Istvan Kantor’s new book
Istvan Kantor for M:ST fest., 2008
I’ve got a whole bunch of photos in Istvan Kantor’s new book “Amazing Letters: The Life and Art of David Zack”, published by The New Gallery. The Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival (M:ST) hired me to photo-document a couple of festivals back, and I found Istvan was super easy to work with, and excited to get some decent images of his performance which happened in a parking lot next to the train tracks in downtown Calgary. When the performance finished the crowd wandered away, and Istvan and a young art student who had volunteered and I remained, so I asked Istvan if he wanted to make some more photos with the remnants of the performance. He was into it, and one of those shots figures on the top left of the M:ST web site.
Istvan performed at the same location in the rain for the most recent M:ST fest. The performance doubled as a book launch and I documented it, on video this time. I haven’t handed the tape off to the festival yet, but it has some epic stuff on it, including Istvan burning his own book.
