Book Arts Newsletter March 2012 BOOK ARTS NEWSLETTER ISSN 1754-9086 No. 72 March - mid April 2012
Published by Impact Press at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol, UK
ARTIST’S COVER PAGE: LAURA RUSSELL All Sinners Welcome In this issue: National and International Artists’ Books Exhibitions Pages 1 - 16 Announcements Pages 16 - 18 Courses, Lectures, Conferences & Workshops Pages 18 - 23 Opportunities Pages 23 - 26 Artist’s Book Fairs Pages 26 - 27 Internet News Pages 27 - 28 New Artists’ Publications Pages 28 - 34 Stop Press! Pages 35 - 37
Artists’ Books Exhibitions University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Tom Trusky Exhibition Cases, Bower Ashton Library
Field In A Box - Publications, assemblings and artists’ ephemera by Field Study Curated by David Dellafiora, Geelong, Australia 2nd March - 11th April 2012
Field Study was formed in 1993 though networks made in the postal art community by Benedict Phillips, Eamonn Kirwan and David Dellafiora as a means of exchanging This low-tech approach is not just an aesthetic decision artworks, developing correspondences and establishing but a means of challenging the aura of the artist’s book as meetings that result in performances and group shows. art object by making works that are meant to be handled, disseminated and used as tools, resources and sites for action.
Artists are invited to contribute multiples of their work for the assembling publications and these are included in the editions with minimal editorial control or censorship. The principle that everyone is an artist is fundamental to Field Study’s ethos. Field Study’s networks are international, and no distinction is made between professional and non- professional artists or individual artistic practices.
Field Study activities are diverse, from performances, or interventions in public spaces, to collaborations with other groups. The postal theme is recurrent, from subversive First Day Covers to the issuing of stamps from imaginary countries.
Influenced by the Surrealist and Fluxus art movements, Field Study could also be considered a continuation of the free press movement of the 1960s. Since its formation, Field Study has issued manifestos, published assembling books, limited edition works and collaborated with community-based organisations and artists’ groups.
Philosophically Field Study sees work by individual artists participating in its activities as Field Study emanations and collective or collaborative work as Field Study manifestations. Field Study’s artistic output is centred on the annual ‘Field Report’, an assembling book that commenced in 1996. Since then new assembling editions have been created, including WIPE, ReSite and KART.
The assembling books have an intentionally hand made Field Study disseminates its works by multiple means, from quality, with an emphasis on readily available means of artist markets, the Internet, specialist artist bookshops to reproduction such as photocopying and rubber-stamping. local galleries and community events. The effort made This distinguishes Field Study publications as artists’ to distribute the work widely is part of Field Study’s books from the highly aestheticised work produced democratic activism, the principle that everyone has the by printmakers. right to access the arts and participate in artistic activity.
Page 1 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk The Field Report encourages participating artists to Works in this exhibition are for sale, please see the Field create an emanation informed by their activities, actions Study entry on the exhibitions and events page for a and observations from the current year. Contributions downloadable price list if you wish to purchase any of the could include documentations of performances, actions works: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/exhidata.htm and exhibitions, tracts, rants, instructions, manifestos, reflections and experiments. As such, the Field Report For further information about Field Study contact: becomes an archive of alternative artistic, social and David Dellafiora political documents. PO Box 1838, Geelong VIC 3220, Australia http://daviddellafiora.blogspot.com KART is described as a magazine of multiplicity, a regularly [email protected] produced edition of postcard sized original artworks in a handcrafted folio box. Published as a collaboration between Karingal Participate, a disability service, and The Artist’s Eye Field Study, each box contains works by 15 artists. Hackney Museum, London KART is open themed. Until 28th April 2012 Part of ‘Mapping the Change’ project at Hackney Museum. ReSite, a Manual of Scores, Manifestos and Radical Actions, Hackney Museum is running a major project to record is an assembling publication where the pages have an the changes to the borough as a result of the Olympic and element of audience participation or interaction. ReSite is Paralympic Games, as well as resident’s responses to those part of the tradition of Fluxus editions where anyone can changes. The project, Mapping the Change, began in 2009 perform an action or score. In addition to this performance- and will run through until the end of 2012. By focusing based approach, ReSite taps into the rich tradition of on new ways of working with artists and communities, the the avant-garde with contributions of manifestos and project has created a contemporary collecting framework documentation of art actions. for Hackney Museum. Following this approach, the museum will be staging two special exhibitions during 2012. The first of these, The Artist’s Eye, focuses on the work of East End artists responding to the Games and associated changes. The 10 artists were selected by a panel of contemporary art Museum directors.
WIPE exhorts artists to transform everyday toilet paper, which might be considered scatological, into a fine art material in livres d’artiste. WIPE is now in its 66th edition, testament to the ubiquity of its base material and the challenge it presents to artists. The fragility of the material Christina Mitrentse’s Flag XI-Olympic Rings (above), is part encourages a different approach to the other assembling of the show, limited edition of 10 screenprints, 100 × 70 cm. publications. This piece is part of a series of screenprinted designs, Book Flags made by appropriating a diverse book collection Field Study also produces ephemeral and one-off works, contributed by members of Hackney community. Residents instigated by members or David Dellafiora, Field Study’s coming from all five continents, have been asked to donate coordinator. These one-offs can include artist stamps, one of their books which they feel maps the reconstruction small publications, small sculptural works and occasionally of landscape as a result of the London Olympics. The work performances and installations. is a visual statement on the cultural representation of the Olympic area. It juxtaposes notions of education in relation Field Study publications are included in international artist to the perception of Hackney residents while inviting them book collections such as the V&A, Museum of Modern Art to re-contextualise bibliographic experience. New York, State Library of Victoria and the Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry. Hackney Museum, Technology And Learning Centre 1 Reading Lane, E8 1GQ , London, UK. More info: As well as producing publications, Field Study networkers www.hackney.gov.uk/museum-community-exhibitions.htm meet biannually at Tate Britain or Tate Modern. http://christinamitrentse.net
Page 2 this newsletter can be downloaded from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm The Sunderland Book Project By This Unwinking Night Touring North East Britain Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison Theresa Easton’s Sunderland Book Project will be on display Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria, Australia from 2nd April - 26th May 2012 in the Archive & Display Until Sunday 1st April, 2012 Cabinets, School of Arts & Media, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA. For more information visit The Sunderland Book Project page at http://theresaeaston.wordpress.com
ABOT “Artists’ Books on Tour” International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia Until 23rd March 2012 An exhibition of the winners of the Europe-wide artist’s book competition Artists’ Books on Tour.
A major aim of the competition was to gain an overview of Europe-wide creative work in the artist’s book genre. A total of 925 projects from all over Europe were submitted to the artist’s book competition Artists’ Books on Tour. Of these, 158 projects entered the final round following three days of preliminary deliberations by the jury.
