While Dan Graham’s work encompasses performance art, video, sculpture, installations, and photography, he considered himself first and foremost as a writer-artist. Some Rockin’ was Graham’s last project before his death. In a compilation of 15 conversations with friends, artists, architects, curators, and former assistants, the project reveals Graham’s fascination with urbanism, rock music and astrology.
The book’s reflective silver edge is conceived in response to Graham’s pavilions that are constructed from mirror and glass, inviting their audiences to participate in the distortion of space. Our images of the book expand on these ideas using semi-transparent, architectural surfaces that reflect in the book’s mirrored edges – a study of space and light, activated by the presence of the reader.
The simple typography and cover design reference the graphical essentiality of Graham’s earliest works, produced out of 1960s magazine cuttings. The book’s form echoes its content: its portable size and transparent pages reflect the free-flowing, relaxed character of Graham’s conversations, which are permeated by the artist’s humour and personality.
