Robin Watkins Livres

Eusociality in the EU is a collaboration between Otto (10) and Robin (42). It is a book about ants and their habitats, or perhaps more so about humans and their habits, which lends an age-fluid voice to various contents of the European continent: animals, plastic bags, homelessness, algae, chewing gum, hocus-pocus, money, holes, ant colonies, fantasy beings, tree roots, weather patterns, politics and flag-fluff. As the world transformed during the eight years it took to complete, subjects grew and angles changed, and the book took on a form as disorderly as life itself. Part allegory, part nonsense, and using play as an essential driver, this fable-esque jumble spanning 304 pages attempts to reflect on community beyond society - with a little help from a lot of sugar.

The artist's book "Ki-da Rilke" evolved in relation to the exhibition "Line wall' by Sung Hwan Kim. In the book, Kim engages with the work of the Prague born poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). The first part of "Ki-da Rilke" features a transcription and drawings of Rilke's collection 'New poems" (1907) in the German original and on thin sheets of paper and notepads. The second part features Kim's drawings inspired by Rilke's "Sonnets to Orpheus" (1923), which are then further developed in the book's third part, which comprises an independent picture story featuring recurring characters. These figures are named in an index on loose sheets of paper.