S.c.u.m. Manifesto Society for Cutting Up Men
Riso print, black color
on Fedrigoni neve paper
Sew machine binding
40 copies
Printed at E.N.S.A.D., Paris
for Femmes Nomades Association
Première copie réalisée dans le workshop avec Toan Vu-Huu
à Paris, E.N.S.A.D.
2014
Riso print, black color
on Fedrigoni neve paper
Sew machine binding
40 copies
Printed at E.N.S.A.D., Paris
for Femmes Nomades Association
Première copie réalisée dans le workshop avec Toan Vu-Huu
à Paris, E.N.S.A.D.
2014
In 1967, after the publication of his pamphlet, Valerie Solanas waits for Andy Warhol in the hall of the Factory and shoot him four times. Subsequently, Valerie Solanas was declared irresponsible of his actions. During his arrest, she told the crowd of reporters : “Read my manifest and he will tell you who I am.” One day the four points of the title S.c.u.m., appeared to me like the gun shots. That was the idea that push me working on the edition. In this manifesto, which has been widely discussed within the feminist debate, Solanas mixes a strong irony with a very dark side, swinging the reader between amusement and disturb. For the typographic conception I played with women’s magazine’s code, using two characters, one strongly ornamentals, used for big quote, and an other - in smaller size - for more directed and sharp parts. For the physical realization of the book I was forced to a gesture quite violent, which seemed to me to be a “liberating” consequence for having spent so many days immersed in reading such a text.
