Requiem for a Manual Typewriter - Jonas Mekas Christian Marclay All of a sudden

All of a sudden

726mm x 108mm

Pip Proud and early Nick Nicely

Published with the Kunstmuseum Basel on the occasion of the exhibition Louise Bourgeois x Jenny Holzer: The Violence of Handwriting Across a Page

literature and theatre were added

Requiem for a Manual Typewriter - Jonas Mekas Christian Marclay All of a suddenOn 25 March 1997, Jonas Mekas found a dusty roll of computer paper under his desk. It had been lying there for a while and had slipped his mind. He stretched the paper into his beloved Olympia De Luxe, on which he had typed all kinds of texts with his two index fingers for so many years: his diaries, poems, Movie Journal columns, interviews, manifestos, and letters to his friends. The roll of paper had to be used, and Mekas began to write a text on it