![]() ![]() The artists’ practices and the book equally speak to the changes that happen over time: to photographs, to faces, to ideology. ![]() Archive also holds its share of the “readymade:” primary source selections such as 1930’s German Anti-Semitic posters, film stills from “ The Eternal Jew,” and racial studies from Hans Gunther’s books of the 1930’s. Brenden then translated these pieces into Archive, with sensitivity and understanding of the nature of book making and the book as precious object. Accumulated process-based work, floor photographs, finished paintings, sketches, video stills, studio character shots, varied and fragmented texts, manifestos, performance texts, and un-performed texts and rants were all orchestrated chronologically and transferred from the artists to the designer. ![]() Jointly, Archive is a book about making a book, a book within a book, and a book of artifacts and mark making. Within these texts, the content intentionally destabilizes the reader, never affirming any particular manner as “correct.” Book designer Joel Brenden, through close collaboration with the artists, has crafted a visceral tactic that prompts the viewer to interact with the book in multi-directional, sometimes disorienting angles, leading to a challenging of thought, culminating in Ben-Tor and Carmi’s central intentionality. Both the tome structure and the embedded texts function to shift points of view for both reader and authors. The narrative record of each of the artists’ individual practices begins at the outermost edges and builds inwardly together, collapsing time and blending ideologies and artworks at the center, symbolizing a formalization of their collaboration. The book manifests in physical form the progression of Ben-Tor and Carmi’s work and the development of their interrelated practices, with Carmi’s images and Ben-Tor’s texts and video stills. Minerva Projects is delighted to publish their second book: Archive: Tamy Ben-Tor & Miki Carmi.Īrchive: Tamy Ben-Tor & Miki Carmi is an image-heavy book with a starting point of either cover. ![]()
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