Description
About this piece:
Arise by Any Other Name is the collaborative project of Servane Briand, Patrick Fenton, and Samuel Mignot. It is a serial artists’ book in twelve episodes.
Each person has a personal language, what George Steiner calls an “idiolect”; to work on a project together, and to experience it, is to translate. Arise is a reflection on how every book is constantly changing; that—as a post-modern Heraclitus might put it—you cannot step into the same book twice, but that this is fundamentally what makes books worth reading. Arise reflects on this tension: text is static and reproducible; what each of us adds and brings makes it alive.The three of us bring very different perspectives and expertise to this project; we work on all aspects of it together but let conversation, with its tangents and its intrigues, drive content. True to Steiner’s concept of translation, we have tried from the beginning to think of Arise as an exercise in translating our ideas and voices into a unique book art object.
Materials:
book board, book cloth, thread, ink, paper
About the artists:
Born in Paris, Servane Briand is a printmaker and book artist based in San Francisco. In 2019, she started the project Passages of Babel, an exploration of the space in-between idiolects, a collaborative project on language, poetics and translation
Patrick Fenton is a Bay Area-based artist, designer, and educator whose work delves into the intersections of time, place, identity, transformation and interfaces. He is passionate about the role of visual maker spaces and print as catalysts for building creative communities and sparking self-expression
Samuel Mignot is a writer and programmer interested in how digital processes influence and change how we engage with and create art
