Signal_Crayfish
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- Date
- 25 Apr 2026 – 26 Jul 2026
- Type
- Exhibition
- Place
- San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco (US)
- Series
- Signal_Crayfish
- Group show
- Futurity Library: Disobedient Artists' Books in the Postbook Age
- Resembles
- 0332 Even the City Dreams of Being Another
- Read as
- GREY 84%, BRIGHT, EVEN, DETAILED
- Links
- www.sfcb.org
Signal_Crayfish (2021), the book work, shown in Futurity Library: Disobedient Artists' Books in the Postbook Age at the San Francisco Center for the Book, 25 April to 26 July 2026, curated by bex ya yolk.
The book is ring-bound and its plates are 3D-printed. One is pink and perforated, carrying a crown and, in mirror writing, "Find them, eat them & enjoy them" — the Danish Nature Agency's advice on the invasive signal crayfish. The plate facing it is green and reads "I cheer as the pink-green crayfish team score a goal", over a passage about crayfish sending messages to each other across the same wireless networks that carry a live football game.
The exhibition gathers artists' books from the handmade to the high-tech, including 3D-printed structures and works that leave the codex behind. Shown with Colette Fu, Diagonal Press / Tauba Auerbach, Kate Conlon, Myungah Hyon, Neta Bomani, Noam Youngrak Son, Sonnenzimmer / Nick Butcher, Nadine Nakanishi, Rujuta Rao, Stephanie Simek and THUNGRY / bex ya yolk.
The same book was shown in Interspecies Futures at the Center for Book Arts, New York, in 2021.
