Speaking in tongues : speaking digitally

Personal Author: Paton, David, book artist

Edition: Deluxe edition

Publication Information: Stellenbosch, South Africa : TheBookWorkshop, 2015

Publication: Stellenbosch, South Africa : TheBookWorkshop, 2015

Physical Description: unnumbered pages : illustrations (colour), photographs (colour); 110 mm x 160 mm + book case and 8GB USB drive.

General Note: Artists' book

Title, artist and publication details taken from book.

Artist's website: www.theartistsbook.org.za

Beaney exhibition number: 76.

'This book is number 4 of 6'

HP USB flashdrive contains accompanying video.

'The reader is encouraged to view the video whilst reading the book so as to reflect upon differences in tempo and duration in each of the two narratives' -- preface.

Historic note: Prescriptions: artists' books on well-being and medicine page 75.

Abstract: Synopsis 'In this artist's book I explore the passing of time, aging and the complexities of communication through the depiction of, one one side of the leporello format, my young son's subtly moving hands whilst playing an online game (Digitally Speaking) and, on the other side, my aged mother's remarkably expressive hands whilst recounting stories from her youth (Speaking Digitally). The book (with accompanying video) explores the temporal and spatial gap between youth and old age, the stories which exist in between and the skin as an index of the passing of time, ageing and memory.' -- Exhibition catalogue.

Source of acquisition: David Paton donation

Binding: Deluxe edition, printed and hand bound by Helene van Aswegen at TheBookWorkshop, Stellenbosch South Africa. Double-sided open-spine accordion-fold binding with custom-made box and embedded flash drive. Printed with Epson UltraChrome inks on Innova Smooth Cotton High White 220gsm paper.

Subject Term: Ageing, Older people in art, Memory in art, Time in art, Hand in art, Communication in art, Narrative art

Genre: Artists' books

Added Author: van Aswegen, Helene, binder.

Contributor: Prescriptions: Artists' Books Collection

Classmark: PSC25