BUILDING MATERIAL: A BRICK READER by Malia Haines-Stewart, Jacob Lindgren & Alan Medina (Eds.)
137 x 182mm, 40 pages, Risograph printing, Saddle stitched, Softcover, Third edition of 150, 2024
The book’s content produces a structure from which we can examine the multiplicity of ways that bricks are produced, used, and viewed. Stills from Harun Farocki's In Comparison correspond with writing on the geographic and economic factors of brick in society; the poetics, fictions, and visions of a brick stacker; a forum’s effort to create a communal archive; the pedagogical brick; the speculative commodity of clay; as well as reproductions of bricks and their sites of production. By monitoring the transformation of geological matter into clay, clay to brick, and brick to building, the book aims to stage comparison between processes inherent to bricks with other methods of knowledge production such as film, writing, and publishing.
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