What's
been happening at This is a Magazine?
We've just published our 5th compendium called Who I think I
am, another hard-cover book with a couple of hundred pages of
original and commissioned works, most of which we cut-up, sliced,
folded, scored and just generally messed with. This is the furthest
we have taken print production/visuals to date, taking us most
of last season (2006/7) to develop and produce. The book has
just recently been awarded the Gold Ink Award in New York for
Best Hard-cover book world-wide.
Recently we also published the giant
folio-sized "Everything will be OK" which included
our first full-length DVD, which was described by Varoom
The Journal of Illustration and Made Images in the UK as "a
publishing phenomenon". When we aren't hiding in our
studio we do a lot of travelling for our exhibitions and
presentations, which is nice because we are allowed outside
and we get to meet people.
Any personal
projects of recent times?
Karen ann has completed a year long photographic work which
is the result of a collaboration with a local dog-sitter who
likes to dress up in historical costumes. Also we produced
a music-video for the non-metric underground group Sinistri
which was featured in Netmage, and again in Today is OK here
in Italy, and then all the way in Perth's PICA, and currently
is touring in the australian country districts. Besides the
usual commissions we also did some great workshops and conferences
in Lithuania, Luxembourg, Lichtenstein (we had a L thing) and
did some neat exhibitions in Denmark, Vienna and other places
all of them very good.
Where are you
based out of these days?
We still have our little studio in Milan, Italy. Please come
and visit.
Any interesting
upcoming projects?
We have started production on our 6th compendium, which is
all smoke and mirrors and other magic tricks.
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