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WT Best Books 2009: Mapping the library
Project by: Werkplaats Typografie
Designer: various
Pages: 64
Format: 298 x 420 mm mm
Year: 2010
Price: € 10,00
Concept and supervision: Experimental Jetset. With contributions by: Simone Koller, Lidia Wilkosz, Ines Cox, Astrid Seme, Gregory Dapra, Hyo Kwon, Lu Liang, Stephen Serrato, Anna Haas, Marc Hollenstein, Julie van Severen, Joris van Aken, Boris van den Eynden, Dries Wiewauters, Isabelle Vaverka, Annett Höland, Goda Budvytyte
MAPPING THE LIBRARY is the outcome of a workshop conducted by Experimental Jetset at Werkplaats Typografie, May – June 2010, part of the annual Best Books project at WT. Participants were asked to turn their favourite books 2009 into maps; consequently, formal connections among the selected books were made that in turn resulted in a giant 16-piece collective map. Working with the format of the newspaper, every student was given one sheet. The inside spread was used for the individual maps, the cover for the part of the collective map showing the chosen book. The back gave information about the book and allowed students to explain their interpretation.
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Way Down West
Project by: Victoria Lum
Designer: Victoria Lum
Pages: 192
Format: 110 x 180 mm
ISBN: 9789491003134
Year: 2024
Price: € 15,00
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Featuring research by film archivist, Didi Yitong Liang, Way Down West offers an entry point into wider discussions of how film curation and changing technological practices are shaping film archives. Liang’s text examines the tinted silent film’s unique journey, which illustrates the transnational character of all film objects, whether their story is as already multifaceted as Way Down West’s or yet to be unfurled. From the film’s premiere in Shanghai in 1927, through its re-editing and screening in 1920s and 1930s Europe, to its entry into—and being forgotten amid—the collection of Eye Filmmuseum, the first decades of Hou Yao’s film followed a path familiar to many films. It is a case that proves that the selections of film curators and institutional directors are critical in shaping not only film archives, but film history at large. These decisions are increasing critical in an oversaturated information age where curation and selection, with appropriate context and historical fidelity, provide the foundation for cultural discussion, exchange, and innovation.
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Key and Kitchen. the Essentials of a Post-Graduate Design Education
Project by: ArtEZ Institute of the arts
Designer: Lu Liang
Year: 2010
Price: € 7,00
This publication is produced as part of State of ArtEZ 2010 and dedicated to Willem Hillenius, former chairman of the Board of Directors.
Image caption: A photograph taken in 1998 shows walls of the Werkplaats Typografie painted white and entirely clean except for the odd graphic interjection such as an isolated poster or a series of black elastic bands hung on hooks. Twelve years later, the same surfaces are dense with marks, both accidental and deliberate. Inscriptions made at the outset have been absorbed or obliterated by subsequent accretions.
Concentrating on details, this series of photographs raise questions about the provenance of particular stains. Each one tells a story. The phrase is˜if these walls had ears”, but in the case of the WT, the generations of students have given their walls a graphic voice. -
A Supplement. A project by Eva Schippers
Project by: Dutch Art Institute Enschede / DAI, CasCo
Designer: Lu Liang
Format: 170 x 245 mm
Year: 2010
Price: € 7,00
This publication was conceived as a supplement to the forgotten life of Eva Schippers, showing the parts of an artistic practise that are seldom exposed; failures, unfinished ideas, stolen sentences, unwritten stories. These fragments are collected and spread over five posters in chronological order; starting with the most recent finds and then going back in time untill 1997, the year when I started collecting to remember. It consists of approximately 480 images. Images to be remembered, reused and appropriated. With the contribution of the writer Maria Barnas, reflecting upon the affect of collecting and archiving, the Black and Blues is the first supplement. It is a transient attempt to display a complete collection of ideas and a practise that is always in motion, by marking this moment.
The Publications Project is a collection of artist books issued by the Dutch Art Institute and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie.
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Downey’s Ordinary Talking. Yunjoo Kwak
Project by: DAI / Dutch Art Institute, Yunjoo Kwak
Designer: Isabelle Vaverka, Lu Liang
Pages: 60
Format: 135 x 210 mm
ISBN: 9789490294311
Year: 2011
Price: € 7,00
The publication uses the format of a leporello and presents two essays and the documentary transcription of the Downey’s Ordinary Talking, a film project from Korean artist Yunjoo Kwak.