Transit
Istanbul, Turkey: A. Taptik. 2008
Synopsis: Ali Taptik's Transit is part of a multivalent art project "investigating migration and cultural identity with artists, experts, and 'ordinary' people from five port cities: Liverpool, Naples, Istanbul, Gdansk, and Marseille." For this artist's book, which was distributed in Liverpool in lieu of an exhibition, Taptik uses the format of the fold-out street map to display a two-sided 5 x 6 grid of square photographic images of all five port cities. The resulting collection reveals less about the cities themselves and more about the personal experience of traveling and of encountering different people and inhabiting different places without belonging anywhere in particular.
Category: Book
Pages: [1] p.
Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 65 x 91 cm., folded to 13.5 x 13.5 cm.
Cover: Paperback
Binding: folded
Process: offset-printed
Color: color
Edition 1200
Signed: Unsigned and Unnumbered
Transit is designed by
Okay Karadayilar
okaykaradayilar.com
