We have officially launched Chapter Five with artists and researchers Thom Bridge (SE/UK) @thom_bridge and Taisuke Koyama (JP) @taisuke_koyama 🔥🔥🔥
𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙁𝙞𝙫𝙚: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 & 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 is now live on our website and gives an insight into the pair's conversations during the last 6 months, their process, research and new collaboration: The City & The City. Additionally, you are able to get your hands on the coinciding artist book with the same title, published by Surface Editions (@surface.editions ), at Bound Art Book Fair (@boundartbookfair ) at The Whitworth (@whitworthart ) in Manchester, UK (30–Nov–1 Dec).
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These are some photos of their book The City of The City, read and explore more online and at @boundartbookfair !👌
Repost @thom_bridge : You can now find copies of The City & The City @tpgbookshop in London. Made in collaboration with @taisuke_koyama the book is the first interation of a dialogue between us initiated by @_chapters___ and published by @surface.editions . Great to bump into Forest Hill neighbour @sayako_sugawara too! Thank you to Martin at TPG and @anti_foto .
The City & The City is a recursive photographic exchange between artists and researchers Thom Bridge (SE/UK), living and working between London and Manchester, and Taisuke Koyama (JP), living and working in Tokyo. Their collaborative dialogue playfully explores the surfaces of the artists’ three home cities, including a recent pastel shift found in colour palettes, stationary, anime characters and art supplies.
With fast, lo-fi printing, inverted images of the cities’ renewal, demolition and reconstruction are transferred on to cheap paper, and the city as we know it—created by a mix of societal needs and desires through urban planning—emerges as an infinite array of irreversible surfaces. Even if the prints were to be reversed, the reality of the city wouldn’t return. It may only exist as an image in our imaginations.
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The City & The City by @thom_bridge and @taisuke_koyama is now available to buy on our website - link in bio!
The City & The City is a recursive photographic exchange between artists and researchers Thom Bridge (SE/UK), living and working between London and Manchester, and Taisuke Koyama (JP), living and working in Tokyo. Their collaborative dialogue playfully explores the surfaces of the artists’ three home cities, including a recent pastel shift found in colour palettes, stationary, anime characters and art supplies.
The images in The City & The City focus not on specific places, but the cyclical scenes of assembly, scrapping, upheaval, displacement, landscaping and regeneration commonly seen across, around and in-between sites of newly built streets, in seemingly endless construction sites and neglected passages and thoroughfares.
The City & The City is the result of Chapter Five. Chapters is a collaborative curatorial program that aims to create connections between artists and external organisations. For each Chapter, two artists are invited to engage in a dialogue of their choice during the build-up of a show exploring different exhibition models. Chapters engage with both online and offline events and exhibitions.
Details
68 Pages
205 x 290mm
Softcover with Acetate
Spiral Bound
November, 2024
£18 + Postage
@_chapters___
Make your way to our website (link in bio) to explore Thom Bridge and Taisuke Koyama's visual dialogues and photographic exchange further. We feel full of playfulness, color and inspired by layered and compelling thoughts around cityscapes and never ending processes of change 💫
"With fast, lo-fi printing, inverted images of the cities' renewal, demolition and reconstruction are transferred on cheap paper, and the city as we know it- created by a mix of societal needs and desires through urban planning- emerges as an infinite array of irreversible surfaces. Even if the prints were to be reversed, the reality of the city wouldn't return. It may only exist as an image in our imaginations."
During their process, Thom and Taisuke exhibited the first stages of their collaborative work "The City and The City" as large scale prints as part of a WiP exhibition for Early Career Researchers from the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University (Nov 7th) 💫
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Images from @thom_bridge & @taisuke_koyama 's inspiring visual dialogue that metamorphosed into a collaborative book published by @surface.editions and was part of @boundartbookfair at @whitworthart this weekend! We feel very happy to have been part of their process and want to share parts of their journey 💛💙💚💜
𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙁𝙞𝙫𝙚: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 launching this Saturday 30th Nov 🍁☄ with a colorful and expansive dialogue and work that takes the form of a publication by artists @thom_bridge & @taisuke_koyama 💚
The launch will go live on Chapters website and the publication will be available at @boundartbookfair at The Whitworth @whitworthart in Manchester, UK (30 Nov-1 Dec) published by @surface.editions
More info and link in bio
We're very excited to announce the results of Chapter Five and the 6-month dialogue between artists and researchers Thom Bridge (SE/UK) @thom_bridge and Taisuke Koyama (JP) @taisuke_koyama that will be shared in two parts from Saturday 30 November 🔥
𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙁𝙞𝙫𝙚: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 & 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 will go live on the Chapters website this weekend, giving an insight into the pair's conversations, process, research and new collaboration: The City & The City. Additionally, you will also be able to get your hands on the coinciding artist book, published by Surface Editions (@surface.editions ), at Bound Art Book Fair (@boundartbookfair ) at The Whitworth (@whitworthart ) in Manchester, UK (30–Nov–1 Dec).
More to unfold...
