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• 1 2017-05-26T07:31:48-07:00 DisAttachment Anxiety: an exercise in unwitting book design and compelled collaboration 10 plain 2017-05-26T10:20:40-07:00 The collaboration kicked off with a two-part meeting, "Backwording with Booksters," beginning with a series of introductory presentations in Scalar by CSLC 134 / RUSN 334 students on Russian Avant-garde art, literature and book arts in the Varelas Innovation Lab, followed by a spontaneously collaborative book-making activity led by Professor Pedersen at the Letterpress Studio, "(Dis)Attachment Anxiety," which is loosely based upon the "exquisite corpse" model. 
  
  In this exercise, students followed a series of disrupted steps for making an art book with artistic designs using ink and a variety of common and found tools. The purpose of the exercise was to introduce students to the convoluted folds inherent to folio production, while breaking down proprietary inhibitions to collaborative creativity. ​In a sequence of distinct stages, participants created designs, folded paper from a broadsheet down to a folio, and printed a single word emblematic of the effort. Their activities, however, were punctuated by unanticipated constraints, such as working with non-dominant hand, or from under the table, and the occasional instruction to abandon their own page and pass it along to a neighbor to continue work.