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Apocryphal, now: Recent work by Laith McGregor and Alexander McKenzie

2012; Issue: 253 Linguagem: Inglês

1033-4025

Andrew Frost,

Contemporary Literature and Criticism

In the far corner of one of the continents of text that cover Laith McGregor's Ping Pong Paradise there's a fragment of a $20 note. Next to it there's some handwritten text: 'Antonioni's interest in the confounding duplicity of our mental and physical lives, the inner and outer worlds which fiercely compete to consume man, is the impetus beind The Passenger.' Then there's a lot more (unattributed) text about the film and Michelangelo Antonioni which ends with a portrait of red-capped Bill Murray from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), and then more writing, more sketches, stains from the bottom of coffee cups, some phone numbers, shopping lists, and much more, in four sections on a single, huge piece of paper, with a larger-than-life-size self-portrait of the artist on one half, a monkey's head on the other, and the whole thing mounted under glass on a table tennis table, complete with two paddles and ball, arranged just so.