Exhibition Catalog from Arctic Book Club, an exhibition in collaboration with Flux Factory curated by Jean Barberis, Artistic Director, Flux Factory Michelle Levy that occurred at the EFA Project Space Gallery from September 18 – October 24, 2009.

Artists: Amber Cortes, Jenelle Covino, The Green & Bold Coöperative, Katerina Lanfranco, Fabienne Lasserre, Valerie Piraino, Greg Pond, Annie Reichert, Julian Rogers, Ranbir Sidhu, Christopher Ulivo

Tété-Michel Kpomassie's book, An African in Greenland, serves as memoir, ethnography, and travelogue, and is the account of the author’s unique journey from his native Togo to Greenland. As a young man living in Africa, Kpomassie happened across a children’s book about Greenland. Fascinated with the distant Arctic island, he embarked on a remarkable ten-year journey across Africa and Europe, working as a translator along the way, and eventually saving enough money to complete his odyssey and live in Greenland. 

In the Spring of 2009, Flux Factory and EFA assembled a cross-disciplinary group of artists to respond to Kpomassie’s book, meeting regularly in the form of a book club. Upon completion of the book, the artists were then asked to create new work inspired by their internalization of Kpomassie’s narrative and the resulting discussions.