Questions Concerning Craft: Aghabani, 2024
Adhesive binding Handset in Consort Light 8 pages Printed on a Vandercook letterpress with inkjet details Dimensions: 4.125” x 5.625” Edition of 10
The Countermonuments, 2024
Stab binding Chipboard cover with debossed details 30 pages Riso printed interior with inkjet and debossed details Dimensions: 8.5” x 10.75” Edition of 100 Photographs by Jenna Hamed
Written by Rasha Abdulhadi. Designed, printed, and bound by Jenna Hamed and Rhonda Khalifeh. See colophon for more details.
SOS via SMS, 2024
Included in Makeready 1 Pamphlet stitch 10 pages Dimensions: 4.25” x 5.5” Edition of 200 Photographs by Jenna Hamed
Makeready issue 1 collects five print/book objects by BASN founding members, examining themes of solidarity and social movements in and beyond the world of book arts. Through this we look to imagine beyond dominant structures and systems, towards liberatory possibilities, and the role and importance of printing and publishing within that. This inaugural issue is launched at Brooklyn Art Book Fair 2024.
Features: Leila Abdelrazaq, Jenna Hamed, Rhonda Khalifeh, Aya Krisht, and Sarah Nicholls.
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Project Z II, 2022
Perfect Binding
Paperback Cover
Dimensions: 8.5" x 11"
Edition of 100
ISBN: 978-1-7325437-6-8
Open Projects Press
Project Z II by Rhonda Khalifeh presents conversations with 8 new Project Z participants and the garments created in dialogue with them. Spanning from 2019-2021, Project Z II layers material scraps, process notes, interview content, fitting photos, and finished garment photos to present an alternative garment-making narrative.
Khalifeh’s Project Z series activates printmaking and bookmaking as tools to chronicle garment making, a process which she views as a social space for collective narratives to unfold. In each of these processes, the prints act as records of relational materials and experiences. Khalifeh prints images of fabric, fittings, and other ephemera to document her textile practice. These prints transform into new primary works outside of the garment process, challenging the idea of a catalogue or documentation as secondary to art making.
Z is for Zahar, 2022
Paper, bolts, synthetic fleece, fabric scraps, linen, thread Dimensions: 16” x 10” Unique Artist’s Book Photographs by Roni Aviv
Z is for Zahar offers a look into conversations with 8 new Project Z participants and the garments created in dialogue with them. This four part unique artist’s book is the newest addition to the Project Z archive and a material companion to Project Z Book 2 (October 2022, Open Projects Press). Spanning from 2019-2021, Z is for Zahar layers material scraps, process notes, interview content, fitting photos, and finished garment photos to present an alternative garment-making narrative that privileges human relationships.
Acquired by the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto.
Begin Again, 2022
1-page zine Dimensions: 2.5” x 4” Edition of 200
Original prints were pressure printed on a Vandercook Letterpress using felt cut-outs by Rhonda Khalifeh. Final zines were screen printed by Allison Carter-Beaulé.
Z Pocket Zine, 2021
1-page zine Inkjet print with fabric and machine embroidered details Dimensions: 4.5” x 5” Edition of 20
An interlude between Project Z book 1 and 2, Z Pocket Zine contains hand gestures cut out from Project Z fitting and Swatch Survey photos. The zine underscores the significance of touch in a participatory design process and the necessity of hand gestures in communicating material preferences. Includes photos of 12 Project Z participants from book 1 and 2: Aminah AbuSway, Allison Arkush, Madeline Barasch, Sarah Byrd, Parisa Chavoshi, Jil Crary-Ross, Mengly Hernandez, Laila Iravani, Noah Pica, Philip Sieverding, Preston Thompson, and Kimia Zakerin.
Project Z, 2018
Perfect Binding
Paperback Cover
Color
Dimensions: 8" x 10"
ISBN: 978-1-7325437-1-3
Open Projects Press
Project Z is an ongoing experiment in making and a reflection on the relationships that stem from sustained conversation between maker and wearer. By centering dialogue in the creation of one-of-a-kind pieces, I’m exploring the practice of garment making as an intimate social platform.
In developing Project Z, I conducted a series of in-depth interviews with nine participants with the goal of creating an article of clothing in dialogue with each subject. Upon completion, the participants were given their respective garments to keep and wear. The resulting conversations, design research, construction process, fittings, and finished garments were compiled into an artist’s book published by Open Projects Press in 2018.
Photographs by Danielo Garcia.