BUG MOBILE
Henry Gunderson and Zoe Brezsny
A comprehensive selection of sculptures from Henry Gunderson's Bug Mobile exhibition at Gern en Regalia paired with a collection of short poems by Zoe Brezsny, Designed by Riley Hooker.
Published by Henry Gunderson, Façadomy, and Gern en Regalia in New York, 2026
Introduction text by Henry Gunderson
Printed by Pristone, Singapore on 90gsm Gold East matt paper with 135gsm Colorplan Pistachio endsheets
Cover cloth in JHT 26116, mounted on 250gsm uncoated with General Roll Leaf 76 Metallic foil
5.75 x 8.25 inches (14.6 x 21 cm)
147 pages
Edition of 500
ISBN 979-8-218-93666-2
$48.00
“Gunderson and Brezsny's Bug Mobile is a conversation piece. A series of portable, pocketable sculptures and poems that signal beyond the museum walls. They are mobile works that move with the people who carry them."
-Hans Ulrich Obrist
“The enactment of programmed obsolescence; like the last movement of a cut-up lizard tail, Bug Mobile presents a series of pocket dioramas circuited by electro-buzzing ringtone poetry. New nomenclatures by Henry Gunderson and Zoe Brezsny."
-Ignacio Gatica
“What if Basho, Apollinaire, the Concrete Poets, Yoko Ono or Joni Mitchell were so distracted by their cell phones they never wrote? Rather than lament our telephonic existence, Zoe Brezsny and Henry Gunderson's Bug Mobile extends these models and offers some new ones. Maybe, the book suggests, we are all poets now, texting, acronyming, and abbreviating our way through life, arguing with social media bots and influencers, and consulting Al for emotional support. Our phones are all bugged by design, but this book transforms data mining and the digital condition into trenchant images, entomological objects, and poetry.”
-Martha Schwendener
“Emily, a fly is no longer buzzing. By Henry Gunderson’s hand, critters rest entombed in discontinued phones. Though not technically dead, the devices have been repurposed : their lives are effectively held in limbo by the bugs. These odd little combines — a collector’s delight ! — are paired with Zoe Brezsny’s poems whose words, like ants, trace compact choreographies designed by Riley Hooker. When approached from left to right, they read as eulogies for the defunct insects. From right to left, the creatures appear to be communicating from the beyond. Bug Mobile is a singular foray that creeps at the thresholds of life."
-Madeleine Planeix-Crocker
“In the present day, as our perpetual fusing with modern technology is seemingly remaking reality from the ground up, where does the human being really belong? Are we closer to bugs, or to buttons? In Bug Mobile, the "synthetic" is challenged by synthesis itself. The tension between the omnipresence of Nature and the ubiquity of technology is faced directly, with both Gunderson and Brezsny keenly aware that the only way to transform accordingly is to accept that the storm is directly overhead. The junction is here and now, and there are choices that go beyond illusion. Which ones will we make? Brezsny's piercing poems in conversation with Gunderson's fever-dream nature-tech, instill a deep sense of knowing and mystery. Each piece offers a small crack through which we might return to ourselves, and to our Earthbound birthright of transcendence."
-LD Deutsch