The One Weekend
Book Series

2005 — Nr. 6
The Hague, The Netherlands

Rowan McCuskey, Martijn F. Overweel (FAMC), Basit Khan, Jackson Chang and
Martin Lorenz

Saturday, 9th of April 2005.

On the opening weekend of the exhibition at the <> Tag Headquarters, The Hague, Holland, the initiator of the project, M. Lorenz, created the first live-performed volume of «The One Weekend Book Series». This time he sweat it out with B.Khan, J.Chang and Famc.

As the Gallery got crowded, the music got louder, and the centre of attention moved towards the performing artists. Observed by circa 150 visitors at the exhibition and around 4.000 visitors on the internet who could follow the performance on one of the three live streaming cameras.

The piles of paper garbage and unused illustrations around and under the artists‘ working table grew. From being exhausted by the noise, chit-chatting with visitors and a lot of hand-shaking, the situation turned into a very concentrated working mood, ignoring the audience watching them.

Enjoy the results.

Martin Lorenz: Basit, you participated in the 6th volume of «The One Weekend Book Series», which happened to be the 1st live performed volume. Tell me about it. How was it?

Basit Khan: To be able to participate in the first live performed volume of «The One Weekend Book Series» was very exciting. At first I was a bit nervous as to how I would be able to interact and perform with the other designers, but as the day went on, I found my flow. When the visitors came in to view us as we worked, it did get a little hectic and made it hard for me to concentrate at first. But eventually I ended up using the noise and the army of little children around me and tried to incorporate it into the work. Some of the children were eager to cut and paste, and I gave them a chance to get their hands dirty with paint and glue.

Working with you, Jackson and Famc was a blast. I’ve never had an opportunity to work on search a project live, and I am glad that my first time was with this group of individuals. Inspiration and ideas were running wild! So wild that we spilt paint twice in two days! This exercise made me want to work with my hands even more, and I will try to implement this technique more and more into my work. The final book layout looks promising, and I think that the content of this volume differs greatly from other previous volumes. All in all, it turned out to be a great book, a great weekend and a great experience. Thanks to you and the rest for making this happen!