In Search of the Miraculous
Ten Days of Film, Video and Photography
2011

Crawford Art Gallery Cork

The exhibition takes its title from an unfinished multi-part project by iconic Dutch-born conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader. In Search of the Miraculous, the artist’s last piece of work, was intended as a three-part performance. It began with a lonely night-time walk from the hills of Los Angeles down to the sea documented in photographs and led to an attempted west-east crossing of the Atlantic in July 1975 in a small four-metre cruiser from which he never returned. Six months after Ader’s departure, his boat was found half-submerged off the coast of Ireland. The book features Bas Jan Ader, Dorothy Cross, Keren Cytter, Clare Langan, A.R., Anri Sala, Rikrit Tiravanija and Ryan Trecartin.

In Search of the Miraculous is printed on iridescent paper and bound with copper wire. It is possibly the smallest book we have produced, at just 105 × 75 mm.

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