Title: You Might Even Enjoy It
Artist: Jaka Bulc & Zoran Pungerčar
Designer: Zoran Pungerčar
Editor: Zoran Pungerčar & Jaka Bulc
Imprint: Look Back And Laugh
Printer: Risoparadiso, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Publication date and place: June 2016 / Ljubljana, Slovenia
Edition: 70
Format, binding: Softcover / Stapled
Size: 13 x 15 cm
Number of pages and images: (28 pages / 16 images)
Type of printing and paper: Risograph / Fedrigoni Arcoprint Milk 120g
Retail price: €7
Book Description:
This zine explores the ways in which others shape our perception and the ways in which we are explicitly and implicitly drawn to a certain subject matter.
One of the main goals of this project was to examine some of the ideas mentioned above through artistic collaboration. First came a series of photographs and then the illustrations followed. The photographs try to depict the multiple aspects of being a tourist. We are always interpelated into positions similar to those of our fellow travellers. These positions go hand in hand with uniform vantage points, monotonous repetition and unfiltered consumption of visual stimuli. The idea behind the series was to document the temporary state of being somewhere as part of a spontaneous, fluid group of people which is formed through the aforementioned discursive and situational interpelation. Paradoxically, the photographer is also subjected to similar processes. Even though he seemingly finds something new and different to look at and document, his inspiration remains strictly limited by the sheer fact that he is playing the role of the photographer, with its specific sets of predetermined rules and conventions.
With that in mind, the inspiration behind the photographic part of this zine was in a way as predetermined as the inspiration behind the illustrated part, which was explicitly constrained and connected to previously existing photographs. On the other hand, isn’t the artist always restricted by a certain snapshot that forms in his mind and then freed by the fact that he can do whatever he wants with it on his blank canvas?
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- Title: You Might Even Enjoy It