Im Besengebiet / Field of Brooms

Im Besengebiet / Field of BroomsIn the Bernese Oberland and other places throughout Switzerland, women make hand brooms from moor grass. Similar brooms are to be found in countries such as Greece, Spain, China, India and Ghana, as well as on the Cook Islands. The oldest examples, more than 3000 years old, are from Egypt. Given that the material used seems to be of no value, the artistry with which these everyday objects are made is astonishing. This richly illustrated book explores

and the natural world becomes an extension of the body

embrace constituencies and collective creativity (2011-ongoing)

including blackletter capitals and a different name – Matthias Claudius – a discovery that led to a revision and digital revival

Black Book is an artist’s book that joins two distinct threads of disparate cultures and histories — Confucian virtues and black humour — inquiring into contemporary ideologies such as patriarchy and technological determinism

Historical Note: In 1976

induced us to exhibit and publish the photographs of the provincial roads in Limburg during all four seasons which Werner Mantz

The book is not a record of the exhibition

Following the inexorable pull of tradition

Besides rethinking archival practices in case studies from the National Collection

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Translated by Allison Markin Powell

it still provides us with productive tools for the contemporary research in the associated fields of speech