Collective Documents is a network of designers and artists who approach publishing as a means of inquiry and exploration. United by a shared interest, Collective Documents utilizes the act of printing and book-making as a process of thinking and experimentation. Our publications engage form and the generative potential of the printed spread, inviting the reader to co-construct meaning through the act of seeing, experiencing, and reading.
Spanning a range of analog and digital formats, our work sequences multiple temporalities, considers the functions and limits of verbal and visual documentation, and oscillates in the shifting space between abstraction and precision. Collective Documents is anchored by direct engagement with the physicality of printed materials and participation in the systems of circulation and distribution cultivated by the independent publishing community.
Our work has been exhibited at: San Fransisco Art Book Fair, Miss Read: Berlin Art Book Fair, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, Pioneer Works Press Play Fair, Detroit Art Book Fair, Chicago Art Book Fair, Odds and Ends Book Fair, Fully Booked: Dubai Art Book Fair, Northampton Art Book Fair, Boston Art Book Fair, DC Art Book Fair, Cincinnati Art Book Fair, Pittsburgh Art Book Fair, Multiple Formats Art Book Fair, Capital Art Book Fair, Seattle Art Book Fair
Contact: collectivedocuments@gmail.com