![]() Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? "nascent fashion," which addresses contemporary war and its excesses "Ham," which circulates around the chimpanzee named Ham sent up into space as part of the Mercury Redstone missions by NASA in the 1960s and later donated to the Coulston Foundation for biomedicalresearch and "auto matter," a kind of unfoldingautobiography told in poems.Īmbitious, eloquent, and deeply personal, these poems taken as a whole are a personal and cultural history that jostles us out of our humanness and into our relations to animal, machine, language, and one another.Īutomaton Biographies reckons with matters of identity and questions what it is to be human in our current geopolitcal and technological contexts. The books consists of four long poems: "Rachel," a meditation in the voice of the cyborg figure Rachel from Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner and its source material, Philip K. With an ear to the white noise of advertising, pop music, CNN, biotechnology, the Norton Anthology of English Literature, cereal packaging, and MuchMusic, Lai explores the problem of what it means to exist on the boundaries of the human. Born in Milan, Paolo Ventura currently lives and works in New York.Shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry PrizeĪutomaton Biographies is the first full-length solo poetry book by novelist Larissa Lai ( When Fox is a Thousand, Salt Fish Girl). He is also included in the new publication Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography (Aperture / Library of Congress, 2011). Two monographs of Paolo Ventura's work have been published: War Souvenir (Contrasto, 2006) and Winter Stories (Aperture and Contrasto, 2009). ![]() His works have been acquired by prominent public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., Maison Europeen de la Photographie, Paris and the Martin Margulies Collection in Miami, Florida. Currently he has three exhibitions of his work on show in the Italian national pavilion at the Arsenale at the Venice Biennale in the exhibition 'Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities' at the Museum of Art and Design, New York and at the Hasted Kraeutler Gallery, New York. Paolo Ventura's work has been exhibited widely throughout Europe and the States. The Automaton is a photographic narrative from beginning to end. These are then photographed and his final artworks are the photographs of these constructed tableaux. Having created the narrative script for the book, he then builds elaborate models and miniature figurines in his studio and incorporates them in what appear as almost film sets. Paolo Ventura is internationally known for the complex creative process he adopts. The old man decides to build an automaton (a robot), to keep him company while he awaits the arrival of the fascist police who will deport the last of the remaining Jews from the ghetto. The city where the watchmaker has lived his entire life, now desolate and fearful, is the stage on which the story unfolds. ![]() It centres on an elderly, Jewish watchmaker living in the Venice ghetto in 1943, one of the darkest periods of the Nazi occupation and the rule of the fascist regime in Italy. The Automaton is based on a story told to Paolo Ventura as a child. ![]()
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