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The New Sins

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A book and a public art piece. Originally done as a book placed anonymously in hotel rooms during the 2001 Valencia Biennial, these were reconfigured and added to for the 2002 Sydney Festival, where 24 of them were displayed on lightboxes around the central harbor. In 2005 they were also installed in bus shelter lightbox kiosks in Toronto. The new sins are what we often mistakenly consider virtues, and this is explained at length and with diagrams in the book.

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The New Sins book
Sydney Festival
public installation, 2002
CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival public installation, 2005
24 Lightboxes, public installations [~400k files]


EXHIBITION HISTORY:

• The New Sins, lightbox installation, CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada, May 1 – 31, 2005 (Public)
• The New Sins, lightbox installation, Sydney Festival, Sydney, Australia, January 5 – 26, 2002 (Public)
• The New Sins, public book distribution, Cuerpo & Pecado, Valencia Biennial, Valencia, Spain, June – October 2001 (Public)

ABOUT:

• DB journal entry on Toronto public installation, April 28, 2005
• Article: "Byrning Bright on Queen", Toronto The Globe and Mail, May 17, 2005
• Article: "At once artist and huckster: David Byrne's New Sins conquer Queen St.", Toronto
Star
, April 30, 2005
• Dave Eggers: Notes from the McSweeney's Representative on The New Sins, Summer 2001
• Interview: "On the Record", Magnet, December/January 2002
• Review: "The Good Book", Print magazine, March/April 2002
• Article: "David Byrne: Getting the I Out of Design", dot dot dot Nº 4, Winter 2001/2002
• Interview: "Byrne, Baby, Byrne'", A&E, 2001
• Review: "The New Testament", The Guardian (UK), November 2001
• Review: "The New Sins by David Byrne", Scotland on Sunday, November 25, 2001
• Review: "The New Sins: Good Book for Bad Advice", The Scotsman, November 24, 2001
• Interview: DB/Caitlin Dover, November 2001
• Interview: "Shame on You...", Resonance, Issue 31, 2001
• Review: "Unclassifiable Book", Eye magazine, No. 43 Vol. 11
• Review: "Byrne Confronts 'New Sins'", Capital Times, September 7, 2001
• Event review: "L.A. AT LARGE: Original Thoughts on Sin: Pop's arty David Byrne slips slyly into the role of moral philosopher", L.A. Times, August 7, 2001
• DB essay: "Why I Had To Make This Book", June 2001

EDITIONS:

English/Spanish Paperback 2.0 Edition (2006):
• Now with 9% more sin added — plus a new introduction explaining how the New Sins were discovered
• Published by McSweeney's, 2006
• Printed by Tien Wah Press, Malaysia
• Buy from McSweeney's or Amazon
• ISBN: 1932416587

Bulgarian/English Hardcover Edition (2003):
• Published by Prima, Sofia
• Bulgarian translation and project coördination: Nadya Illieva; Editor: Leonid Dukov; Pre-print studio: Octoberon; Production: Danielle Spencer
• Printed by Oddi Printing Ltd., Reykjavik, Iceland
• ISBN: 954-9900-07-X

English/Spanish Hardcover 1.0 Edition (2001):
• Commissioned by the Valencia Bienal, Spring 2001 (distributed anonymously)
• Published by McSweeney's (U.S.) and Faber & Faber (UK & Europe)
• Design: Dave Eggers; Spanish Translation: Daniel de la Calle Gebele, Mónica Vasquez & Bernardo Palombo; Copy-editing: Vendela Vida; Production: Danielle Spencer
• Printed by Oddi Printing Ltd., Reykjavik, Iceland
• ISBN: 0-9-703355-8-X

 

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