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PETER GREENAWAY
THE RIVELINO GALLERY
LOCARNO
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, 2002 to 2005, is an
ambitious multi-media project deliberately
made for the Information Age sharing manifestations in feature-films for the cinema, DVDs,
websites, published fictional texts, exhibitions,
video-games, VJ-events, theatre, opera, paintings and drawings.
The project covers the adventures of Tulse Luper – born 1911 and possibly still alive (he was
92 in 2003) – writer and collector and professional prisoner, who travels the world, leaving
evidence of his fascinations and works in a collection of 92 packed suitcases that purport to
include by object, event and idea, everything
that is in the world – an entire encyclopaedia of
the planet and all that is in it, where nothing,
absolutely nothing, is left out.
VOLUME
ONE
THE TULSE LUPER
SUITCASES
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THE TULSE LUPER SUITCASES
THE TULSE LUPER SUITCASES
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THE TULSE LUPER SUITCASES
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92
DR AWINGS
VOLUME ONE
PETER GREENAWAY
THE RIVELINO GALLERY
LOCARNO
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, 2002 to 2005, is an
ambitious multi-media project deliberately
made for the Information Age sharing manifestations in feature-films for the cinema, DVDs,
websites, published fictional texts, exhibitions,
video-games, VJ-events, theatre, opera, paintings and drawings.
The project covers the adventures of Tulse Luper – born 1911 and possibly still alive (he was
92 in 2003) – writer and collector and professional prisoner, who travels the world, leaving
evidence of his fascinations and works in a collection of 92 packed suitcases that purport to
include by object, event and idea, everything
that is in the world – an entire encyclopaedia of
the planet and all that is in it, where nothing,
absolutely nothing, is left out.
– 92 biological elements that constitute the genetic recipe for human existence and evolutionary development. His delight in this coincidence – was it a coincidence? – sharpened and
developed his fascination with this number.
The drawings presented here in this catalogue
were exhibited in the summer of 2010, at the
Rivelino Gallery in Locarno, Switzerland, whose
architectural foundations were designed by
­Leonardo da Vinci. The drawings are all associated with the ambitious project of The Tulse
Luper Suitcases and are part of a very large series of drawings that represent and acknowledge in graphic form that encyclopedic endeavour. mer of 2010, at the Rivelino Gallery in
Locarno, Switzerland, whose architectural foundations were designed by Leonardo da Vinci.
The drawings are all associated with the ambitious project of The Tulse Luper Suitcases and
are part of a very large series of drawings that
represent and acknowledge in graphic form
that encyclopedic endeavour.
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THE TULSE LUPER SUITCASES
THE SUITCASE LIST
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17.07 >12.09.2010
Il Rivellino LDV
Locarno
Progetto a cura di / Project by
Franco Laera
Con / with
Arminio Sciolli
Paolo Sciolli
Michele Lamassa
Riccardo Carazzetti
Yanik M. Marcolli
Jean Olaniszyn
Allestimento a cura di / installation by
Change Performing Arts /
Andrea Bianchi
Matteo Massocco
Marco Teatro
Con / with
Adrian Sciolli
Montaggio video / editing
Irma de Vries
Gradica / Graphic design
Maarten Evenhuis
A SUITCASE ON A PEDESTAL
The major years of Luper’s life cover what we
could call the Prologue – 1920 to 1945 – and the
First Chapter – 1945 to 1989 – of Uranium, the
element with which we could now, through nuclear fission, destroy the world, or with which
we might be able to re-make civilisation.
Uranium was first seriously mined in the 1920s
in the West in Moab, Utah, where Luper’s adventures essentially begin. Uranium created
the most significant political activity of the
world in the Cold War lasting some fifty years,
reached its full Armageddon apotheosis in Hiroshima in 1945, and became at least temporarily defused with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. So The Tulse Luper Suitcases could
also be regarded as a history of uranium in the
20th century.
