Ab ovo
By: [introduction by Steven Hull, Susan Morgan ; illustrations by Steven Hull]
Contributors: Hull, Steven
Publisher: Nothingmoments Publishing
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [S.l.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Multimedia (Art) -- Exhibitions; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory -- In art
Genres: Exhibitions; In art
Notes: Catalog designed by Michael Worthington with Jiwon Lee

Catalog of the results of a group project proposed by Steven Hull. Nineteen visual artists took the full MMPI-2TM (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2TM) test. The test is claimed to be an objective measure of personality. Reports of the test results were randomly and anonymously distributed to nineteen fiction writers who were asked to create a children's story based on the personality described therein. Nineteen figurative artists then illustrated the stories. The gallery exhibition consists of the stories and illustrations

Test subjects: Julie Ault, Ellen Birrell, Derek Boshier, Candice Breitz, Inka Essenhigh, Charles Gaines, Steven Hull, Mike Kelley, Mary Kelly, Glenn Ligon, Simon Leung, Jonathan Monk, Dario Robleto, Martha Rosler, Jim Shaw, Michael Smith, Georgina Starr, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Bruce Yonemoto
Table of contents: value: My current situation / Gail Pickering and Gail Swanlund; value: Wilderness survival / Ion Birch and Rachel Kushner; value: Regarding a boy / Marcos Rosales and Millie Wilson; value: The Wookiee saw my nipples : a week in the life of Princess Leia / Paul Noble and Trinie Dalton; value: The boy who fell from reality / Henry Taylor and Sean Dower; value: Bully Buck / Soo Kim and Tony White; value: She had eyes that hypnotized / Isabell Heimerdinger and Wayne Lindberg; value: Just because you have a hammer / Ivan Morley and Mady Schutzman; value: Trembling P's and shipwrecked Q's / Kelly Barrie and Leslie Davis; value: Bad dream / Kaz Oshiro and Vincent Johnson; value: Boy in a butterfly garden / Lamar Peterson and Kimberly Nichols; value: Light touch / Thomas Lawson and Stewart Lindh; value: Arms / Junko Shimizu and Jim Krusoe; value: "N" quest / Marnie Weber and Betty Nguyen; value: Twins / Paul P. and Marina LaPalma; value: Jitney Junior in a brave new world / Hiroki Otsuka and Terri Phillips; value: The sad story of Rhonda the Rhinoceros / Tanya Haden and Ben Ehrenreich; value: Hairy prince / Scott Cassidy and Benjamin Weissman; value: So big / Michael Mahalchick and Lynne Tillman