Edited by Lisa D. Freiman. Text by Richard Klein, Ian Berry.
Known together as Type A, Adam Ames (born 1969) and Andrew Bordwin (born 1964) have worked collaboratively over the past ten years to develop conceptual projects in diverse media that address the complexities of male relationships. This catalogue of photographs and drawings provides a retrospective of their work.
The work of Type A is featured in a major new monograph co-published by Hatje Cantz and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, where collaborators Adam Ames and Andrew Bordwin have conducted two years of team-building exercises with the museum staff. The results of these exercises have coalesced in a public artwork at the museum's backyard neighbor, 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park, which The New York Times calls "a meditation on the way relationships move in and out of sync."
"Normally, when you have a contest, you've got two sides, and you have a set of parameters, a set of rules, whether it's based on time, place or appearance, and someone wins and someone loses. And when you make a piece in which there's no back and forth there, you know it's a boring game. People say, 'Wow, that was a good game,' when, you know, one team gets the lead and then relinquishes the lead--it goes back and forth a bunch of times… the whole point is you're engaged in that constant shift of power and advantage. And what started as a kind of hoot, with basically Adam saying, 'Kick my ass. No I'm not asking, I'm telling. Kick my ass,' turned into us saying to the viewer: 'You don't get that. Sorry you're not allowed… there's gonna be no back and forth, there's gonna be no exchange of power, there's gonna be no shifting in that balance at all. It's just going to be incessant, non-stop.' … Does that make it boring? Or does it actually make you think about what power is?"
Andrew Bordwin, speaking about Type A's single-channel video, Dance, in which Bordwin and collaborator Adam Ames wrestle one another but deny the viewer the satisfaction of witnessing a "good game." Excerpt is from Lisa D. Freiman's essay, "Type A's Alignment," published in Adam Ames & Andrew Bordwin: Type A.
FORMAT: Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 128 pgs / 122 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $55.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $65 ISBN: 9783775725293 PUBLISHER: Hatje Cantz AVAILABLE: 11/30/2010 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA
Published by Hatje Cantz. Edited by Lisa D. Freiman. Text by Richard Klein, Ian Berry.
Known together as Type A, Adam Ames (born 1969) and Andrew Bordwin (born 1964) have worked collaboratively over the past ten years to develop conceptual projects in diverse media that address the complexities of male relationships. This catalogue of photographs and drawings provides a retrospective of their work.