The atomic number of Uranium is 92, hence
the project is governed by that number; there
are 92 major characters, 92 major events and 92
suitcases, and inside each suitcase are 92 items,
ideas, objects or events. Tulse Luper learnt that
the human genomn contains 46 paired genes
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A cura di Jean Olaniszyn
© 2010 by Peter Greenaway
© 2010 by Change Performing Arts
1 COAL
2 TOYS
3 LUPER PHOTOS
4 LOVE LETTERS
5 LUPER’S CLOTHES
6 LUPER’S CLOTHES
7 VATICAN PORNOGRAPHY
8 FISH
9 PENCILS
10 HOLES
11 PHOTOGRAPHS OF CRIMINALS
12 FROGS
13 FOOD DROP
14 DOLLARS
15 COINS
16 LUPER’S LOST FILMS.
17 ALCOHOL
18 PERFUME
19 PASSPORTS
20 BLOODIED WALLPAPER
21 CLEANING FLUIDS
22 DENTAL TOOLS
23 CHERRIES
24 HONEY
25 NUMBERS & LETTERS
26 LUPER’S UNIFORMS
27 DOG BONES
28 LOCKS & KEYS
29 LIGHT BULBS
30 PLACE NAMES
31 BOOTS & SHOES
32 ZOO ANIMALS
33 IDEAS OF AMERICA
34 ANNA KARENINA NOVELS
35 CANDLES
36 RADIO EQUIPMENT
37 CLEAN LINEN
38 WATER
39 CODES
40 A SLEEPER
41 EROTIC PRINTS
42 92 OBJECTS FOR THE WORLD
43 RAINBOWS
44 PRISON MOVIE FILM-CLIPS
45 MANUSCRIPTS FOR STRASBOURG
46 HOLOCAUST GOLD
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47 CHILDREN
48 DEAD ROSES
49 TRAINS
50 NEEDLES
51 SHOWERHEADS
52 55 MEN ON HORSEBACK
53 CHINA DOGS
54 BRUSHES
55 DRAWINGS OF LUPER
56 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
57 SMOKED CIGARS
58 BODY PARTS
59 INGRES PAINTINGS
60 BROKEN GLASS
61 MOITESSIER GOWNS
62 CRABCLAWS
63 FEATHERS & EGGS
64 YELLOW PAINT
65 TENNIS BALLS
66 BOTTLE MESSAGES
67 GREEN APPLES
68 DOG
69 SPENT MATCHES
70 SAUCEPANS
71 FLOWER BULBS
72 RESTAURANT MENUS
73 92 ATOMIC ELEMENTS
74 VIOLIN SPLINTERS
75 STONES
76 LEAD
77 OBELISKS
78 ROMAN POSTCARDS
79 HOLY EARTH
80 GREEN FIGS
81 URANIUM
82 NOTES OF DROWNED CORPSES
83 MAPS
84 BOARD GAMES
85 INK & BLOOD
86 LUPER’S 1001 STORY MSCRIPTS
87 ICE
88 MEASURING TOOLS
89 THE TYPEWRITER
90 DOLLS
91 THE PHRENOLOGICAL BOOK
92 LUPER’S LIFE
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cessities – a toothbrush, a bar of soap,
clean underwear, a child’s toy, a passport, and all the cash you can muster
in ten minutes? And with the prospect
of no return, what of your memories,
obsessions, guilty secrets, sentimental
associations, ephemeral treasures, all
the portable items that define your life
and existence, and more than just metaphorically have become your essential
“cultural baggage”?
We are now in the Age of Airports and
Air Travel. Modern travelers have more
choice in which to transport their belongings. The airports carousels of the
world will readily display evidence of
that choice in myriad materials, fabrics, and shapes and manufacture, and
almost certainly now on wheels. And
so much of our possessions can now
travel in other ways, minuterised electronically and digitally.
“Have suitcase, will travel”. Here are
thirteen empty suitcases, from a series
of 92, for you to chose to fill with your
literal and metaphorical cultural baggage. Bon voyage.
