Producing, publishing and sharing printed matter such as books and posters is at the heart of Tracy & Edwin’s art practice.
FAT WHITE STAR
FAT WHITE STAR was produced by Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen on the occasion of their exhibition Rock and Dust | Roccia e Polvere at ISBN Books + Gallery, Budapest. The printed collage celebrates Mario Lanza (1921-1958), the great American-Italian operatic tenor and actor whose family is from Collemacchia, the village in Italy where The Museum of Loss and Renewal‘s residency programmes take place.
Publisher: The Museum of Loss and Renewal Publishing
2021, digital print, 119 x 84 cm, edition of 5 + 2 house copies, numbered and signed by the artists, folded and presented in folder.
Please contact The Museum of Loss and Renewal Publishing for information about availability and pricing.
Micromegas
A curated, ongoing publishing project and mobile exhibition in edition format; each boxes contains seven A0 posters and specially commissioned texts.
For each iteration of Micromegas artists/designers and a writer are invited to respond to Voltaire’s Micromégas novella of 1752.
Graphic design: Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen
Contributing artists/writers to date: Dora Garcia, Jonathan Monk, Marco Stout, Mark Dorrian, Pavel Büchler, Scott Myles, Thomson & Craighead, Bik Van der Pol, Emma Bolland, Jacques Longuecolline, Jonn Herschend, Laure Prouvost, Mick Peter, Stefanos Pavlakis & Tobias Kauer and Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen.
Publisher: The Museum of Loss and Renewal Publishing
Each box 30 x 43 x 6.5 cm.
Spot & Stain #00
SPOT & STAIN is a series of publications that will be released intermittently when Stefanos Pavlakis and Tracy & Edwin work on projects together.
With Stefanos in Berlin and Tracy & Edwin in Glasgow, and working with full concentration and at a rapid pace, a collective investigation was kick-started into graffiti, language, translation, and public space and place. This first issue of SPOT & STAIN creates the conditions for the growth of a future project, and will inform their developing collaboration.
#00 has arisen out of the intensive virtual residency Swallows, initiated by Danica Maier and Louisa Chambers, that took place in April and May 2021, during the Covid pandemic. The residency brought together seven artists through a daily programme of discussion.
Graphic design: Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen
Content: Stefanos Pavlakis and Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen
Publisher: The Museum of Loss and Renewal Publishing
ISBN 978-1-9998596-4-0
24 pages, 17 x 25 cm
The artconnexion Observations
This publication is the outcome of Tracy & Edwin’s Agents of Change: Refresh! Residency at artconnexion, Lille, France in 2020. As the curators of The Museum of Loss and Renewal Tracy & Edwin acted as a critical friend and supported this dynamic arts organisation to reconsider its philosophy, devise a code of practice, formulate a sustainability agenda, and helped to develop its 2021 programme. The refreshed definitions that took root during the residency have been used to structure the publication that also includes a list of action points.
Graphic design: Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen
Text: artconnexion and the Agents of Change (Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen)
Publisher: artconnexion
8 pages, 28.9 x 38 cm
Friendly Invasions 2034
Published as a component of Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen: Friendly Invasions 2034, the book documents a three month long project during which Tracy & Edwin were repeatedly at work inside a developing sculptural form. The book pages are printed with silver ink to create a futuristic feel.
The exhibition and this publication are contributions to the celebration of 20 years of artconnexion.
Graphic design: Stout/Kramer
12 x 16.5 cm, softcover, 192 pages
Publisher: artconnexion, Lille
ISBN 978-2-9536142-4-4
Vagabond Flux
This publication documents the commissioning of Tracy & Edwin’s mobile exhibition unit Vagabond Flux by the ‘Nouveaux commanditaires’, Masters students on the CEAC course, ‘Visual Arts, Exhibition / Production strand’ at the University of Lille, France.
Graphic design: Eggers + Diaper
12.5 x 21 cm, softcover, 56 pages
Publisher: Société des Nouveaux Commanditaires and Les Presses du Réel
ISBN 978-2-84066-829-9
WAR AS EVER!
This book represents the War as Ever! exhibition project, shown at the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands: a double screen slide projection, performative actions, text posters, photographs, educational activities and a conference.
Texts by Nederlands Fotomuseum Head of Exhibitions Frits Gierstberg, and Lina van der Wolde, Director of the Atlas van Stolk collection, and the artists.
