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Speaking in Tongues
Speaking Digitally / Digitally Speaking

Item date(s): 2015

David Murray Paton - (book artist)
Heléne van Aswegen - (bookbinding by)

Pages: unpaged
Size: 167mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist and binder
Edition: #3/6

Type: Accordion fold - double sided

Place publication: Johannesburg
Publisher: Artists Book
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
This 2015 deluxe edition is printed and hand bound by Helene van Aswegen at TheBook Workshop, Stellenbosch South Africa.

The book is accompanied by a 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.

The first edition of this book was originally produced in 2009.

The book consists of a double sided open-spine accordion-fold binding with a separate custom-made box in which a flashdrive is embedded.

Typeset and hand letterpressed in Gill.

Exhibition notes:
'PRESCRIPTIONS: Artists’ Books on Wellbeing and Medicine'.

The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, Canterbury, Kent, UK.

21 April - 25 September, 2016

‘Booknesses: Contemporary South African Artist's Books’.

FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg.

Curated by David Paton and Eugene Hon.

24 March - 5 May 2017

'CODEX VII Book Arts Fair'.

Crainway Pavilion, Richmond, CA, USA.

3 - 6 February 2019