Empty Suitcases: Six Hat-Boxes
Throughout the period of Tulse Luper’s life, from 1911 until at least the
1980s, the suitcase, a basically rectangular and stiff-backed box with a hinged
lid and one or more handles, very often fashioned from leather, and made
moderately safe with clasps and a simple lock, was a ubiquitous item all over
the world. The first eighty years of the
20th century was the democratic Age
of the Train, and the suitcase seems to
be almost inseparable from a travelingby-train experience. Practically everyone had a suitcase and it has become
a symbol of travel, hopefully travel for
voluntary movement, for pleasure and
vacation and positive experience and
memory, but the huge exodus of people from Greater Europe to the New
World, the displacement of peoples all
over Asia, the two World Wars and the
Holocaust, and the millions of involuntary travelers in the 20th century
have made the simple suitcase an image of disturbance, pathos, loss, grief,
displacement and tragedy. What would
you put in your suitcase when the rapping came on your door in the middle of the night, accompanied by the
order, “You have ten minutes to pack a
suitcase!”. Could the answer have been
more than the most basic practical ne-
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Suitcase 38: A Suitcase of Water
It can surely never be a surprise that
water would be a ubiquitous image in
any one’s life. For Tulse Luper it was
certainly ever-present. His associations with seas and oceans, ponds, rivers and lakes, running and still water,
salt-water and fresh-water, steam and
mist, fog and ice and clouds trickled,
ran, sped and flooded into most things
he did and dreamt of doing. Here is
just a little evidence of that fascination and experience, certainly of the
act of drowning and of the Great Biblical Flood and of the certain floods to
come.
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Suitcase 38: A Suitcase of Water
Suitcase 38: Three Suitcases of Falling Water
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Suitcase 38: A Suitcase of Heavy Water
Suitcase 66: A Suitcase of Messages in a Bottle
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Suitcase 85: A Suitcase of Blood and Water
Suitcase 85: A Suitcase of Ink and Blood
Suitcase 38: A Suitcase of Water Survival
Suitcase 38: Obverse of a Suitcase of Water Survival
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Suitcase 38: Page 39 from the “Illustrated Flood”
Suitcase 38: Page 42 from the “Illustrated Flood”
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Suitcase 38: Page 59 from the “Illustrated Flood”
Suitcase 38: Page 63 from the “Illustrated Flood”
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A Suitcase of Autumn Leaves
Obverse of a Suitcase of Autumn Leaves
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A Suitcase of Displaced Possessions
Obverse of a Suitcase of Displaced Possessions
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A Camouflaged Suitcase
Obverse of A Camouflaged Suitcase
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A Forgotten Suitcase
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Tulse Luper had a great curiosity about
birds, creatures twice blessed by being
able to sing and fly. There was a time
when he collected bird-eggs, and when
that became ecologically unacceptable, he drew the eggs instead. There
are many collections of his drawings
of eggs and here are two of them. The
second – the eggs with associated texts
– is a compendium of bird-associated
facts as regards ornithological species,
metaphorical ornithological language,
rhymes, chimes, synonyms, puns, or
direct or indirect ornithological resonances, thus, raven-haired, Leda, eggbound, fried sunny-side up, a bird in
the hand is worth two in the bush,
crow’s feet, crow’s nest, a dead duck, a
robin in a cage keeps all heaven in a
rage, as dead as a dodo, etc.
Suitcase 63 The Suitcase Introducing Eggs
F E ATHERS & EGG S
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Suitcase 63: 92 Plain Numbered Eggs Three of Four
Suitcase 63: 92 Plain Numbered Eggs Four of Four
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AS SEEN FROM
THE MOON
Suitcase 63: 92 Numbered Eggs With Texts Three of Four
Here are nine drawings from a series
associated with a Tulse Luper project
called AS SEEN FROM THE MOON,
in surprise and fascination at the idea
that it might not be impossible one day
to deliberately make man-made structures on Earth that should be seen from
the Moon as art-works – and vice-versa.
