Bøger af Paul Etienne Lincoln

Twenty four stories of subterfuge, told through their characters' glovesThe Glovers' Repository, by New York-based artist Paul Etienne Lincoln (born 1959), tells the stories of 24 characters who either practiced deception or were the unwitting victims of subterfuge. From Mary Toft who claimed to have given birth to a rabbit, to King Zog who survived 55 assassination attempts, the characters are all legends in their own right. Their lives are related by Lincoln with characteristic wit and are documented with photographs. This book was inspired by a large-scale installation by Lincoln, a vitrine containing 24 gloves, one for each character. Each glove rotated via a mechanism based on the workings of Big Ben. The book is bound so that, when it is opened flat, two small books of the characters' stories are revealed, one left- and the other right-handed. The book then folds out further to reveal documentation of the installation.

Cultural Writing. THE PURIFICATION OF FAGUS SYLVATICA VAR PENDULA is emblematic of Lincoln's inquiry into the origin and production of memory--and our ethereal relationship to that intangible evidence of our consciousness. In this pursuit Lincoln has employed diverse forms and themes, ranging from examination of historical figures to detailing anything from New York City infrastructure to "household" machines that dispense gin-and-tonics (mixed at varying strengths). Comprised of photographs, diagrams and text, THE PURIFICATION records the series of experiments and performance which detail the afterlife of a specimen of local vegetation. Over the past two decades, Lincoln has committed himself to creating complex installations, recordings and documentation on a wide range of subject matter. THE PURIFICATION follows Lincoln's investigation of the Weeping Beech as a way of detailing the process of examination and history writing which is ever shifting and defining the world around us.