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Artist: Jacob Koestler Title: My Copy of The Emigrants Release #: MIF343 Format: Gallery Installation Release Date: May 2017 Details: Installation of a soft-cover book on a shelf, an image screen printed directly on the wall and two framed photographs: My Copy of the Emigrants (pt. 1, 1996 English Translation) My Copy of the Emigrants (pt. 2, Anna as The Leaping Stag) Two Seconds, Saint Petersburg, Russia (pts. 1 & 2) "There I stood, in my dark green pullover with the leaping stag on it, in front of fifty-one fellow pupils, all staring at me with the greatest possible curiosity; and, as if from a great distance, I heard Paul say that I had arrived at precisely the right moment, since he had been telling the story of the stag's leap only the day before, and now the image of the leaping stag, worked into the fabric of my pullover, could be copied onto the blackboard. He asked me to take off the pullover and take a seat in the back row beside Fritz Binswanger for the time being, while he, using my picture of a leaping stag, would show us how an image could be broken down into numerous tiny pieces – small crosses, squares or dots – or else assembled from these. In no time I was bent over my exercise book, beside Fritz, copying the leaping stag from the blackboard onto my grid-marked paper." W.G. Sebald, The Emigrants, 1992 “In W.G. Sebald's books, a narrator travels about registering evidence of the mortality of nature, recoiling from the ravages of modernity, musing over the secrets of obscure lives. On some mission of investigation, triggered by a memory or news from a world irretrievably lost, he remembers, evokes, hallucinates, grieves.” Susan Sontag, On W.G. Sebald, 2000 The pictures that inhabit Sebald’s pages are essential conflations, fusing a seemingly nonfiction text and his own empirical history. Personal experiences are inherent to the initial framing and split–second decisions when making a photograph. Often times after waiting for film processing and scanning, these actions can be remembered differently, other dots connected on the contact sheet. The speed of information that dominates the everyday rapidly shifts and pushes against this thoughtful practice, simultaneously obscuring history through subjectivity and also presenting new, clearer connections to affective literature, music and relationships. Jacob Koestler, Artist Statement, 2017. |
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Artist: Jacob Koestler Title: Moon Water Release #: MIF338 Format: Video Essay Release Date: 10/31/2016 Details: Citing the works of W.G. Sebald, Robert Frank and Alvin Lucier, this video essay examines humans' role in our post-industrial world while imagining a new home elsewhere in outer space. |
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Artist: Jacob Koestler Title: It Took a Week for a Length of Rope to Move a Foot Release #: MIF323 Format: Handmade Book Release Date: April 28, 2016 Edition of: 25 + 2 AP Price: $20.00 Details: Photographed in Athens, Ohio on the corner of Miller and State Street while walking to work. Screen printed at Zygote Pree in Cleveland, Ohio with Anna Tararova Bound at Home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio (and in West Philly at Kendra's place) |
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Artist: Jacob Koestler Title: Salt Water Release #: MIF310 Format: Handmade Book Release Date: December 8, 2013 Edition of: 53 Price: $12.50 Details: 24 pages, soft cover, saddle-stitched, 5" x 8" Interior pages printed in Athens, OH on Barry O'Keefe's Risograph Cover printed at The Cleveland Institute of Art and embossed in Cleveland, OH at Zygote Press with Anna Tararova Bound and glued at home in November, 2015 Photographed on winter walks to the bus stop in Cleveland, OH, the images of dirty snow piles and rock salt stains chart a journey though a city unfriendly to its pedestrians. Taken out of context and devoid of perspective or scale, the forms in this book turn otherworldly and represent meditation by a recent transplant to the north coast. |
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Artist: Jacob Koestler Title: The Only Ones // The Other One Release #: MIF267 // MIF268 Format: Books Release Date: December 4, 2013 Edition of: 40 Price: $25 / set (Out of print) Details: pt. 1: The Only Ones soft cover, saddle-stitched, 5.25" x 8.25" 36 pages, 25 b&w / color photographs pt. 2: The Other One soft cover, saddle-stitched, 5.25" x 8.25" 44 pages, 32 b&w / color photographs Each book includes a 16.5" x 8.5" screen print, edition of 40 printed at Paper Circle Press in Nelsonville, OH For more information and image previews, please visit www.jacobkoestler.com |
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Artist: Jacob Koestler Title: Skidmark Ingrain Release #: MIF231 Format: Handmade Book Release Date: February 2012 Details: On view during the group exhibition Fledgling Theory, consisting of work by Ohio University MFA candidates. February 7 - March 3, 2012 at Trisolini Gallery in Athens, OH. |