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Suitcase 36: A Suitcase of Radio Equipment
Suitcase 36: Obverse of A Suitcase of Radio Equipment
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Suitcase Number 4 in The Tulse Luper
Suitcases Collection contains an archive of 92 love letters written by Luper’s father, Ivor, and sent by him from
the trenches of the First World War
in Flanders in 1916 and 1917 to Carrie
Ashdown, Luper’s mother in Newport,
South Wales. How many letters in total
were sent and received, how many were
lost or did not get passed the army
censor, we do not know, but Martino
Knockavelli, Luper’s friend, archivist
and biographer, eventually finalised
the collection to 92 items, complete
with envelopes. Martino arranged the
letters according to a plan that Luper
had made for an exhibition of texts
we have never found, that was drawn
on the back of a section of typescript
pages that referred to the contents of
Suitcase 86 – a new One Thousand and
One New Tales of the Arabian Nights.
The love letters were full of texts and
drawings and visual conceits, and they
recorded Ivor Luper’s erotic love and
great longing for his wife, re-living
memories of a courtship in the streets,
towns, villages and countryside of
Monmouthshire, South Wales.
Carrie Ashdown carefully treasured
these letters, and when Luper was a
child, she amused him with the counting games, the listings, the maps and
diagrams, family genealogies and
complex fantasies, and they became a
significant introduction to a world of
words, classifications, counting, numbering and chronology, associated all
the time with his parent’s love for one
another. The letters were a stimulus for
Luper towards an invigorating imaginative life, and served as a model for a
fully emotional future.
SUITCASE 4: Love Letter 47 “ Dear Cissie, Imagine the edge of a city stopping short… “
LOVE LET TERS
SUITCASE 4: Love Letters – obverse for Sections 1 to 16 of “a plan to exhibit texts”
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SUITCASE 4: Love Letter 23 “ Dear Cissie, We have coughed in fog for four days…”
SUITCASE 4: Obverse drawing of Love Letter 23
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SUITCASE 4: Love Letters – obverse for Sections 17 to 32 of “a plan to exhibit texts”
SUITCASE 4: Love Letters – Sections 17 to 32 of “a plan to exhibit texts”
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SUITCASE 4: Love Letters – obverse for Sections 33 to 48 of “a plan to exhibit texts”.
SUITCASE 4: Love Letters –Sections 33 to 48 of “a plan to exhibit texts”.
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SUITCASE 4: Love Letters – obverse of Sections 49 to 64 of “a plan to exhibit texts”.
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SUITCASE 4: Love Letter 54 “ Dear Cissie, I have counted 15 colours in your hair…”
SUITCASE 4: Love Letter 61 “ Dear Cissie, The rain has been pouring down my neck …”
SUITCASE 4: Love Letters – obverse typescript of Sections 65 to 80 of “a plan to exhibit texts”.
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SUITCASE 4: Love Letters – obverse typescript of Sections 81 to 92 of “a plan to exhibit texts”.
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A HISTORY OF
T H E WORLD
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The history comments on all the
theories, old and new, biblical, mythological, astrological, astronomical, mechanical, fictional and fanciful of the
formation of the planet and its early
pre-human history, and proceeds with
a fascination for the ways we have conceived the writing of history - the divisions of the geological periods, the
archaeological ages, the epochs, centuries, dynasties, the cultural and political categorisations that are relevant to
all the ways we count, organise, and
classify our presence here on Earth.
From the series A HISTORY OF THE WORLD
???? drawings from a Tulse Luper series called A History of the World, an
ironic fascination with the new fashionable genre of the historical overview of the planet Earth now that
the Information Age is upon us. The
drawings are designed with a view to
be entertaining and self-sufficient in
themselves, but also to form the basis
for an animated film, hence the storyboard format, with, in each case, the
drawings conceived as a discrete unit
of nine pictures that suggest growth
and movement.
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From the series A HISTORY OF THE WORLD
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Suitcase 31: Boots and Shoes - Shit and Shoes
A Dozen Pints in an Irish Bar
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Tulse Luper was fascinated by the
quotation from Dante that suggested
he wrote The Divine Comedy as an
attempt “to unite the angels in their
Heavens to the stones on the road”.
To make indeed an encyclopedic compendium of everything known and
unknown, from the sublime to the very
humble. Luper constantly explored
what “those stones on the road” might
be.
