(2023) Nature Scribble + Flesh Reads

Risograph printed publication, 18 pages – edition of 200
printed on Munken Pure 90g + 220g
in Bright Red, Fluro Pink, Flat Gold, Green, Medium Blue, Black

Functioning as an exhibition in book form, the publication Nature Scribbles and Flesh Reads is designed to hold the multitude of voices and styles of the different participants of an artist residency of the same name developed by Swedish artist Kajsa Dahlberg in collaboration with PRAKSIS Oslo and Index Contemporary Art Foundation Stockholm. The publication consists of 18 different contributions made by the participants, designed and produced by Lexie Owen + Annike Flo. The contributions range from reflections, proposals, artworks, documentations, traces of collective thinking processes and a shared bibliography, as well as a reprint of Boi Huyen Ngo’s text Haunting as Method.

Launched jointly in Stockholm and Oslo, Owen’s personal contribution ‘the soil becomes a little more like the sea’ is a visual short story focusing on the defence mechanisms of shellfish, the consequences of desire, oceanic time, and the wonders of composting near the ocean. Set in a childhood garden I tended with my grandfather, the text thinks though various border-zones contemplating how nothing is as discrete as it seems.

Nature Scribbles + Flesh Reads contains contributions from: Kajsa Dahlberg, Miriam Döring, Annike Flo, Sive Hamilton Helle, Eli Maria Lundgaard, malatsion, Lexie Owen, Rebekka Sæter and Ylva Westerlund

Nature Scribble + Flesh Reads (2023)