The 11 volumes of The 80*81 Book Collection serve as guide and almanac. Each volume zooms through interviews, original documents, photos and a timeline to arrive at New Year’s Eve 1980.
Volume One: What Happend? 128 pages, yellow PVC wallet.
ISBN 978-3-905929-01-0
Edition Patrick Frey, Motorenstrasse 14, CH-8005 Zurich
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Interview with Slavoj Žižek: “My whole effort is to remain at the surface. I don’t believe in depth. If you deeply look into a person –in everyone– you find shit. I believe in surface. I think true metaphysics is the metaphysics of surface. If you do something great it’s not deep in you. There is not an undiscovered pearl, no! That pearl is always shit.”
Interview with Eric Mitchell: “I was wearing this orange hunting jacket. Really bright orange. Dayglo! I wanted to be famous and I wanted people to know who I was, to know I made that movie. I was ambitious, posturing, everything. Punk promotion. Punks were great promoters. People in the Berlinale hated me. I was so obviously shiny.”
Interview with Robert Longo: “When we started making money, we started going to the Odeon. You went downstairs in the bathroom and did enormous amounts of coke. There was a closet off the side where you would go fuck in the closet or you’d go fall asleep. The Odeon became the hangout place. The more serious we became as artists, the less we played in bands anymore.”
Edition Patrick Frey, Motorenstrasse 14, CH-8005 Zurich
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International distribution:
Idea Books, Amsterdam
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Volume Two: California über alles. 128 pages, soft cover
ISBN 978-3-905929-01-1
Interviews with Paul Schrader, Giorgio Moroder and Abol Hassan Banisadr.
Designers: Mei-Lun Xue and Petra Langhammer
Producer: Sandra Mayer-Myrtenhain
Editorial Assistance: Marco Agosta and Lena Wiegmann