This well designed artist's book in a box is Prague-based Katerina Seda's first. Ten folders contain eight years worth of documentation from her conceptually based work in the form of diagrams, graphs, drawings, texts, photographs and questionnaires. Seda, who was born in 1977 in the Moravian village of Ponetovice, stages interventions near her home town and in Prague, her current base. Through research into behavior and communication patterns in art and non-art communities, Seda--whose work was included in 2007's Documenta XII--creates projects based on the contexts and social relationships...

Czech artist Katerna Seda's primary media are her friends, family and the community of her hometown. Seda (born 1977) uses performance, staged activities and public interventions to activate social discourse, often stimulating exchanges between involuntary participants. This book documents a project in which the artist traveled a residential area by hopping each unwitting neighbor's fence, wall or bale of hay.