HR

by Raimundas Malasauskas (Editor), Goda Budvytytė (Designer), Elena Narbutaitė (Color scheme)

When first exploring this theme one could feel the need of a users manual - the combination of haptocracy and bureutix in a paraquential order is a parfect sput. There is a sense of non-sense, also complexity, like meta-blackness or ivory-tremens imply. There is no certainty of a flow, neither an obvious function. It is a lexicon of neologisms created by people who have applied to 2014 Sommerakademie. Upon a careful reading the new words may turn sensitive and sensible. It is also a notebook; readers may write more on their reading material like squirting a worm.

Hermann Rorschach’s drawn animal ("a cat or a dog?" we keep wondering) floating on a green pool on the cover asks for caress: use some affection and maybe your grandmother will land next to you for a few seconds. Or someone else - depending on your sense of smell - the dust jacket is a scratch & sniff ergoscope. Roll the pages in all possible directions, let the typeface made of the lines of the same creature to irritate you a bit. User's manual would not be needed, this book is already one; a manual of how to use the senses as mapping devices to comprehend more knowledges.

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A notebook contains neologisms created for HR, Sommerakademie 2014, a drawing by Hermann Rorschach (HR), and a "HR-Luisli-typeface" made from the lines of a drawing (circa 1903–1904, University Library of Bern, Archives and Collection Hermann Rorschach, HR 5:1).

36 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2015