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SUITCASE 75: The Stones – 23 to 31 – 32 to 40 – 41 to 49 – 50 to 58
T H E STONES
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SUITCASE 75: The Stones – 1 to 10 – 11 to 22
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In this context at Locarno, they could
be the stones that da Vinci used to
build a castle.
SUITCASE 75: The Stones – 59 to 67 – 68 to 76 – 77 to 85 – 86 to 95
SUITCASE 75: The Stones – 59 to 67 – 68 to 76 – 77 to 85 – 86 to 95
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SUITCASE 67: A Suitcase of Green Apples
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The very first suitcase of Tulse Luper’s 92 suitcase archive is a collection of lumps of coal from his father’s
coalhouse in the mining community
of Newport in South Wales, lumps of
coal the 10-year old Luper carved and
molded and fashioned to represent
all the landscapes he hoped to travel
in and explore, in his future long life.
These 92 artificial miniature landscapes were a constant fascination to
Luper and he repeatedly remodeled
them in his mind’s eye, long after the
original childhood suitcase of physical
coal lumps had been lost, or stolen or,
most likely, burnt.
Here is one of the collections of the
drawings of those 92 landscapes.
SUITCASE 1: A Suitcase of Coal Landscapes – Numbers 50, 51, 53, 54, 56, 57
S U ITCASE 1: THE
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SUITCASE 1: A Suitcase of Coal Landscapes – 1 to 12 – 13 to 24 – 25 to 36 – 37 to 48
SUITCASE 1: A Suitcase of Coal Landscapes – 49 to 60 – 61 to 72 – 73 to 84 – 85 to 92
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LO CKS & KEYS
Tulse Luper was a professional prisoner, moving, only rarely voluntarily,
from prison to prison. Although the
prisons were not always of locks and
keys and bars and unscalable walls, the
images of the lock and the key were
invariably in his memory and imagination.
SUITCASE 28: Locks & Keys
“Life is a puzzle,
A game of keys and locks,
A mirror in a mirror,
A box within a box,
And we must do the best we can
To stand up to the shocks”.
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– 92 biological elements that constitute the genetic recipe for human existence and evolutionary development. His delight in this coincidence – was it a coincidence? – sharpened and
developed his fascination with this number.
The drawings presented here in this catalogue
were exhibited in the summer of 2010, at the
Rivelino Gallery in Locarno, Switzerland, whose
architectural foundations were designed by
­Leonardo da Vinci. The drawings are all associated with the ambitious project of The Tulse
Luper Suitcases and are part of a very large series of drawings that represent and acknowledge in graphic form that encyclopedic endeavour. mer of 2010, at the Rivelino Gallery in
Locarno, Switzerland, whose architectural foundations were designed by Leonardo da Vinci.
The drawings are all associated with the ambitious project of The Tulse Luper Suitcases and
are part of a very large series of drawings that
represent and acknowledge in graphic form
that encyclopedic endeavour.
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THE TULSE LUPER SUITCASES
THE SUITCASE LIST
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17.07 >12.09.2010
Il Rivellino LDV
Locarno
Progetto a cura di / Project by
Franco Laera
Con / with
Arminio Sciolli
Paolo Sciolli
Michele Lamassa
Riccardo Carazzetti
Yanik M. Marcolli
Jean Olaniszyn
Allestimento a cura di / installation by
Change Performing Arts /
Andrea Bianchi
Matteo Massocco
Marco Teatro
Con / with
Adrian Sciolli
Montaggio video / editing
Irma de Vries
Gradica / Graphic design
Maarten Evenhuis
A SUITCASE ON A PEDESTAL
The major years of Luper’s life cover what we
could call the Prologue – 1920 to 1945 – and the
First Chapter – 1945 to 1989 – of Uranium, the
element with which we could now, through nuclear fission, destroy the world, or with which
we might be able to re-make civilisation.
Uranium was first seriously mined in the 1920s
in the West in Moab, Utah, where Luper’s adventures essentially begin. Uranium created
the most significant political activity of the
world in the Cold War lasting some fifty years,
reached its full Armageddon apotheosis in Hiroshima in 1945, and became at least temporarily defused with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. So The Tulse Luper Suitcases could
also be regarded as a history of uranium in the
20th century.
