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Buy Land or Buy Sea
Author/s: K. Allerslev, R.Allerslev, M. Weber, C. K. Wilde
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Size: 20" x 13" x 3/4"
Pages: 36
A global compendium of text, image and material (dirt, water, metal, organic) samples gathered throughout the world over two years. Buy Land or Buy Sea affectively illuminates a monumental narrative of colonial history both libratory and oppressive while also constructing an oblique incantation of resistance activated with the reading of the book.Media: aspiration, drawing, mono-printing, painting, and rubbings, cayenne, curry powder, graphite, ink, tumeric, wax crayon and other media, various handmade papers. Binding by Christopher Wilde, with faux Mother of Pearl plastic, copper and aluminum inlays, with cover stove branding by Kurt Allerslev and Marshall Weber
Locations of material and matrix samplings:
The Library Way Title Plaque, at 41st and Fifth Ave., New York City provided the ubiquitous open book template.
Berlin, Germany
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Memorial, Kirche Platz
Dresden, Germany, various memorials
Liepzig, Germany, various memorials
London, England
Chelsea Arts Club
East London Station
Flor Kent's "Fur Das Kind" sculpture located outside Liverpool Station
Liverpool Station
Piccadilly Circle
plaque from a bridge over the Thames
Royal Air Force Memorial on The Strand
various edifices on The Strand
various War Memorials
Mokelumne Hill, California
49'ers plaque, Jewish Cemetery
Mokelumne Hill cemetery
various historical plaques
Montauk, New York
Percy Heath Memorial,
rock wall plaque Montauk Point Park
New York, New York
architectural plaques, Park Avenue, 42nd Street
Confucious Plaza Memorial
Library Way, 41st, Fifth Avenue
Paris, France
Modigliani's Grave Stone, Pre-Lachaise Cemetery
Orange, California
Various plaques, Chapman College
San Fransisco, CA
Rammaytush Tribe Memorial, Mission District
Washington DC
Einstein Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Organik is a collaborative group that creates books, paintings and installations in a unique, intimate, spontaneous and passionate mode of choreographed artmaking.
In the collection of the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuttel, Germany
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