Blast from the Past

Blast from the Past theatricalizes found texts about the work of Gordon Matta-Clark and Robert Smithson, combining their words with contemporaneous interviews and articles to propose the genesis of two artworks Blast from the Past (1972–73) and Reality Properties: Fake Estates (1974) by Matta-Clark.

Edited by James Voorhies

Bureau for Open Culture, 2013
80 pages
11 x 6.67 inches

Designed by Nate Padavick

Contribution by Jessamyn Fiore

Made possible with support from the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Publication made possible with a grant from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. Additional support generously provided by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States; realized while I was working as an independent curator

Text by Jessamyn Fiore, commissioned for The Marienbad Sessions, a public event series produced as part of the exhibition.

Blast from the Past is the companion book to Last Year at Marienbad redux in a two-volume publication.

PDF, Exhibition