Acts of Translation: Comprehensive Edition. - 2023

Tuscaloosa, Alabama:: Big Jump Press,, 2023.. Edition of 40 numbered. Five pieces in special enclosure. Pamphlets 5.5 x 9" in blue covers. Papers include Zerkall Book, Canon Pro Premium Matte, and Colorplan. Text digitally set in Arno, a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach. Printed letterpress from polymer plates. Each pamphlet has been produced in an edition of 66, of which 26 copies are lettered a through z and bound individually and 40 copies are numbered and bound alongside other collaborative components of the Acts of Translation project. Each book signed by artist and collaborator. Big Jump Press:” ‘Acts of Translation’ is a collected series of collaborations. Each component of this book describes a distinct act of translation, defined for the purposes of this project as ‘the conversion and communication of information.’ Text for this project was gathered, edited, and recombined from recorded interviews conducted between 2021 and 2023 with a photographer, a biology professor, a type designer, a soprano performer, and an elementary Spanish teacher. When housed together, these collaborations offer unexpected points of connection across disciplines and highlight our shared experience. You Have to Make it Material to Know it, with Allison Grant; A Model has to be Wrong, with David Allen; The Essential Form of a Letter, with Ben Mitchell; A Vowel Weds Itself to Air, with Luvada A. Harrison; There is Always a Story, with Sonia Duprez “Acts of Translation is bound in a structure which can be expanded to reveal all five books at once, or collapsed so that the texts from any two books can examined side by side. The project is housed in a chemise and slip case. Papers for Acts of Translation include Zerkall Book, Clearprint Design Vellum, Colorplan, Canon Pro Premium Matte, and Red River Premium Matte. Text has been digitally set in Arno, a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach; and Myriad, designed by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly. Text was letterpress printed from polymer plates. This edition has been bound in Iris and Dubletta bookcloth. Individual collaborative components have been issued separately in lettered editions of 26 copies each. This project was made possible by financial support and community building from the Collaborative Arts Research Initiative (CARI) at The University of Alabama and funding from the School of Library and Information Studies in the College of Communication.”