Dorit Cypis: The Sighted See the Surface | Book Launch
LM PROJECTS BOOK LAUNCH
The Sighted See the Surface by Dorit Cypis
Saturday, September 26, 11am on Zoom
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LM Projects is pleased to announce its latest publication, The Sighted See the Surface, an expansive project developed by Dorit Cypis over the course of seven years (2012-19). Sparked by the death of mentor and teacher Michael Asher, Cypis excavates her 40 year art practice by connecting disparate points from past to present while unearthing the complexities between sight and seeing, difference and the psychosocial relations within and between people. Works made during this period include video, photography, prints and drawings.
In tandem, Cypis collaborated with LM Projects who mirrored her process, research and epiphanies into a nonlinear book form. Timelines, oral histories, archival material, original artworks and mediation methodologies intertwine on pages that shift in surface and scale. Cypis reconstructs a cannon all her own—one that integrates the conceptual with the political and deepens her investigation into aesthetics, ethics and engagement, the roots of her practice since the late 1970s. Printed in an edition of 134, each book is signed and numbered by the artist. A special edition of 10 books include a unique drawing.
Join us for a Zoom conversation with 4 guests invited to reflect on and weave together their unique threads of connection in the production of The Sighted See the Surface – Susan Morgan, writer/historian, Lawrence Lancaster and Clifford Burton, members of the Braille Institute for the Blind, and Simon Leung, artist.
Dorit Cypis: The Sighted See the Surface
Artist book 2019, first edition
11 in. W x 17 in. H
82 pages, 34 plates,
each softcover is a unique size
edition of 134 +2AP's
publisher, LM PROJECTS
Forward Edited by: Susan Morgan
Copy Editor: Catherine Wagley
Designers: Lorraine Molina and Jennifer Rider
Contributors: Jennifer King, Lawrence Lancaster and Clifford Burton
Books are available
in both a Standard and Special editions and may be purchased at lmprojects.net
Special Edition
No.'s 1-10: with unique drawing and hand sewn binding
The first 10 books include a unique drawing and the binding is hand sewn. Selected phrases excerpted from the the book are translated into visual braille and reordered into new poetic relationships. Drawing, 7 x 7 inches, pen and ink on vellum. Unique, 2020