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| Suffusia: A Beautiful Life |
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| Launch date: June 2002 |
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Suffusia: A Beautiful Life can be seen as an attempt to dramatize my own internal conflict between form and story. It features a professorial character, Antimacassar, who seems authoritative; yet his lecture, a bizarre homily to a utopian society dominated by color, shape, sound, and texture, is increasingly untrustworthy, senseless, formless, and mad. Antimacassar’s voice and body also shift their shape as he tells his inconsequential stories. (I may have been remembering a lecture by Joseph Beuys I saw in Edinburgh in the early 80s, or perhaps the absurd economic theories of Georges Bataille, or Salvador Dali’s Paranoid Critical Method.)
In the end, of course, the subversion of story becomes, itself, another story.
—Momus
Conception, still photography, voices, and music: Momus
3D Environments, design, character realisation, illustration, and animation: Florian Perret
Animation assistance and finessing: Mumbleboy
Born in Scotland in 1960, Nick Currie took the name Momus in 1985 when he began recording albums of “moral tales and imaginary lives” for a series of British independent record labels (Creation, 4AD, Cherry Red). Although he never attained more than cult status in his native Britain, Momus spent much of the 90s writing and producing hits for the artists of the Shibuya-kei movement in Japan, notably Kahimi Karie. His own records, much inspired by francophone provocateurs like Jacques Brel and Serge Gainsbourg, appeared annually throughout the decade. When he tired of listing the sexual crimes of the professional classes, Momus played gestalt games with genre. The list of styles he claims to have invented includes Analog Baroque, Futuristic Vaudeville, Folktronica and Spooky Kabuki. In late 2000 Momus held his first one-man art show at New York’s LFL Gallery. He is currently living in Tokyo.
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