Condition Note: Some shelf wear on cover, interior pages are clean and crisp.
This book contains a manifesto typed out during a performance. It was typed twice–once as an offset copy for the book and once on a character-generator in front of a video camera. The book is illustrated with photos from these activities and other relevant videotapes. It concludes with a dialogue between Davis and Gregory Battock. “A book + videotape based on two spontaneous typing performances, in 1975, as Vietnam fell, one in typewriter, one in electric character generator, in which certain ideas + images then considered outrageous were consigned to history. Perhaps they are still outrageous. Certainly they are difficult even for the artist, if not impossible. But they are not improbable”–artist’s statement. “Red with blood from not thinking / millions die thousands more / art is no better no different art has been foreign policy.”–text from book.