Details:
This single edition reprint of Edward Everett Hale’s 1869 short story The Brick Moon was commissioned for the exhibition Whitewashing the Moon at Project Arts Centre. The book is 144 pages long, it was designed by Seán O’Sullivan, printed by Grehan Printers and clothbound by Duffy Bookbinding. Whitewashing the Moon was curated by Tessa Giblin and Kate Strain. Project Press, ISBN 978-1-872493-39-8
From the Press Release:
Whitewashing the Moon is based on a short story by Edward Everett Hale, originally published in 1869. It tells the tale of the men and women who conceived of the first recorded imagining of a satellite in orbit, and the events that unfolded as they eventually went about creating a ‘Brick Moon’. As well as being a scientifically advanced concept for its time, the science-fiction fantasy that evolved through the story also creates an extraordinary transformative effect. This transformative concept is at the centre of Whitewashing the Moon, in which a twilit garden of sculptures, moving images and other material installations communicate a similar potential for objects. The works of Caroline Achaintre, Jorge De la Garza, Eleanor Duffin, Barbara Knezevic and Raphaël Zarka all explore in different ways the transformative potential of objects and ideas.