Could you tell us about the ongoing exhibition at SOSO, The One Weekend Book Series? What is the most feature you would like to emphasize?

The One Weekend Book Series is a project we organize since 2003. As the name implies we create on one weekend one book. In each book me and a guest artist are given 48 hours to experience a city, document it and create a visual diary without the use of computers. What this results to is the documentation of a 48 hour search for visual entertainment and the definition of the city visited.

On one hand The One Weekend Book Series reports of places and situations unmentioned in city-guides, on the other hand it gives an exhibition istic view of the personal state of the reporters. In trying to figure out a city, in this case, they are mostly concerned with creating a book.

In the last 4 years we created books and exhibitions in Frankfurt am Main, Copenhagen, Berlin, New York City, The Hague, Milan and Barcelona. When the Spanish publisher Actar recognized that this project became a big thing, they decided to compile and republish the first five books. This beautiful produced, 300-pages strong book is distributed worldwide since 2006. The publication will be sold aswell at the exhibition.

The exhibition at Soso Cafe shows besides the book, 15 selected uncut original prints of the book and a movie about The One Weekend Book Series by Hey-Presto from Berlin with music by Trafalgar13 from Barcelona. The exhibition at Soso Cafe is the movies world premiere. Don’t miss it!

Do you have an exciting story during the journey to show us?

I do not know if this is an exciting story, but people find it entertaining when I tell it on lectures. It is the story about the hairs in the beginning of the New York City book.

We arrived on a Friday afternoon in New York City. After a restless night, caused by a terrible jetlag, we arrived saturday morning at the studio of Yoshi Sodeoka. For hours we tried to get started, but our tiredness just didn’t allow us to find inspiration. We went out to have a coffee in the neighborhood. Yoshi’s studio is located at Soho, that’s the lower part of Manhattan. So, we went to one the self service coffee shops nearby. I started to sketch whatever I saw. Every piece of New York City seems to be documented on film, drawing or whatever media, hence each drawing I did, looked like a cliche, a copy of something that was already done. So I started to draw the people passing by. Everyone that knows Manhattan, knows how fast people walk. The reason why I drew a series of hairs is that I wasn’t able to draw more than the hair before they passed by.

What is the real thrill of this project? And do you have any future Weekend’s plan?

Let me quote Sune Ehlers, guest artist of the Copenhagen issue: “It was a grand experience, I’ve heard a billion cliches in the past about communication through drawings and blah blah blah. But the fact about the “The One Weekend Book Series“, in this case anyway, is that this is exactly what I felt we did, communicate. I had never met my two team-players (Kasper Riisholt and Martin Lorenz) before, only talked via email. Our session was, for me at least, a visual conversation. Crouched over the pens and papers we reacted to silly doodles and a weird kind of language took form and took over. It was a thrill.”

There are many exciting plans for the future, but as they aren’t confirmed yet, I prefer not to talk about them. Just check our site now and then or add your email address at our newsletter mailinglist. We will keep you informed.

Please tell us the concept of this month’s SHIFT cover.

It has a very simple message: Spend more time in nature and you will discover its secrets.

What is your next plan?

I don’t think you can call it a plan, but the probably most important thing that is going to happen, will be the birth of our first son in February. You can’t imagine how much i look forward to shake his hand.

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