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MBP Presents The Open Daybook
November 22, 2010
Contact: Taylor K. Long
Telephone: 347.830.6271
New York, NY – November 19th, 2010 - The Open Daybook is a perpetual collaboration in calendar form that invites you to interact with 371 celebrated contemporary artists, including Miranda July, Leanne Shapton, Aurel Schmidt, David Rakoff, and Jill Greenberg. Each page of The Open Daybook features a different piece of art, one for each day of the year, with space for your own additions and reactions. You can plan your days, jot notes, doodle, or, if you like, add a finishing touch to the artists’ work. Unlike other calendars or planners, The Open Daybook does not go out of date. Each page lists simply the month and day, permitting the collaboration to continue for as long as you wish.
For their given days, the artists were allowed just 24 hours to create a piece. In this way, the pages become more than a gallery of artwork; they also log artists’ creative processes, their thoughts and feelings at the moment of creation. Interacting with the book over the course of the day, you recreate the artists’ efforts, not just in terms of space or time, but emotionally and creatively. By returning to the book each year, the process can be repeated forever.
As The Open Daybook‘s editor, David P. Earle, writes in his introduction, “Just as a calendar limits the structure of time, the 24-hour constraint of this project focused choices and forced paths for the participants, giving shape to their ideas. If a work of art is created in one day, the pace of creation speeds up. The intervals between strokes are smaller and the work is made in a burst of energy. That energy produced these pages.”
About the Editor:
David P. Earle is a Los Angeles-based writer and artist. His work has been featured at Telic Arts Exchange (Los Angeles), The Fellows of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), The Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena, CA), and The IFC Center (New York). He is an adjunct faculty member in The School of Critical Studies at CalArts and a faculty member of The Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, CA.
Release Parties in LA & NYC:
LA – Sunday, December 5th:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
4pm – 6pm
Art Catalogues Bookstore
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
NYC – Saturday, December 11th:
Printed Matter
5pm – 7pm
195 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
About Mark Batty Publisher
Mark Batty Publisher (http://www.markbattypublisher.com) is an independent publisher dedicated to making distinctive books on the visual art of communicating, showcasing the visual power and innovation of contemporary culture in all of its varied poses. Today, the visual comes at us from more places than ever, and its dissemination is faster and more advanced every year. Books from Mark Batty Publisher capture this acceleration on the pages of every book. Affordable, well designed, thoughtfully created, and produced to last, MBP books are artful products that readers want to hold onto forever.
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The Open Daybook
David P. Earle
Page Count: 384 pages
Size: 9.5 x 7.5 inches
Format: Casebound
Publication Date: November 2010
Price: $45
ISBN: 978-1-9356130-7-7
For a review copy, more information, or to schedule an interview with the author, contact +1 347.830.6271, media@markbattypublisher.com.
