[Reader-list] Wu Yongfang, the Hunger Artist

[Inder Salim]

thanks dear
it was indeed very good
love
is

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Jeebesh <jeebesh at sarai.net> wrote:
> dear all,
> this essay on a hunger artist in China. Very intriguing. Do read it.
> warmly
> jeebesh
> Hu Fang
> Wu Yongfang, the Hunger Artist
>
> http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/141
>
> "Michael Jackson had been preparing for his death for a very long time. Why
> do I say this? He had already experienced the death of his physical body
> once, twice, countless times. His physical body faded away long ago. It was
> transfigured into an image. He had been living inside his image for a long
> time. This final death was merely the realization of his eternal life. It is
> inevitable that the body will eventually disappear, but the image lives on
> forever. When his body finally died, I had a sudden realization."
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