Tulse Luper Suitcases Exhibition

Announcement:
After succesful events in Gent (Belgium), Compton Verney Warwickshire (UK), Fort Asperen (The Netherlands) and Sao Paulo (Brasil) the Tulse Luper Suitcases Exhibition will now visit new places in the world in a 3 year tour (2008 - 2011).


92 suitcases
In the exhibition Greenaway brings all the drama of cinema to life through objects, music, video and special effects. The exhibition will feature all 92 suitcases, natural and man-made, packed with amazing special effects and artefacts. A complete multi-media encyclopedia emerges through objects and audiovisual representations of all determining elements of life in the Atomic Age. Each exhibition will be made in a unique way for each museum/country, offering the audience through modern technology a unique peek into Luper's local findings during his travels.

The world according to Tulse Luper
Luper was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and disappeared into ever more obscure prisons and jails in Russia and the Far East in the 1970s. He would have been 100 in 2011. In the last century, this extraordinary man archived his entire life in 92 suitcases. His life is shrouded in mystery, but it seems that Luper has been present at some of the key historical events of the 20th century, including the first nuclear tests in New Mexico, the 1968 Paris student protests and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Although Luper spent most of his life being a professional prisoner, he still managed to collect a large amount of objects and store them in suitcases. In a way, these suitcases represent the world according to Tulse Luper.
Tulse Luper is still presumed to be alive somewhere in the world - probably in a prison somewhere.

Luper’s fascination
As a writer, collector, cataloguer and professional list-maker Luper is fascinated by traces, systems, maps, numbers and artifacts. The exhibition explores the connections between objects, events and ideas, re-peopling the house and bringing the collections and building to life. At the heart of the exhibition is the collection of 92 suitcases that Luper has supposedly abandoned on his travels. Tickling all senses, their content can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted and felt, providing intriguing clues to his existence, his obsessions, the people he has met, and the places he has visited. 

 

More information on the Tulse Luper project: click here . 


The Tulse Luper Suitcases Exhibition is phenominally complemented by the Tulse Luper VJ Performance .

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