ECHO

phono/graph is an artist collective founded in Osaka in 2011. Through experimental and transmedia work, it explores the interactions between sound, text and graphics. Its members are: Fujimoto Yukio, Kishimoto Rinko, Hayashi Aoi, Suzuki Hiroyoshi, Jo Kazuhiro, intext, Yagi Lyota, Nicole Schmid, softpad and Vaclav Pozarek (since 2025).

ECHO is first and foremost an in-depth study, in book form, of the acoustic phenomenon of echo and its historical context. This analysis is anchored in typography and graphic elements, playing on both the "form" and meaning of the word echo across a variety of cultural contexts. At the EAC (les halles) in Porrentruy, ECHO becomes a spatialization of the book's content. This reinterpretation of the book's content is enriched by additions in the form of new works by the artist collective phono/graph, as well as by those of the two artists invited by ebs, Vaclav Pozarek and Philippe Queloz. The result is an expanded, temporary form of reading, unfolding horizontally and vertically in the art space. Like the ECHO book, which follows no predefined sequence of pages - assembled in a ring binder with no fixed order, giving each of the 80 copies of the edition a unique character - ECHO is discovered and experienced here in a renewed visual and acoustic way.


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