“Clifford Irving Show” in San Francisco
         8 pm April 11, 2008

Based on available facts precisely imagined as seen somewhere else,
“Clifford Irving Show” comes to San Francisco. Described as “a live
variety-show of conceptual origin” it presents a one-night-only
composite event dedicated to the launch of “Phantom Rosebuds”, a
brand new autobiography of Clifford Irving, whom the San Francisco
audience might most recently remember from
Hoax (Lasse Hallström, 2006.)

Introducing Clifford Irving as (in no particular order) a writer,
lover, prisoner and film character, “Phantom Rosebuds” is a
subjective trawl through a notorious history ­ from his early years
as a creative writing teacher, through the Howard Hughes scandal,
right up to the moment of the author¹s appearance in San Francisco.

“Why is Clifford Irving smiling?” asks Orson Welles ­ rhetorically ­
in “F for Fake” ?

“I must believe that art itself is real”, is his answer.

As years pass we shall reconsider familiar questions about the value
of authorship ­ and value itself ­ along with faith in magic, fakes
and trickery, through the various lenses of our various international
stage acts, including Julian Myers, Ayreen Anastas, Alejandro Cesarco,
Olivier Babin, Fia Backstrom, Gabriel Lester, Robin Carlson, Morten Norbye
Halvorsen, Rene Gabri, Kevin Killian, Francis McKee, Post Brothers, etc.

“Phantom Rosebuds” is produced under the auspices of Dexter Sinister,
and published in conjunction with New Langton Arts in San Francisco
and Art 2102 in Los Angeles, on the occasion of “Clifford Irving
Show” in California.

In the book trade, a “signature” is the name of a single folded-down
sheet of printed paper usually bound with other signatures and cut to
form pages, usually in denominations of 8. The version of “Phantom
Rosebuds” being launched in San Francisco will take the form of
“advance signatures”: the autobiography will be produced in an
edition of 500 on a Dutch stencil printing machine. Then, a couple of months
later the same piece will form the heart of the 16th issue of Dot Dot
Dot, the biannual journal also published by Dexter Sinister. The rest of the
issue will follow the themes which dominate both
“Phantom Rosebuds” and Orson Welles “F for Fake”: mirroring,
shadowing, gaps, parallels, and practical time travel.

A Q & A session and book signing will follow.

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“Clifford Irving Show” is produced by Raimundas
           Malasauskas as part of “F for Park”, a project in search of a parallel
       science of beats and concepts