Bound Japanese style onto plastic strips.

Reference note:
Franz Schubert first wrote a song called 'Die Forelle', based on a poem of the same name by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart. Schubert was later commissioned to turn it into a piece of chamber music, which resulted in the 'Trout Quintet' (1819). Traditionally, bamboo strips are written on in a vertical direction, as is typical in China and Japan. In this work, Golde, Gunnesch and Ota go against this norm and use the lyrics of Schubart's The Trout, written in German, in a horizontal format. As a result, the mutual progression of structure and content literally plays and intersects, opening up possibilities for new approaches to books and typography. The poem, printed across the pages made of thirty-four laminated cardboard strips and held together by two rows of thread, wriggles in one’s hands like a fish and flows over them like a stream. Likewise, the flipping, slipping and shuddering of 'Die Forelle‘s' pages re-create the trout in the brook.

Exhibition notes:
Gaia: Dialogue between the book arts, natural sciences & plant humanities. JBCBA, WAM. Curated by David Paton & Ciara Struwig. 16 September – 12 December 2025

Ref: GB/14795