Grad Tivoli, Pod turnom 3, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Gallery open to the Public: Tuesday - Sunday, 10 am - 6 pm Entrance fee Euros: 3.40 / 1.70 http://www.mglc-lj.si/eng/index.htm
Adventure & Art: the fine press book from 1450 to 2011 Leigh Scott Gallery, University of Melbourne, Australia 1st March - 31st May 2012 We’ve borrowed a line from J. Milton and assembled Adventure & Art, curated by poet and fine press printer beneath it a gathering of works on paper new, recent, Alan Loney, is about the printer’s craft, evidenced from and near-to forgotten. We are using it as the roof to our the first printed books in the 15th century, and given a shelter. Prints, artists’ books, collage, drawings, and small hugely influential impetus by William Morris and the Arts publications laid out for you By This Unwinking Night. & Craft movement at the end of the 19th. This exhibition will show how a number of technologies that are obsolete Head to either Louise’s blog: in commercial terms are still current in creative & craft http://gracialouise.typepad.com/elsewhere/ or Gracia’s blog terms in the 21st century. Exhibited will be books from the http://gracialouise.typepad.com/high_up_in_the_trees/ Baillieu Library’s Special Collections from Europe, North to see what we have made for this exhibition and a little of America, New Zealand and Australia. the installation process. gracialouise.com
Leigh Scott Gallery, Level 1, Baillieu Library Latrobe Regional Gallery, 138 Commercial Road, Morwell, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Victoria. (Right near the Morwell Railway Station, via the www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/exhibitions/ Traralgon or Bairnsdale train from Southern Cross Station) Gallery Hours: 10am – 5pm Monday to Friday 11am – 4pm Saturday & Sunday A Symposium discussing the nature and definition of fine www.latroberegionalgallery.com press books will be held from 2-5pm on March 9th 2012 in the Leigh Scott Room in the Baillieu Library. Free. Exhibitions at the CDLA, France: Each of the speakers at this Symposium, has arrived at the fine press book in different ways. It is hoped that MOREpublishers the Symposium will inform as much as interest and Until 16th June 2012 delight those who see the exhibition and attend the day’s Jacques André, Iñaki Bonillas, Manuel Burgener, Cieslik & discussions. Speakers at the symposium are Alan Loney, Schenk, François Curlet, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Lieven de Andrew Schuller, Peter Vangioni, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Boeck, Denicolai & Provoost, Nico Dockx, Sylvie Eyberg, Carolyn Fraser and Caren Florance. Attendees at the Dora García, Liam Gillick, Pernille Kapper Williams, Aglaia Symposium are invited to the exhibition opening following Konrad, Peter Lemmens, Jochen Lempert, Mark Luyten, the symposium. Erwan Mahéo, Wobbe Micha, Jonathan Monk, Maurizio Nannucci, Sophie Nys, Willem Oorebeek, Steve Van den To book, go to http://go.unimelb.edu.au/6pb Bosch, Richard Venlet.
Page 3 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Jean-François Bory - I libri di Jean-François Bory Center For Book Arts New York, Winter 2012 Exhibition: Until 16th June 2012 Fine & Dirty Poet, essayist, photo-artist, Until March 31st 2012 publisher. Organised by Betty Bright and Jeff Rathermel, Minnesota Also, residencies, summer Center for Book Arts workshops and research trips in a dedicated environment The practice of letterpress printing incorporates craft based around the collection, standards and the book’s haptic character, along with art the specialist library and the world strategies, materials and content. With Fine & Dirty, expertise of the cdla team can the curators will assemble work that represents the best in be arranged. Full information letterpress books today, created by established and emerging can be downloaded from artists. In so doing we hope to explore the forces that are http://cdla.info/en/news reshaping the meanings of craft in letterpress printing in the twenty-first century, and that may shed light on the larger craft world’s relationship to art and to life. The exhibition 1 place Attane, F–87500 Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France will also investigate other influences on current letterpress http://cdla.info work. These include DIY (Do It Yourself) and its playful organisational spin-off for letterpress, ILLSA (Impractical Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR) New Work Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts); Asian influences F-Block gallery, UWE Bristol, Bower Ashton Campus, UK such as wabi sabi; international influences such as, from 19th – 26th March 2012 the UK, Ken Campbell’s improvisatory approach and Research at the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR) is Ron King’s theatrical presentations, and, from Germany, based on the production of the physical artefact, primarily a heightened focus on design and on a wide use of papers predicated in print. All aspects of technology that relate to seen in work by Viktoria Schäpers and other Germans, and the core philosophy of making are central to this ethos. in work by Barbara Tetenbaum.
As part of the exhibition, the complete set of artists’ books The Center for Book Arts is Pleased to Present Its made for Codex Event 8, a collaborative Australia / UK Winter 2012 Featured Artists’ Projects artists’ books project will be on display. Sarah Bodman, Paul On show now until 31st March 2012 Laidler and Tom Sowden were invited to collaborate with Organised by Alexander Campos, Executive Director the Australian artists Tim Mosely and Monica Oppen on Tim Mosely’s Codex Event 8, a series that fosters the making, critiquing and development of books by artists: http://thecodexevents.blogspot.com
The event launched in Brisbane Australia in October 2011, with an installation project at POP Gallery, Woolloongabba Queensland, where Paul and Sarah worked with Tim for two weeks after attending the Impact 7 Printmaking Conference in Melbourne. The sheets of papers made as the final part of the Brisbane project were distributed between all the artists to create their own books by February 2012. The complete set will be displayed in this exhibition before the books commence a tour of Australian venues starting with Manly Library, in New South Wales.
Patricia S. Ward: Re/Vision In a site-specific installation titled Re/Vision, Patricia S. Ward presents a replica of her workspace, along with a number of miniature books and book-objects created from shredded pieces of an unpublished novel on loss, nostalgia, and war. The installation reflects moving beyond rejection and delving into the themes that permeate her writing. All objects are meant to be touched in the exhibition, allowing the viewer to experience the artist’s journey more intimately.
Tom Sowden’s book for Codex Event 8 Ethan Shoshan: Strange Birds Social ecologist Ethan Shoshan presents an archive of 31 UWE Bristol, Bower Ashton Campus treasured objects and their accompanying conversations. Kennel Lodge Road, Bower Ashton, Bristol BS3 2JT This project encompasses vignettes of people’s lives through http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/cahe/creativeindustries objects that hold significant personal meaning to them.
Page 4 this newsletter can be downloaded from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm Through each object on display, a conversation with its walls of the gallery. caretaker begins; visitors have the freedom to peruse On this occasion, mfc-michèle the objects and listen to an accompanying audio guide didier gallery also presents all its conversation. It is through these stories that we engage with productions created with Robert the person and create an intimate connection to something Barry to date, giving the visitor deeper within ourselves. Shosban’s Strange Birds weaves all the time to appreciate the together forgotten histories, memories, and embodied mystery of the work Art Lovers, experiences in an affirmation of life and its lessons. to consult the 25 volumes of One Billion Colored Dots and to watch the film One Billion Dots.
