Rick Myers - A Bullet for Buñuel: Fragments of a Failed Bullet
A Bullet for Buñuel: Fragments of a Failed Bullet documents Rick Myersâ attempt to complete a project begun by the late filmmaker Luis Buñuel: to create a bullet possessing such a weak charge that it would simply bounce off the filmmakerâs shirt when fired at him. Consulting with the estate and sources ranging from online forums for bullet makers to a ballistics lab associated with the United States Secret Service, Myers sought to make the bullet and fire it at a shirt that had been worn by Buñuel. While trying to bring this absurdist endeavour to completion, the artist was met with a colourful cast of characters and failures at almost every turn. A Bullet for Buñuel has taken many formsâa video work, a multiple, and a performative lectureâall of which are represented in this publication. Myersâ writing, research, correspondence, and photographs are also included in the book, which synthesises years of work into a singular meditation on the poetics of failure.
116 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 cm, softcover, Primary Information (Brooklyn).
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Rick Myers - A Bullet for Buñuel: Fragments of a Failed Bullet
A Bullet for Buñuel: Fragments of a Failed Bullet documents Rick Myersâ attempt to complete a project begun by the late filmmaker Luis Buñuel: to create a bullet possessing such a weak charge that it would simply bounce off the filmmakerâs shirt when fired at him. Consulting with the estate and sources ranging from online forums for bullet makers to a ballistics lab associated with the United States Secret Service, Myers sought to make the bullet and fire it at a shirt that had been worn by Buñuel. While trying to bring this absurdist endeavour to completion, the artist was met with a colourful cast of characters and failures at almost every turn. A Bullet for Buñuel has taken many formsâa video work, a multiple, and a performative lectureâall of which are represented in this publication. Myersâ writing, research, correspondence, and photographs are also included in the book, which synthesises years of work into a singular meditation on the poetics of failure.
116 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 cm, softcover, Primary Information (Brooklyn).
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A Bullet for Buñuel: Fragments of a Failed Bullet documents Rick Myersâ attempt to complete a project begun by the late filmmaker Luis Buñuel: to create a bullet possessing such a weak charge that it would simply bounce off the filmmakerâs shirt when fired at him. Consulting with the estate and sources ranging from online forums for bullet makers to a ballistics lab associated with the United States Secret Service, Myers sought to make the bullet and fire it at a shirt that had been worn by Buñuel. While trying to bring this absurdist endeavour to completion, the artist was met with a colourful cast of characters and failures at almost every turn. A Bullet for Buñuel has taken many formsâa video work, a multiple, and a performative lectureâall of which are represented in this publication. Myersâ writing, research, correspondence, and photographs are also included in the book, which synthesises years of work into a singular meditation on the poetics of failure.
116 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 cm, softcover, Primary Information (Brooklyn).
