No. 2-2

Barbara Visser is er niet

Barbara Visser. Barbara Visser is er niet, JRP Ringier, 2006

First monograph featuring the works of Barbara Visser. The one and only guideline given to the designers of this publication was: 'the text should not be an illustration of the images and vice versa'. The writers, with the exception of the artist and Maria Grever (by whom a longer version of the text 'The Choreography of Time' was accidentally found by the artist on the internet), were all given a general theme to write about, such as 'Psychology", 'Time', 'Myth', 'Identity', and 'Animism', and were requested to work with a set of obstructive rules: they were never to mention the artist Barbara Visser, and could not describe works in the paste tense in their texts. Paul Elliman wrote about the untranslatable Dutch word 'er' from the title, which might explain why the title of this book with just English text is in Dutch.

(Excerpted from http://www.barbaravisser.net)