Erratum: Brief Interruptions in the Waste Stream: Text written with Renny Pritikin

San Francisco:: Furturefarmers,, 2010.. Edition of 40. Two cedar brick molds (each 18 x 10 x 2.5"); one brick (3.8 x 7.8"); 28 letterpress printed cards (7.75 x 4" in total). Thread closure. Stanford.edu: "Two cedar wood brick molds that fit snugly against one another to form a single structure made of 2 components mirroring each other. One mold contains a stack of 28 letterpressed cards that, in part, document the artists' performance of smashing a recycled ceramic toilet. The other contains a brick made from its repurposed remains. Both items are odoriferous [the cedar]. The title speaks to the error inherent in the wasteful nature of our waste processing systems and especially reveals as absurd that most essential element of any civilized home, indoor plumbing. The great white porcelain toilet is here read as a mistake but also as a catalyst of artistic fervor. Drawings alternate with texts, including a series of 'Brick idioms,' a chess play with pieces that can be torn out along perforated lines and various quotes by artists, architects and writers. San Francisco Center for the Book: "There are two components to the deluxe Book and Brick edition piece, both of which live in their own handmade Egyptian Cedar brick mold. The book takes form of a brick as a stack of individual cards that are two sided letterpress images and essays. The second component is a recycled and re-fired brick made from toilet shards with the title embossed onto the surface. The brick mod is modeled after an ancient Egyptian brick mold, which is both a document of a performance and a functional tool — an invitation to the viewer to take action in reversing the long list of society's erratum.  "The 2010 IMPRINT Artist in Residence focuses on the process, production, and finished work created by our 2010 artists in residence, Amy Franceschini and her collaborator Michael Swaine, in the context of related work that spans a broad range of media. Their work takes a visual approach to articulating perceived conflict between humans and nature, and the individual to a community. "Erratum uses research, experimentation, and social commentary to express a concern and critique of systems of capital and their effects on the material and social environment. Erratum can be seen as an attempt to reverse the flow of waste produced by our society – creating new molds in order to fill them with new content or material – a symbol of self-reliance and regeneration.  "Amy Franceschini is an artist with a deep interest in how humans interact and impact the world around them. An overarching theme in her work is a perceived conflict between humans and nature. She creates websites, installations, and public programs that provide platforms to question this divide. She draws inspiration from the improvisation, innovation, and collaboration that emerge from the choreographed activities of farming both big and small. In 2004, she co-founded Free Soil, an international collective of artists, activists, and researchers who work together to propose alternatives to the current social, political and environmental organization of space. ... She has received numerous awards including the SFMOMA Seca Award, Artadia Award, Eureka Fellowship, Creative Capital, and is recently the recipient of a Graham Foundation and Art Matters grant. She received her BFA from San Francisco State University and her MFA from Stanford University. Amy is a visiting faculty in the graduate program at the California College of the Arts. "Michael Swaine is an inventor and designer working in many media. Michael has collaborated with Futurefarmers since 1997. He is dedicated to working in the community, his 'Mending Library' Generosity Project involves him pushing an old fashioned ice cream style cart on wheels with a treadle-operated sewing machine on it through the streets of San Francisco. He teaches at CCA and is currently working on his MA in Design at UC Berkeley.