Volumen [30.XI.98]
the video collection.
It is noted: One day Björk receives a telephone call from Haraldur Jónsson, an artist and friend of many years. He has the story of a dream to tell her he had in Norway. He dreamt that Björks' next release would be called "volumen". Not to disappoint anyone: it is obvious the next release would have to be called "volumen".
And now on to the press release.
Björk, whose award winning video innovation is well documented, finally releases her long awaited compilation. Volumen, spans her entire solo careers' incredible creative collaborations with such notable directors as Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Sophie Muller. 14 videos in total, Volumen is a visual collection of her entire single releases, including the highly acclaimed track Play Dead released on the film, The Young Americans soundtrack on Island Records. The sleeve design has been produced by the photographers Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin famous for their striking images created for the likes of Visionaire and Harpers Bazaar as well as having work on show at the Guggenheim, NYC. The art direction and graphic design was provided by M/M . Based in Paris, they have worked with the likes of Jil Sander, Martin Sitbon and Yohji Yamamoto along with a string of art institutions throughout Europe. The intriguing concept for the sleeve is born out of the Björk song Unravel. A couple of opposite photographs of Björk depicting goodness and evil with the evil Björk unravelling the others' love and sucking the goodness from her, represented by strings of yarn, into her mouth.

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