‘Om Om’, or ‘About About’, is a work that traces the inception of and the ideas behind Johannessen’s ‘About Something’ (‘Om noko’) book series; richly illustrated with schematic drawings taken from individual ‘About Something’ books, the first text, by Johannessen himself, explains the artist’s motivations and inspirations and provides a context for the series, a second text, by Gunnar Danbolt, documents Johannessen’s performance lectures, illustrated with many full-page colour photographs of the artist in action.
Text in Norwegian and English, clothbound hard cover, 17 x 17 cm, 176 pages, ed/800, (Bergen) 2020
ISBN: 978-82-8363-029-9
