23 | hans overvliet | the book | Juxtapose - Aarhus - Denmark
The configuration is a so called clamshell box, provided with a dust jacket with a ton sur ton print of the title and the name of the author on the front. On 100 pages, a grid is printed. Separately supplied are 1,000 stickers with the 1,000 explo-sions / clouds, super imposed with their unique military loca-tion codes.
The strategy is that in a number of art/book related spaces across Europe, in each place I, together with 4 other persons, as a kind of performance, assemble the 1.000 stickers into our own 'books', thus cocreating 5 new pieces of art. This might take 2 or 3 days to complete the ‘book’.
So, participants purchase their own ‘book’ on site and he / she composes there and then her / his own unique 'book'.
Performance and book are therefore essentially interconnec-ted: the visitor is given the opportunity to be the co-creator of a new piece of art.
