FundingFunding for The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art, and the Shakers: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; l'AFAA, Association Française d'Action Artistique, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, France; the Canada Council; the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York; The LEF Foundation; The National Endowment for the Arts; the Penny McCall Foundation; the Peter Norton Family Foundation. Funding for The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art, and Projeto Axé: Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro (in honor of Penny McCall); The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador; The Norman & Rosita Winston Foundation, Inc; The Penny McCall Foundation; The Rockefeller Foundation. Funding to date for The Quiet in the Land: Art, Spirituality, and Everyday Life in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR: The American Center Foundation; the Asian Cultural Council; Lorenz Bäumer; Ken Freed; the Henry Luce Foundation; the Jim Thompson Foundation; Sean Kelly; the Open Society Institute; Keith Recker; Brent Sikkema; the Thin Man Fund. We are also thankful to James Mohn, of James Mohn Design Studio, New York, and to Pascal Trahan, of Boutique Hotel Les 3 Nagas, Luang Prabang, Lao PDR. The Quiet in the Land in Luang Prabang is funded in part through the sale of a limited edition portfolio. Each portfolio includes twelve photographic diptychs (twenty-four 11 x 14 in. [28 x 35.5 cm] C-print photographs) produced specifically for The Quiet in the Land: Art, Spirituality, and Everyday Life, Luang Prabang, Lao PDR by twelve of the participating artists: Marina Abramovic, Janine Antoni, Hans Georg Berger, Cai Guo-Qiang, Ann Hamilton, Dinh Q. Lê, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Shirin Neshat, Vong Phaophanit, Allan Sekula, Shahzia Sikander, and Rirkrit Tiravanija. The portfolio is published in an edition of fifty, numbered 1 to 50, plus sixteen hors commerce (HC), numbered I to XVI, and two printer’s proofs. Eight diptychs are printed on crystal archive photographic paper, and four are pigment prints on Hahnemühle paper. Each diptych is signed, numbered, dated, and/or titled by the artist. The photographs are presented in a clamshell box covered in handwoven silk designed by Carol Cassidy, with a clasp designed by Lorenz Bäumer. The clasp is presented in a pouch of handwoven silk designed by Cassidy. The number of each portfolio in the edition is determined by the order of the receipt of the reservations (the date of receipt is determined by the postmark date of the reservation).
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