731.52 cm of land is a book by artist Nour Bishouty. The typeface used across the whole publication is Cortese Sans by Mark van Leeuwen, alongside SF Mada by Sultan Fonts for Arabic text.

The publication is presented as follows by Art Metropole:

Building loosely on the form of a pocket-sized travel guide, this artist’s book unfolds into a 731.52 cm wide miniature landscape. Composed of hand-painted and digitally illustrated images stitched together into a continuous sequence, the book includes a poem and short narrative by the artist, an essay co-authored with Daniella Sanader, and an afterword by Heather Canlas Rigg. A sticker sheet featuring animal and plant forms is included as an insert.

Functioning as a poetic visual-textual essay, the book unsettles the familiar logic of travel guides and the explorer’s gaze. It troubles the impulses of sightseeing, navigation, and tourism, while calling into question the authoritative languages of archaeology, botany, taxonomy, and cartography. It emerges from ongoing inquiries in Nour Bishouty’s practice around permission, legibility, and understanding.

Through critical reflections, lyrical fragments, and visual fictions, the book offers a layered exploration of artistic inheritance, colonial spectacle, and epistemic dissonance. It challenges legibility and authority, foregrounding ambiguity, misunderstanding, and refusal as generative strategies.

From CYRO:

Dongker’s debut album, titled Ceriwis Necis, is released in the form of a book carving format, accompanied by cassettes from their respective releases. This collaboration involves Copyright/ Reserved as the publisher and MM Ridho as the copy editor.

Copyright/Reserved adds:

A special cassette + book bundle, published by Extensive Publishing of Copyright/Reserved and Greedydust

We worked with 17 collaborators to create iterations of each song, from poems to play scripts, illustration, coding, creative writings, and even earrings.

This book also contains tour photos, Q&A, mask archive and anecdotes about Dongker and their musical journey starting from its establishment to the release of “Ceriwis Necis” this year.

Offset Print
± 320 pages
Cassette included
Printed in 2 colors Risograph

The publication heavily features the typefaces Cortese and Cortese Sans by Mark van Leeuwen, both in display and body copy applications, along with Old English and Neue Montreal.