Fall
Bas Jan Ader
1970
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Best known for his conceptual and performative practice, Bas Jan Ader is the artist of the “fall” par excellence. Many of his projects revolve around themes of psychological and physical collapse. In this exceptionally rare ...
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Fall
Bas Jan Ader
1970
Los Angeles: Self-published
Unpaginated [48 pages]
19.2 × 19.2 cm

Best known for his conceptual and performative practice, Bas Jan Ader is the artist of the “fall” par excellence. Many of his projects revolve around themes of psychological and physical collapse. In this exceptionally rare artist’s book, Ader documents two performances made in 1970 in Los Angeles and Amsterdam. The first presents a photographic sequence of eleven moments depicting the artist seated on a straight-backed chair on the roof of his house before falling from it; the second shows him cycling straight into a typical Dutch canal. This performative tandem was also preserved in video form as Fall 1 and Fall 2.


 


In 1972, Ader conceived “The Boy Who Fell Over Niagara Falls”, a conceptual and performance work inspired by the real-life story of Roger Woodward, a seven-year-old boy who miraculously survived going over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls in a small boat.


 


Prophecy or coincidence, three years later Ader mysteriously disappeared while crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat named Ocean Wave.

Los Angeles: Self-published
Unpaginated [48 pages]
19.2 × 19.2 cm

Best known for his conceptual and performative practice, Bas Jan Ader is the artist of the “fall” par excellence. Many of his projects revolve around themes of psychological and physical collapse. In this exceptionally rare artist’s book, Ader documents two performances made in 1970 in Los Angeles and Amsterdam. The first presents a photographic sequence of eleven moments depicting the artist seated on a straight-backed chair on the roof of his house before falling from it; the second shows him cycling straight into a typical Dutch canal. This performative tandem was also preserved in video form as Fall 1 and Fall 2.

 

In 1972, Ader conceived “The Boy Who Fell Over Niagara Falls”, a conceptual and performance work inspired by the real-life story of Roger Woodward, a seven-year-old boy who miraculously survived going over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls in a small boat.

 

Prophecy or coincidence, three years later Ader mysteriously disappeared while crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat named Ocean Wave.

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Best known for his conceptual and performative practice, Bas Jan Ader is the artist of the “fall” par excellence. Many of his projects revolve around themes of psychological and physical collapse. In this exceptionally rare artist’s book, Ader documents two performances made in 1970 in Los Angeles and Amsterdam. The first presents a photographic sequence of eleven moments depicting the artist seated on a straight-backed chair on the roof of his house before falling from it; the second shows him cycling straight into a typical Dutch canal. This performative tandem was also preserved in video form as Fall 1 and Fall 2.

 

In 1972, Ader conceived “The Boy Who Fell Over Niagara Falls”, a conceptual and performance work inspired by the real-life story of Roger Woodward, a seven-year-old boy who miraculously survived going over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls in a small boat.

 

Prophecy or coincidence, three years later Ader mysteriously disappeared while crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat named Ocean Wave.

Los Angeles: Self-published
Unpaginated [48 pages]
19.2 × 19.2 cm

Best known for his conceptual and performative practice, Bas Jan Ader is the artist of the “fall” par excellence. Many of his projects revolve around themes of psychological and physical collapse. In this exceptionally rare artist’s book, Ader documents two performances made in 1970 in Los Angeles and Amsterdam. The first presents a photographic sequence of eleven moments depicting the artist seated on a straight-backed chair on the roof of his house before falling from it; the second shows him cycling straight into a typical Dutch canal. This performative tandem was also preserved in video form as Fall 1 and Fall 2.

 

In 1972, Ader conceived “The Boy Who Fell Over Niagara Falls”, a conceptual and performance work inspired by the real-life story of Roger Woodward, a seven-year-old boy who miraculously survived going over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls in a small boat.

 

Prophecy or coincidence, three years later Ader mysteriously disappeared while crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat named Ocean Wave.

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Best known for his conceptual and performative practice, Bas Jan Ader is the artist of the “fall” par excellence. Many of his projects revolve around themes of psychological and physical collapse. In this exceptionally rare artist’s book, Ader documents two performances made in 1970 in Los Angeles and Amsterdam. The first presents a photographic sequence of eleven moments depicting the artist seated on a straight-backed chair on the roof of his house before falling from it; the second shows him cycling straight into a typical Dutch canal. This performative tandem was also preserved in video form as Fall 1 and Fall 2.

 

In 1972, Ader conceived “The Boy Who Fell Over Niagara Falls”, a conceptual and performance work inspired by the real-life story of Roger Woodward, a seven-year-old boy who miraculously survived going over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls in a small boat.

 

Prophecy or coincidence, three years later Ader mysteriously disappeared while crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat named Ocean Wave.

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