2017
Tessa Zettel
Risograph-printed fold-out handmade artist book in 3 parts, 2-colour (Calle Bucareli: 14 x 39.5 cm / Privada Revillagigedo:14 x 39.5 cm / Calle Revillagigedo: 14 x 80 cm). Edition of 24
Shown in group exhibitions, In Solidarity: Living, Making, Together, MUCA Roma, Mexico City, 2017 / & Stacks of Paper, Riot of Colour: The Politics of Taste, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, 2018.
Made in residence at BEMA, an arts and cultural space in Querétaro (Mexico), as an invited guest of Marjetica Potrč’s ‘Design for the Living World’ interdisciplinary Masters program in Social Design (HfBK, Hamburg), collectively researching solidarity economies. The work consists of an artist book in three parts, each a fold-out annotated diagram of one of three interconnected streets in the tiny and slowly gentrifying San Francisquito neighbourhood immediately surrounding BEMA. Alongside drawings of the street facades are stories (in English & Spanish, based on interviews) of residents who use the streets as semi- public sites of work or collectivity. Many have spent all their lives there, and know and support each other in complex ways.
Printed at Aazufre/ATEA studios (Mexico City) in an edition of 24, cut and folded by hand. One copy distributed to each resident whose story appears in the book.
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Read OuMoPo blog posts about Micro-economies of San Francisquito here