Artist's book.
Dick the Stick first appeared in Diego Marcon's animated film Interlude (introducing Dick the Stick). The short cartoon, loosely based on a recollection used by Georges Perec as a preface to “Espèces d'espaces,” takes place over three acts, featuring a stick orderly—Dick—intent on polishing a boot. A script for Dick is a collection of 38 short, self-contained episodes, each with Dick the Stick as the main character.
Scripts by Basma Alsharif, Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, Michele Bazzana, Camille Besson & Shqipe Gashi, Cristina Bogdan & David Gibson, Lia Cecchin,
Federico Chiari, Marta Collini, Michele D'Aurizio, Andrea De Stefani, Francesca di Nardo, Priscila Fernandes, Chris Fite-Wassilak, Francesco Fonassi, Anna Franceschini,
Christian Frosi, Francesco Garutti,
Riccardo Giacconi & Andrea Morbio, Ilaria Gianni, Tommaso Isabella, Peter Miller, Margherita Moscardini, Estelle Nabeyrat, Parking Club,
Luigi Presicce, Sini Rinne-Kanto, Caterina Riva, Andrea Romano, Ben Russell, Davide Savorani, Sofia Silva, Barbara Sirieix, Davide Stucchi, Natsuko Uchino, Cecilia Valenti, Chiara Vecchiarelli, Adva Zakai,
Daniela Zangrando.
Diego Marcon (born 1985 in Busto Arsizio, Italy, lives and works in Paris) is a visual artist working mostly with
film and
video. His work is exhibited internationally (MADRE Museum, Naples, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; FID Marseille, Marseille; Fondazione Prada, Milan; Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore; La Triennale di Milano, Milan, MAXXI Museum, Rome; Centre international d'art et du paysage, Vassivière; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris...). In 2018, Marcon won the Foundation Hernaux Sculpture Award and the MAXXI Bulgari Prize 2018. His films have been screened in film festival including the International Rotterdam Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel, Paris, Courtisane, Gent, BFI, London, and doclisboa, Lisbon.