Graphic design: Stout/Kramer
17 x 24 cm, 128 pages
Softcover and Japanese binding
Publisher: Onomatopee (2013)
ISBN 978-94-91677-07-6
Published Matter: A talk in 24 cards
A little box containing the 24 printed cards used in Tracy & Edwin’s talk about the place of publishing within their practice at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland as part of the Artists’ Book Market event (April 2013).
Design: Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen
9.5 x 6.5 cm, 25 printed cards
Limited edition of 7 copies
Publisher: Ed & Ellis Productions (2013)
Truth, Error, Opinion
This edition of 50 copies contains archival digital prints of the 48 images from Tracy & Edwin’s slide projection Truth, Error, Opinion.
The accompanying essay Arming the Eye: Martha Rosler and Critical Vision by Edward Welch contextualises Tracy & Edwin’s slide projection, in relation to visual knowledge.
Design: Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen
Silkscreened handmade box with 48 archival prints, 23 x 17.5 x 4 cm each and A5 booklet with silkscreened cover, 16 pages, hand-dyed thread, saddle-stitch.
Publisher: Stills, Edinburgh (2010)
ISBN 978-0-906458-05-1
On Growth, & Forms of Meaning
An art work in book form emerged out of a collaboration between Tracy & Edwin, and designer Marco Stout. It was produced in a temporary public studio for presentation, exchange and production during the process-led interdisciplinary project On Growth, & Forms of Meaning.
Printed by Paul Harrison in the Visual Research Centre, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee as a limited edition of 48 copies.
Design: Stout/Kramer
29.5 x 20.5 cm, 24 hand-written, digital and silk-screened printed pages, unbound
Publisher: Ed & Ellis Productions (2011)
Shotgun Wedding
This publication explores the social, political and cultural background to Tracy & Edwin’s video installation Shotgun Wedding. Texts by Emilie Gordenker, James Holloway, Craig Richardson and Christopher Whatley present the background to the work and the political and cultural setting of the The Acts that took effect on 1 May 1707, when the Scottish Parliament and the English Parliament united to form the Parliament of Great Britain.
Graphic design: Stout/Kramer
16 x 23.5 cm, 68 pages
Publisher: Atopia Projects (2007)
ISBN 978 0 9546156 4 2
A Perfect Image of Ourselves
A fusion of an artist’s book and a catalogue, it gives an overview of work produced by Tracy & Edwin between 1998 and 2004 through a selection of projects that explore collaboration, identity and notions of place.
Texts include And together they are strong by Rein Wolfs and Secrets are safe with us by Tracy Mackenna.
Graphic design: Stout/Kramer
16 x 23 cm, 144 pages
Publisher: CCA, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow (2005)ISBN 1-873331-29-0
Ed & Ellis in Schiedam
This publication documents the project Ed and Ellis in Schiedam. A fake political party List 0* was established by Tracy & Edwin with the actor John Buysman commissioned to play party leader Koos van der Sluys. He took to the streets to bring List 0 to the attention of the ‘Schiedammers’ with Tracy & Edwin as his promotional team distributing flyers, folders and balloons – ‘No crap! List O!’.
Text by Tracy Mackenna and Edwin Janssen.
Publisher: Ed & Ellis Productions (1998)
Graphic design: Stout/Kramer
23 x 30 cm, 52 pages
Publisher: Ed & Ellis Productions (1998)
ISBN 90-804260-1-6
I put my name on Everything
This publication brings together the visual documentation, related images and writing that formed the making of the printed wool text carpet I put my name on everything, commissioned by Visual Art Projects on behalf of the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland, 1998.
Graphic design: Stout/Kramer
10.5 x 14.8 cm, softcover, 24 pages
Publisher: Ed & Ellis PS, (1998)
ISBN 90-804260-2-4.
Till Now
This publication gives a visual overview of the first projects Tracy & Edwin realised and of some that were in progress, from when they started to collaborate in 1997.
The images in the publication are small due to being taken by the first digital camera produced by Sony, the DSC-F1, released in 1996.
Graphic design: Stout/Kramer
10.5 x 14.8 cm, softcover, 24 pages
Publisher: Ed & Ellis PS, (1998)
ISBN 90-804260-3-2.