笔迹 script/ notes
With Hong Shu-ying
Designed by me
Published by THEBOOKSHOW
笔迹 script/ notes looks at 18 years worth of hand-copied and hand-annotated scores from @shu0shushu ‘s collection. Through observing and re-presenting these markings, she considers the way language and customs are developed in social groups and how it borrows and evolves from existing and adjacent communities.
The book is a physical documentation of the Chinese Orchestra community as told by the artist’s collection of physical materials, memories, and her personal relationship with the art form. The book is deliberately printed in 2 colours, black and silver ink, mimicking the lack of colour of the average music scores, and silver, emphasising the graphite annotation by the pencil on music scores. Binded by an O-ring bind, this intended touch also replicates the binding of generic music scores. The annotations that you can find within this book are presented in subtle ways that are self explanatory of what each of them symbolises. The reader is allowed to self interpret the different graphical manifestations of the annotations before reaching the glossary that is situated at the end of the book.
Selected to be part of China’s abC Art Book Fair (@abcartbookfair)’s roving show, under 2022 Book Nomad Project.
Available for purchase here and here
Product shots: Marvin Tang
