Simon Faithfull, Explaining Taxonomy to a Bird > Project

Hardcover
English language
18cm x 24.5cm
40 pages
18 colour photographs, 15 black and white illustrations
ISBN 978-3-00-065778-8

€ 15, incl. VAT and delivery within the E.U.^*

Explaining Taxonomy to a Bird documents Simon Faithfull's 2019 exhibition An Arbitrary Taxonomy of Birds at the Natural History Museum Berlin. Faithfull's alternative classifications mischievously disrupt the established Linnaean naming and ordering system which Faithfull suggests is an extension of mankind's "deranged and obsessive attempt to catalogue all life on Earth." 

Texts by Ruth Garde and Simon Faithfull.

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Simon Faithfull, Does the World Exist When I'm Not There? > Project

Hardcover, step-stitched spine
English language
17.5cm x 24cm
24 pages
2 black and white illustrations, 14 colour photographs
ISBN 978-3-00-055136-9

€ 12, incl. VAT and delivery within the E.U.^*

Does the World Exist When I'm Not There? features Simon Faithfull's Going Nowhere Trilogy 1995–2016, with an essay by Joy Sleeman. A series of three journeys, the trilogy's seminal piece was filmed in Oxfordshire, the two subsequent works were filmed in the North Sea and at the bottom of the Adriatic Sea respectively.

Texts by Simon Faithfull and Joy Sleeman.

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Simon Faithfull, Accident Book > Project

Hardcover
English language
17cm x 23cm
76 pages
33 black and white illustrations, 1 colour photograph
ISBN 978-3-00-027675-0

€ 20, incl. VAT and delivery within the E.U.^*

Accident Book is a list of artist Simon Faithfull’s most memorable mishaps and accidental experiences.

The original copies of Accident Book were left in the waiting rooms of Accident and Emergency departments in major hospitals across London and Cambridge. Readers were encouraged to take the books away with them and register the reason for their own visit to the A&E department on the Accident Book web page (www.simonfaithfull.org/accidentbook).

Written and illustrated by Simon Faithfull.

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Simon Faithfull, Lost > Project

Hardcover
English language
17cm x 23cm
56 pages
48 colour photographs, 2 black and white photographs
ISBN 3-00-018660-3

€ 20, incl. VAT and delivery within the E.U.^*

Lost is an inventory of missing things, which renowned artist Simon Faithfull has mislaid over a period of 39 years. A simple but extensive inventory, Lost is a book that catalogues these objects and the strange, sometimes poignant and sometimes humorous stories of their individual departures.  

In June 2006, Lost was deliberately left around the town of Whitstable, on the south-east coast of England. The publication appeared each day on benches, in pubs, by the seashore and on the various forms of public transport that were leaving the area.

These original 500 copies of Lost were individually numbered and finders were encouraged to record their discovery on a website before releasing the book back into the world. To see the surprisingly global paths that this first release of books made, please visit www.simonfaithfull.org/lost

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Aï Kitahara, Works 1992–2005 > Project

Paperback with flaps
bound in sections
French, English and Japanese language
17cm x 24cm
128 pages
112 colour photographs
ISBN 3-00-017487-7

€ 25, incl. VAT and delivery within the E.U.^*

This award winning trilingual publication presents the work of franco-japanese artist Aï Kitahara, renowned for her ‘traps’. The sandpaper trap lurking beyond the die cut cover is derived from Kitahara’s installations.

Detailed photographic documentation of key works are supported by texts by Jean-Charles Agboton-Jumeau, Fumihiko Sumitomo, and a conversation between Ronald van de Sompel and Aï Kitahara.

 

Awards

The American Institute of Graphic Arts Awards 2006, certificate of excellence and exhibition

Brno Biennale of Graphic Design 2008, exhibition

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Chantal Akerman, Neben seinen Schürsenkeln in einem leeren Kühlschrank laufen > Project

Hardcover with gauze jacket
German language
17cm x 24cm
62 pages (japanese block binding)
black and white reproductions
ISBN 978-3-9808646-8-8

€ 20, incl. VAT and delivery within the E.U.^*

This book accompanied film maker Chantal Akermans’s installation at the Jewish Museum Berlin. ‘To walk next to one’s shoelaces in an empty fridge’ is a two room piece. In the first, text fragments are projected onto a gauze spiral. In the second, a two panelled short film is shown in which Akerman and her mother examine diary entries written by Akerman's maternal grandmother as a young girl who later perished in Auschwitz.

The mother-daughter conversation shifts from vivid memories of the camp, which Akerman's mother survived, to the present day, in which her mother joyfully states: 'I am so happy to have lived to see this day.'

With an introduction by Cilly Kugelmann and essays by Amy Taubin and Edna Moshenson, the book includes a transcript of the piece, as well as film stills and installation photographs, features japanese block bound pages and a specially produced gauze dust cover.

 

Awards

Brno Biennale of Graphic Design 2008, exhibition

The American Institute of Graphic Arts Awards 2008, certificate of excellence and exhibition

German Institute of Book Design 2007, commendation

“This book was both a joy and a surprise.” German Institute of Book Design

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Henley Halebrown Rorrison > Project

Cloth bound hardcover
Introduction text in English, German and Spanish
14,85cm x 21cm
52 pages
19 colour, 2 black and white photographs and illustrations
ISBN 978-3-00-031110-9

This first survey of the highly regarded London based architectural practice features key schemes, principal biographies, a selected bibliography and press quotations. 

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