Showing posts with label Club Paradise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Club Paradise. Show all posts

17.1.20

Club Paradise at Interalia Magazine

Club Paradise: don’t be a tourist…vacation culture, capitalism, consciousness 2017-2019 examines vacation culture photographed and filmed on Cape Cod. https://www.interaliamag.org/articles/cecelia-chapman/

Club Paradise is a huge project that took a year emailing everything, video, mail art, polaroid, essay, writing back and forth with Jeff Crouch and which is up at Interalia Magazine now. I included the mail art here but Interalia focussed on the video and photographs.... but it was my biggest mail art project and working with Jeff, Rafael Gonzalez, Blaine Reininger and several performers.












5.12.19

club paradise at Interalia in 01/2020


Club Paradise 2017-2019 will be at Interalia magazine in January....it is the largest mail collaboration and mail art project including video, print, essay and photography I have worked on...and the longest. This postcard from Posted, a series with Rafael Gonzalez. 

6.9.19

Trouble in Club Paradise at UnlikelyStories



Trouble in Club Paradise...death, drugs, drunkeness, disaster… polaroids reimagine notorious vacations in literature, news and film from Club Paradise at  https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/trouble-in-club-paradise 







3.4.19

Last Exit video with Jeff Crouch...

Mail collaboration with Jeff from our large project Club Paradise ceceliachapman.com. With images from the 1949 movie Club Paradise, remixed with poetry dialogue, the original, extremely bleak, noir movie becomes a romantic advertisement for Club Paradise. (The original film begins and ends with gunshot, Julie murdering her cheating man. Originally named The Sensation Hunters, the 1945 Club Paradise was released the same year the US bombed Hiroshima.)

20.12.18

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In Posted, from Club Paradise, Rafael González, in Tenerife, Spain, returned seven postcards I sent to him from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA. 

By chance, a friend gave me an old Cape Verde government public relations cd containing hundreds of photographs of the island. I selected seven photographs to print as postcards. Rafael altered the photograph on the card. On the address side, Rafael stamped it and described his vacation. Or has he? We can not know if his written words are truth, memory, or dream.

The cards hold memories of the printer, two Atlantic trips, my hand, Rafael’s marks, and his story on the paper that was a tree with more memories. The cards have become souvenirs, a memory aide of an experience that may or may not have occurred.

Rafael’s notes are a revealing message. They tell a story that can be compared to the work of dreams. But what is the card trying to tell you?

The cards are trademarked with wings, the messengers wings, maybe even angels’ wings, because angels bear secrets. Yet even if the words are not true, or memories, or a dream, they are a secret message intended for you. Delivered to you from Rafael Gonzalez and Club Paradise.




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POSTED, a mystery by postcard with Rafael Gonzalez. Club Paradise in production…. more about this later, meanwhile...Is it a dream or...?

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POSTED, a mystery by postcard with Rafael Gonzalez. Club Paradise in production…. more about this later, meanwhile...Is it a dream or...?

19.12.18

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POSTED, a mystery by postcard with Rafael Gonzalez. Club Paradise in production…. more about this later, meanwhile...Is it a dream or...?

16.12.18

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POSTED, a mystery by postcard with Rafael Gonzalez. Club Paradise in production…. more about this later, meanwhile...Is it a dream or...?

15.12.18

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POSTED, a mystery by postcard with Rafael Gonzalez. Club Paradise in production…. more about this later, meanwhile...Is it a dream or...?

14.12.18

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POSTED, a mystery by postcard with Rafael Gonzalez. Club Paradise in production…. more about this later, meanwhile...Is it a dream or...?

14.11.18

SENT #6 with jeff crouch







#6. Sent 2018 is an experimental mail art project with Jeff Crouch. The postcard messages are a secret story without beginning or end. Is a card lost in the mail? Who is writing to whom? What are the motives of writer and recipient? The writing on the back of the cards suggest a narrative different from the usual holiday tourist seeking memories to consume later. Influenced by Derrida’s Postcard, the cards are a secret that serves a purpose we can never know. From Club Paradise http://www.ceceliachapman.com/blog/club-paradise in production. 

13.11.18

SENT #5 with jeff crouch






#5. Sent 2018 is an experimental mail art project with Jeff Crouch. The postcard messages are a secret story without beginning or end. Is a card lost in the mail? Who is writing to whom? What are the motives of writer and recipient? The writing on the back of the cards suggest a narrative different from the usual holiday tourist seeking memories to consume later. Influenced by Derrida’s Postcard, the cards are a secret that serves a purpose we can never know. From Club Paradise http://www.ceceliachapman.com/blog/club-paradise in production. 


12.11.18

SENT #4 with jeff crouch






#4. Sent 2018 is an experimental mail art project with Jeff Crouch. The postcard messages are a secret story without beginning or end. Is a card lost in the mail? Who is writing to whom? What are the motives of writer and recipient? The writing on the back of the cards suggest a narrative different from the usual holiday tourist seeking memories to consume later. Influenced by Derrida’s Postcard, the cards are a secret that serves a purpose we can never know. From Club Paradise http://www.ceceliachapman.com/blog/club-paradise in production. With the original mailed card and Jeff's digital alteration. 

11.11.18

[... .] une lettre peut toujours ne pas arriver 't destination, et [...] doncjamais elle n'y arrive. -Derrida, La Carte postale





SENT, an experimental mail art project with Jeff Crouch. The postcard messages are a secret story without beginning or end. Is a card lost in the mail? Who is writing to whom? What are the motives of writer and recipient? The writing on the back of the cards suggest a narrative different from the usual holiday tourist seeking memories to consume later. Influenced by Derrida’s Postcard, the cards are a secret that serves a purpose we can never know. From Club Paradise http://www.ceceliachapman.com/blog/club-paradise in production. With the original mailed card and Jeff's digital alteration. Posting the six cards as I can