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colour, language, signal

time and possibility

as

interconnected fields of artistic research 

#colourtime  #colourlanguage  #timelanguage ...

artworks
painting, writing, calculating, sensing, transcoding

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installations
available, archive, in progress

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public art
public space, indoor, ongoing, proposals

LAb[au] Editions presents art in the form of publications. Many recent projects have generated libraries, archives, and cabinets whose conceptual frameworks rely on reproduction, iteration, seriality, and multiplication.

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Many of these works emerge from extensive processes of research and development. These processes often generate extensive series of results that require reproducible material forms—digital prints, photocopies, colour samples, index cards, folders, or other formats. In these formats, the underlying concepts find precise material expression. For some, the edition constitutes the very form through which the work exists.

 

LAb[au] Editions creates a dedicated field in which these works can be produced under viable conditions and circulated directly at accessible prices.

Through an autonomous structure of publication and distribution, LAb[au] Editions preserves the integrity of each work while remaining complementary to our collaborations with galleries.

 

The value of these artist books, monographs, multiples, and limited or open editions lies in their distinct material and conceptual qualities, in the knowledge and experience they make accessible, and in the engagement with our work and research that they enable.

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Made to circulate—to be read, handled, collected, and shared.

MetaDeSIGN monograph shown closed, with a circular colour-coded systems diagram on the cover.

MetaDeSIGN - catalogue

CATALOGUE

MetaDeSIGN - catalogue
monograph, signed
2010
Les presses du réel
 
Only a few copies remain
You can download the PDF version here -> 
 

  • Publication Details

    Year: 2010
    Format: 29.7 × 20.7 cm
    224 pages
    Publisher: Les presses du réel
    ISBN: 978-2-84066-404-8
    First edition of 1,000 copies
    Design and layout: LAb[au]

  • Description

    The first monograph by the Belgian interdisciplinary art studio LAb[au], MetaDeSIGN is an ambitious and highly visual book-object that maps the various fields explored by the collective. (architecture, urban planning, art, design, music, contemporary dance) and, through its very structure, reflects the method by which these fields are articulated both in theory (centred on a conception of space and information) and in practice through interactive installations, performance and audiovisual scenography.

     


    This volume presents a significant selection of the artistic projects realised since the collective’s foundation in 1997. The works are organised into six chapters, following the logic inherent in their production: generative, analytical, performative, reactive, interactive and connective systems.

     

    The theoretical texts provide an in-depth insight into systems art—spanning open and closed systems—as an expression of our times and the aesthetics of an information-based society.

  • Shipping

    Please allow up to two weeks before dispatch. Shipping costs are calculated according to destination. The publication is shipped in protective packaging.

€30.00Price
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