The atomic number of Uranium is 92, hence
the project is governed by that number; there
are 92 major characters, 92 major events and 92
suitcases, and inside each suitcase are 92 items,
ideas, objects or events. Tulse Luper learnt that
the human genomn contains 46 paired genes
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ELR Edizioni Le Ricerche
A cura di Jean Olaniszyn
© 2010 by Peter Greenaway
© 2010 by Change Performing Arts
1 COAL
2 TOYS
3 LUPER PHOTOS
4 LOVE LETTERS
5 LUPER’S CLOTHES
6 LUPER’S CLOTHES
7 VATICAN PORNOGRAPHY
8 FISH
9 PENCILS
10 HOLES
11 PHOTOGRAPHS OF CRIMINALS
12 FROGS
13 FOOD DROP
14 DOLLARS
15 COINS
16 LUPER’S LOST FILMS.
17 ALCOHOL
18 PERFUME
19 PASSPORTS
20 BLOODIED WALLPAPER
21 CLEANING FLUIDS
22 DENTAL TOOLS
23 CHERRIES
24 HONEY
25 NUMBERS & LETTERS
26 LUPER’S UNIFORMS
27 DOG BONES
28 LOCKS & KEYS
29 LIGHT BULBS
30 PLACE NAMES
31 BOOTS & SHOES
32 ZOO ANIMALS
33 IDEAS OF AMERICA
34 ANNA KARENINA NOVELS
35 CANDLES
36 RADIO EQUIPMENT
37 CLEAN LINEN
38 WATER
39 CODES
40 A SLEEPER
41 EROTIC PRINTS
42 92 OBJECTS FOR THE WORLD
43 RAINBOWS
44 PRISON MOVIE FILM-CLIPS
45 MANUSCRIPTS FOR STRASBOURG
46 HOLOCAUST GOLD
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47 CHILDREN
48 DEAD ROSES
49 TRAINS
50 NEEDLES
51 SHOWERHEADS
52 55 MEN ON HORSEBACK
53 CHINA DOGS
54 BRUSHES
55 DRAWINGS OF LUPER
56 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
57 SMOKED CIGARS
58 BODY PARTS
59 INGRES PAINTINGS
60 BROKEN GLASS
61 MOITESSIER GOWNS
62 CRABCLAWS
63 FEATHERS & EGGS
64 YELLOW PAINT
65 TENNIS BALLS
66 BOTTLE MESSAGES
67 GREEN APPLES
68 DOG
69 SPENT MATCHES
70 SAUCEPANS
71 FLOWER BULBS
72 RESTAURANT MENUS
73 92 ATOMIC ELEMENTS
74 VIOLIN SPLINTERS
75 STONES
76 LEAD
77 OBELISKS
78 ROMAN POSTCARDS
79 HOLY EARTH
80 GREEN FIGS
81 URANIUM
82 NOTES OF DROWNED CORPSES
83 MAPS
84 BOARD GAMES
85 INK & BLOOD
86 LUPER’S 1001 STORY MSCRIPTS
87 ICE
88 MEASURING TOOLS
89 THE TYPEWRITER
90 DOLLS
91 THE PHRENOLOGICAL BOOK
92 LUPER’S LIFE
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VOLUME ONE
PETER GREENAWAY
THE RIVELINO GALLERY
LOCARNO
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, 2002 to 2005, is an
ambitious multi-media project deliberately
made for the Information Age sharing manifestations in feature-films for the cinema, DVDs,
websites, published fictional texts, exhibitions,
video-games, VJ-events, theatre, opera, paintings and drawings.
The project covers the adventures of Tulse Luper – born 1911 and possibly still alive (he was
92 in 2003) – writer and collector and professional prisoner, who travels the world, leaving
evidence of his fascinations and works in a collection of 92 packed suitcases that purport to
include by object, event and idea, everything
that is in the world – an entire encyclopaedia of
the planet and all that is in it, where nothing,
absolutely nothing, is left out.