"When you talk about explaining a show to someone as a curator, or instead, when you ask them “What do you think?” we grapple with the potential of the audience. The potential of the audience is the realm of the work, where there is generosity from the artist as well as all participants; an openness to being touched."
– Sumayya Vally

Invited practitioner Sumayya Vally joins the artists and A4 team as a critical friend in reflecting on Tell It to the Mountains.

"I wonder if there are parallel practices that can be developed as institutional codes – as ways of being – so that whatever comes out of the artistic practice can also offer itself into the realm of the institution and enter the discipline, without feeling extractive."
– Sumayya Vally

Invited practitioner Sumayya Vally joins the artists and A4 team as a critical friend in reflecting on Tell It to the Mountains.

"We were pretty naive in those days. We did our work and submitted it, left it to others who might have the gravitas and ‘smarties’ to frame our photographs. We didn’t have a great deal of agency, but then we didn’t resist this."
– Paul Weinberg

Invited practitioners join Sean O'Toole for the official Photo book! Photo-book! Photobook marathon event, a two-day endurance exercise.

"I was driven by a set of intellectual preoccupations regarding the category of the literary and found myself facing a bizarre situation where these seemingly abstruse matters were a feature of the state apparatus."
– Peter McDonald

Invited practitioners join Sean O'Toole for the official Photo book! Photo-book! Photobook marathon event, a two-day endurance exercise.