The Slapdown

Work on Paper

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

The Slapdown

Entry/Object ID

2007.82

Description

Housed in a gray painted wood and bookboard slip case with blind and black foil-stamped title. 16 flag pages (with 37 printed surfaces), signed by artist and author, concept and drawing by Damara Kaminecki, text by Jeremy Schmall, production design by Mark Wagner and Sara Parkel with Amy Mees, printed and bound by Sara Parkel and Cat Glennon with Jamie Munkatchy. edition of 50

Artwork Details

Medium

Book

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul University, gift of Tony Fitzpatrick

Made/Created

Artist Information

Kaminecki, Damara

Schmall, Jeremy

Booklyn Artists Alliance

Date made

2007

Ethnography

Notes

North America United States Brooklyn North America, United States

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Transcription

credit printed on the binding

Notes

Inscription Type: mark

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Class

WORKS ON PAPER

Dimensions

Dimension Description

overall

Width

8-1/4 in

Depth

3/4 in

Length

10-1/2 in

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Object Label

Label

The Slapdown uses both the kinetic and auditory aspects of the flag-book structure to create a flurry of thwacking and smacking hands. Printed on both sides of the hands, the text assembles and reassembles in a Mad Lib of curse and cuss. Both poetry and construction evoke the omnipresent dog-eat-dog mentality and petty backstabbing that pervade the cramped urban environment.