The drawing ends with an "etc." There are two annotations,"this was a project but" at the top of the drawing and "we have forgotten what it was" at the bottom. Ten years ago, we found this drawing inside the book “Games at the Cedilla, or the Cedilla Takes Off” by Robert Filliou and George Brecht, published by Something Else Press in 1967. This image has haunted us for all that time. The drawing seems to be the beginning of a game. The elements of the drawing indicate the instructions for playing. It is like a word game, where each element conditions the next, and so on. At the same time, the information received establishes that the game has a fun character. Don’t think too much. The more absurd, the better. Continue playing and have fun. The "etc." indicates that we could continue playing endlessly: a ball kicked by a man who is carrying a flag who has been kicked by a woman who has a hat which has been hit by a man who is wearing a wig who has been kicked by a woman who has an umbrella which has been kicked by a man... If we had to describe what a book is for us, we could not explain it better than this drawing.

We are two artists using the format of books to research, share a workspace between us, distribute ideas to others and construct a community. We do not work as publishers.

Ruohong Wu works as a multidisciplinary practitioner encompassing the realms of art, architecture, design, and research. She consistently challenges society’s established paradigms and dogmatic disciplines through the replication, parasitization, and mutation of unified systems. Since early 2020, Ruohong has been principally focused on her PhD research: “Copy as Original, Artists as Medium: From Surtevant to General Ideas”.

Jose Quintanar is an artist with a background in comics and architecture. Using the book as the principal format for his work, José explores the possibilities of drawing as a game and the ways in which it serves as a primary method to establish processes based on rudimentary rules. Jose has just completed his doctoral research “Books as Public Space.”