Bookworks
As we have developed a method and an aesthetic sense for working together, we have been influenced more by the materiality and content of books than by any works of visual art, music, film, or theatre. This doesn’t mean that we don’t think of our work in the context of other artists who may be a part of our ‘genealogy’ such as Frances Stark, Ryan Gander, Marcel Broodthaers, Helen Mirra, Brad Adkins, or David Bunn. It means that the sound of a sentence, the look of a paragraph, the scaffolding of the book—these structures form the base of thought for what we create.
We want our work to function like the phenomena of the library: to “grow among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; [to be] born and take shape in the interval between books.”* This collection of works made with, from, and about books includes texts of bound carbon paper, copies, and co-opted titles.
Various Bookworks
2009-2010
*Michel Foucault. “Fantasia of the Library.” Language, Counter-memory, Practice. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977), 90-91.
