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This was the second of the Ratio:3 books and featured Z'EV (qabalist/percussionist), Andrew McKenzie (Hafler Trio) and Genesis P-Orridge. The basic instruction to each author to provide 31 pages was the same as with volume 1. So what eventually dropped into our postbox came as something of a shock. They'd each taken literally our promise to publish whatever was delivered. Given that the authors were all best known for sound/music experiments, I'd naively expected something along those lines. Shucks.... I couldn't have been more wrong.
Z'EV delivered two plays based on King Lear, but re-worked via cut-up, fold-in and transmitted media. Gender-identities were uncertain, the madness was evident; and the power, sublime. Not what I'd expected at all. But all the better for that. And he hit the 31 pages spot on.
Andrew meanwhile managed to produce a 31 page film treatment in what seemed the smallest type he could find. It was great stuff: dense and evocative. Visual. A nightmare though to fit into 31 pages of a book.
Finally, Genesis produced a selection of previously unpublished writings about COUM. Descriptions of art actions and performance. Fragments of beauty. Sparse. Perfect.
On the next page is the introductory text, plus some screen shots...R3 more