Tydningen, #36, 2020, Sweden

A special accordion issue of this Swedish Journal of Poetry, Criticism and Theory edited by Erik Sandberg and Filip Lindberg, with featured contributors Cheena Marie Lo, Imri Sandström and Jennifer Hayashida.

On their website Tydningen is described as "...a literary journal for poetry, theory, art and critique, with a special interest in creating spaces for critical, exploratory, experimental and experimental practices within the framework of the journal format."  I say, way to go with breaking out into the accordion format and creating a new kind of space, and pages for their inquiries!!

For further information about his periodical: Prenumerera | Köp lösnummer – Tydningen | tidskrift för poesi, kritik och teori

6 pages double-sided, each 8.25" x 5.75", and when fully open 2ft 9.5".

back cover

Levi Sherman, Various Effects of Coffee on the Body, and Rich, Deep, Bittersweet, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, 2013.

Various Effects of Coffee on the Body, 2013

Two funky little accordions that take coffee as their subject matter and both come from Sherman's research into coffee, indeed in 2013 he traveled to Colombia "...to examine the relationship between Latin American coffee farmers and coffee consumers through photography, interviews and research." The images in both accordions of coffee laborers, were found in Chicago area coffee houses and tasting notes from coffeereview.com.

For a 2014 interview with Sherman about his work see: Featured Artist: Levi Sherman – The Columbia Chronicle

Both accordions: 8 double-sided pages, each 2"x2", and when fully opened 1ft 4".

Rich, Deep, Bittersweet, 2013

Isabella Rotman, Feel Small, This Might Hurt Studios, York, Maine, nd

A fun little accordion with a big message to bring to the world. For more of Isabella's work see: Feel Small — This Might Hurt Studios

4 double-sided pages, each 3" x 2.75", and when opened 1ft 11".

reverse side

PTT-Museum Bern, Mail Art, Switzerland, 1994

Just came across this rather unique accordion catalogue for an artists' stamp invitational exhibition of works from "longstanding participants in the Mail Art Network...", exhibited and produced by the Swiss Postal Museum in an edition of 200, and curated by H.R. Fricker, Gunther Ruch and M. Vanci Stirnemann.

4 single-sided pages, individually 12.5" x 8.75", and when fully open 2ft 1".

show explanation and curators signatures from front of the catalogue