The Piracy Project is an international publishing and exhibition project exploring the philosophical, legal and practical implications of book piracy and creative modes of reproduction. This project is not about stealing or forgery, it is about creating a platform to innovatively explore the spectrum of copying / re-editing / translating / paraphrasing / imitating / re-organising / manipulating of already existing works. Here creativity and originality sit not in the borrowed material itself, but in the way it is handled.

This is my entry to AND Publishing‘s The Piracy Project: Signed A.C. A visualisation on the ‘false document’ literary device using a well known classic (The Outsider by Albert Camus – with one of the most famous first lines in Literature) as a vehicle touching on the subject of authorship and unique vs. multiples.

The first section of the book, in yellow, introduces the fiction.

A facsimile of the ‘found’ manuscript follows, representing the handwritten original one-off:

Transcription of the manuscript, typeset and laid out as a mass produced paperback: