‘745’ (2008) by Robin Waart.
All the exclamation marks (745) removed from a single copy of “Donald Duck”‘s weekly magazine.
‘Tien boeken (Ik hou van je)’ (2006) by Robin Waart.
A collection of ten books whose “publisher’s logo’s” form the Dutch ten letter sentence “Ik hou van je” – I love you.
(also see Nina Katchadourian)
‘1981-1987’ (2009) by Ištvan Išt Huzjan.
A book consisting of seven photographs, all taken on the 1st of june (the artist’s birthdate) between 1981 and 1987. By opening a page, a sound mechanism is triggered.
The sound files coincide with the dates of the photographs, playing number-one hit songs from that date.
‘Picturebook without pictures’ (2010) by Jasper Elings.
A book with a collection of ‘no image’ images found on the internet.
‘Einstein Rainbow 1’ (2009)
‘Every leaf from a tree’ (2009) by Aspen Mays.
The projects ‘Einstein Rainbow’ and ‘Every leaf on a tree’ by Aspen Mays are closely connected. For ‘Einstein Rainbow’ Mays collected every book about Einstein from all the college and university libraries of Illinois. She made a bookshelf in the shape of an arc and started to sort the books (over 1500) according to their color. Thinking about the linguistic connection between a leaf in a book and a leaf on a tree she decided, as a response to this project, to photograph every leaf on a tree next to her studio. This resulted in 900 prints of every single leaf. Both projects were presented together. See more images below.
Simon Faithfull, ‘Accident book’ (2009)
Accident Book is an intervention in eight Accident and Emergency wards across London and Cambridge. The book tells the story of 33 accidents that befell the writer over a period of 42 years.
From June 2009 onwards, people waiting for treatment, prognoses or friends, began to discover books lying amongst the copies of old magazines in these Accident and Emergency wards. The 500 copies of Accident Book distributed through these eight hospitals are each individually numbered and the finders of these books are encouraged to take them home but also to register them here.
Two examples:
John Körmeling, ‘everything you are without having to go to school’ (fragment) (1993)
Photograph of a page in the book ‘a good book’.
‘Mystic Truth (calling Bruce)’ (2007) by Barbara Visser.
Framed page from the 1991 telephone book of New Mexico, featuring the telephone number of artist Bruce Nauman.
Ryan Siegan-Smith
Ryan Siegan-Smith, ‘I don’t want to make a book’ (2007)
Not a book.
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