Booklook issue 3
Speespak

A publication that can be unfolded into a pattern for both a jacket and a pair of trousers, which again can both be refolded into a publication.

Discover how a trouser leg can spark a revolution

For this third issue, with title SpeesBookLookPak, Booklook initiator Anouk Beckers (1990) teams up with artist Iris de Leeuw (1944), who designed the Speespak in 1966.

Booklook issue 3, unfolds into a jacket (the cover, publication part 1) and a pair of trousers (publication part 2). The topic discussed in this issue is Speespak, an artwork made by Iris de Leeuw in 1966. It was a ‘playsuit’ for Homo Ludens: the playful human of the future. This modular suit provoked contact and created personal space. The trouser legs can be swapped with other players.

The text on the jacket, with title SpeesBookLookPak, is written by Anouk Beckers and Iris de Leeuw. It’s a conversation and correspondence between Anouk and Iris and affords an intergenerational glimpse of their activism and reclamation of space as artists and women.

The trousers share the chronicle in 14 modules Speespak: From Attic to Rijksmuseum, written by Rijksmuseum curator Harm Stevens. The text describes the political, cultural, artistic and personal context in which the Speespak originated as a product of the Maastricht (NL) artist collective Luuks.

This publication publishes the patterns of the iconic Speespak ’66 as an invitation to make the suit yourself. This Booklook edition also launches the Speespak ’66 into the present. Unfolded, SpeesBookLookPak becomes a pattern for the jacket and trousers of the brand-new Speespak ’26. To present us, through play, with an alternative future.

The publication includes An Introduction to the Playsuit of the Future, by Tonya Sudiono.

This issue includes an extra set of full-color stickers for the screenprinted images.

This publication is screenprinted  
on Offset paper, 80 g/m2

Dimensions publication, jacket (folded): 21 x 30 cm
Dimensions publication, trousers (folded): 17 x 30 cm
Dimensions publication, jacket and trousers(unfolded): 85 x 120 cm 

Jacket
Text: Anouk Beckers, Iris de Leeuw
Introduction: Tonya Sudiono
Editor: Tonya Sudiono
Texta advice: Femke de Vries
Dutch - English translation: Janet van Bobo
Editor English translation: Jenny Harris
English copyeditor: Joe Minden
Graphic Design: Anouk Beckers, Iris de Leeuw
in close collaboration with Chen Jhen
Speespak ‘66 and ‘26 patterns and instructions:
Anouk Beckers, Iris de Leeuw, Kara van der Molen, 
with assistance of Bess Debaecke
Illustrations: Anouk Beckers
Screenprint: Krijger Vormgave
Die-cutting, scoring and folding: Binderij Voetelink


Trousers

Text: Harm Stevens
Editor: Tonya Sudiono
Dutch - English translation: Karen Gamester
Editor English translation: Sue Hart
Graphic Design: Anouk Beckers, Iris de Leeuw
in close collaboration with Chen Jhen
Speespak ‘66 and ‘26 patterns and instructions:
Anouk Beckers, Iris de Leeuw, Kara van der Molen,
with assistance of Bess Debaecke
Illustrations: Anouk Beckers
Screenprint: Krijger Vormgave
Die-cutting, scoring and folding: Binderij Voetelink
Published in a limited edition of 300 copies
NL (100 copies)
ENG (200 copies) 

This Booklook issue is supported by: 
Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industries Fund NL
Stichting Niemeijer fonds
Cultuurfonds
Warehouse
Rijksmuseum

All photos on this page are made by Scheltens & Abbenes