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Speaking in Tongues
Speaking Digitally / Digitally Speaking

Item date(s): 2009

David Paton
S.J. Naude - (produced by)

Medium: Paper
Size: 100mm, oblong
Binding: Wrap-around - black
Technique: Digital print
Inscription: Inscribed and dated by the artist.
Edition: One of three copies and one Printers Proof

Type: Accordion fold

Place publication: [Johannesburg]
Publisher: The artist

Reference note:
185 page accordion-fold book with black fabric covers. The book is divided into two chapters: 'Speaking Digitally' and 'Digitally Speaking'. The binding allows the book to be opened in any combination of pages, from a double page spread to a range of pages from each of the two chapters simultaneously or even in its entirety.

The edition of 3 books is accompanied by a 15:42 minute video on DVD of two pairs of hands from which the book was derived.

Book: produced by S.J. Naude, printed by CDS and bound by Bookbinding Creations and S.J. Naude.

Video: shot by David Paton, editing and postproduction by Tengiwe Nkosi

Exhibition notes:
Included on the exhibition 'Transgressions and Boundaries of the Page', exhibited at WOORDFEES 2010. Archive Room in JS Gericke Library, University of Stellenbosch, 1st - 6th March 2010; The Gallery of the North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 15th April - 13th May 2010; the FADA Gallery, Faculty of Art Design and Architecture, University of Johannesburg, 12th - 30th July 2010.

Exhibited at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Fourth International Biennale for the Artist's Book 22 April - 22 May 2010 (without video).

Ref: DP/0175