Shroud: A Piece of Fabric Sewn To A Piece of Paper By Way of a Map
Jen Hofer & Jill Magi, USA
| Shroud: A Piece of Fabric
Sewn To A Piece of Paper By Way of a Map;
Jen Hofer and Jill Magi, Los Angeles and Chicago, USA, January 2013 Shroud: A Piece of Fabric Sewn To A Piece of Paper By Way of A Map by Jen Hofer and Jill Magi responds to al-Mutanabbi Street's history by attempting to map violence and resiliency in our own context: capitalism versus gift economies, surveillance and standardization versus art, censorship versus conversation. The hand-stitched muslin squares reproduced in the book were passed across the kitchen table and then through the mail between Los Angeles and Chicago. The essay-poem was written collaboratively via email. We offer visitors to exhibits of An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street a copy of this book as a gift. Dimensions: Books: 8 1/2" x 11" inside 9 5/8" x 11 3/4" envelope. Shroud: approx, 31" x 45" Medium: Unbleached muslin, standard-issue office supply paper and envelopes, Neenah Paper cover stock (color: “Desert Storm”), adhesive, embroidery thread. Jen Hofer is a Los Angeles-based poet, translator, social justice interpreter, teacher, knitter, book-maker, public letter-writer, urban cyclist, and co-founder of the language justice and literary activism collaborative Antena. Her latest translations include the homemade chapbook En las maravillas/In Wonder (Libros Antena/Antena Books, 2012) and Ivory Black, a translation of Negro marfil by Myriam Moscona (Les Figues Press 2011). Her recent and forthcoming books are available from a range of small presses, including Action Books, Atelos, Dusie Books, Insert Press, Kenning Editions, Litmus Press, Palm Press, and Subpress. She teaches poetics, translation and bookmaking at CalArts and Otis College. jenhofer@gmail.com http://antenaantena.org/en/ Jill Magi works in text, textile, and image. She is the author of Threads, Torchwood, Cadastral Map, and SLOT, as well as numerous handmade books. Visual work has been exhibited at Columbia College, The Textile Arts Center, the Brooklyn Arts Council, and apexart. Her essays on art, writing, and culture have been published in The Brooklyn Rail, The Eco-Language Reader, and Letters to Poets. An extended essay on a text-image theory/curriculum is forthcoming from Furniture in Motion/Rattapallax in 2013. She teaches at Goddard College, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Columbia College. jillmagi@gmail.com https://sites.google.com/site/jillmagi/ |