2010 Signature Edition Series
Lisa Anne Auerbach
The Tract House: A Darwin Addition (press sheet)
Edition size: 50
Medium/description: Set of 2 commercial offset prints on 20 lb Bond,
press sheet for The Tract House project
Dimensions: 28 x 40 inches
Auerbach worked with the American Philosophical Society Museum (APS) on a second iteration of her series titled The Tract House. This version of her project is inspired by the current exhibition Dialogues with Darwin, drawn from the APS Museum’s own Charles Darwin letters, manuscripts and books—the largest collection outside of Cambridge, England.
These “Press Sheets”, available through Philagrafika’s Signature Edition Series, are the proofs used in the final printing of the individual tracts created The Tract House exhibition in a temporary storefront in the Old City section of Philadelphia.
These tracts present an evolutionary twist on classic religious tracts. Auerbach solicits tracts—manifestos, diatribes, stories, rants, poems, lyrics, etc.—written by friends, neighbors, artists, poets, and even pundits in response to Darwin’s life and ideas.
Auerbach and a graphic designer then created printed ephemera based on this writing. It is hoped that the tracts will “educate, activate, infuriate, explicate, obfuscate, and titillate.” The project focuses on the democratic aspect of the printed image – the implied necessity for dissemination of the multiple.
Based in Los Angeles, Lisa Anne Auerbach is a photographer, a knitter, and a conceptual artist. She mixes art and politics in ways that are both highly personal and open to all.
Read more about Lisa Anne Auerbach's project for Philagrafika 2010 here.
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