Anodyne
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
 
C.V.

"Toth has been a bicycle courier, a commercial fisherman, an electrician, a long-haul truck driver, a landscaper, a rock drummer, a process server, a warehouse flunky and a winemaker. Adding artist and astronaut to this list hardly stretches things.

Q: Which of your jobs best prepared you for the Nascanti?

A: Oh, you don’t prepare for those guys.

Q: Why’s that?

A: I think I said it best in that piece that [Swiss industrial magnate and video-art collector Jonathan] Schellmann owns.

Hi, How Are You? (2009): Toth’s head and shoulders are visible against a pale grey backdrop. Staring straight into the camera he slowly says, 'Hi. How are you? I am fine.' Pauses. Blinks. Repeats himself. Pauses. Blinks again. Delivers his lines. And so on, ad infinitum.

'That was a -- my -- response to that whole mess,' he says. Six weeks of blood tests, of MRI imaging, of endless debriefings by military psychologists, astrophysicists, biologists and engineers. Granular scrutiny of his patent application, the one based on the chemical formula the Nascanti gave him in exchange for a video projection and two photographs."
- posted by cjb @ 9:32 AM


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