In partnership with les Cahiers du MNAM, the latest issue containing Frédéric Paul’s text on One Billion Colored Dots will be available for consultation at the gallery.
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Forgetmenot Elika Gallery, Athens Collaborators include: Arthur Aviles, Jill L. Conner, Barry Until 24 March 2012 Frier, Bibbe Hansen, Geoffrey Hendricks, Jim Hubbard, Vanessa Anastassopoulou, Martha Dimitropoulou, Stephen Kent Jusick, Stephen Lack, Agosto Machado, Katerina Diakomi, Sharon Kivland, Maro Michalakakos, Stefani Mar, Liz McGarrity, Lucia Maria Minervini, Angelo Eleini Mouzakiti, Kostas Bassanos, Yorgos Papadatos, Nina Monaco, Augustmoon Ochiishi, Uzi Parnes, Dennis Papaconstantinou, Eftihis Patsourakis, Eleni Froudaraki Redmond, Hunter Reynolds, Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Rob 27, Omirou st. Athens 10672, Greece Roth, Edward Rubin, Rafael Sanchez, Arleen Schloss, www.elikagallery.com Gervaise Soeurouge, Sur Rodney Sur, Chris Tanner, Brad Taylor, Gail Thacker, Jack Waters, Kathleen White, Brian “Soigne” Wilson, and Stephen Winter. ‘+ Space’ A collaboration between artist Gillian Neish and 28 W. 27th St. 3rd Floor, between Broadway and 6th, New radiologist John Addison. The Gallery, Moray School of York, NY 1000. Subway: N/R to 28th St, or F to 23rd St. Art, Elgin. Opening on 16th of March 2012, private view Admission: Free. Tel: (212) 481-0295 6-9pm. Moray School of Art, Moray College, Moray Street www.centerforbookarts.org Elgin, Moray IV30 1JJ, Scotland. www.moray.ac.uk
Taking your Time - Robert Barry Two exhibitions at Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland mfc-michèle didier gallery, Paris Until 6th May 2012 Until Saturday 28th April 2012 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 goes the title of Niele Toroni’s book. As it seems Daniel Gustav Cramer - WORKS our time is running out, let’s take our time. Let’s take a Daniel Gustav Cramer has an eye for the extraordinary in cushion, a book and consult the book on a cushion. the ordinary. He sharpens the vision for reality gaps and Take your time to sit for a moment and read a book, that leads us to the borders of human modes of perception is what Robert Barry proposes in this new exhibition at and thought in his works. There he experiments with mfc-michèle didier gallery, entitled Taking your Time. fragments of causality in space and time and makes them visible in pictures and abstract narrations. Gaps, elisions The artist has collected books since the 60s and has selected and overlaps are significant elements in the practice of his for this exhibition 27 works from his personal library that art. In and between the spaces in his photographs, video are related to ‘time’. The productions are carefully selected works, sculptures, texts and books, a poesy develops, circling in a wide spread of time going from 1966 to 2008 and around the fundamental and inexplicable themes of human represent this universal idea of time through their title, existence: in addition to time and space it is also a matter of their cover or their content. nature and culture, history and the present, subjectivity and objectivity, rationality and mystery, certainty and doubt in Moreover, Robert Barry’s curatorial proposal is to place the seemingly totally rationalised world. these books on a table, the “Time Table” as he calls it. In his works Daniel Gustav Cramer ties a net of invisible This presentation is enhanced by his decision to duplicate and puzzling associations, which perhaps hold the world the pages of each book that he considers important on the together at its core.
Page 5 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Daniel Gustav Cramer and Haris Epaminonda Chapter 1 - One of a Kind: Unique Artists’ Books THE INFINITE LIBRARY Curated by Heide Hatry On the basement floor the project The Infinite Library will Heide Hatry is a New York-based German neo-conceptualist be shown, that began in 2007 as an exchange between the artist who also has a life-long engagement with printed two artists Daniel Gustav Cramer and Haris Epaminonda matter, initially as a young maker of book-works followed and is still being continually extended. It consists of an by a seventeen-year career as an antiquarian bookseller. This archive of books, made by removing pages from antique section of the exhibition presents works by 40 artists that books and reassembling them in collage before binding Hatry has brought together around Franz Kafka’s injunction them again. In many cases these are illustrated books which that “a book must be an ice-axe to break the frozen seas of are, in this way, bound with altered patterns of causality. our souls”. A series of collages assembled anew with the imagery of a publication with gothic plates is displayed in the first room. Chapter 2: Books as Visual Objects In the corridor a video work gives a deeper insight into the Curated by Peter Dykhuis project showing turning pages of the books. The entirety Some times book-works, or publications as in the case of nevertheless remains unrevealed and incomplete so far. Michael Maranda’s artforumx, are not intended to operate The title of the project is a reference to José Luis Borges’s as a book-like object in the traditional sense of the word. fantastic description of a library organised in endless Artists such as Doug Beube, Michael Maranda and Susan hexagonal rooms. It serves as a metaphor for the universe, Mills create work that is more akin to paper-based sculpture where humanity is on an endless search for total knowledge. while pieces such as Robert Kelly’s Minutiae become scripts Preoccupation with found images and the medium of for additional performative presentations. the book is a common interest and a recurring motif in the works of Cramer and Epaminonda. In the digital age, Chapter 3: Archives, Libraries and Reading Rooms this interest in the apparently old medium of the book Organised by Sym Corrigan and Peter Dykhuis and the remix of existing imagery and knowledge is also When ganged together, single book-works and printed a commentary on current techniques of publication and matter form any number of creatively and intellectually archiving and the handling of the indefinite multiplicity of shaped collections. Guest artists (Craig Leonard and/or images and knowledge. Bruce Barber) will compile selections of books and printed matter to create purposeful fields of texts and images. Kunsthaus Glarus Parallel to this, local artist run centres and collectives (Eye Im Volksgarten, CH-8750 Glarus, Switzerland Level Gallery and Robert Street Social Centre/Anchor Tuesday - Friday 2pm - 6pm, Saturday - Sunday 11am - 5pm Archive Zine Library) have been invited to display selections Adults: Fr. 6.-, Reduced: Fr. 4.-, Members: free from their archives, libraries and inventories. http://www.kunsthausglarus.ch “The book is dead. Long live the book!”
