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We are thrilled to announce that our Artbook The Feminine Sublime is ready ! And we want to celebrate it with you !
We encountered some problems while arranging the mass of six hundred speech bubbles. How do we want to organise them into a book? Do we select our favourite bubbles and highlight them? Should we divide them up thematically to maintain some sort of a narrative or simply embrace chaos and to hell with structure?
After some discussion we found it most important to stay true to the performance as it was in that action that these 600 speech bubbles have their source. Each speech bubble has a thought bubble inside of it. Why? Because we wanted to merge both. It is a discourse that searches for an alternative view in a dialogue. A thought process that can perhaps bolster us by pointing towards our commonality and faults, but at the same time deflate us just by doing so. This is why we felt we needed to include every written speech bubble - as if each one were a crucial link in a chain. The silliness in one sentence might in turn evoke a witty or a poetic response in another.
The book beholds pulsing texts by four wonderful humans that examine the notion of the feminine sublime all in their own manner. They are Christina Petkopoulou a curator based in Athens, Eva Rún Snorradóttir a writer and performing arts author based in Reykjavik, Iceland, Myrto Katsimicha a curator based in Αthens & Scarlett Platel a visual artist and curator based in Edinburg and London.
The book is designed by the miracle maker Dimitris Mitropoulos and printed in edition of 140 at FOTOLIO, Athens. Greece 2020. It became possible with the help of our dear comrads in LTD Ink Corporation Kevin Harman and Guy Titterington. The photographs in the book are by Steven Cook, Giannis Hariatidis & Aris Liaskos (Spacetime VR). The project is funded by Myndlistarsjóður, Myndstef and Muggur.
Note; If you are not able to make it to the launch you are able to get your copy by sending us an email to evaisleifs(at)gmail.com and we will ship it to you! The price for the book is 26 euros + shipping costs.