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Jūnen: Collaboration and Archiving
August 2025
[Artist's book]
Text: Maki Umehara
English (translation from Japanese), 15.1 x 21.6 cm, 176 pages, photographs, colour, b&w
Publ.: Suiseisha, Tokyo
ISBN 978-4-8010-0881-6 - Printed in Japan
The artist collective nüans (2006-16) was co-founded by artist Maki Umehara, German artists Anna Heidenhain and Elmar Herman; and had been based in Düsseldorf and Istanbul. While introducing the project by nüans, the author explored collaboration and the archive not only in the context of art history but also within the tradition of a society, paying attention to the problem of societal newcomers in an attempt to broaden the discussion. This book has revealed the repetitive motion of constant perception that occurred through communication with art and archives led to the creation of new art forms, and what sort of creation generated from there.