Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda Bad Driver, 2024
49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine and galerie michèle didier are delighted to present a new stage in the Bad Driver editorial project, in French, by artists Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda.
Specifications
Book in one volume
210 x 130 mm
456 pages, 120 gr. Munken Pure Rough paper
Limited to 8 copies + 2 A.P. + 2 copies H.C.
French translation by Pierre Testard
Proofreading by Lorane Marois
Graphic design by Raymond Aubry
Printed and bound by Snel Graphics sa
Produced by michèle didier, 2024
Commissioned by 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine
The English version of Bad Driver was presented at Maxwell Graham Gallery, New York, in 2021.
The anthropological approach is omnipresent in their work, and Bad Driver is no exception. Its main text is constructed in part on the model of William Burroughs' cut-up, bringing together facts, anecdotes and commonplaces based on Chinese texts and culture, but in such a way as to “direct the sinister and absurd stereotypes about Asians circulating in the United States and the Western world back to those who conceived them”. To mark the occasion, Bad Driver includes new interpretative texts commissioned by the authors. But, like The Tibetan Book of the Dead, it is ostensibly just a book.