The rearranged book (series?) is a conceptual art piece. It’s made to question the nature of communication and to open up dialogue about art itself.
Practically; it’s just an existing book where the letters are put in alphabetical order within titles and chapters. It was done, very old school, in Excel, with a lot of manual labour and repetitive tasks. The result looks like the way the original book would have looked like, but with a twist.
In short: it’s a book you cannot read, but you can talk about.
Here are the first few pages.
Here are some possible questions to be answered:
- This is shit. I could have done this! So why didn’t you?
- Since all the letters are there but rearranged, is it just the order of the letters that is relevant to the message?
- The original book is (still) banned in some places. Will this book be banned as well?
- Is this art or just a project of some bored digital communications guy? Why can’t it be both?
- I have so many ideas on how to improve this and am so excited! Where can I contact you? (hint: it’s here)
- Can I use this in my classroom to open up a dialogue about art with students? Yes please! Buy the work here.