Legend of the Necessary Dreamer
- Submitting institution
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University of Dundee
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 50204138
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Vanguard Editions
- ISBN
- 9781848614062
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Legend of the Necessary Dreamer is a sole-authored book by Fusco (2017), written in-situ Lisbon during her time as invited Writer-in-Residence at the Lisbon Architectural Triennale, curated by Beatrice Galilee. The extended prose work combines hybrid creative and critical writing methods.
Fusco produced the first draft writing in-situ in Palacio Pombal; one of the few surviving buildings in Lisbon after the great 1755 earthquake. By writing durationally in the palacio during the Architectural Triennale, Fusco built on her previously developed methods of situated writing practice, with the aim of capturing the sustained atmospherics of the site, thereby producing an original account of what it is to subjectively document historical space.
She collaborated with architectural historians, contemporary art curators and Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema drama students, to produce daily performances during the festival, which acted as an editorial device for the first draft of the book: these performances were experienced by approximately 100,000 visitors across the span of the Triennale.
Fusco was awarded an Hawthorden Fellowship to complete the project. It is published by experimental fiction specialist, Vanguard Editions, London (2017). Throughout 2017, associated events have taken place in Architectural Association, London; Arnolfini, Bristol; CCA, Glasgow; CCB, Lisbon; Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; HOME, Manchester; Perdu, Amsterdam and Printroom, Rotterdam. It has been extracted and reviewed in publications including: Architecture and Culture, BOMB, Corridor 8, Minor Literatures and The White Review and Fusco was interviewed about the project for RTP, Portuguese National Radio.
The book was commissioned as a radio broadcast by Radiophrenia, Glasgow (2019) and the piece selected for the Radio Space Borealis festival, Bergen. Extracts have been made into a short film, Breath, by Pedro Lino. It is included on numerous syllabi including graduate courses at The Bartlett, London and The European Graduate School, Visp, Switzerland.
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- Non-English
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