Unbound – An Exhibition in 3 Chapters Dalhousie Art Gallery, 6101 University Avenue Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 1W8, Canada 16 March – 6 May 2012 Tuesday - Friday: 11am - 5pm. Weekends: 12 - 5pm. Free. “Painting is dead. Long live painting!” The obituary for http://artgallery.dal.ca/exhibitions/index.html painting, playfully turned on its head by Salvador Dali, has been written multiple times throughout the 20th Century. Yet, well into this new century, it continues to flourish as a For the Love of Books critically relevant practice as waves of artists reinvent the Huyton Gallery, Knowsley, UK purposeful placement of pigment-laden liquids and pastes 30th April – 30th June 2012 on an ever-expanding range of substrates. Is it now the Books by artists today provide a challenge to great works book’s turn to be declared dead? As libraries clear out their of the past, as well as being an increasingly popular way in stacks and publishers experiment with digital means of which artists explore the fusion between image and text, distribution, is the book as a printed, portable object poised graphics and physical form. to be tossed onto the waste-heap of history? The conventional book, a Roman invention which became Or, as with painting, is the pronounced death of the book a household article after the invention of printing, has premature? The commercial publishing industry may be only recently been rivalled by the computer screen and facing a crisis in terms of production and distribution but, electronic text. The works in this exhibition take on a as witnessed every Fall at the New York Art Book Fair that variety of formats, from bound volumes and photographs the Dalhousie Art Gallery attends with its colleagues from to sculptures and installations, referring to the myriad Halifax INK, there is an explosion of creative book-based functions of books besides transmitting texts. and printed matter practices happening around the world - from digitally designed and printed limited edition books This exhibition seeks to demonstrate our love of books that to DIY photocopied ’zines and book-works, and one-off, still exists for their traditional form, as well as that of artists’ book-based sculptural objects. Told in three chapters, this playful re-working of the book into a new work of beauty. exhibition celebrates the resilience of books and printed On show will be works from key historical authors and an matter as ‘page-based objects constructed with images and/ array of makers of artists’ books. or text’ that thrive where the literary and visual arts collide.
Page 6 this newsletter can be downloaded from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm The exhibition is timed to coincide with the Bicentenary of in Norfolk arose when Crome and Akers closed its doors Edward Lear’s birth on 12 May 1812. His famous illustrated and sold its presses to India. The exhibition celebrates the Nonsense Alphabet was created during his time at Knowsley remarkable body of work produced during the Coracle/ Hall. Knowsley Arts & Heritage Service has commissioned Crome and Akers collaboration. Stuart Settle still makes an enormous Public Art project led by artist Gordon Young books with Coracle. working with the community to create a new Knowsley Alphabet to celebrate Lear’s ‘Book of Nonsense’, written for Exhibition tour organiser Helen Mitchell said: the Earl of Derby’s grandchildren. This exhibition is the first chance for many years to see a significant body of Coracle’s work in the UK mainland. Private View: Thursday 3rd May. Huyton Gallery, Civic Way, It’s both a major retrospective and a chance to explore Huyton, Knowsley, L36 9GD, UK. Open: Monday & Friday: Coracle’s highly productive collaboration with Crome 9.15am – 5pm, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday: 9.15am - and Akers. The printer’s bread and butter work was 7pm, Saturday: 10am – 1pm. http://www.knowsley.gov.uk posters for cattle auctions, raffle tickets and stationery. Working with Coracle they made artists’ books that are in collections and archives around the world. Printed in Norfolk: Coracle Publications 1989-2012 The Gallery at Norwich University College of the Arts, UK 20th March - 21st April 2012 From March - November 2012 an exhibition of work by leading artist’s book publisher Coracle made during the period 1989 to 2012 will tour four UK venues. Printed in Norfolk will showcase artists’ books, poetry, critical documents, ephemera, catalogues and anthologies. The exhibition opens in Norwich at The Gallery at Norwich University College of the Arts before going on to Site Gallery in Sheffield, Shandy Hall in North Yorkshire and the Saison Poetry Library on London’s Southbank. Each venue will also host workshops and lectures.
Coracle was founded in 1975 by Simon Cutts, artist, poet, printer, publisher, bookseller and curator, working from Italian Lesson No 1, Erica Van Horn bases in London, Norfolk, Italy, Liverpool and Ireland. workfortheeyetodo, London, 1993 © Coracle For over twenty years Cutts has been joined by New England book artist and writer, Erica Van Horn as co-director of Printed in Norfolk is supported by a catalogue designed by Coracle. Cutts and Van Horn make books and exhibitions as Colin Sackett and published by RGAP (Research Group individuals, together and in collaboration and have worked for Artists Publications). It features poems and a new essay with many leading artists, poets, galleries and institutions. by Simon Cutts ‘The Norfolk Years’ alongside a specially commissioned essay by writer and poet John Bevis ‘A star- gazey pie’. The latter is the first comprehensive survey of Simon Cutts and Coracle from 1960s Nottingham (Tarasque Press and the Trent Bookshop), via London (Coracle Press and Gallery, Victoria Miro Gallery, workfortheeyetodo), Florence in Italy, Liverpool, Norfolk and Ireland.
The Gallery at NUCA (formerly The Norwich Gallery) 20th March - 21st April, Tuesday – Saturday 12-5pm Admission free. St Georges Street, Norwich, NR3 1BB www.printedinnorfolk.org.uk
Printed in Norfolk is a collaboration between Coracle, RGAP in Sheffield, Arts and Heritage freelancer Helen Mitchell and the four venues. The exhibition tours:
20 March to 21 April, The Gallery at NUCA (Norwich Several collections of the spines of casebound books © Coracle University College of the Arts); 14 July to 12 August, Site Gallery, Sheffield’s International Centre for Contemporary Art; 15 September to 14 October, Shandy Hall, and the Printed in Norfolk brings together works produced by Laurence Sterne Trust; 1 to 30 November, The Saison Poetry Coracle during a twenty year collaboration with trade Library. printer Crome and Akers in Kings Lynn, Norfolk. Between 1989 and 2011 Coracle made books with Crome For complete tour information, images and catalogue and Akers printers in Kings Lynn and bookbinder Stuart orders, please visit: www.printedinnorfolk.org.uk Settle in Fakenham. The idea for the exhibition Printed
Page 7 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955 Laura Wady ICA, London The Cube cinema, Bristol, UK Until 25 March 2012 31st March - 30th April 2012 In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955 is a survey exhibition of the often-overlooked genre of serial publications produced by artists around the world from 1955 to the present day. From the rise of the small press in the 1960s, to the DIY zine culture in the 1980s and early 1990s, professional artists have always seized on the format of magazines and postcards as a site for a new kind of art production. In Numbers is the first survey to define a neglected artform that is neither artist’s book nor ephemera, but is entirely its own unique object. The publications are by young artists operating at the peripheries of mainstream art cultures and established artists looking for an alternative to the marketplace.
Institute of Contemporary Arts The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH. Admission Free. The ICA is open Wednesday - Sunday, closed Monday and Tuesday. Tube: Charing Cross or Piccadilly Circus. www.ica.org.uk An exhibition of works on paper, including book works, by UK artist Laura Wady. www.laurawady.co.uk Plot to Plate Collection - Kate Farley Open night Sunday 1st April 7pm - 10pm Kitchen Garden Exhibition The Cube cinema, 4 Princess Row, Bristol, BS2 8NQ, UK Bilston Craft Gallery, West Midlands, UK www.cubecinema.com/cubewebsite/ Until 28th April 2012 At a time of great awareness of home-grown produce and home-cooked food I launch my brand new celebratory The Joy of Making screen-printed design collection inspired by kitchen gardens Wolverhampton Art Gallery and allotments of Britain. Until 14th April 2012 The Joy of Making is a celebration of traditional hand making processes explored through objects from our collection. Intricate baskets are shown alongside colourful Polish folk paper cut designs, needlework samplers, dolls and toys.
