*1974 in Santiago de Chile. Lives and works in Santiago de Chile
Felipe Cussen is a scientific researcher, author and artist. His main fields of research are experimental literature and mysticism. He holds a PhD in Humanities and teaches at the University of Santiago de Chile. He currently works on a 3-year research project called "Negative Poetics," which examines the representation of nothingness in literature and visual arts. As part of this project, he conducts the Oficina de la nada (Office of Nothingness.
Exhibited works
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Correcciones, 2016 2nd | A | Correcciones is a three volume book (in spanish and english) published in 2016. Felipe Cussen needed help to correct a poem. He sent some friends and acquaintances a call. There was just one problem: the poem does not exist. The three volumes of Correctiones collate the Spanish-language responses (Vol. I, 104 pp.), the English-language responses (Vol. II, 38 pp.), and the visual responses (Vol. III, 56 pp.). Download of the Book | |
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Regional Restrictions, 2017 2nd | A | The book Regional Restrictions is about the impossibility of watching a movie depending on your geographical position. It consits of 30 blank pages, each containing only this one sentence in brackets: [THIS MOVIE IS NOT AVAILABLE IN YOUR COUNTRY]. | |
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Pages, 2019 2nd | A | "I wanted to test how many blank pages a document could have in the Pages word processor. The more pages I added, the program ran slower and the page count became more inaccurate. I managed to accumulate around 600,000 blank pages, until I found it impossible to reopen the document." (Felix Cussen) | |
Links
La oficina de la nada | Correcciones | Regional restrictions (short movie) | Interview with Felix Cussen (in Spanish)
Credits
All reproductions courtesy by the artist © Felipe Cussen