Through the book (s) # 9: éditions clinamen e Copy, Tweak, Paste, Methods of appropriation in re-enacted artists' books di Rob van Leijsen, è una selezione di libri che comprende alcuni titoli fondanti come Booktrek: Selected essays on artists' booksdi Clive Phillpot, Various Small Books:  Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha di Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton e Hermann & Hermann Zschiegner e Post-digital Print di Alessandro Ludovico, che offrono un contesto storico e un approccio critico all'editoria, inparticolare a quella legata ai libri d'artista. Oltre a questi libri di teoria, verrà presentata una selezione di fac-simili e bootleg discussi in Copy, Tweak, Paste così come esempi più contemporanei dall'archivio di Leporello. Questo selezione di riadattamenti da parte di editori e artisti verrà ulteriormente approfondita e completata durante il takeover dell'account Instagram di Leporello.

Rob van Leijsen, Copy, Tweak, Paste: Methods of Appropriation in Re-enacted Artists' Books, Clinamen, 2020 
 

I libri d'artista, che una volta consentivano agli artisti di evitare le istituzioni e le gallerie impiccione nella produzione e distribuzione di opere artistiche, oggi hanno un'esistenza paradossale. Da un lato ci sono i libri fondatori estremamente rari, definiti "prima edizione" o "originale", e, dall'altro, ci sono edizioni "facsimile", che sono entrate nel regno del libro d'artista per contrastare la scarsità degli originali offrendo rievocazioni e reinterpretazioni di titoli famosi. Questo saggio sottolinea una curiosità per le pratiche di appropriazione da parte di artisti ed editori e mira a esporre metodi e discorsi nella produzione di libri d'artista in facsimile.
 

Libri d'artista recensiti in Copy, Tweak, Paste 

AAVV, July, August, September 2012, Greatest hits, Berlin, 2012
Ian Burn et al., The Fox, The Everyday Press, 2009
Jan Dibbets, Robin redbreast'd Territory/ Sculpture 1969, Éditions Zédélé, Brest, 2014
Eric Doeringer, Some Los Angeles Apartments, selfpublished, 2009
Eric Doeringer, Arcs circles & grids, Copycat Publications, 2011
Yves Klein, The foudations of Judo, The Everyday Press, 2009
Michalis Pichler, Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Greatest hits, Berlin / Printed matter, NY, 2009
Lawrence Weiner, Green as well as blue as well as red, Éditions Zédélé, Brest 2012

Libri pubblicati da Rob van Leijsen 

Art Handling in Oblivion, edition fink, 2014
The Drone Chronicles 2001 – 2016, éditions Centre de la photographie Genève/Spector Books, 2019 
 

Libri pubblicati da éditions clinamen 

Kayije Kagame & Grace Seri, Sans Grace, Clinamen, 2020
Lauren Schmid et Roxane Bovet (eds.), A-Sides – A cosmology of audio editions by artists around the Arc Lémanique region, Clinamen & HEAD-Geneva, 2020
Camille Dumond, The filming not the Film, Clinamen, 2020
Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Lucas Cantori (ed.), Considérations sur la philosophie expérimentale (ciel), Clinamen, 2019
Lauren Huret & Pacôme Thiellement, L'âge des techniciens, Clinamen, 2017
Yoan Mudry, Roxane Bovet, Lucas Cantori, Yoan Mudry, Loops, Clinamen, 2017
Kim Seob Boninsegni, Hwabyeong, Clinamen, 2017
Raphaële Bidault-Waddington et Sylvain Menétrey, Semiospace, A Spaced Out Artistic Experiment, Clinamen 2016
Ilya Prigogine, Temps à devenir, à propos de l'histoire du temps, Clinamen, 2016
Roxane Bovet (ed.), Screamscape, Clinamen, 2015 
 

Libri selezionati dentro e fuori Leporello by Rob, Roxane and Chiara 

Ed Ruscha, Los Angeles Apartments, Steidl, 2013
Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972,
University of California Press, 1997
Catherine Morris and Vincent Bonin, Materializing "Six Years", The MIT press, 2012
Dick Higgins, Wolf Vostell, Fantastic architecture, Primary Information, 2015 

