An artist book as an essay and an object

My Konstfack MFA essay as an artist book.

I am using the text as a vehicle to both make an object - a new piece of work - as well as an expansion and continuation of my solo show The Guards Have Folded.
The essay as an object is also my attempt at creating both text works and photo based elements that together seek to create a probe into the structures of cinematic language via non-linear presentations, and the printed publication as another a form of montagéd cinema.
It’s an experimentation in word and image.
This essay functions on several levels:
- As my master essay text.
- As an artist book and stand alone object.
- As a way to distill my artistic production during my time at Konstfack into new work and as a way to locate a working process: that in which existing work can be dissembled, re-thought and re-configured into new bodies of work.
The book/box is designed and conceptualized around the notion of the A4 format:
Folded A3 into three parts becoming A5.
Still images (A5) and text and image work as both A4 and folded A3 into A4.

The box consist of three parts:
1. Time/Code/Drift - A text work in essayistic form that attempts a non-linear writing on time and the expanded document as a way of investigating both a place and beyond – mixing small stories, magic connections, artistic propositions, MFA presentations, parenthood and process to reflect on this notion. Its a way of translating time and multiple narratives. Each text is presented as a standalone A4 print, making a predefined sequence inconsequential.
2. Folded Time - It’s a small gesture about duration, a creative process, questioning film and trying to fold time. Presented as a standalone work inside a slipcase which in turns is part of the box.
3. remove earth carefully. A slipcase-within-the-box, with still images from my visual excavations, the collecting and the process of my encounter with the site and with daily life. Re-photographed and re-processed. Or sometimes left as is. I want the images to be taken apart, to be held, to further make visible the images as my own artifacts, to degrade through time. Part of a forgotten archive. A forensic presentation.

Link to PDF of artist book and MFA essay: An artist book as an essay and an object