Book. Edition 300. 200 Pages. Soft cover with dust jacket. Offset. 21,5 x 28,5 cm. English. ISBN 978-91-981854-1-6
Peo Olsson & SANY
Framework: An archive holds an inherent duality. It organizes and categorizes to immortalize, at the same time as it internalizes and hides. A museum is dismantled and finds its terminal storage. A view of the world and its conventional figure is dissolved. The power over our history, and hence our future, lies in how we handle and make use of communal archive systems. An explosive force, created by rearrangements of these archive materials, can displace courses of events, unobtrusive as well as decisive. Consequently, certain collations alter our collective memories, affecting the writing of history as well as power relations.
The book features two essays:
“Posthuman. Shadows of Modernity.” by Arno Böhler.
“Mal d´Archive. To Mythologize the Past.” by Mattias Winslow.
Participants:
Samuel Nyholm (SANY) is a Swedish graphic designer and illustrator. Formerly part of the Swedish graphic design studio Reala. Selection of clients and collaborators include Tate Etc., Cornel Windlin, Kunsthalle St Gallen, Eric Steinbrecher, Svenska Filminstitute, Vitra, Absolut Vodka, Cneai, Tensta Konsthall, Svenska Dagbladet, Die Zeit, der Spiegel and others. As an illustrator, his works have been exhibited in Kunsthalle St Gallen, Kino Babylon in Berlin, Nieves/Corner College in Zürich, MoMA PS1 in New York, Art Basel, Copenhagen Art Fair and the Brno Biennale.
In 2012 he was appointed Professor of Illustration in HfK, Bremen. He is a frequent guest tutor and critic at various art schools, such as Konstfack and The Royal University of Fine Arts in Stockholm, HDK in Gothenburg, ECAL in Lausanne, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam and Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem.
Arno Böhler works at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria.
Mattias Winslow is a librarian at the Nynäshamn Municipal Library, Sweden.
Graphic Design: Jonas Williamsson. Print: Narayana Press.
Publisher: Null & Void Books
Released September 12th 2014 at Immigration Office, Bremen, Germany.