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Noch #3 - September 2015

Momus. A Walking Interview

Francesco Tenaglia

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Release date: September 2015
ISBN: 9781783018086

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Momus. A Walking Interview is a long conversation between the Italian critic Francesco Tenaglia and Scottish born artist Nicholas Currie aka Momus that took place during a day-long stroll in various areas of the city of Milan with an always-on microphone. The different neighborhoods elicited different topics including musicals, Chinatowns, enterism, Italy, Sehnsucht, David Bowie, word processors, death, classic rock, politics, isolation, future, and much more.

Momus has started his career in the music making during the '80s at first with the band The Happy Family then as a solo artist for Creation Records and Cherry Red Records. He has written for various publications such as Wired, Vice, Index Magazine, 032c, and Mousse. He has also been active in performance art and as an author: he wrote The Book of Jokes; The Book of Scotlands, and The Book of Japans for Sternberg Press; Herr F, and Popppappp for Fiktion.

Foreword by the journalist and dj Fabio De Luca.

Table of contents:

  • Titlepage
  • Colophon
  • Introduction
  • Foreword by Fabio De Luca
  • Momus. A Walking Interview
  • About the author

Francesco Tenaglia is a critic and curator based in Milan. His research is focused on music and art, and their relations with cultures and social structures. He is the co-director of Noch publishing and he was the co-owner of Schoolmap record label.