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 Sculpture, Performance, Printmaking, Video  Amy Franceschini + Michael Swaine  variable |
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  ERRATUM: Brief Interruptions in the Waste Stream, a letterpress-printed sculptural artists’ book is designed as a joined pair of wooden Egyptian brick molds. One contains a hand-made brick composed of toilet shards pulverized by the artists in a performance piece; the other holds a letterpress-printed book of cards with calls to reverse society’s erratum. Indoor plumbing and waste processing systems are targeted as objects of scrutiny and allegory in addressing the effects of waste on our ecology. Configured as a vessel for new ideas, self-reliance, and regeneration, ERRATUM is offered up by the artists as a “reverse ready-made” in one of the project’s many reverential nods to Marcel Duchamp. Deluxe 'Book + Brick' edition components on display in the SFCB gallery. Continuing the Duchampian reference, the artists designed ERRATUM’s trade edition as a letterpress-printed chessboard poster onto which a smaller sheet of 32 perforated ‘chess pieces’ is sewn. The double-sided 18″ x 24″ poster draws on the deluxe edition’s content, including writing contributions by Renny Pritikin, Director of the Richard L. Nelson Gallery and the Fine Arts Collection at the University of California, Davis. | |
