A subjective lexicon, proposing keywords for contemporary publishers and book freaks.
“There's more to life than books, but not much more,” says the song, with an inimitable, ambiguously seductive, voice. Åbäke, Corinn Gerber, Laure Giletti, Jp King, Chris Lee, Anouk Pennel, Patricia No, and Benjamin Thorel, all agree with this bold statement. As writers, publishers, printers, curators, graphic designers, researchers and many combinations of these disciplines, they are “making books”: engaging in the production, invention and circulation, in the selling and buying, writing and reading of paperbacks, catalogues, journals, 'zines, websites and text documents. Questioning the scope and value of this activity is what's at the core of this book that presents itself as a subjective lexicon, proposing keywords for contemporary publishers and book freaks.
This publication comes after the seminar “There's more to life than books, but not much more,” which was initiated by Art Metropole in Toronto, and curated by castillo/corrales, in May 2013.
Åbäke is a transdisciplinary graphic design collective founded in 2000 by Patrick Lacey, Benjamin Reichen, Kajsa Stahl and Maki Suzuki.
Corinn Gerber is co-founder of Passenger Books and is currently the director of Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada.
Laure Giletti is a graphic designer working between Paris and Brussels.
Jp King is a transdisciplinary artist, writer, designer, researcher and editor, basd in Toronto.
Chris Lee is a graphic designer based in Toronto.
Patricia No, writer and editor, is co-founder of Publication Studio in Portland, Oregon.
Anouk Pennel is a graphic designer based in Montréal, and a cofounder of the studio Feed, in 1999.
Benjamin Thorel is an art critic and curator, he is also one of the founding members of castillo corrales.
Edited by Corinn Gerber and Benjamin Thorel.
Texts by Åbäke, Corinn Gerber, Laure Giletti, Jp King, Chris Lee, Patricia No, Anouk Pennel, Benjamin Thorel.
Graphic design: Feed.
Published by Art Metropole (Toronto) and Publication Studio (Portland).
published in 2014
English edition
12,8 x 19,7 cm (softcover)
88 pages
ISBN : 978-2-918252-29-0
EAN : 9782918252290
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