Henie Onstad Art Centre Book
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The Henie Onstad Art Centre has a unique history of pioneering cross-artistic activities in Norway such as performance, dance and music. We were asked to design and edit a book about the history of the art centre’s cross-artistic activities from 1968 to the present, in conjunction with the first Høvikodden LIVE event in 2007.
We set out to do something that reflected the performative aspect of the content, and decided to use the PenJet to write numbers from 68 through to 07. We also had a PenJet running live at the opening of the event, enabling the public to witness the process.
The book starts with a near complete list of all the events that have taken place at the art centre. Further on, it contains a chronological selection of visual material from the art centre’s archive, as well as texts discussing various aspects of the art-centre’s past and present.
The book is bilingual, and in answer to the problem of having to show the same imagery twice, we decided to cut off the outer margin of the English pages, which would have contained part of the images. This also makes it easier for the readers to browse the book.
The book was awarded gold in the Norwegian Visuelt Prize.