ReStart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cummins, Maureen, book artist.

Contributor:

Cummins, Maureen, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Iraq--Social conditions.

Refugees.

Refugees--Social conditions.

Iraq.

Genre:

hinges (hardware)

aluminum (metal)

tracing vellum.

typewriting.

artists' books (books)

Artists' books.

Cut-ups (Literature)

Physical Description:

65 unnumbered pages ; 23 x 30 x 1 cm

Other Title:

Re-start

Place of Publication:

[New York] : [Maureen Cummins], 2021.

Summary:

"In this collaboration with Iraqi artist and educator Yaroub Al-Obaidi, Cummins was drawn to cold, manufactured materials and processes--aluminum covers, vellum pages, typewritten text--to represent the experience of wartime displacement and resettlement. The project is based on an interview that Cummins conducted in 2018 with Al-Obaidi, in which he described his experience of being resettled in multiple countries, including the United States. Al-Obaidi likened the process of a computer that is broken and has to be restarted again and again. Inspired by this analogy, Cummins played with Al-Obaidi's text--breaking it, rearranging it, and repeating sections again and again, creating in the reader a mounting sense of frustration that only begins to mimic the author's experience."-- Artists' prospectus

Notes:

"Typewritten text on tracing paper, bound into aluminum covers, edition of 10, variously sized"--Woodstockart.org

OCLC:

1282646624