HR

When first exploring this theme one could feel the need of a users manual - the combination of haptocracy and bureutix in a paraquential order is a parfect sput. There is a sense of non-sense, also complexity, like meta-blackness or ivory-tremens imply. There is no certainty of a flow, neither an obvious function. It is a lexicon of neologisms created by people who have applied to 2014 Sommerakademie. Upon a careful reading the new words may turn sensitive and sensible. It is also a notebook; readers may write more on their reading material like squirting a worm.

Hermann Rorschach’s drawn animal ("a cat or a dog?" we keep wondering) floating on a green pool on the cover asks for caress: use some affection and maybe your grandmother will land next to you for a few seconds. Or someone else - depending on your sense of smell - the dust jacket is a scratch & sniff ergoscope. Roll the pages in all possible directions, let the typeface made of the lines of the same creature to irritate you a bit. User's manual would not be needed, this book is already one; a manual of how to use the senses as mapping devices to comprehend more knowledges.

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A notebook contains neologisms created for HR, Sommerakademie 2014, a drawing by Hermann Rorschach (HR), and a "HR-Luisli-typeface" made from the lines of a drawing (circa 1903–1904, University Library of Bern, Archives and Collection Hermann Rorschach, HR 5:1).

Editor: Raimundas Malašauskas (Guest Curator 2014)
Design and typeface concept: Goda Budvytytė
Typeface: Fabian Harb
Color scheme: Elena Narbutaitė
Display of neologisms: Kym Ward (SAK Fellow 2014)
Print: die Keure, Brugge
 

Neologisms by: Juan Diego Tobalina (SAK Fellow 2014), Rowan Smith, Axelle Stiefel, Martín Touzón, Simon Ripol- Hurrier, S Schoenfeld, Nadine Wietlisbach, Daniel Giles, Beth Collar, Aditya Mandayam, Daniel Jacoby, Katja Aufleger, Lia Lowenthal, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Gerda Paliušytė (SAK Fellow 2014), Calori & Maillard, Riccardo Benassi, Margit Säde Lehni (SAK Fellow 2014), Lucy Stein (SAK Fellow 2014), Jean-Charles de Quillacq, Jacopo Mazzetti (SAK Fellow 2014), Ben Thorp Brown, Alexander Provan (SAK Fellow 2014), Alan Bogana (SAK Fellow 2014), Igshaan Adams (SAK Fellow 2014), Kris Dittel, Kathi Hofer, Von Calhau, Jeannine Han, Amy Wong, Matthew C. Wilson, Brendan Michal Heshka, Ashkan Sepahvand, Emma I. Panza, Aneta Rostkowska, Morten Norbye Halvorsen (SAK Fellow 2014), Kym Ward (SAK Fellow 2014), Crystal Z Campbel (SAK Fellow 2014), Audrey Cottin (SAK Fellow 2014)

Published by: Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee, 2015

Thanks to: Valentina Desideri, Jason Dodge, Urs Germann (Hermann Rorschach Archive Bern), Emma Ines Panza, Nerijus Rimkus

Copyright: Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee

2014, Leporello fold, available in English.