Artist Helen Snell has created a new installation for the exhibition consisting of over 50 laser cut paper vessels.
The vivid colours of the vessels are inspired by the vitality of the Polish folk art designs shown in the exhibition and in the museum’s archives.
Alongside objects from Wolverhampton’s collection is craftwork created by local people. Items from the collection have been used to help promote a sense of wellbeing. Wooden toys, handmade felt and rag rug samples are shown My surface designs are applied to both textiles and paper within the exhibition. Wolverhampton Art Gallery products, including bags, tea towels and notebooks, Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton,West Midlands WV1 1DU all hand-made, on show as part of the ‘Kitchen Garden’ http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk exhibition at Bilston Craft Gallery, West Midlands, now until 28th April 2012. Nick Davies - Unto This Txt Bilston Craft Gallery Gallery333 at Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, UK Mount Pleasant, Bilston WV14 7LU, UK. Monday 19th March - Saturday 19th May 2012 http://www.katefarley.co.uk/design/plottoplate.htm An installation and book art project that translates Roland
Page 8 this newsletter can be downloaded from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm Barthes’ seminal book into txt-speak, exploring the attitudes Décollages - Volet 3 towards differing language usage. Gallery333 is a small glass Florence Loewy – Books By Artists, Paris paned space within the Exeter Phoenix that shows site- 13th March – 5th April 2012 specific work and work by emerging artists. Part 3 of a series on the theme of collage, without collages. The intention of the project being not the technique itself but rather the manner in which artists today assimilate miscellaneous references and borrow pre-existing forms to create their assemblages as a singular surface. Volet 3: Sylvie Auvray, Fayçal Baghriche, Matthieu Clainchard and Julien Pastor. Open night Saturday 10th March.
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The open west Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, UK 3rd – 31st March 2012 On 3rd March 2012 Gloucester Cathedral is opening its This installation relates to the bookwork d PlsUR of d Txt, doors as the setting for the open west’s annual exhibition. expanding upon the book’s subject of the conflicting worlds This event is an international competition open to artists of philosophy and youth culture. The title for the show is practicing across a range of contemporary disciplines. taken from John Ruskin’s seminal work Unto This Last, a Around 90 pieces of work from 55 artists have been selected work that was itself subject to a translation by Gandhi that by the curators and organisers Sarah Goodwin and Lyn later became known as the Sarvodaya: the text that formed Cluer Coleman who were joined on the 2012 selection panel the foundation of Gandhi’s future philosophy and practice. by artists Iain Andrews and Dan Chadwick. Work includes Here the title is used as a play towards my own wish of sculpture, painting, site-specific installation, drawing, equality across our culture (like Warhol’s idea of Flat textile, photography, ceramics, print and video. Award Culture). winners will be announced on the night of the private view.
Many of the selected artists have responded directly to this ancient building and have created new work, while others are seeing a fresh dialogue emerge between their work and the ever-present voice of the Cathedral. A number of the artists are recently emerged from fine art MA programmes, many others are already highly established and internationally exhibited; all come from very different backgrounds and each has a distinct story to tell. This is a significant opportunity for an audience to see a collection of independent Entrance to Exeter Phoenix and its galleries is free. visions held Exeter Phoenix is situated on Gandy Street in Exeter city together in a centre, Exeter, UK. Galleries open Monday - Saturday, powerful and 10am-5pm (closed Sunday). www.exeterphoenix.org.uk evocative setting.
Tina Hill’s book Nicola Dale - Kindle art installation John Rylands Library, Manchester, UK Excavating Babel Until 29 April 2012 (left) is on show in Kindle is inspired by the changing format of knowledge this exhibition. and its current journey out of libraries and books and into circuit boards and light. Within The Old Map Room of Gloucester Cathedral, College Green, Gloucester GL1 2LR the historic John Rylands Library, the artist has installed Monday to Saturday 10.00 - 5.00 | Sunday 12.00 - 5.00 thousands of hand-made “candles” made from the pages Free entry | please note there may be days when access to of unwanted books. John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, some areas of the Cathedral is restricted | see closures diary Manchester M3 3EH, UK. The John Rylands Library is open on: gloucestercathedral.org.uk Monday 12 - 5 | Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 5 | Sunday 12 - 5. For all details visit: theopenwest.org.uk
Page 9 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Hand, Voice & Vision: Artists’ Books from Poems and Pictures: Women’s Studio Workshop A Renaissance in the Art of the Book (1946-1981) WSW Exhibition at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY Curated by Kyle Schlesinger Until May 2012 Center for Book & Paper Arts, Chicago, USA This travelling exhibition features artists’ books by thirty- Until 7th April 2012 six artists published over thirty years by Women’s Studio This exhibition, originally organised for the The Center Workshop. Curated by Kathleen Walkup, the exhibition is for Books Arts by Kyle Schlesinger, features books, a comprehensive retrospective featuring some of the most paintings, collages, periodicals, and ephemera that influential contemporary book artists in America. explore fundamental relationships between form and content; seeing and reading; writing and drawing; and the The fully-illustrated catalogue for this exhibition is extraordinary occasions when these things and activities available for sale online. The catalogue features essays by fuse, introducing a third element. the exhibition curator, librarians, teachers, curators, and artists on the topic of artists’ books and WSW’s role in the field, as well as interviews with the four founders. www.handvoicevision.com
HAWAI’I ART NOW Exhibition Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawai’i Until 22nd April 22 2012 Since the first Biennial of Hawai’i Artists in 1993, 58 artists have been selected to show their work - either a complete body or site-specific installation. While the tenth Biennial is on view at Spalding House, you also have a chance to visually catch up with many of the artists from the past nine Biennials. The museum has invited them to submit work completed within the last two years. The result is an exciting sampling of Hawai’i’s contemporary art scene.
First Name of Rita Hayworth’s Theory, 1971 Meet the Artist - Wednesdays until April 18, 10.15-11.15am Ron Padgett and George Schneeman Over the following weeks, you can meet artists who are in Hawai‘i Art Now. Docents lead a tour of the show, where an Poets, artists, and collaborators in this exhibition include artist will be on hand to discuss his or her work. Wallace Berman, Joe Brainard, Robert Creeley, Jim Dine, The participating artists are: March 14: Jacqueline Rush Johanna Drucker, Philip Guston, Joanne Kyger, Emily Lee; March 21: Dorothy Faison; March 28: Sally French; McVarish, Karen Randall, Larry Rivers, George Schneeman, April 4: Gaye Chan; April 11: Linda Yamamoto; April 18: and many more. Together they share in the common Esther Shimazu. http://www.honoluluacademy.org/art/ objective of bringing bold new writing into print where exhibitions/12383-hawaii_art_now commercial presses fear to tread, and to do so with flair, imagination, and intelligence.
