By Sasa [44]
Text in Spanish, English, Japanese, German, Korean, Dutch, Czech and Hebrew
ISBN 978-89-93061-20-8
Newspaper, 394 x 545 mm, 4 pp
Freely available at the exhibition Remind (Youngeun Museum of Contempo­rary Art, Gwangju, Gyeonggi, South Korea, May 1 – July 11, 2010)
5,000 KRW after July 11, 2010
2010

In 2009, Sasa[44] consumed 86 bowls of seolleongtang, 35 bowls of jajangmyeon, made 206 transactions with his public transport card, saw 7 movies at cinemas in Seoul, purchased 455 books from Kyobo bookstore, made 909 calls from his mobile phone, made 302 attendance records with the punch clock at his studio, and had 49 people in front of him in queues at banks, etc.

The detailed information is given in eight different languages: those primarily spoken in the eight countries in which Sasa [44] has ever exhibited in the past decade.

By MeeNa Park
Text in English and Korean by Sung Won Kim
Jointly published with Kukje Gallery, Seoul
ISBN 978-89-93061-19-2
Coil-bound, 210 x 297 mm, 88 pp
20,000 KRW
2010

Catalogue for MeeNa Park’s solo exhibition, ‘BCGKMRY’, at Kukje Gallery, Seoul, 2010.

By Sasa [44]
Text in English
ISBN 978-89-93061-17-8
Saddle-stitched with cover, 257 x 364 mm, 72 pp
30,000 KRW
2010

This publication is a part of Sasa [44]’s ongoing project Our Spot, which involves traveling to different cities following other people’s instructions. ‘Sasa [44] from Seoul traveled to Tokyo in February 2009 to spend a few days following instructions given by his friend MeeNa Park as closely as possible.’ See also Sasa [44]’s Our Spot: New York, 2006.

By SMSM
Text in English and Korean by Hong-hee Kim, Geun-jun Lim and Kyung-hwan Yeo
Jointly published with Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan
ISBN 978-89-93061-18-5
Flapped paperback, 180 x 240 mm, 144 pp
Not for sale
2009

Published to document The Power of Color, the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art Handspan Gallery Health Center Project, 2009, by the collective SMSM: Sasa [44], MeeNa Park, and Sulki & Min. The Health Center Project, which was inspired by the ‘color therapy’ theory of Dr. Morton Walker, is documented in the first 32 pages with essays by Hong-hee Kim, Geun-jun Lim and Kyung-hwan Yeo. The rest of the book is made simply of different kinds of colored paper, with no information except brief quotations from Dr. Walker’s book The Power of Color (1991) on the alleged physiological effects of each color: try to feel the power for yourself! The cover pays homage to both Dr. Walker’s book and Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (1973).

By Lee Duegyoung
Text in English and Korean by Hae-chun Park, Duegyoun Lee
ISBN 978-89-93061-16-1
Folded and unbound, 210 x 268 mm, 24 pp
12,000 KRW
2009

This book was published to accompany Duegyoung Lee’s solo exhibition, ‘Teheran’, at the Gallery D+, Korea Design Foundation, Seoul, 2009. The photographer Duegyoung Lee has been methodically documenting urban spaces, and for this exhibition he took a series of aerial photographs of Teheran Street in Seoul, and combined them to a very long, single photograph. In this catalogue, the image is divided to six parts, each printed over two pages with the introductory essay and other information printed on the back. The book is left unbound, so the reader can rearrange the sheets to reconstruct the entire photographs.

By Sasa [44], Sulki & Min
Text in Korean, with introduction in Korean and English
Jointly published with Arts Council Korea, Seoul
ISBN 978-89-93061-15-4
Cased in cloth, 120 x 180 mm, 216 pp
30,000 KRW [out of print]
2009

This book was conceived in collaboration with Sasa [44] and produced as a contribution to ‘100 Daehangro’, Arko Art Center, Seoul, 22 May – 5 July 2009. The following is an excerpt from the book.

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The text contained in this book consists of greeting messages from the catalogues published for the exhibitions at the Arko Art Center, Arts Council Korea, during the last three decades. In transcribing the published texts, current Korean orthography has been ignored in favour of fidelity. Any errors and typos in the original texts, unless critically misleading, have been kept without correction. While the best effort has been made for accurate transcription, no claim is made for its ultimate perfection. The sources are credited in the last pages of this book. Thank you very much.

By Sasa [44]
Text in English and Korean
ISBN 978-89-93061-14-7
Saddle-stitched, 280 x 216 mm, 16 pp
10,000 KRW
2009

‘In 2008, Sasa [44] consumed 125 bowls of seoleong-tang and 75 bowls of jajang-myeon, made 163 transactions with his public transport card, saw 12 movies at cinemas in Seoul, purchased 581 books from Kyobo Bookstore, made 1,558 calls by his mobile phone, and waited 112 persons in queues to finish before taking his turns at public services.’ Published as part of Sasa [44]’s contribution to the exhibition ‘Leisure, A Disguised Labor?’, Hannover Messe 2009, 14 April – 31 May 2009. The format and typographic structure follows Sasa [44]’s retrospective book published in 2008, except that the grid made visible and function as information-graphic elements.

Edited by Seong Hee Kim & Hyeon-seok Seo
Text in Korean
ISBN 978-89-93061-12-3
Web-printing on newsprint and saddle-stitched, 240 x 360 mm, 32 pp
Not for sale
2009

Published as a newsletter for the interdisciplinary art event Festival Bo:m.

By Robin Kinross
Translated by Min Choi
Text in Korean
ISBN 978-89-93061-13-0
Saddle-stitched with cover, 180 x 240 mm, 16 pp
3,000 KRW
2009

Book produced as part of Min Choi’s solo exhibition, ‘Kinross, Modern typography (1992, 2004, 2009)’ at Gallery Factory, Seoul, 13 March – 5 April 2009. This publication is made of Min’s Korean translation of the chapter 12, ‘Modernism and modernity’, of Robin Kinross, Modern typography: an essay in critical history, first edn., London: Hyphen Press, 1992, pp. 134–44. The design is based on the original English edition.

By Min Choi
Text in Korean by Rhee Z-Won
ISBN 978-89-93061-11-6
Saddle-stitched with cover, 210 x 297 mm (cover size 135 x 216 mm), 32 pp
8,000 KRW
2009

Published as a catalogue of Min Choi’s solo exhibition, ‘Kinross, Modern typography (1992, 2004, 2009)’ at Gallery Factory, Seoul, 13 March – 5 April 2009. The cover, much smaller than the book itself, is in fact the invitation to the exhibition, which was made in the same design as the cover of this book (which, again, is based on the cover of the first English edition of Modern typography, shown in the third picture).