En egen trykkpresse

Ane Thon Knutsen

A Printing Press of One’s Own (En egen trykkpresse) is a practical examination of the relationship between art and technique, hand and spirit, thought and printing ink. The project came out of an interest in the printed medium in a digital age. Book printing has been the dominant technology for setting and mass reproducing of the printed word from when Gutenberg popularized the technique in the 1450s, and until well into the 20th century. Thon Knutsen set out to search for a professional position which allowed her to combine an artistic approach to typography and graphic form with her technical insight and historical knowledge of book printing. She found Virginia Woolf. The canonised modernist author and the feminist icon worked in parallel with both her writing as artistic practice and as typesetter and printer in her own private printing press. Through in-depth close reading of Woolf's authorship, seen through the first-hand experience as typesetter and printer, Thon Knutsen has found new ways to read Woolf, and a direction for her own artistic and research-based practice. Thon Knutsen has recreated the short story that Woolf printed in her debut, The Mark on the Wall, in its whole, but with a new aesthetic appearance. She has done this with a method that Thon Knutsen claims must have been used by Woolf; the thought and the writing must have been influenced by the experience of setting and printing as a pendulum between the spirit that writes and the hand that sets.

foto: Ylva Greni Guldbrandsen

foto: Brynhild Seim. Boken er innbundet av Johan Solberg.

The Mark on The Wall

Kunstnernes Hus 22 - 27 januar 2019

Adaptasjon av den første novellen Virginia Woolf trykket og publiserte på eget forlag, skrevet mens hun lærte seg selv å sette bly. Installasjonen er satt med løse typer og teksten er gjengitt i sin helhet på 1837 trykk. En refleksjon over hvordan setting og trykking påvirker tanken og skriften, som en vekslende pendel mellom ånden som skriver og hånden som setter.

Dokumentasjon i bokform

I etterkant av utstillingen ble samtlige trykk tatt ned og bundet kronologisk i én massiv bok inkludert ett dokumentasjonsbilde fra utstillingen.

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