Katie Herzog - Object Oriented Programming Columbia College Chicago, Center for Book & Paper Arts PARC, a Xerox company, Palo Alto, California, USA 1104 S. Wabash Avenue, Suite 200, Chicago, Illinois 60605, Until March 30, 2012 USA. www.colum.edu/Academics/Interarts/book-and- “Object Oriented Programming,” an exhibition of over paper/index.php fifty works by Katie Herzog, will be on view from January 13 through March 30 at PARC, a Xerox company, as part of its local rotating artist series. The show title refers to the Pages for the Planet: Artist’s Books and Ecology computer language, advanced and popularized at PARC Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, USA as an alternative to procedural programming, in which Until 21st March 2012 messages are relayed through relationships between data Pages for the Planet is a group exhibition of Boston-area structures defined as “objects.” The works on display are artists’ books and mixed media works, curated by Ronni a result of the artist’s ongoing phenomenological and Komarow, Adjunct Professor of Visual Arts. This group vocational exploration of information culture, ranging of artists, working with books, collage, and mixed media, from personal narrative to the civic imaginary. explore nature-inspired themes. Artists include Claudine Bing, Ann Forbush, Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord, Ania PARC, a Xerox company Gilmore, Margret Hall, Ronni Komarow, Peter Madden, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California, USA Rachel Prouty, A.E. Ryan, Marcella Stasa, Stephanie Mahan Open Mon - Fri 8am - 5pm (closed Saturdays and Sundays) Stigliano, and Annie Zeybekoglu.
Pine Manor College, 400 Heath Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA. http://www.pmc.edu/nature-by-the-book
Page 10 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm Slavs and Tatars - PrayWay communicating. All of these works are a record of the New Museum, New York artist’s private life- poetic and imaginative, careful and Until 22nd April 2012 exact, revelatory and explicit.” Heather Powell, Curator For The Ungovernables, the 2012 Triennial at the New Museum, Slavs and Tatars present PrayWay. A collision Dowd Gallery, Dowd Fine Arts Ctr # 162, SUNY Cortland, of the sacred and the profane – the rahlé, the traditional Cortland, NY 13045. Free. book stand used for holy books, and the river-bed, www2.cortland.edu/dowd-gallery/ vernacular seating areas used in tea-salons – PrayWay is part installation, part sculpture, part seating area, and all Object Migration polemical platform. Proteus Gowanus Gallery, NY, USA Until Sunday 8th April 2012 New Museum, 235 Bowery, NY 10002, USA Five Feathers, Berlin: True Story (3D artist’s book) by slavsandtatars.com Barbara Rosenthal. “The exhibition, Object Migration, is a transitory museum of terrestrial transitions with over 50 objects and their migratory stories brought to us by you, our Roma Publications friends and collaborators. Some objects speak of intensely Weserburg - Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen intimate moments while others tell geologic tales of perfect 9th March - 13th May 2012 indifference. All speak of movement, change, transition.” The display shows the publications from Roma Publications, Sasha Chavchavadze (Founder/Creative Director) established in The Netherlands in 1998 by artist Mark Proteus Gowanus, 543 Union Street, #1C, Brooklyn, NY Manders and graphic designer Roger Willems. 11215, USA. Thurs & Fri: 3 - 6pm, Sat & Sun: 12 - 6pm. Free. www.proteusgowanus.org Roma is used as a platform to produce autonomous publications in close collaboration with a growing number of artists, institutions, writers and designers. Related to Left to Chance: The Accidental Book Art the content, every issue has its own rule of appearance The San Francisco Center for the Book, USA and distribution, varying from house to house papers to Until 12th May 2012 exclusive books. To date, the publications are in editions 2012 marks the centennial of John Cage’s birth - inventor, varying from 2 to 150,000. www.romapublications.org composer, printmaker, and mycologist. In this exhibition, the San Francisco Center for the Book pays tribute to Studienzentrum, Weserburg - Museum für Moderne Kunst, Cage and his influence on the visual arts, as well as his Teerhof 20, 28199 Bremen, Germany enduring legacy and love of experimentation with music, www.weserburg.de wild mushrooms, Zen Buddhism, I-Ching, visual art, printmaking and typography.
Barbara Rosenthal has books in the following exhibitions: This exhibition curated by Hanna Regev appreciates the range and impact of Cage’s work across various disciplines Bound by Silence curated by Heather Powell, Dowd by inviting book artists to use serendipity, randomness, Gallery, SUNY Cortland, USA unpredictability, luck, found objects and chance-determined 12th March - 6th April 2012 procedures to generate new works that are free of any Featured artist Barbara Rosenthal. particular order or rule.
The following pieces will be exhibited: Clues to Myself 1981(unbound pages, framed & bound book). Structure and Meaning 1982 (book). Identity Theft Masks Rondola Single Images Print (framed); Identity Theft Masks Button Pins on Page (framed) 2011. Identity Theft Masks (loose to handle) 2009. Identity Theft Masks Book (in vitrine) 2010. Journal (pages from, projected) selected pages from 2008-11.
“These works examine the relationship between the visual elements and literary devices at play and emphasise the correlation between meaning and metaphor. The five artists featured in Bound by Silence have at some point been driven to create an object that incorporates their language into a book-like design. This exhibition presents a series Included in the exhibition is the book PENTIMENTO: of artist-made manuscripts that consider the translation PEOPLE EITHER GET THE POINT OF THEY DON’T. # of the artist’s aesthetic vocabulary into writing systems 6, an ongoing series, 2012, by Claire Jeanine Satin (image that concentrate on the source and treatment of artistic detail above). language. Some of these artists have assembled their content from critical techniques, biographical information, 300 De Haro Street San Francisco CA 94103, USA and elements of fiction, as well as asemic styles of http://sfcb.org/exhibitions
Page 11 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Claire Jeanine Satin’s bookworks are also in the 6th Romantic tales were copied and sometimes reinterpreted International Travelling Artist Book Exhibition currently over time, and reached far beyond the borders of Iran. on view at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice The universal themes of Persian narrative and mystical Italy, where she will be on an Artist’s Residency from April poetry appealed especially to audiences in Mughal India 11 - June 13, 2012. From there it travels to the Leipzig Book and Ottoman Turkey, and eventually to audiences in the Fair, France, Lithuania and other venues. Satin’s work West. Transcending time and place, these stories continue is also featured in the current issue of The Guild of Book to resonate today and to be retold through contemporary Workers Newsletter with an essay by Laura Kruger, Curator literature and popular culture. of the Hebrew Union College Museum, NYC. http://www.guildofbookworkers.org Persian poetry from the secular tradition flourished in the princely courts of Iran, where illustrated manuscripts were crafted for elite patrons. Today, these provide viewers Rúna Thorkelsdóttir of Boekie Woekie, books by artists, with the opportunity to experience examples of Persian has a solo exhibition Changing Still Lives at Galerie Van calligraphy, illumination and miniature painting from the Gelder, until 21st March 2012 13th to 18th centuries, one of the richest periods in the Galerie van Gelder, Planciusstraat 9 A history of the book. Many stories from this period were 1013 MD Amsterdam, The Netherlands embraced not only in the princely courts but in all sectors of www.galerievangelder.com society, told within families and at community gatherings.
