Books

Hand Made and Bound
Small Publishers Fair
Playing with Words
Publish and be Damned
International Litter Exchange Bookartbookshop, 11-30 July 2008, 17 Pitfield street London N1 6HB


Brownsierra's international litter exchange project has developed into a series of books made from materials gathered from the streets and buildings of our immediate environment and arranged into sequential cut ups through the process of book binding.
The books are not only documents of a place but also of a time, the design, the shape of tickets, menus change when in different localities or when a new group of people move to an area, and new languages are introduced to public information leaflets, frequently changing.
The work reflects or observes the diversities within an area or locality. We like to investigate areas. we use telephone boxes as recording devices, making audio snapshots of places. We visit libraries places of civic access, using them as sources of material and information.
We are interested in the geography of a place, mapping areas. Looking at estates, parks, road networks, bus stops, park benches. The town, the borough, the ward. The structure of the area. How we travel through a place, walking cycle, bus. Our work is the residue of our movement in an area things we pick up, connections we make from how government works to what chip shops sell, from health care to how much litter there is on the streets.

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