INK
On the shelf, books are silent;
in the making, alive with sound.
Ink explores the permanence of printed matter and the temporality of digital media. Discarded risograph ink tubes and recycled printing pipes reveal the unheard sounds of the bookmaking process, resonating and murmuring softly.
The voices carry fragments of conversations with Terry Riley, Akio Suzuki, and Ken Terui from my book Sound Chronicle (2023), interwoven with the rhythmic hums of printers, ‘emm’ soft choir, sharp slices of paper, metallic resonance of the drying rack, and quiet labor of binding.
Once printed, there’s no longer Cmd+Z.
The six-channel sound installation was embedded in the museum shop of the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design as part of the Fair Enough Book Fair in Tallinn, May 10–11, 2025.
A further developed version was shown in August 2025 at Pp. Bookstore, House of Text (Tekstin talo) in Helsinki as part of the Text Laboratory residency.
A cassette edition of Ink was published by Halifax Art Book Fair (CA) in August 2025, produced by Produced by Alek Green and Andrew Kuus-Hill.
