A BOOK ABOUT – WHAT’S MORE TO LIFE THAN BOOKS
with ÅBÄKE, CORINN GERBER, LAURE GILETTI, JP KING, CHRIS LEE, PATRICIA NO, ANOUK PENNEL and BENJAMIN THOREL
“There’s more to life than books, but not much more,” says the song, with an unmistakable, 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 artists, 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 book comes after the seminar “There’s more to life than books, but not much more”, which was initiated by Art Metropole in Toronto.
Co-published with Publication Studio and Art Metropole.
A Book About – There’s More To Life Than Books, 2014
Edited by Corinn Gerber, Benjamin Thorel
Authors: Åbäke, Corinn Gerber, Laure Giletti, Jp King, Chris Lee, Patricia No, Anouk Pennel, Benjamin Thorel
Designed by Feed
Texts in English
Printed on demand
at Publication Studio, Portland
Softcover, 88 pages. 12,8 × 19,7 cm
Stamped cover
ISBN : 978-2-918252-29-0
16 €
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