Sunsets, Waves, Notes From Underground
2024
Publisher: 
Archive Books
Distributor: 
Anagram Books
Editor and designer: 
Joshua Shaddock
Texts: 
Mara Lee
Lauren O'Neill-Butler
Natascha Sadr Haghighian
191 pages
Softcover, 13 x 19.6 cm
Cover: Paperback with flaps
ISBN 978-3-943620-43-6


Sunsets, Notes From Underground, Waves serves as a guidebook of sorts to Lisa Tan’s eponymous video suite. Containing illustrated transcriptions of each video and texts by Mara Lee, Lauren O'Neill-Butler, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and the artist, it both catalogues and responds, sticks to the facts and allows for hearsay.

The concept of the liminal permeates Tan’s videos: drifting between day and night, above and below ground, land and sea. An analogous transit is offered by this book, suspending the reader between the empirical and subjective, with the hope of fulfilling the promise held out by the liminal: transformation.


Individual texts

Mara Lee
The Shadow is Just as Tangible as the Origin

Lauren O’Neill-Butler
Time is a Dictator

Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Airport Hotel

Joshua Shaddock
Editor’s Preface

Lisa Tan
A Document of its Own Method