Special Collections has deluxe copy number 9/12 (of 60 total copies) signed by the author, artist, and binder. IaU "An edition of 60 copies with poems by Theresa Whitehill and images by Felicia Rice ... printed on Arches Watercolor paper by Felecia Rice at Moving Parts Press. Plates made in-house and by Boxcar Press and the Artichoke Press. Bound in Iris book cloth by Craig Jensen"--Colophon. Companion volume issued in edition of 320 copies; features the full suite of poems by Theresa Whitehill generated out of the collaborative effort, with a preface by Inge Bruggeman. 2nd box contains the Flyamapirit digital viewer and the printing plate, also a descriptive listing of the 9 films (1 folded leaf ; 21 cm), and for the digital viewer: 1 user manual (13 pages ; 14 cm), 1 AC/DC adapter, 1 remote control.
Contents:
Films: Moving Parts Press post-fire (0:50) [2020] -- Raise Moving Parts Press from the ashes (1:48) [2020] -- Moving Parts Press: home at last (0:39) [2022] -- Moving Parts Press: rising from the ashes (4:50) [2022] -- On heavy lifting: backstory (17:36) [2023] -- On heavy lifting: trailer (2.27) [2023] -- On heavy lifting: an experiment in film (17:12) [2023] -- On heavy lifting: house of water (4:28) [2023] -- Heavy lifting: folding instructions (3.33) [2023].
Summary:
Heavy Lifting, is the outcome of a close collaboration between artist/printer Felicia Rice of Moving Parts Press and poet Theresa Whitehill. It began in 2019 with an exchange in which a poem sparked a drawing which sparked a poem which led to a book structure, then spiraled back round again. In 2020, during their early work on the project, Felicia lost her letterpress shop of over 40 years to a devastating megafire in the Santa Cruz Mountains just as the death of George Floyd trained a blazing light on the many deep-seated inequities in this country amid the global pandemic and threat of political totalitarianism. Heavy Lifting took flight in spite of and because of our personal and collective crises of this terrible time and tackles these issues in book form, performance, and dialogue in search of a tenable future. Every book in the edition is accompanied by the film, "On Heavy Lifting" (17:12 min) on an SD card [in envelope], the deluxe edition includes a second clamshell box holding a laser cut printing plate and a digital viewer loaded with the film, "On Heavy Lifting" and eight other shorts. The films and videos tell the complete story of loss due to fire and the years of recovery since. https://movingpartspress.com/publications/heavy-lifting/
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1392293818
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.