Manus Island
Series: Pflight of the paper balloons
Publisher: The artists
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lismore, N.S.W
Language: eng
Format: [art original]
Subjects: Artists' books; Balloons in art; Balloons; Pictorial works; Boats and boating; Refugee camps
Description: "The idea of paper balloons being able to cross boundaries was the initial idea for the Codex Event. The balloons became a metaphor for the plight of refugees who also tried to cross boundaries to freedom. They finally took the form of a book which when opened takes the shape of a boat. The names for the 'boats' are the names of detention centres used by the Australian federal government." -- From artists' statement.
Notes: Cover title.

"One of ten in the artists' book series "the pflight [sic] of the paper balloons"; artists: Sarah Bowen, Darren Bryant; Liz Deckers, Rebbeckah Evans, Louise Irving; Jo Kambourian & Tim Mosely" -- Colophon.

Publication statement inferred from colophon; date of publication from colophon.

Made from paper fire balloons, recycled handmade paper, pulp printing, silkscreening (see: Colophon); the paper balloon with text and illustrations has been folded and sewn at one end into cardboard boards, with titling.

A collaboration by artists involved in Codex Event 4, Southern Cross University, in Lismore, N.S.W., where the books were conceived as paper balloons; later made into book form at the Griffith Centre for Creative Arts Research, Queensland, Australia. See: Bookseller's description.