ISH #7

Launch of Fanzine 02
10.00 – 18.00 17 Dec 2009 (Portes ouvertes)

Edie McKay
– Like stupidity, evil is self-hypnotic

Hello Victor

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I don’t know if I am a hypocrite or if my work is hypocritical. And why you have asked me to do a fanzine, I do not understand. Should I be thankful or critical of your proposal? I haven’t decided yet.
My work has no meaning it lacks content and ideas and serves no purpose at all.
I feel like a cuckoo - brooding parasites these kinds of birds are called. I have been left here by my mother, she as well was a parasite. I am the bigger bird in the nest, being fed by a small unknown mother bird when I really should be fed by my own kind, my own mother. But I stand no chance with my own kind, they will not accept me, they will not love me. I look at the feeder and accept the small portion of food, the feeder looks at me knowing I need more and that it can’t stop. In this unfamiliar territory I am safe, they like me, they accept me, even if I am a parasite and look down on them and use them for my own personal benefit. Please feed this empty mouth more metaphoric food.
So you see, I have found my place in society and I do not need you or anybody else, in fact I am not a hypocrite.

Edie xxxxx

ps. The Artist I mentioned to you, actually did fuck that curator!

  Edition of 1000. size A4. pp32.


Concept : Victor Boullet
All content : Edie McKay
Design : Hey Ho ~
Julien Hourcade
&Thomas Petitjean

Publisher : Lauren Monchar
Production : Frenetic Happiness
Print : Expressions 2

Thanks to F.N. for his support.

Copyright 2009 : Edie McKay
All rights reserved.
No part of this publication
may be reproduced or
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database or retrieval system,
without the prior written
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and The Institute of Social
Hypocrisy.


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of Social Hypocrisy
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75003 Paris — F.
www.theinstituteofsocialhy-
pocrisy.com


ISBN: 978-0-9544016-4-1
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The images below are a few pages from the new fanzine 02 and also of the installation that Edie McKay has made for the Institute, which is to be viewed in its daily working environment.

Edie McKay's site-specific installation consists of three elements constructed floor to ceiling from plasterboard, spray paint & tape. These columns serve as a fake support for the room, they are present, yet redundant, symbolic of our relationship to our own social environment.