- Cart$0Cart
- No products in the cart.
$60
Limited Edition Artist Book
$60
In stock – 5 available
The Labyrinth of Tantalus
A Limited Edition Artist Book Accompanying the Installation by Anna & Leo Daedalus
About the Installation
In a closed gallery, an unfinished book recedes into the distance, out of range of legibility. In the book, an unresolved mystery revolves around a closed bookshop. The Labyrinth of Tantalus, a minimal book-installation by Portland artists Anna & Leo Daedalus, on view throughout January 2012 from outside 23 Sandy Gallery while the gallery was closed for winter break.
Click here to see a slide show of the installation.
About the Book
The Labyrinth of Tantalus limited edition artist book. It reproduces the installation book, with the addition of a colophon, and is the same size as the installation book.
| Title | The Labyrinth of Tantalus |
| Artist/Creator | Anna & Leo Daedalus |
| Place of Publication | Portland, Oregon |
| Book Structure | Pamphlet stitch book with folded covers. |
| Medium/Materials | Ink jet printed. |
| Pages | 24 |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publication Date | 2012 |
| Edition | 8 |
| Signed and Numbered? | Yes |
Polyvalent artist Leo Daedalus does things in writing, video, performance, music, comedy, dada/fluxus activity, and other nonsense. He collaborates regularly with his wife, Anna, especially on artist's books under the imprint Disposable Books. In Portland since 2005, projects have included multimedia lecture-opera The Theory of Love with John Berendzen, Anna Daedalus and David Abel, and Parallaxis, a concert of video and live music co-produced with FearNoMusic. Leo speaks seven languages, keeps four chickens, and is proud to have made a thorough fool of himself MC’ing the Richard Foreman Mini-Festival of performance art at Performance Works Northwest in Portland, in October, 2011.
A longtime Pacific Northwesterner, Anna Daedalus holds a B.A. in Spanish Literature from Reed College, and was a student and teaching assistant at the Chicago Photography Center. A multi-disciplinary artist, she works primarily in photography and performance and frequently collaborates with poets, writers, and videographers on such things as artist’s books, video work, film festival curation, and absurdist performance in a Dada/Fluxus vein. She has shown her large-scale photographic prints in Portland and Seattle. Anna’s work can be found in various collections, including the John Wilson Special Collections at the Multnomah County Library and the Beinecke Library at Yale University.
