A Guide to Antipodea book
A Guide to Antipodea

By Francois Deschamps
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Papyrus Productions / Borowsky Center for Publication Arts, 1992.
Edition of 300.

5.75 x 9"; 32 pages. Offset printed in 7 colors on French text and cover. Printed at the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts at The University of the Arts (Philadelphia).

"Tired of the persistent pull of Gravity? Float off to Antipodea — home of beautiful natives, fine foods, long beaches and, best of all, a weak gravitational field!"

"Return with a small, native child for entertainment in your suburban home. Send it to an American school and see what happens! It's harmless and fun?"

Francois Deschamps: "This guide to a fictitious 'primitive' land questions issues of cultural identity and in particular, the relationship between oppressor and oppressed cultures."

Francois Deschamps, JAB 27: "Antipodea is a place where there is only a very gentle pull of gravity, which makes it an attractive tourist destination. It is fun to go there and enjoy a vacation floating around. ... This place is basically a western playground. The book comments on how we use those places and how we ultimately destroy them. ... At the end it is even suggested that one can return home with a small native child for one's entertainment."
$75