illiteral

Book /Edition
October 9th - October 11th, 2010

location:
RE:FORM SCHOOL EXHIBITION
NEW YORK CITY, NY

October 9th –11th, 2010 - On show at the RE:FORM SCHOOL Exhibition in NYC

ABOUT THE WORK:
illiteral transforms a classic American novel into a format that is almost impossible to read while maintaining all of the original content. While readers can interpret some phrases with enough concentration and time, the effort to decipher other elements will cause them to lose hope. This struggle and eventual feeling of hopelessness acts as an exercise in illiteracy.

This book was created to explore the emotional and visual experience of illiteracy. Each word in the book consist of the original letters scrambled. No new letters or punctuation were introduced, keeping the experience as true as possible.

illiteral was conceived and produced for the RE:FORM SCHOOL Exhibition, a pop up gallery whose goal is to raise awareness for education reform. Taking place in a empty school in New York City’s lower east side, RE:FORM SCHOOL brings together artists from around the world to address this cause. illiteral is presented as an object in the exhibition; ten copies will be available for purchase.

- j.frede

 

ABOUT RE:FORM SCHOOL:
RE:FORM SCHOOL is a group art exhibition and event series, bringing together hundreds of artists to send a loud message that the time has come to fix our ailing Public Education System.

For more info visit : RE:FORM SCHOOL