120 pages | 14×21 cm | limited print 300
sewn paperback with transparent dust jacket
35 historical photos | 4 film stills | 35 ice texts
& the slightly hallucinatory documentary Es balok
ISBN: 9 789083 420516
IJs/Ice was created with support from the Jaap Harten Fonds
IJs/Ice the book, shows worldwide from the 19th century, until the advent of the refrigerator, a vanished ice production: from natural ice mining to industrial refrigerated ice manufacturing in 35 texts and 35 stunning black and white photographs. The slightly hallucinatory documentary Es balok that accompanies the book is just going to be specific, zooming in on a small ice factory on Java in Indonesia at this time.
The book IJs/Ice, ingeniously designed by graphic designer Lies Ros with a foreword by Tijs Goldschmidt (2023 P.C. Hooft Prize winner), contains 35 small texts and 35 fascinating historical photographs that tell of the incredible global history of the ice trade. Both in form and narrative, the book is crystal clear. It covers the period from natural ice trade to industrial ice in which it connected people worldwide, from America to India, Norway to the Netherlands and Indonesia.
The format is inventive and readable from both sides. If you read the book in English, the story begins at the refrigerator and returns to the natural ice trade. If you read it in Dutch, it begins with natural ice and unfolds chronologically to the time of the refrigerator. Each text has a title with the word ice in it, from “ice harvest” to “ice cellar,” from “dead ice hole” to “ice plough”. The cover is transparent and the word Ice shines through.
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Large heavy blocks of ice were cut and dragged from lakes and ditches with the help of horse and plow and at the risk of drowning, broken bones and freezing limbs. Natural ice mining grew impressive. A wooden sailing ship full of natural ice sailed to the tropics. When industrial ice manufacturing took hold, the Dutch took the industry to the former Dutch East Indies. From Boston to Calcutta, from Amsterdam to Batavia, much is done to make ice, with its mysterious power to cool and thus inhibit time, do its work.
All these men and their ice have since evaporated and melted. They are part of a larger cyclical whole, of melting, evaporating and freezing, over and over again.
in part made possible by
Ada te Brinke | Alex de Vries | Alia Damaihati | Ann Bouwma | Annelies Karelse | Annetta Willemse | Arief Budiman | Bani Nasution | Bas Lobik | Bauke Marinus | Bernard Lier| Çimen Ekici | Colin Brace | Davin Benino | Diana Wind | Dick Lagrand | Diego Gutierrez | Ellen de Bruijne | Erik Visser | Frans Vreeke | FX Harsono | Hadi Nugroho |Henk Marseille | Henny Aeckerlin | Hidde van Seggelen | Inez van Eijk | Ismael Loebis | Jacques Dob | Janica Draisma | Jan Wich | Janwillem Schrofer | Joop Laan | Joost Baardman | Joyce Gabeler | Kamiel Koelman |Kees (†) en Neeltje Hin | Maria Lamslag | Margy Brocker | Marijke de Wit | Marijke Michel | Marijke van Warmerdam | Martin Grootenboer | Martijn Leopold |Monique Verhoeckx | Naomi Ellemers | Nicoline Graaff | Nolly Schalken | Philippine Aeckerlin | Pierre van Rossum | Pieter Bijwaard | Pietje Baardman | Reinout Graaff | Rieks Hadders | Robert Weelinck | Ronald Jansen | Ronald Vogel | Roy Tee | Ruben Gischler | Sander Snoep | Seije Visser | Siti Khodijah | Stephanie Both | Steven Mossel | Tamar Ellemers |Tino Djumini |Wahyu Atami |Willemijn Stokvis |and all people of ice factory Tirta Agung
The book is available for order in the bookstore.
IJS/ICE, the book: €32,50
Shipping cost will be €4,25
Part of Project ICE
