For the exhibition positioning, we developed a simple framework to address the commonalities among the projects: region (landscape), location within that region (the artist), and movement (activity).

For region, a ground of four squares representing the cardinal directions; three of these we filled with a representative color for each of the curators (turquoise, orange, violet), and then overlaid the whole with a large red dot for the artists. We devised an icon of twenty-one arrows running northwest (one for each of the artists and curators) and echoed its diagonal lines in the Biennial’s date.

The catalog cover quotes the exhibition positioning: a red dot for the artist’s location, the twenty-one northwest-headed arrows, but the three colors representing the three curators is now a continuous-tone vignette, designed to run the length of the book, so that looking at its edge, you should see the progression from turquoise, to orange, to violet.

The cover graphic crosses over into the interior; the red dot now contains the names of the exhibiting artists, as on the introductory wall in the gallery.

The background vignette begins with turquoise. The dot motif is here represented by three interlocking circles, one for each curator, and containing the curator’s biographical notes.

You can see the turquoise shifting into green on the next two pages. Typography is handled with the restraint of Disjecta’s brand language, though set somewhat large when showing the voice of the curators.

The Harriet Tubman Center for Expanded Curatorial Practice, a group of students from Harriet Tubman Middle School working with the artist and curator Lisa Jarrett, interviewed four of the exhibiting artists, and their contribution to the catalog was the text of these interviews, illustrated and set across several pages.

Each of the exhibiting artists received four pages, which was enough to show their work in detail. A typical opening showed a full page image faced with a text page containing a biography set within a red circle.

Subsequent pages showed the work in greater detail, with accompanying notes and image sequences.