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The Tides Story by Xu Bing, Eliana Perez, Marshall Weber, 2006

An exhibit of artist books and drawings using innovative contemporary writing and typographical practices from Booklyn, and the Organik collaborative artists group. The exhibition is available for bookings in various forms.

The exhibit opened Sept. 30th and ran through Nov. 15th, 2009, at the KLINGSPOR MUSEUM, OFFENBACH, Herrnstraße 80, 63065 Offenbach am Main, Germany (15 minutes from Frankfurt)

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Curated by Klingspor Museum Director Stefan Soltek with artwork and writing by: Theodore Adorno, Kurt Allerslev, Jen Benka, Xu Bing, Jesse Coffino, Dorothee Fink, Cat Glennon, Julia Hall, Angela Mayumi Ito, Janice Joplin, Damara Kamenecki, Jane LeCroy, Chrissy Leggio, Mac McGill, Amy Mees, Sara Parkel, Raymond Pettibon, Eliana Perez, Joel J. Rane, Veronika Schäpers, Jeremy Schmall, Uta Schneider, Cristin Sheehan Sullivan, Christine Sheilds, Laura Smith, Peter Spagnuolo, Ulrike Stoltz, Mark Wagner, Warrior Writers Project, Marshall Weber, Christopher Wilde, Alison E. Williams, and Yong-ming Zhai.

Image from the Organik artists book Nervous System, 2009

A ten year retrospective survey of artist books and drawings, published from the Booklyn Artists Alliance and the Organik artist collaborative group, that use innovative contemporary calligraphy, writing and typographical practices.

Esmerald Tree Cat and the Lonely Bear, 2008, by Christine Shields and various Booklyn Chapbooks.

Booklyn's publication range from populist poetry chapbooks to limited editioned artists books in myriad forms and media.

Scream at the Librarian by Raymond Pettibon, Joel Ranes and Crissy Sullivan

Organik (main ingredients, Kurt Allerslev, Laura Smith, Christopher Wilde and Marshall Weber) focuses on creating collaboratively produced unique painted books that integrate smell and touch with global ecological mythologies. Organik's books feature calligraphy which integrates Brooklyn wild style graffiti with fractal forms found in botanical and animal structures.

Matchless, 2006, by Organik, collection of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

Over the past eight years Organik has worked in Germany exploring German history and also published numerous unique artist book collaborations with German artists. Booklyn and Organik both thank the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Leipzig, and the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuttel for loaning important Organik books from their collections to the Write Now exhibition.

Buy Land or Buy Sea, 2007, by Organik, collection of the Herzog August Bibliothek

Organik artists persuade by the love they press into their books. The enormous intensity, the directness and the simple truth of their work dominates any doubts because of their unexpected ways of breaking the rules of common bookmaking. Their books and all their writing have to be seen as acts of revolution; a revolution against indifference to the power of hand-writing and the boundary-breaking mission of a thoroughly made artists book.
Stefan Soltek, Director, Klingspor Museum, Offenbach, Germany

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Marshall Weber and Sam Winston performed Kann Denn Liebe Sunde Sein, in the courtyard of the Klingspor Museum on October 16th.

Weber wrote the above quote from Che Guevara using his feet as brushes to apply a turmeric pigment.

An unnamed singer sang the classic Lothar Brühne song, Kann Denn Liebe Sunde Sein in the style of Zarah Leander while the audience entered the courtyard on the chill and rainy October night.

While painting/printing the words Weber recited a mantra in Sanskit, which was the core sentence of the Buddhist Heart Sutra.


The words then faded over the course of a month.


The footprint font remains enigmatic and provocative like the Eszett.

Weber also lead a tour through the exhibition on October 18th.

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