“Available Space” has been ongoing for eight years, staying close to the original format: one photograph describing one urban condition with one work of sculpture rendered and photoshopped into the picture. The positioning of public art as a field related to sculpture is a point of intentional friction in the work. As realized works of public art, the sculptures that make up Available Space are hard pressed to fit that bill. They require a more fluid public arena without simplistic boardroom pitches or circumstantial rhetoric, they need to stand apart from these normalizing spoilers.
In a fantasy existing between two paper covers the realities of fabrication costs, installation challenges, planning bureaus and public forum meetings are excluded, allowing the works to breathe freely. It is an exercise in something impossible: an autonomous sculpture practice conducted in public.
Page Bureau (书局) is the self-publishing practice of the independent graphic design studio, RELATED DEPARTMENT (有关设计部门) from Shanghai. They publish printed matter and digital files designed with/for their artist/designer/illustrator/architect friends.
书局(Page Bureau)成立于2018年，是有关设计部门(RELATED DEPARTMENT)内部的自出版单位，致力于输出和朋友们一起构想、设计、发行的各类型印刷物及虚拟电子文本。有关设计部门(RELATED DEPARTMENT)是2017年在上海成立的平面设计工作室，我们投身于新鲜的设计尝试/视觉探索/文化产出，关注后网络、后殖民设计语境下的图像和文字创作机制。
Loose leaves in envelope
Includes poster insert
56 p., 6 p., 20 p.
6.5 inches x 9 inches
English/Chinese
2022
