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Eiko & Koma: This is your life (and work)
The Gradient
Jul 2012
Time is Not Even, Space is Not Empty is Eiko & Koma’s one-and-only compendium catalog. As such, it needed to embody the life and work of their prolific partnership. Extensive research into the ephemera of the artists’ forty-year career—program notes, flyers, performative and editorial photography, video, reviews, and letters—yielded many of the images in the book. The material also served as…
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Goshka Macuga and the Lost Forty
The Gradient
Jul 2012
In order to create the giant tapestry that was the centerpiece of Goshka Macuga: It Broke from Within, the artist, curator Bart Ryan, and I (staff photographer Cameron Wittig) headed up north to the Lost 40 to shoot the forest scene. Being an avid traveler of the state, I was excited and perplexed to learn of this mysterious new locale. Imagine – information about my own backyard found a circuitous…
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Open Field Badges
The Gradient
Jul 2012
Open Field, now in it’s third year, is a summer gathering place that brings together relaxation and imagination, recreation, and exploration. We invite the public to come up with their own programs or events and to host it at the Walker’s outdoor space, or to just come and hang out with us on the grove with some beer and brats. From conversation clubs and geodesic dome building, to analog…
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ROLU Residency: When Does Something Become Something Else? Reader
The Gradient
Jul 2012
As Part ofROLU‘s two week Open Field residency they produced/distributed this reader to add to the larger “collage” they (and the public) are working on. Alex DeArmond, the designer describes it as “a companion to the residency project – writings that either inspire or react to what they’re doing. Plus interviews with them where they talk about their work. Plus some quotes. And some images of the…
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Rock the Garden 2012 Graphic Identity
The Gradient
Jul 2012
Alex DeArmond: When we were developing the identity for this summer’s Rock the Garden we were interested in making a mark that would become a ubiquitous image—an abstract symbol that, through repetition and a range of applications, would take on a life of its own, embodying this iconic summer event in an unexpected way.
The design of the mark is intentionally obscure and a little enigmatic: a…