Durational Book was a collaborative project where designers and artists produced “expanded books”. It was produced as part of ISEA 2013 at the State Library of NSW.
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The Durational Book group is:
media artists Chris Caines and Megan Heyward; designer Zoë Sadokierski; photographer Jacquie Kasunic; and poet/essayist Astrid Lorange. They are linked by an appreciation of the interplay between word and image, audiovisual, networked and sculptural forms, and have come together to explore how their own practices might be extended through collaboration.
The first iteration of the Durational Book project was held at the State Library of NSW in June 2013, as part of ISEA2013. For a week, we set up camp in the Library’s Macquarie Room, exploring the idea of what a book is and might be, through a process of writing and making. Library visitors were invited to watch us working and ask questions.
The aim of the project was to expand the historical idea of the book beyond the codex to include all forms of contemporary media. The traditional paper book is beginning to recede, yet it leaves a legacy – a powerfully iconic form that echoes into other media.
For this project six artists are working from the rich archive of the State Library of NSW. The archive, a fertile, fictive space, facilitates the generation of a variety of speculative works investigating the library as a creative tool, and during the symposium the artists will add daily to the store of analogue and digital material, text, illustration, video and sound that will form the content of an expanded ‘book’.
