TOWARDS AN ART OF RADICAL LIGHTNESS is a bachelor thesis written by the bright Danish artist Jo Hedegaard.

Each page was silkscreened individually with a combination of fluorescent inks on thin paper, then French-folded, turning the inside of the paper into a color circus (as Jo would say). When you flick through the pages, it's a sort of light show under certain light conditions (see videos). Yet when you rest the pages and read through the publication, the risographed images and text remain calm, clear, and undisturbed.

The cover combines risograph and silkscreen techniques, layered on top of each other in a mix of primary and other colors and glitters. Jo had the idea to make a collage of all the theoreticians referenced in the text—Christoph Schlingensief, Peter Sloterdijk, Milan Kundera, Marcel Duchamp, Édouard Glissant, and Soren Kierkegaard—the last one hiding like Waldo somewhere on the back cover, all feasting and sharing a beer together. There is also Diogenes, Alexander the Great anthropomorphized as a dog, and a rare photograph of a dancing Nietzsche.

Each copy is stamped with the beautiful “sun man” stamp that Tim and Jo made.