Ego documenta: the testament of my ego in the museum of my mind: visual art, theater, film, exhibits, portraits, writings

Martijn, Barbara & Stefan van Raaij

ISBN 10: 9460222099 / ISBN 13: 9789460222092

Published by Amsterdam : KIT Publishers, 2012

About this Item

Original pictorial boards, illustrations, oblong (circa 25x28.5cm).; Still shrinkwrapped.

Seller Inventory # 409011-LB11

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ego documenta: the testament of my ego in the museum of my mind: visual art, theater, film, exhibits, portraits, writings
• Publisher: Amsterdam : KIT Publishers
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9460222099
• ISBN 13: 9789460222092
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

About this title

Synopsis

"As the hidden heir of the colonial orgasm, as the extramarital bastard exorcised from the European testament, I escape the prison of genetic and historical identity. I became a refugee in the mythical country of the mixed race, la race mélangée, the no man’s land of the mongrel race. The invisible race of creolité, who despite lips chained by oppression and fear, multiplies beyond all border lines with the heartbeat of anarchy. Beneath the skin and between the sheets against the tide of racial exclusion and nationalistic rejection.

In my bloodstream collide Amazon Indians, Africans enslaved, slave masters and abolitionists from the Netherlands, Germany, France and persecuted Jews from Portugal. My spirit has traveled beyond battlefields of racial and cultural confrontation. Molded by generations of male sperm invading female egg cells I was fertilized, nurtured, full grown, squeezed, pushed out and given birth, a fresh nomad in no man’s land."

This book is the ego-document of multitalented Felix de Rooy, visual artist, film- and theatre maker, curator and founder of the Cosmic Theatre in Amsterdam on the occasion of his 60th Birthday.

The texts in the book are in English, Dutch and Papiamentu.

Review

"[This book] provides a visual art document from filmmaker, curator and visual Dutch artist Felix de Rooy, and is a recommendation for any arts collection interested in the juxtaposition of intellect, art, and self-reflection. Text in the book is presented in English, Dutch and Papiamentu languages, while the self-inspection art centers around what it means to be a multicultural individual with the blood of different cultures running in his veins in a modern world. Add a wealth of artistic expressions designed to reflect upon this modern condition and you have an art book packed with unusual approaches to ego and expression, perfect for any modern art library." (Midwest Book Review)