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Thinking Machines v The Big Swap
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way as you judge, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." Matthew 7:13 To read too many books is harmful. Mao Zedong Getting your fair share is all about exchange. The relationship between the reader and the read is a tender one that requires an acute account of critical complicity, a measure of the type that might be normally associated with students and exams. This activity however is not compulsory, and for many of us, takes place in what may be termed ‘free time’. As a form of visual art practice, the ‘artist’s book’ has been kicking around for rather a long time. Livres d’artiste, or Künstlerbuch, is generally a very limited-edition, handmade book or folio constructed by an artist in response to an existing text; Picasso, Miró, Chagall and Rouault all made them. This was, and indeed still is, a regular mechanism of production for many practitioners, who want to retain a small and large audience at the same time, in the form of a profitable package. The term – livres d’artiste – when translated into English however –...
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