text and design: Liora Epstein

→ dispersed non-existence
→ The Bar

text and design: Susanna Schoenberg

→ dispersed non-existence
→ The Bar

text and design: Felix Adam

→ The Bar

text and design: Malin Speicher

→ dispersed non-existence
→ The Bar

Tagebuch der bösen Taten
Hand-bound artist books from dispersed non-existence (2023) and The Bar (2024)
Written by Felix Adam, Liora Epstein, Susanna Schoenberg, Malin Speicher

Materials:
Thread-sewn binding with exposed spine, coloured dust jacket with blind embossing

Dimensions:
26.1 × 15.5 × 0.9–1.2 cm each

Language:
German (translation in English is planned for 2027.

Collection:
Kunstmuseen Krefeld

logging bad deeds has been running since 2018: transgressions are recorded in writing, in hand-bound books called loggings. In dispersed non-existence (2023) and The Bar (2024), four figures each have a book in their own voice. The books are written and designed by the artist and invited authors, following parameters she sets: age, gender, era. They are laid out in the installation and may be read.

The texts work with autofictional fragments. They do not form a closed narrative: perspectives overlap, and their status between biographical reference and fiction is deliberately left unresolved. What emerges is a tension between personal narration and the analytical examination of so-called “bad” deeds.

Scans by Liora Epstein
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn