Publisher's Synopsis
An original artist book collaboratively conceived by Tamy Ben-Tor, Miki Carmi and designer Joel Brenden.
ARCHIVE: TAMY BEN-TOR & MIKI CARMI is an image-heavy book with a starting point of either cover. The narrative record of each of the artists' individual practices begins at the outermost edges and builds inwardly together, collapsing time and blending ideologies and artworks at the center, symbolizing a formalization of their collaboration. Book designer Joel Brenden, through close collaboration with the artists, has crafted a visceral tactic that prompts the viewer to interact with the book in multi-directional, sometimes disorienting angles, leading to a challenging of thought, culminating in Ben-Tor and Carmi's central intentionality.
ARCHIVE: TAMY BEN-TOR & MIKI CARMI is a book about making a book, a book within a book, and a book of artifacts and mark making. Accumulated process-based work, floor photographs, finished paintings, sketches, video stills, studio character shots, varied and fragmented texts, manifestos, performance texts, and un-performed texts and rants were all orchestrated chronologically and transferred from the artists to the designer.
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Jewish Studies. Collaboration.
