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One Voice in Four Parts

Item date(s): 1999

Chen Shi-zeng  - (performance artist)
Gunnar A. Kaldeway  - (published by)
Richard Tuttle  - (book artist)
Anne Waldman  - (text by)
Judi Conant  - (bookbinding by)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 305mm, oblong
Inscription: Signed by all participants


Place publication: Poestenkill, NY
Publisher: Edition Kaldewey
Volume 29

Additional notes:
15 deluse copies with a video tape of the original performance on May 1, 1999 in Poestenkill and a reading of two poems on CD by the poet. 55 regular copies. 6 copies hors commerce for the artists.

Silkscreen printing on Chinese paper by Frank Kicherer, Stuttgart.

Letterpress printing on handmade paper of the Kaldewey Press.

Red borders specially colored by Richard Tuttle.

Bindings and boxes by Judi Conant of Vermont.

"One Voice in four Parts.

Walking through Washington Square Park in 1990, instead o saying "goodbye" to Chen Shi-eng forever, I suggested we look for a way to make theater together. I had just done makeup and custumes for him in Santa Fe for "Kindness", written by my sife, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge.

"What is the Artist Book today?" "Much more than before", I answered Gunnar A. Kaldewey. "I want to make a book as theater; I want to explore and explode the genre", I said.

The poet, Anne Waldman, read her poem "Putting Maakeup on Empty Space" at the College of Santa Fe in 1997-98.

I finished the four designs.

May 1, 1999, Shi-zeng, Anne and I met at Gunnar A. Kaldewey's press in Poestenkill, New York. Anne gave lines to Chen. We had the services of Yang Gui Ying to do maeup. Chen reacted to each idea, then responded to it. All was video taped and recorded with still photos by Juan and Zuleika Falla. There wer many people involved in the whole production, but basically the book was to be a 4-part collaboration, one voice in four parts. (Richard Tuttle)

9 sheets of 3 differnet silk papers accordion folded, mounted so as to form an expandable lantern, printed with letterpress and silkscreen images. Oblong folio, laid into a board chemise and slipcase.

Signed by Tuttle, Waldman, Kaldewey and Chen Shi-zng.

Ref: GB/13383







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