<p dir="ltr">Research background </p><p dir="ltr">Published in <i>Le Journal de l’Université d’été de la Bibliothèque Kandinsky</i>, no. 5 (2019), the volume arising from the 2018 Summer University, “Publications d’artistes: de l’atelier à la bibliothèque (et vice‑versa)”. The Journal is an ISSN‑registered serial published by the Kandinsky Library, the research centre of the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris.</p><p dir="ltr">Research contribution </p><p dir="ltr">The chapter examines the conditions around writing about a monograph that the author made about artist collective Open Spatial Workshop. The book in question, <i>In One Hundred Thousand Yearw</i> is a critical examination of the expectations and affordances of traditional artistic monographs and how they might be upended. The book's production followed a 'parallel' research trajectory and determined to comprehensively show OSW's practice without recourse to the photography of any final artworks by the group. The publication is concurrently an artist's book by Adam Cruickshank.</p><p dir="ltr">Research significance </p><p dir="ltr">Issued by a major European museum library and distributed via After 8 Books, issue 5 is a substantial, ~500‑page volume gathering international contributors; the Journal has ISSN 2427‑4119, with earlier and later issues documented by the BnF and the ISSN Portal. Publication in this context evidences peer selection and review, international reach, and a durable bibliographic trace.</p>
