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| Radosław Nowakowski HASA RAPASA description of a performance impossible ISBN: 978-83-61946-40-3 year: 1998 (folder) 2001 (triangle), 2009 (trapezium) size: 36x26 cm covers: softbound (Japanese stab binding) + cardboard slipcase paper: 120g, white print: inkjet printer language: trilingual version (Polish-English-Esperanto) open edition Once I imagined
a performance lasting nine days and nights, and
covering the space of nearly forty kilometres.
Because the performance turned out to be impossible,
I thought maybe a book was possible... This is the
fifth version of it. Maybe that's why a trapezium
one. The former one was a triangle. A square folded
diagonally makes a triangle. A triangle unfolded
hypotenusely makes a square ..... A
triangle-butterfly spreading its wings ...... And a
square has four sides ..... How many sides has a
butterfly? ..... A closed trapezium is a mountain.
An open trapezium is a flying bird ...... The first,
second and third versions were triple - each one had
three folders: with VISIONS, with TEXTS, with
SKETCHES. The fourth version has no folders at
all. The fifth one will have none, either.
It's going to be trilingual, like the fourth one,
although the logic prompts it should be written in
four languages: Polish, English, Esperanto and
Hasarapasic ..... and maybe it is so ..... The
number of pages has no meaning at all, although a
hideous coincidence can't be excluded ...... Well,
it is just an exercise in composition geometry. And
in the semantic trigonometry as well.
Yes, it's the
fifth take to describe something impossible. The
fifth unsuccessful take. Most likely the sixth take
would be unsuccessful, too. An impossible book would
be the only successful take.
          
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