Sunday, July 20, 2014

MUST JOON book

Title: MUST JOON
Edition of 50
Hand binded
Graphic design: Søren Herschel and Anastaßia Sharomova
Published by MUST JOON 
Printed by MUST JOON at Estonian Academy of Arts
Paper: Munken Lynx rough 100g
Font: Bariol by Atipo

www.mustjoon.tumblr.com
mustjoongroup@gmail.com


MUST JOON - the idea and collective

Must Joon in English means black line. Line is what remains after touching paper with a pencil or with any kind of tracing tool on any kind of platform/material. Black is the colour that supports the different characteristics of a line in the most powerful way. A simple black line helps to focus on the nature of the line itself, gesture, spontaneity and its simplicity supports collaborative activity.

 

We are a collective of international artists and students with different backgrounds whose common interest is drawing. We met at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn in 2013 and 2014. We started meeting, often for a simple reason – to draw people, objects, buildings and spaces around us. Drawing brought us together.

Soon it became not only about observing and studying the surroundings, but also about exploring drawing as a media itself and creating new ways of drawing within the group – by collective approach. By using drawing games (some of them were invented by some of the members while experimenting and trying new ways of collaborative possibilities) and experiments we developed very playful, innovative and joyful ways of spending time together creatively. Each of us has brought his or her own style and ideas to the group. Not every session is the same, we “learn by doing”. What began with spontaneous meetings at private and public spaces at bars, parks, streets, soon turned out to be a part of our weekly schedule. Within the group we react to each other while drawing, it is a dialogue without speech. We see drawing as an important and helpful tool of bringing different people together.

The results are not only drawings. We created videos, animations, made up new drawing games, discovered drawing in a space and explored black line as a uniting tool. By collecting our works and sorting the games for this publication we would like to maintain and spread interest of this idea of collaborative drawing among others.

Members

Liisa Krüsmägi (EST)

Søren Herschel (GER)

Anastassia Sharomova (EST)

Slavomíra Ondrušová (SK)

Anna Slámová (CR)

Joana Taurino (POR)

Daniel Hozjan (CAN)

Evghenia Gritsku (UKR)

And other externals.



























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