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Memory Life Manual Index

Item date(s): 2021

Denise Bookwalter
Aaron Cohick
Tricia Treacy
Georges Perec  - (inspired by)
Jay Fox  - (production by)
A. B. Gorham  - (production by)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 362mm
Language: English
Edition: #11/24


Place publication: Florida
Publisher: Small Craft Advisory Press, Facility for Arts Research, Florida State University

Additional notes:
A collaboration between Denise Bookwalter, Aaron Cohick, and Tricia Treacy for Small Craft Advisory Press during 2015–2021­, with numerous interruptions.

Inspired by Life: A User’s Manual, by Georges Perec.

Drawings based on objects from the novel, lists of memories and former homes, lists of objects on kitchen tables, and drawings based on lists.

Wood “type” blocks of the generated text and images were printed on a gridded press bed in an improvisational composition.

An alphabetical index printed on translucent red paper in stored in a cavity inside the back cover.

Heavy double pages are glued together at the fore edge.



Ref: GB/30405



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