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      • Vox Populi, London
      • Cover Version
      • We are behind
      • Faker Drinker Soldier Heiress
      • Vox Populi, Switzerland
      • Auras and Levitations (Second Edition)
      • The Happy Hypocrite – A Rather Large Weapon, issue 4
      • Kidnapping Mountains
      • Teignmouth Electron
      • Strategic Questions #2: Has Man a Function in Universe?
      • ERR (Eighth Edition, 2008)
      • Feature: Reconstruction
      • Proximity Machine
    • 2
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      • Vox Populi, Tokyo
      • Letters 2004–2006: Confirmation That You still Exist; I Respect Your Authority; When Will It End; One London
      • Alien Invaders: A Guide to Non-Native Species of the Britisher Isles (Volume 1)
      • Ice Blink: An Antartic Essay
      • Vox Populi, Norway
      • Vox Populi, Sydney
      • Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UK
      • Lost in Space
      • Head in the Railings
      • Remixed Water
      • Urban / Wild
    • 3
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      • Why and Why Not
      • I Know Where I'm Going: A Guide to Morecambe & Heysham
      • Magazine
      • Frances Stark: Collected Writing 1993−2003
      • Auto Roto Font
      • Trying to get in between
      • Active Genital
      • Ott's Sneeze
      • Spring Snow − A Translation
      • Progressive Disorder
      • Of Lives Between Lines
      • Mobile Vulgus
      • Material: Public Works − The Bridge 2000
      • Meeting #13
    • 4
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      • After the Freud Museum (Paperback Edition)
      • First I was afraid, I was petrified
      • The Contemporary Picturesque
      • The Uses of Literacy
      • A Case of Hysteria
      • Seven Wonders of the World
      • Smash This Puny Existence
      • The Palaver
      • Marx Angels
      • Library Relocations
      • Diary of a Steak
      • small Gold Medal
      • Book Works: A Partial History and Sourcebook
    • 5
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      • The Blindings
      • Rex Reason
      • Two Oxford Reading Rooms (Special Edition)
      • The Price of Words, Places to Remember 1−26
      • Notable Days
      • A Public Intimacy (A Life Through Scrapbooks)
      • What's My Name?
      • A Stellar Key to The Summerland

      Fiona Tan

      Vox Populi, Switzerland

      128 pages | Full colour | 178 x 126 mm, Soft cover | 2010 | Edition of 1,500 copies
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The fourth publication in the Vox Populi series, presents a social portrait of Switzerland selected from personal and private family photo albums. Often intimate and individual, these pictures when presented as a collection, reveal shared intimacies and humour, and shared Swiss traditions such as fasnacht and pictures of dining tables laden with food. On one hand these appear culturally specific, but when seen in the context of the whole project, shared and comparable traditions appear to cross borders, nations, and cultures .Drawing on the documentary tradition, in combination with contemporary concerns of participation and egalitarianism, Vox Populi, Switzerland continues Tan’s ever-expanding mappo mundi.


Vox Populiシリーズ第4弾は、スイスのパーソナルあるいはプライベートな家族写真アルバム。しばしば親密で個人的なこれらの写真はコレクションとして紹介され、親密さやユーモアを共有するようすを明らかにし、スイスのフェスティバルfasnachtといった伝統や食材の載せられたダイニングテーブルのなどといった写真を展開する。文化的な特性が顕著になる一方で、一連のプロジェクトのコンテクストがみえたとき、その伝統が国境・国家そして文化を超えて共有したり比較することができる。現代における関心事の関与と平等主義とが結託して、ドキュメンタリーの伝統を描くVox Poluliの、スイスに続くTanの拡張するmappo mundiである。
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