Seth Siegelaub, Xerox book, Roma Publications, in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / De Appel arts centre / Stichting Egress Foundation, 2016
Harald Szeeman, Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form. Works, Concepts, Processes, Situations, Information, Kunsthalle Bern, 2006 

Clive Phillpot, Booktrek: Selected essays on artists' books, JRP Ringier, 2013
Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton and Hermann Zschiegner, Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha, The MIT press, 2013
Michalis Pichler, Publishing Manifestos, The MIT press, 2019
Bernhard Cella, No-ISBN. On Self-Publishing, Salon für Kunstbuch, 2017
Alessandro Ludovico, Post-digital print, Onomatopee, 2012
Virginie Bobin and Mathilde Villeneuve, Republications, Archive Books, 2015
Michalis Pichler, Six Hands and a Cheese Sandwich, Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E., 2011
Danny Aldred and Emmanuelle Waeckerlé, Code X, bookRoom, 2015 

Yes Yes Yes Alternative Press, a+mbookstore / VIAINDUSTRIE, 2015
YEAH, Primary Information, 2017
AAVV, Provoke, NITESHA, 2018 

Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Vincenzo Latronico, David Reinfurt,The Serving Library Annual 2019/20 (Bruno Munari Obvious Code), Roma Publications, 2019
Karel Martens, Re-printed Matter, Roma Publications, 2019
Tillie S. Pine/Joseph Lenive, Gravity all around, Rollo press, 2020 

Jesse Reed, Hamish Smyth, Nasa Graphics Standard Manual, Standard Manuals, 2015
New York City Transit Authority, Standard Manuals, 2014 

Mike Mandel, Good '70, J&L Books, 2015
David Company, Gasoline, Mack, 2013
Luigi Ghirri, Colazione sull'erba, Mack, 2019
Masahisa Fukase, Ravens, Mack, 2017
Joel Sternfeld, Campagna Romana, Knopf, 1992
Joel Sternfeld, Rome after Rome, Steidl, 2018
Mario Cresci, Misurazioni. Fotografia e territorio. Oggetti, segni e analogie fotografiche in Basilicata, Edizioni META Matera, 1978
Mario Cresci, Misurazioni, Yard press, 2020 

Rob van Leijsen (1983, Tilburg, The Netherlands) is a multidisciplinary graphic designer based in Geneva, Switzerland. His design practice mainly aims at commissioned projects in the cultural field, notably editorial design. He currently runs his own design studio and teaches at the visual communication department of HEAD – Genève. Besides commissioned projects, he initiates research projects that offer reflections on society. In 2012 he graduated from the master Space & Communication at HEAD – Genève with Art Handling in Oblivion, a catalogue that assembles several art collections that have been stolen during wartime. Art Handling in Oblivion was subsequently published by edition fink in 2014 and selected as one of "The Most Beautiful Swiss Books" of 2014. In 2019 he published The Drone Chronicles (éditions CPG and Spector Books). This editorial diptych documents the evolution and integration of drones in our society from 2001 until 2016. His most recent publication, Copy, Tweak, Paste: Methods of Appropriation in Re-enacted Artists' Books, is published as a bilingual essay in July 2020 by éditions clinamen. 
 

Clinamen 

The clinamen is a spontaneous deviation at the origin of the creation of worlds; an indeterminate and random deviation, the change in the trajectory of an atom whose course will end with the encounter with another atom. From the shock, from the explosion, a new universe is born. Clinamen is a publishing house which evolves in the field of art and its thought. It claims an ambiguous and deeply transdisciplinary position to see what ideas can emerge from the encounter between people, disciplines, generations and practices. Far from the notion of the publisher as a mere producer of written traces, Clinamen aims to always work in close collaborations with artists in order to question the very notion of publishing. Clinamen has published more than 30 printed works, runs a collection of online texts and has published projects in other forms (404, Yoan Mudry, dliss, Ceel Mogami de Haas, etc.) Clinamen was part of the selection of the "most beautiful Swiss book" in 2018 with Hwabyeong by Kim Seob Boninsegni. The publishing house has organized events and exhibitions in Détrois (US), Bucharest (RO), Luzern (Kunstmuseum), Biel (Lokal-int), Geneva (Zabriskie Point, one gee in fog, Forde, Hit, la dispersion, etc.).