The idea of Persia has long fascinated Western minds. MILLE BACI From the Middle Ages on, knowledge of Persia gradually Jockel Heenes - the books expanded as a result of increased contact through trade, The Archive Artists’ Books presents book works and travel and diplomacy. Writers in Europe, such as Chaucer, publications by the late Jockel Heenes, an artist originating Dante and Shakespeare, reflected this understanding in from Munich. The exhibition will be open to the public on the parallels with Persian literature and shared symbolism the following days: March 4 / 10 / 11 / 24 / 25 from 3pm to evident in their plays, poetry and prose. 8pm. Feel free to arrange an appointment for other days between March 4 and March 25. Love and devotion showcases a rich selection of manuscripts from the world-renowned collection of the so-VIELE Heft 14: MILLE BACI Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford, along with - Jockel Heenes - die Bücher rare works from the State Library of Victoria and other A catalogue to accompany the exhibition is published by Australian collections. Verlag Hubert Kretschmer, München. 15 x 10 cm, edition of 4000, 32 pages, full colour. ISBN 978-3-923205-47-9 328 Swanston St, Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia Edited by Hubert Kretschmer The Library is open seven days a week, excluding some http://www.so-viele.de/hefte/heft14.html public holidays. Monday to Thursday: 10am–9pm Friday to Sunday: 10am–6pm. Plan your trip and discover a Archive Artists’ Books in Munich wealth of knowledge on our exhibition website: Türkenstrasse 60 RG UG, München, Germany http://exhibitions.slv.vic.gov.au/love-and-devotion Tel 089 1234530. www.archive-artistsbooks.de Children’s Book Festival: family fun day, Sunday 25 March 2012, 10am - 4pm. Free. Library forecourt, 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne. Join us for the second annual Children’s Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond Book Festival family fun day at the State Library, the 9th March–1st July 2012 Wheeler Centre and Little Lonsdale Street. Highlights will State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia include guest writers, illustrators, theatre groups, singers, clowns, workshops, interviews, book-making, storytelling, a petting zoo and activities linked to the Love and devotion: from Persia and beyond exhibition. A fantastic day out for the whole family!
For more information on the Children’s Book Festival programme, including information on presenters, visit On March 9th, we will open the doors on our major http://wheelercentre.com/calendar/event/children-s-book- exhibition Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond. festival/ Over 70 rare 13th- to 18th-century illustrated manuscripts and miniatures from the Bodleian Libraries will travel to Australia for the very first time. Simone Berger - Farben-Welten-Zeiten “painted images” Raum für Kunst, Literatur und Künstlerbücher, Basel The exhibition Love and devotion: from Persia and beyond 3rd - 24th March 2012 celebrates the beauty of Persian manuscripts and the stories Totengässlein 5, 4051 Basel of human and divine love told through their pages from the Tel. 061 261 31 42 / 079 860 12 44 early 11th century on. www.kunst-literatur.ch / [email protected]
Page 12 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm The Nature of Curious Objects: The works selected here go some way to exploring the Sue Johnson’s Paper Museum heavily mediated air of the present day and how these might Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK impact on ideas of art and artistic production. Until 10 June 2012 Following the success of her exhibition The Curious Nature Full programme details at: www.bannerrepeater.org/now of Objects on the Museum’s lower gallery in early 2011, Banner Repeater is an artist led reading room and project American artist Sue Johnson returns to the Pitt Rivers space, situated on Platform 1, Hackney Downs railway to show fifteen new works inspired by images of familiar station. Its reading room dedicated to artists’ printed types of ethnographic and archaeological objects in the material and home to Publish and be Damned’s archive, illustrated catalogue of General Pitt-Rivers’s ‘second’ provides an important bibliographic resource, somewhere collection. Working in gouache, watercolour, and pencil on that all visitors to BR can browse, alongside an ambitious paper, and drawing on her extensive knowledge of natural exhibition programme of new art work installed in a highly history illustration, museums, and archives, Johnson visible and accessible project space. redisplays and reorders familiar objects in new contexts and new juxtapositions. Sue Johnson is an associate of the The reading room and project space is open 6 days a week: ‘Rethinking Pitt-Rivers’ project funded by The Leverhulme 8 - 11am, 4 - 7pm Tues - Thurs, 8 - 6pm Friday, Trust (2009–2012). 12 - 6pm Sat, 12 - 6pm Sun (during exhibitions) Banner Repeater Long Gallery, Pitt Rivers Museum, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 Platform 1, Hackney Downs Railway Station 3PW, UK. http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/new.html Dalston Lane, Hackney E8 1LA Admission free. Opening Hours 10.00 - 16.30 Tuesday to www.bannerrepeater.org Sunday (and bank holiday Mondays) 12.00 - 16.30 Monday For more information on the artist: www.suejohnson1.com Theartspace Düsseldorf and Nicosia Exhibitions and Project presentations Spring 2012 The Map is the Territory Banner Repeater Palimpsest II - Artist’s book group exhibition Platform 1, Hackney Downs Railway Station, London Theartspace Nicosia Until 31st March 2012 21st - 31st March 2012 New work for Banner Repeater from Benedict Drew: A collaboration with Moufflon bookshop and Publisher, ‘Notes on the Dumb Terminal’ in an exhibition with Tim supported by the German embassy, Nicosia. Head: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and Christopher Rawcliffe: The artworks will also be presented in September 2012 at ‘Edition of 1’. Theartspace Düsseldorf together with works by participants from Düsseldorf. Publishing, distribution, dissemination; the sharing of ideas, filter bubbles that then isolate us from each other again, the Speaking of reality - Installation and Photography speeds of data we receive warping our time and attention, Marianna Christofides and Laura Padgett have become so very everyday. Theartspace Düsseldorf Until 10th March 2012 The “locust swarms of lettering” described by Walter Benjamin almost a century ago, as writing was “ruthlessly Look at me dragged out into the street by advertisements and subjected Theartspace Düsseldorf to the brutal heteronomies of economic chaos” was 16th March - 6th April 2012 prescient of the maze of digital code we now inhabit, but for Women for children, art for humanity. An exhibition of all intents and purposes, means that we can just type a lot prints and texts by 25 women artists and writers. A project better than our parents. with the University Durban/South Africa in collaboration with the National Council of South Africa A significant shift has occurred though, in that the map has become the territory. Topographical perspectives 40215 Theartspace Düsseldorf Whereas the previous model of the map involved April 2012 representation of what was out there, for us to use for our Three artists from Düsseldorf will create installation own devices (albeit drawn for someone else’s), we are now works based on their research into the local urban space intrinsically a part of this via the data that we daily inscribe -Fuerstenplatza, a multicultural neighbourhood around the within the map itself. square opposite Theartspace.
