Speaking in Tongues Speaking Digitally / Digitally Speaking
Item date(s): 2009
David Paton S.J. Naude
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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
Additional notes: University of Kent entry PSC25
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.
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).