EMBAUCHE AU BALKAN. 24 ELASTISCHE SELTEN ZUM THEMA EINSTELLUNGSGESPRACHE ODER THE HAPPY END OF FRANZ KAFKA’S AMERICA. 1994.

Hamburg: meterverlag, 1994
18.5 x 12cm, 136pp with pictorial wrappers – an artist’s book which was one of those associated with the Kippenberger installation “The Happy End of Kafka’s Amerkia”. That installation took the motif of a the job interview as its metaphor (and displayed chairs and tables for the imaginary meetings in Rotterdam) and a number of artist’s books were encouraged by Kippenberger to be released as part of that exhibition. This fictional “spy” story concludes with 800 applicants attending such a job interview. The story is reproduced twice: firstly in a near-unreadable typographic experiment (extremely large type) and secondly in a more usual form. Fine. Scarce – one of only circa 600 – 800 issued. Kippenberger Books (Koch) Nr 132.