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and here, / Katie Giritlian & Esteban Jefferson
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FA.B133.3152
56 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
2018
Family histories
Softcover. Single machine-sewn signature (Cataloger's note: we have been unable to identify an official name for this binding style; it consists of one signature with machine sewing along the spine) with soft raw-edge canvas cover. Contains screenshots of emails in which the creators share family anecdotes and photographs. Edition of 100. Issue 2 of the publication prompt:.
"and here, is a gesture of sharing. Sometimes an utterance, the phrase points toward amassed items, precious or not, wished to be brought into a conversation with another and, in turn, announced. Is collecting records contingent on the desire to relay?
We carried this conversation in anticipation of initiating or beginning again assemblies of our own archives— specifically of our family histories and those histories’ insertions into a larger social and political fabric. Our exchange, materialized in the form of a publication, can close and be held, or conclude, at the point of a new prompt:, where we resume gathering our respective records and modes of, and for, passing down."--Artists' statement
"This edition of 100 was printed for the second issue of prompt:, a publication initiated by Mira Dayal and Nicole Kaack. The launch event was held at CUE Art Foundation on October 26th, 2018. "--from publisher's website, accessed July 3, 2024
"prompt: is a collaborative artist publication directed by Nicole Kaack and Mira Dayal. Each collaboration includes artists who have not previously worked together and are chosen by Dayal and Kaack because of their mutual interests in a particular form of research or subject matter. Artists work together over a period of several months to produce a publication presented as a draft for further artistic research."--from publisher's website, accessed July 3, 2024
"and here, is a gesture of sharing. Sometimes an utterance, the phrase points toward amassed items, precious or not, wished to be brought into a conversation with another and, in turn, announced. Is collecting records contingent on the desire to relay?
We carried this conversation in anticipation of initiating or beginning again assemblies of our own archives— specifically of our family histories and those histories’ insertions into a larger social and political fabric. Our exchange, materialized in the form of a publication, can close and be held, or conclude, at the point of a new prompt:, where we resume gathering our respective records and modes of, and for, passing down."--Artists' statement
"This edition of 100 was printed for the second issue of prompt:, a publication initiated by Mira Dayal and Nicole Kaack. The launch event was held at CUE Art Foundation on October 26th, 2018. "--from publisher's website, accessed July 3, 2024
"prompt: is a collaborative artist publication directed by Nicole Kaack and Mira Dayal. Each collaboration includes artists who have not previously worked together and are chosen by Dayal and Kaack because of their mutual interests in a particular form of research or subject matter. Artists work together over a period of several months to produce a publication presented as a draft for further artistic research."--from publisher's website, accessed July 3, 2024
