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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Hope Is Bloodmoney: Letter to Peggy Guggenheim
ISBN 978-3-9827179-3-79.9 x 21cm, 48 pages
English
9 EUR
In the summer of 1927, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven writes to Peggy Guggenheim, seeking support for a modelling studio in Paris. With prophetic euphoria and apocalyptic urgency, she outlines a vision for a space dedicated to a new type of ‘body expression’: the transformation of ‘spirit’ into ‘plastic’. Part poem, part Dadaist play, part philosophy, this mythical exposé of her proto-performance art unleashes one of the most intense pieces of gnostic autofiction and demonology to be found in the archives of paramodern heresies. Instead of money, Guggenheim and her then-husband, Lawrence Vail, send back a typescript of the handwritten plea – published here for the first time in its entirety.
With an afterword by the editors.
Co-published with Kölnischer Kunstverein. Supported by Kunststiftung NRW, Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München, Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Verband Freie Darstellende Künste Bayern e.V.