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BOOK LAUNCHPoems Sneaking Through a Sieve (2022, Have a Nice Day Press) by Riley Cavanaugh
Spiral-bound artist book; 60 pages; 16 x 21,5 cm; edition of 500 Edited and designed by Lele Buonerba and Laurel Hauge Published by Have a Nice Day Press, Milan, Italy
Have a Nice Day Press is delighted to present Poems Sneaking Through a Sieve, the first artist book by Riley Cavanaugh. This publication bridges gaps between artist book, monograph, sketchbook, and collection of materials gathered on the Internet. Screenshots of CAPTCHA prompts and spam emails collected between 2018–2021 are the inexhaustible source material for the two bodies of work which act as the publication’s foundation.
Cavanaugh responds to this imagery and information by superimposing written responses on the CAPTCHA prompts and omitting texts and graphics from the spam emails to create visual poems. In the book, a selection of these works is paired with additional drawings and photographs by the artist. The two distinct bodies of visual poems seem to converse—each speaking their own language—while the drawings and photographs push and pull the conversation between feigning automation and showing the artist’s hand. Included in the publication is an essay by Nina Wexelblatt.
Riley Cavanaugh (b. 1996, Chicago, IL) lives and works in Berlin. Cavanaugh received their BA in film from Columbia College Chicago before going on to study at Goldsmiths in London. They make drawings, videos, poems, and sometimes curate. Two of the artist’s main thematic focuses are connection and attention. Cavanaugh’s work has been included in exhibitions at The Tsarino Foundation, Tsarino, Bulgaria; The Overlook Place, Chicago, IL; and Autonomous Cultural Center Medika, Zagreb, Croatia. To find out more about Riley’s practice, check out rileycavanaugh.com
Nina Wexelblatt is an art historian and curator. She has co-edited Thresholds 49: Supply (MIT Press Journals)and held curatorial positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. She is currently a PhD candidate at MIT, where she studies artists’ experiments with remote control and cybernetics. You can find more on her work at ninarrose.online.
Have a Nice Day Press was founded in 2019 and aims to develop and publish books, editions, and ephemera by artists whose work is informed by Internet culture.
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