About this project
I have designed a 206 page, staple bound, 5-1/2 x 8" book which I have printed 20 copies of for a xerography exhibition titled 10-22-38 Astoria at Fictilis, an artist-ran curatorial project in Seattle. I need your help to print 300 more, which I will distribute to several small bookstores, libraries and at the Occupy Los Angeles encampment.
In this book, I have memorialized the gestures of distracted clerical workers, myself included, who have inadvertently inserted ourselves into the historical archive as embodied mistakes --disrupting the seamless translation of public domain texts into digital commodities as we insert our fingers into the margins. During breaks in my work at a library I've scanned a 1901 version of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "In Memoriam" and inserted a parallel message in American Sign Language. This finger spelling interprets notes of encouragement, taken from the Tennyson poem and Naomi Klein's address to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
To view more pages of the book, please go here
Thank you for checking this project out, and please be sure to review the prizes I'm giving away in exchange for your helpful contributions.
-- Danielle
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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on November 15, 2011.
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Thank you email with image from the book and updates of project progress.
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Xeroxed postcard of 2 pages from the book stamped with library due date
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10 pack of blank xeroxed postcards for you to send out to whomever you please, 1 postcard that is signed and stamped with library due date.
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One of a kind 8x10, signed cyanotype (blue print) with images from the book. Copy of the book.
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3 one of a kind 8x 10 signed blue prints and one special edition copy of the book with a blue print cover.
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1, one of a kind blue printed silk scarf, printed with with illustrations from a 1901 version of Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam, a copy of the book
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1, one of a kind blue print large wall hanging or duvet, printed with pages from the book. This will be made to your specifications, and can be large enough to cover a king sized bed, or to ornament a large section of your wall.
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My name is Danielle McCullough, I am an artist and a library employee. I have two cats, two dogs, and a one bedroom apartment that I share with one other person.
