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Books
Odyssey Works: Transformative Experiences for an Audience of One, Princeton Architectural Press, 2016.
Abraham Burickson and Ayden LeRoux, with contributions from Rick Moody and a short story by Amy Hempel.
Imagine waking up to find yourself immersed in a performance that is all about you. Since 2001, Odyssey Works has created transformative experiences for an audience of one person at a time. This book is an inspirational handbook for artists and non-artists alike to create meaningful and beautiful experiences, using six proposals for a radically new type of work based in empathy, deep involvement, experimentation, and a belief that well-crafted work can be life-changing.
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“The resounding message—sorely needed at a time when art is being condemned as irrelevant—is that not only can we live more deeply meaningful lives, but that art can have a potent role in this transformation.”
—The Brooklyn Rail
Isolation and Amazement, Samsara Press, 2012.
Isolation and Amazement offers insight into the contemporary art practice of Odyssey Works, a group that probes the relationship between audience and artist by making deeply affective work for an audience of one. This book documents and traces the experience of the participant with photos, drawings and writings from the 2012 production The Map is Not the Territory. The book provides an intimate cross-section of the Odyssey, highlighting both the ephemeral and material aspects of the production. The participant's own perspective alongside reflections by the artists involved offer rare insight into the theoretical and personal aspects of the work.
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Catalogue essays
Double Feature, Saint Lucy Books, 2025.
Double Feature presents analog vernacular photographs from the collection of Patrick Pound. These double exposures are supplemented by other kinds of photographic doubling—reflections / shadows / mimicked gestures. The images are complemented by writing by a host of artists, art historians, critics, and writers reflecting on ideas of doubling, layering, and simultaneous realties that are evoked by the photographs within the book.
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No Wend, Gregory Rollins, 2021.
“Wend contains an inherent contradiction in its definition: to travel with a specific direction but to move there anfractuously. It implies both direction and indirection. Rollins makes his way across and around and through and within America; as the title of this book suggests, he is wayfinding rather than taking the fastest route. In each of the photographic plates by Gregory Rollins in No Wend a 35 mm frame forks into two images, bisected by time, by the closing of the aperture. These half frame photographs are paired like fraternal twins, split from the same egg into two different bodies, diverging directions from the same origin.
These twinned images allow for the simultaneity of loss and possibility, for the road spilling forward and magnetizing us back home. The white valleys splitting each of these frames are not unlike the paint that divides the lines of the road. And just like a two lane road, these images have the sense of looking forward and turning back, of origins and the hereafter running alongside one another.” (excerpted from catalogue essay)