Black Book

Black BookBlack Book is an artists 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. The illustrations in Black Book are borrowed from a 15th century Confucian text titled Illustrated Conduct of the Three Bonds. The woodblock print book was first published in 1431 by the royal dynasty of the time, as part of an

Their creative trajectories and fieldwork in heterotopic wastelands are reflected in their journaling and a large amount of visual documentation

In Some Collages

which was illuminated and transcribed by a group of eight nuns at the Benedictine abbey of Munsterbilzen in Maastricht

Cumulating via oversea residency projects and local researches these years

Each page has been specifically designed: the paper type

concrete and visual poetry

The exhibition of the work is combined with an iconography that has been organized for the occasion

some are transformed into tourist attractions

Maria Barnas looks into the life and work of Cees Braakman (1917-1995)

this magazine is a willfully idiosyncratic and multi-faced attempt to approach this breach

palpable absences

as well as some shorter written pieces