CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/2/2019

A strange and provocative abstraction from Michael Stipe and Douglas Coupland

Featured spreads are from photographer and R.E.M. front man Michael Stipe's new artist's book, Our Interference Times, made with the influential Canadian writer and artist, Douglas Coupland, with whom Stipe has been discussing ideas and culture for more than two decades. A glitchy, almost hallucinogenic, collage of images from Stipe's massive personal archive, this strange and provocative 200-page abstraction captures an in-between state, a constantly shifting moiré pattern neither analog nor digital, referencing both past and future. At the end, the image captions reads like a readymade autobiographical poem.