The girl with the blanket, 2009 by Chiara Fumai

The girl with the blanket
Chiara Fumai
Atomic Activity Book N.3

The girl with the blanket
ISBN 978-88-903078-3-6
60 pages / hard-cover / 11×17.5cm
colour print / silver foil edge
30″ soundchip with the artist’s voice
Hand-knotted cloth bookmark
First Edition / 500 copies

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The girl with the blanket, by Chiara Fumai

In August 2008 Chiara Fumai spent 31 days of imprisonment in Cell A1C1 of the Oostereiland Penitentiary of Hoorn.

During her journey in Oostereiland the artist kept a secret correspondence with a mysterious man and produced some of her most important pieces, including a complex escape plan that would let her pass through the surveillance system in less than one hour. For the occasion Fumai spent most of her time sewing a 12 metre long escape rope, using fabric from the prison’s curtains and clothes from her wardrobe, but at one point, the development of the project left her with nothing to wear besides a brown Indian blanket provided by her friend Fred Martin.

Before escaping the prison on August the 30th the artist wrote a “Love Poem” about female sexuality during imprisonment, and left it in the toilet of Cell A1C1, where it still remains, as part of the Local Artistic Patrimony and viewable under appointment.

The people of Hoorn will always remember her as “The girl with the blanket”.

Big Long Now, 2009 by Rafaël Rozendaal

Big Long Now
Rafaël Rozendaal
Atomic Activity Book N.2

AA: Hi Rafaël, how have you been?
RR: Very good, so good,
better and better.
AA: Better than before?
RR: Definitely. I actually thought I was
happy before, but I fooled myself.
AA: You fooled yourself?
RR: I thought I was happy,
I really believed it,
so maybe I was.
But I’m so much happier now so how
could I have been happy at the time?
It’s hard to trust my own memory,
and it’s hard to measure my own
feelings. But I’m very sure
I’m happy now.

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Big Long Now
ISBN 978-88-903078-2-9
120 pages / paper-back / 11×17.5cm
duo-tone print / black-dye edge
First Edition / 500 copies

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Big Long Now, an Atomic Activity Book

An excerpt from the original video of Experiencing Hypnotism by Francesco Spampinato
made with This is a magazine with music by Sebastien Tellier called Trilogie Femme from L’Incroyable Vérité (thankyou to Record Makers)

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Atomic Activity Book N.1
Experiencing Hypnotism
Francesco Spampinato

Experiencing Hypnotism is a series of black and white images found on the internet featuring people under the control of hypnotists. A circular graphic has been applied on the foreheads, where visible, of these people. Moreover, hypnotists’ sentences have been added. These sentences are commands pronounced by hypnotists to induce hypnosis. Some of the sentences in experiencing hypnotism have been taken from real hypnosis events, others have been taken from instruction booklets for setting up hi-fi systems like home theaters or receivers.

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Experiencing Hypnotism
ISBN 978-88-903078-1-2
60 pages / paper-back / 11×17.5cm
tri-tone print / silver gilt edging
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