The Art Project: Tuchfuhlung / Elke Nord, Ann Noel, Rosemary Jarman

Identifier:FA.SA1.1566

Dimensions:10.5 x 10 cm

also created by: Ann Noel, Rosemary Jarman

Subjects: Japanese paper, artists' books, color prints

Description:Black plastic spiral binding. Summarizes an "exchange as art event" staged in February 1997 in front of a church in Langenberg, Germany. Includes statements from each artist in the NO NO JA collective. Includes the exchange offering of one of the artists, Ann Noel: a Japanese stamp print in orange on cream-colored Japanese handmade paper, mounted at page [7], signed and dated 1995. "When we were invited to take part in the project TUCHFUHLUNG (physical contact), an old idea of mine came to mind, that of exchange as art event ... My intention is to encounter someone, to enter into a conversation with him or her, and to exchange art of a personal treasure"--Page [6].