Unica T

Profiled artist: Uta Schneider
Profiled artist: Ulrike Stoltz
Profiled artist: Ines von Ketelhodt
Profiled artist: Anja Harms
Profiled artist: Doris Preussner
Categories: Reference / Catalogue, Essays

Reference no.:R/C/Uni.T/96.00

Book title:	Unica T
Published by:	Unica T
Year made:	1996
Place made:	Germany
Original:	Yes
Dimensions:	215 x 280
Binder:	commercial binding
Physical description:	hard cover case binding
Further information:
The catalogue celebrates the work of the 5 artists of Unica T; '10 Jahre Unica T: Künstlerbücher, Mappen, Unikate' Venue: Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Date: 5 September -17 November 1996 "Walter Benjamin said that 'collaboration is a defensive system against the shock of the modern city' and Unica T as a group seems to update this definition by selecting a quiet and passionate medium, the book, to counteract the noise and the hustle of an urban environment.... Collaboration at the outset is anti-hierarchical, freely associative and dynamic. There is always an open dialectic that functions within a checks and balances system. Collaboration is also an arduous and time-consuming process where conflict ultimately finds resolution. Yet Unica T works so well together that is appears seamless. Knowing each other so well, they act and react in unison, yet always maintaining their own identities both in person and in their work." Judith A. Hoffberg (from the essay: Unica T and Collaboration: Art and Life with Collective Vision)