Peyote Vacation

[Dave Monroe]

>From Jennifer L. Riddell, "Parallel Histories: Eve
Andree Laramee's A Permutational Unfolding," Eve
Andree Laramee: A Premutational Unfolding, ed.
Jennifer L. Riddell (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999),
pp. 7-24 ...

   "The role that credibility and authority play, in
and outside the scientific context, was the impetus
for a narrative installation work entitled SECRET
HISTORY: Yves Fissiault, Artist of the Cold War Era,
1997, an exhibition of paintings and experimental
models by Fissiault cuurated by Laramee ....  An
aerospace engineer who worked in the U.S. during the
1950s and 60s ... he maintianed a parallel existence
as an artist ....  Fissiault created paintings and
experimental models whose subject matter was optics
and musical harmonics.  Furthermore, he also had an
abiding interest in the occult and alternative
cosmologies, particularly those focused on achievement
of a utopic state....
   "Eve Laramee had worked as a research assistant for
Fissiault in the area of compartive religion during
her student days.  To her surprise, in 1991 she
inherited several suticases and a steamer trunk's
worth of his artwork.... she eventually made a
proposal to curate an exhibition of Fissiault's work
and artifacts at the Islip Art Museum in East Islip,
N.Y....  Laramee also conducted a public lecture at
the Islip Art Museum as the soberly-dressed curator of
the exhibition.
   "No one found out during the course of the
xehibition that Yves Fissiault was Eve Laramee, who
had created the name as a homonym of her own, plus an
old family name (Fissiault dit Laramee).  She had in
fact spent six months inhabiting the character of
Fissiault as an experiment in artistic identity .... 
The fiction of Fissiault's life was inspired by the
Thomas Pynchon novel, The Crying of Lot 49.  The
novel's pritagonist, Pierce Inverarity, served as the
model for Fissiault, while Fissialut, within the
narrative created by Laramee, was the model for
Inverarity.  Pynchon himself also figured in
Fissiault's biography--Yves used his connections to
secure Pynchon a technical writing job as Boeing
(where Pynchon actually has worked)." (pp. 19-21)

--- Richard Romeo <richardromeo at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> read on, fellows and non-fellows:
>
> http://www.thing.net/eyebeam/msg00410.html

In teh same catalog, Jonathan Crary notes "the kind of
associative texture, the Pynchon-like density of
connectedness, at play in Laramee's work" ("Cyberama:
Adjancency, Assemblage & Display," p. 34).  I'll get
to Jessica Riskin's "Duckshit and Damask" (pp. 45-51)
shortly, but, in the meantime, see as well ...

http://web.mit.edu/lvac/www/SPRING1999/laramee.html

And thanks again, Richard, I forwarded that one
around, and it was much appreciated by all ...

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email!
http://mail.yahoo.com/