CORPUS

$32.00

CORPUS is a 3D-printed work that takes the form of a single-edition book, conceptualised, designed, and printed by graphic designer Darius Ou. This eponymous publication is a reproduction of that original work — a photocopied, bootleg-like reproduction that is also designed on its own terms.

As a word that means both a dead body and a body of text, CORPUS is a response to the overmentioned “print is dead” catchphrase and questions what this means for non-traditional printing practices like 3D printing. Does “print” here refer to the method or material? Would a 3D-printed book then be considered dead even before it has a chance to live?

This non-3D-printed edition paradoxically imagines the pre-existence or beforelife of CORPUS, which in the author’s words, explores the relationship between materiality and mortality, dimensionality and causality, and the afterlife of the codex.

Description

by Darius Ou, 2023

designed by gideon-jamie
printed by Temporary Press

edition of 500

102 pages, Risograph Printed with a full-colour digital print foldout page
155 × 214mm, comb bound

ISBN 978-981-18-8303-3
limited copies comes with bookmarks made using 3D-printed filament scraps from printing the original CORPUS

Additional information

Weight 160 g