Pool 3
Nora Turato
Published by Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, 2019, 704 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 14.8 × 20 cm, English
Price: €50

In Nora Turato’s performances, spoken word, graphic design, and bookmaking are intertwined to explore the possibilities of language in a culture oversaturated with information. Turato collects words and phrases from a range of sources: the Internet, media headlines, advertisements, conversations, books, commercial products, and her own thoughts.

For the first time, this third volume includes texts by writers other than the artist: Graham Burnett, Fabian Flückiger, Ana Janevski and Sohrab Mohebbi. Designed by Sabo Day.

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Pool 2
Nora Turato
Published by Nora Turato, Amsterdam, 2018, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 14.8 × 20 cm, English
Price: €50 (Out of stock)

In Nora Turato’s performances, spoken word, graphic design, and bookmaking are intertwined to explore the possibilities of language in a culture oversaturated with information. Turato collects words and phrases from a range of sources: the Internet, media headlines, advertisements, conversations, books, commercial products, and her own thoughts. Pool 2 assembles and arranges these pools of text from 2017 and 2018. Designed by Sabo Day (assisted by Claes Storm).

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Pool 5
Nora Turato
Published by MOMA, New York, 2022, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 14.8 × 20 cm, English
Price: €50 (Out of stock)

In Nora Turato’s virtuosic performances, spoken word, graphic design, and bookmaking are intertwined to explore the possibilities of language in a culture oversaturated with information. Turato collects words and phrases from a range of sources: the Internet, media headlines, advertisements, conversations, books, commercial products, and her own thoughts. Pool 5—which takes the form of a performance and a book—assembles and arranges these pools of text into a growing script that Turato memorizes and performs, alternating rhythm and intonation, voices and modes. The publication serves simultaneously as prop, set, exhibition, archive, and artist’s book. Designed by Sabo Day.

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pool 4
Nora Turato
Published by MOMA, New York, 2020, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 14.8 × 20 cm, English
Price: €50

pool 4 is the title both of a performance and a book produced for MoMA, in which the artist Nora Turato collects language from a range of sources. These “pools” of texts, pulled from the Internet, media headlines, advertisements, conversations, books, commercial products, and her own thoughts, are assembled and arranged, with no logic or narrative structure, into a growing script that Turato memorizes and performs. The publication presented in the space serves simultaneously as prop, set, exhibition, archive, and artist’s book. Designed by Sabo Day.

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