REimagining
The Art of Research 2023, 30 November – 1 December 2023, Aalto University, Finland

The Art of Research conferences promote the continuous dialogue of research practices in art and design and other ways of looking at artistic research.

Re- is a collaborative artists’ book edition by Richard Nash and Gary Clough. The initiating concept and conceptual anchor to the project centred on the etymology of the prefix Re- as a facsimile, each iterative edition revisited, reused and reassembled, making visible the traces of individual interpretations and deployed in the collaboration process. The collaboration started with Richard Nash, whose practice centres on documenting and decontextualising a cross-section of work spanning 15 years from Gary Clough’s sketchbook practice. Taking a collaborative and multi-modal approach, a series of four iterative editions of the book were developed following a cyclical method involving three phases: 1) transcription and documentation, 2) constellation and translation, and 3) publication.