SLOT

(2018)

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Slot is an artist’s book that blurs, conceals and reveals, an interactive reading experience that taps into the various perspectives of members of the creative community at the American Academy in Rome. There, Fellows, as well as Rome-based artists and writers, were asked to pause and reflect upon the themes of privacy and matters unspoken. In developing a graphic language to convey these themes, and dwell upon the thresholds between public and private. Mail slots, which beckon passersby to imagine private realms hidden from prying eyes, shutters, and painted urban walls offered conceptual and format elements in visual collages and motifs that echo throughout the book. The title of the book, slot, deliberately suggests, not only these physical thresholds, but also gaps in social intercourse that trigger conversations.

Contributors: Chiara Barzini, Sanford Biggers, Alessandro Cicoria, Brandon Clifford, Alessandro Di Pietro, Allen Frame, Ash Fure, Aroussiak Gabrielian, Valeria Giampietro, Sean Gullette, Joanna Klink, Antonella Lattanzi, Johanna Lobdell, Kevin Moch, Matteo Nucci, and Arnisa Zeqo.

Risograph printed in collaboration with Jo Frenken at Charles Nypels Lab at Jan van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands (Maastricht, Netherlands).

Enclosed in a custom case made by John Demerritt Bookbinding (California). Edition of 60

12.5 x 17in closed

ISBN 0-998237-6-5