This digitally printed, hand-made book is entirely designed, drawn, illustrated and hand-written by the artist. So Far No Sofa documents a series of strange and comic encounters between the artist and various characters and scenarios, on a strange journey to locate and obtain a sofa – a symbol of modern life and petit bourgeois comfort and achievement. Limited edition of 20
Technologies of Romance – Part I is an illustrated paperback in which personalised research and memoir is balanced with a historical perspective. It forms the first of a series of three books that will bring an array of ‘technologies’ into productive dialogue with varying notions of ‘romance’. Based on the author’s long-running undergraduate seminar of the same title, the series will provide an imaginative means of exploring cultural history in the context of current technologies. Limited edition of 500
A hand-bound book of small, Zen-like stories. With words by Paul O’Kane, illustrations by Francesco Poiana, and editing and design by Bada Song. Limited edition of 100
This hand-bound, limited edition book – the second publication from eeodo – records and celebrates Cash or Smash , an event performed by the artist Bada Song. It brings together the voices of many of those who participated, as artists and nonartists, adults and children present a multifaceted description and plural interpretations of an innovative and provocative art work. The result is an energetic and eclectic mix of philosophy, journalism, images, politics and poetry. Limited edition of 100
Following a compelling introduction and preface, Technologies of Romance – Part II provides three essays on the social effects and potential of new media communications. It then ventures into chapters on various arts, including cinema and photography. After a gallery of images sourced from Science Museum London, the book closes with an extended chapter on the ‘romance’ of popular music in technologised form as the writing becomes enhanced by allusions to the author’s biography. Designed by eeodo. Edited by Bada Song. Illustrated by John Whapham. Typography and additional design by Catherine Dixon. Lithographic printing by Tony Yard at LCC Print studio. Limited edition of 300
This is a short story, about the passage of time in adolescence, and features the behaviour of teenagers tentatively gathering at midnight in Seoul, to mark – as their parents perhaps did not – the change of the calendar year. Sugar paper and laser-jet printing creates a fragile, light-sensitive, subtly changing version of this tale of changing time. Laser Print on sugar paper Limited edition of 25
“I’m Alone, But Not Lonely” explores the rise of the ‘otaku’ as a phenomenon of 1980s Japanese youth culture. Originally written in 1990 by sociologist Volker Grassmuck, the essay is published here for the first time as a beautifully designed and illustrated book. It includes a Preface by Paul O’Kane, a specially written introduction by the author, and original illustrations by manga artist Kengyuan Qiu. Limited edition of 750
The artist contributed to a group exhibition using simple sugar paper and laser-jet printing to produce an uncanny wallpaper, from which this frail vertical document was derived. It features Warhol-esque repetitions of motifs ripped from well-known art historical studies of poverty. It also has a radically re-jigged Hamlet’s soliloquy at its heart, compounding a sense of intense subjectivity. Laser print on sugar paper Limited edition of 20 copies
Where Is That Light Now? collects three short, illustrated pieces from the archive of artist, writer and lecturer Paul O’Kane. Photography as art is explored here through a personal mode of literary memoir. The pieces are distinct, drawn from different stages of a career but cultivate a subtle intra-textuality. A search for a consistent perspective on a life as an artist occasionally encounters Asian thought. The writing comes to question established contexts for art and proposes an alternative – art as a personal vocation or ‘way’. Limited edition of 500
This photo essay movingly recalls a series of photographs made in the week ‘before’ the artist learned of his father’s impending death. The photographs thus seem to evoke a certain ominous symbolism. Text is reduced to a single-page essayette, enlivened by reflections on photography, and Baudrillardian theories of time and history. Limited edition of 10 copies