Riley and His Story. Me and My Outrage. You and Us.
Monica Haller and Riley Sharbonno
Onestar Press and Fälth & Hässler
English
Additional photos by Parker Hahn
Hardcover
First Edition of 1000
480 pages
152 x 203 mm
2009
ISBN 2915359423
“Riley was a friend in college and later served as a nurse at Abu Ghraib prison. This is a container for Riley’s digital pictures and fleeting traumatic memories. Images he could not fully secure or expel and entrusted to me. Art can be a series of acts and challenges. Currently the artwork is an object in your hand—organized, mobile, tactile—a stable site to see information once elusive. The artist can mobilize information by provoking, listening, imagining, organizing and reorganizing. Right now, I am the artist. I want you to see what this war did to Riley. Pay attention. This experience happens right in your lap. To make it happen, you must read compassionately, then actively. Then the experience happens wherever you take this container and whenever you respond to my invitation. You and us, yes. Then you and another. This invitation is a model for veterans, families and friends to speak and share openly with each other. The artwork and artist are adaptable ; you, the tactical reader, can use this object for your own device, or you can attend to another archive in need of careful attention. This is not a book. It is an object of deployment.”
(Source: Cover Page)
About the Artists
Monica Moses Haller is an artist and educator who works in a range of media spanning photography, video, sound, design, installation and writing in collaboration with individuals and small groups of people. Her work focuses on personal and specific details to address large systems that are political, psychological and environmental. She has published books including Riley and His Story and the Veterans Book Project and her works are exhibited globally. She is assistant professor at the University of Minnesota.
(Source: https://archiv.hkw.de/en/programm/beitragende_hkw/h/monica_moses_haller.php)
Riley Sharbonno is an Iraq War veteran who documented his experiences in combat through photography. Here, he shares his experience that he himself has repressed or rejected in his conscious.
About the Publishers
Onestar press was dedicated to the production of books and multiples by artists.
During its active years from 2000 to 2019, Onestar press boasted a remarkable production line consisting of over 300 books, 300 multiples, and artists’ films. The organization’s commitment to granting artists space, freedom, and flexibility in realizing their creative concepts, along with its embrace of new technologies, fostered fruitful collaborations with international artists across a wide array of projects.
Onestar press held a steadfast vision when it came to contemporary creation, maintaining a non-didactic and diversified approach. This vision manifested in their publication of artists from different generations, countries, and perspectives, effectively serving as a subjective “encyclopedia” that reflects our multifaceted civilization.
https://www.onestarpress.com/
(Source: https://www.onestarpress.com/pages/about)
Fälth & Hässler is a provider of printing services based in Värnamo, Sweden. The company provides qualitative graphic services, solutions and products through high competence and technology printing illustrated books, catalogs, advertising printed matter and magazines in color.
(Source: https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/109371-16#overview)
