liquid memories
~to read with water
— A one-day event at Borough Rd Gallery and editorial lab for readers to create their own liquid memories edition
fluid archives
reading as assembling
editorial constellations
unbound publishing
images in circulation
collective editing
situated reading
material thinking
time-based publication
In May 2022, mobile strategies (of display & mediation, aka msdm) incubated and hosted a one-day event at the Borough Road Gallery, intersecting three experimental publishing projects – 'liquid memories,' 'road less travelled press vol.0/1' and 'photobook popup,' representing distinctive modes of collective publishing.
'Liquid memories ~ to read with water,' developed with 23 co-authors, through a commission and residency (Jan - Mar 2021), displayed the contributions in a live editorial lab installation. Visitors were invited to create their own ‘liquid memories,’ by selecting from the 55 unbound sections – including pamphlets, posters, cards and photographs – and compiling their customised photobook, an individual constellation of printed matter from the exhibition installation. Each reader took from 40 minutes to 2 hours to complete the process, which included creating the clear enclosure, printing it with a unique monotype of acrylic gold, folding and cutting specific sections, registering the edition number and signing their own “original copy.”
More about the publication here [+]
photographic documentation: dana mendonca (event views) + paula roush (installation views)