The air, like a stone publication

This publication was made in response to Emma Fitts and Rosalind Nashashibi’s exhibition The air, like a stone, held at The Physics Room in 2023. It is designed by Lucy Meyle, and offset printed by Spectrum Print, Ōtautahi in a limited edition of 150.

Intended to function practically as a simple envelope or carrier for papers, the publication also contains a collectively-sourced reference list of texts relating to core themes in the exhibition: alternate temporalities, weather and astronomy, alchemies and omens, and bodies. These references were sent in by friends, family, and past collaborators of each artist and project curator Abby Cunnane, in response to an invitation to nominate a short published text suitable for reading aloud at a night-time event during the winter time exhibition.

A record of these contributions and their senders is contained on the envelope’s interior, as one direct way of acknowledging not only the texts themselves but also the many— and often geographically distant—people and conversations that scaffold Fitts’s and Nashashibi’s respective practices, and an invitation to future readers.

Links to all the titles referenced in this publication can be found on the To read, to listen event page on The Physics Room’s website.