Ink – Listening to the Bookshelf
Six-channel sound installation (2025)
On the shelf, books are silent;
in the making, alive with sound.
Ink explores the permanence of printed matter and the temporality of digital media. Discarded risograph ink tubes and recycled printing pipes reveal the unheard sounds of the bookmaking process, resonating and murmuring softly.
Once printed, there’s no longer Cmd+Z.
in the making, alive with sound.
Ink explores the permanence of printed matter and the temporality of digital media. Discarded risograph ink tubes and recycled printing pipes reveal the unheard sounds of the bookmaking process, resonating and murmuring softly.
Once printed, there’s no longer Cmd+Z.
Photograph: Ofem Ubi
Ink was installed in the museum shop of the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design as part of the Fair Enough Book Fair in Tallinn, May 10–11, 2025. A further developed version was shown in August 2025 at Pp. Bookstore, House of Text (Tekstin talo) in Helsinki as part of the Text Laboratory residency.
A cassette edition of Ink was published by Halifax Art Book Fair (CA) in August 2025, produced by Andrew Kuus-Hill and Alek Green.
Photograph: Halifax Art Book Fair
Video: Daniel Lythgoe
Edit: Heu Hsu
Edit: Heu Hsu