verso

Recto: TONIGHT AUGUST 3RD 1973 MY ONLY KNOWN COUSIN DIED IN AN INCREDIBLE WAY. HIS TALK ON THE PHONE [TO]/WITH HIS MOTHER WAS INTER- RUPTED BY THE "CEILING IS FALLING".. HE AND HIS WIFE WERE LIVING IN THE BROADWAY CENTRAL THAT WAS DEMOLISHED BY AN UNKNOWN FORCE [THAT MADE]/MAKING IT COLLAPSE INSTANTLY WITHOUT WARNING. ALL AROUND THE ACCIDENT THE CITY ASSEMBLED ITS EMERGENCY GEAR. CROWDING AND HYSTERIA DISSOLVED INTO A REAFFIRMATION OF IMMEDIATE DISINTEGRATION: Verso: IN LA TIME IS SPACE AND A WHEEL TO STEER IT BY THE LONG STRECHES BETWEEN [INTENCE CLOSTROPHOBI]/ NEW YORKS CLAUSTROPHOBIA BLISS [STRECHED OUT LIKE] / AND A WONDERLAND OF PHOTOTROPIC PULP SPREADING FROM DEATH VALLEY TO THE [FALTING PACIFIC] FALTERING WASTE

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