The Last Book

SPARE PARTS: A Cycle of Projects by Eloisa Haudenschild & Steve Fagin

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2006 – 2009

Spare Parts is 3-year cycle of projects that encourages the juxtaposition of the crucial, the trivial, and the arcane

Decolonizing Architecture – Palestine
A Crime Has Many Stories – Argentina
The Last Book – United States


Rita Gonzalez, Assistant Curator at LACMA writes on The Last Book

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April 24, 2009, published on the LACMA Blog about the hG, Spare Parts project The Last Book
I find myself thinking of artist Steve Fagin’s amalgam of criticism, fiction, visual arts, and numerous other disciplines as a productive model for a contemporary art curator working within an encyclopedic museum. I’ve been in discussion with Fagin ever [...]


hG text by Kimberli Meyer, MAK Center Director, on The Last Book

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“…Reading aloud to a group of people is an intimate act, which is why readings are among my favorite activities at the Schindler House. The landmark modernist House & Studio (1921-22) was designed for precisely such kinds of events and has…”


hG text by Mian Mian on her Last Book Performance

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“…When I first read about the idea of Last Book project and the project invited me to be the reader…I was doing a concert at a place UFOs had once appeared…the light was too bright so I had to wear sunglasses all the time…I liked the…”


Spare Parts: The Last Book

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2008 – present

April 26, 2009 performance, Schindler House, MAK Center, Los Angeles

Steve Fagin created a one-of-a-kind book including text, drawings, moving images and sounds


hG text by Bill Horrigan, Media Director of the Wexner Center, on The Last Book

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“…Cross-fade twenty years forward, to West Hollywood, late in the afternoon on the last Sunday in April, and a crowd has gathered on the carpet-sized lawn of the MAK Center. The gathering was on the occasion of the premiere performance…”