Anti-Utopia was a literary and visual collective founded in 1987 by the late Bruce Witsiepe, who invited artists to participate on a project basis, preparing the book structures, covers, and conceptual frameworks. Nadia Coen joined shortly after its founding, becoming an integral collaborator and co-spearheading many of the collective’s future projects.
A.D. is a 200-page volume especially produced for an exhibition curated by Nancy Spero at Franklin Furnace. It combines typewritten text on vellum and mylar, diagrams, and Xerox images, bound in a forged steel cover with a piano hinge and an army blanket lining (12 × 17 in.)