Whether it’s the unprecedented amount of information Theartspace Düsseldorf the vast database the internet provides, or the algorithms; Fuerstenplatz 1, 40215 Düsseldorf, Germany the ‘filters’ that drive it, increasingly personalising our Theartspace Nicosia experience, or the materiality of digital data and its Pygmalionosstr. 31, 1010 Nicosia, Cyprus supporting frameworks, we co-evolve with the technology we produce, both in the short and long term. www.horstweierstall.com.cy http://theartspace-formovingideas.blogspot.com
Page 13 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Theresa Easton his CTL-Presse/Edizioni CTL. A highly accomplished The Craft Cabinets Darlington Arts Centre, UK artist, collaborative bookmaker and publisher, his work Until 31st March 2012 utilises highly skilled printmaking processes to produce limited editions of exquisitely crafted artists’ books ranging in content from responses to poetry to the physical sensations of experience, from the frozen rivers of Siberia to marketplaces in East Africa. The interplay of typography, experimental print, photography and surface textures add to the allure of these intricate editions.
Clemens-Tobias Lange was awarded The Antiquaria Prize for the Promotion of book culture, for his outstanding production of artists’ books, on 26th January 2012 (http://www.antiquaria-preis.de). He has made a huge contribution to the field of the artists’ books.
A catalogue of the exhibition will be published: Gemeint ist das Unsichtbare - artists’ books of Clemens-Tobias Lange, CTL press, Hamburg, 2012. The Craft Cabinets at Darlington Arts Centre provide an intimate space for creative practitioners to showcase their Herzog August Bibliothek, Lessingplatz 1, work in a relaxed and creative environment. Currently on D-38304 Wolfenbüttel, Germany. www.hab.de display is a selection of artists’ books by Theresa Easton a Opening times: Tuesday - Sunday, 10 to 17.00. visual artist based at Ouseburn Studios and Warehouse in Entrance: 5,-/2,-/1,- Newcastle. Working with a variety of media including glass and paper, Easton is interested in pushing the boundaries of printmaking which is central to her practice.
The content of much of Easton’s work relies on research and an interest in heritage interpretation and historical events. Recent book projects include a collaborative piece of work entitled The Book Apothecary, a travelling museum of artists’ books. Housed in a specially adapted suitcase, the work includes text-based glass pieces and found objects, referencing Darwin’s work on classification and categorisation. Ongoing projects such as The Sunderland Book Project provide Easton with the opportunity to work internationally; creating opportunities for artists to showcase their work on a global scale.
Craft Cabinets, Darlington Arts Centre Vane Terrace, Darlington DL3 7AX www.darlington.gov.uk/leisure/arts CANADA - PRIX ARA FRANCE DE LA JEUNE RELIURE http://theresaeaston.wordpress.com 2011 (THE ARA FRANCE AWARD FOR YOUNG BOOKBINDERS 2011) A design bookbinding exhibition held under the auspices Gemeint ist das Unsichtbare - the artists’ books of of Amis de la Reliure d’Art du Canada (ARA Canada) Clemens-Tobias Lange Bibliothèque Myriam and J.-Robert Ouimet Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany Montreal, Quebec, Canada Until 27th May 2012 Until 20th April 2012 Every two years Amis de la Reliure d’Art du France (ARA France) holds a design bookbinding competition open to all students under 26 years of age trained in bookbinding and gilding in the public and private art schools of France. By awarding the Prix ARA France de la Jeune Reliure, ARA France encourages the artistic creativity in young designer This exhibition at the Herzog August Bibliothek presents bookbinders and future practitioners who have been all the published works of Clemens-Tobias Lange under treading the path to quality, excellence and innovation.
Page 14 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm The 63 bookbindings of this year’s bookbinding Shabandar Café, which opened in 1917. On March 5, 2007, competition have been exhibited at École Estienne in Paris a car bomb was used to destroy this crowded book market and at Bibliothèque de Riom, France and for the first time in as well as the Shabandar Café. More than thirty people its six-year history, the Prix ARA France de la Jeune Reliure were killed and over a hundred were injured. 2011 exhibition will travel abroad and will be presented by Amis de la Reliure d’Art du Canada (ARA Canada, http://aracanada.org) at Bibliothèque Myriam & J.-Robert Ouimet in Montreal, Canada.
Bibliothèque Myriam and J.-Robert Ouimet Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales 3000, Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 2A7 http://www.hec.ca/biblio/a_propos/culture/
For more information for the exhibition please visit Amis de la Reliure d’Art du Canada (ARA Canada) at http://www.aracanada.org/activities_en.html
Found In Translation To The Power of Three, Abigail Thomas, London, UK, 2012 Sykes Gallery, Millersville University, Pennsylvania, USA Until 22nd March 2012 The bombers not only destroyed the lives of those who died Found in Translation is a touring exhibition of multi-lingual and their families, they also attacked the concept, which artists books, prints, and digital and video documentation the street represented – of freedom of thought. In response of innovative projects that explore the cognitive, literary, to this attack Beau Beausoleil, a poet and bookseller in and political processes of translation. California, set up a coalition of poets, writers, readers, artists, booksellers and printers – not just to remember Curated by Marshall Weber for the Booklyn Artists Alliance, those who died, but also as a response to the cultural this exhibition features exciting multi-lingual collaborations implications of the attack on ideas. In this case the attack including “The Tides Story” collaborations of Chinese artist was in Baghdad but it could have been any street, anywhere. Xu Bing, Columbian artist Eiana Perez and New Yorker This exhibition will showcase some of the artists’ books Marshall Weber, which literally weaves Mandarin, Spanish already received for An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street and English together in books and scrolls that explore the in a preview show. At the end of the coalition’s call to physical and cognitive processes of reading and writing. book artists for An Inventory Of Al-Mutanabbi Street, 261 artists had joined the project and are making books for the Thursday, March 22, noon: Curator’s presentation with Autumn 2012 deadline. The many participating book artists Marshall Weber reflect a global understanding of what books mean within every culture. Sykes Gallery, located in Breidenstine Hall, hours are Monday through Friday, 10 am - 4 pm; Sunday, noon - 4pm, The first complete UK show of all the finished artists’ books and by appointment. Free tours of the exhibition may be from “An Inventory Of Al-Mutanabbi Street” will run from scheduled by contacting Ty Clever, gallery director, at mid January 2013, to mid May 2013, at the John Rylands 717-871-2186 or [email protected] Library, Manchester, UK. This exhibition is free and open to the public. Sykes Gallery, Breidenstine Hall, Millersville University Westminster Reference Library 1 South George St. Millersville, PA 17551, USA 35 St Martins Street, London WC2H 7HP. http://www.millersville.edu http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/libraries/news/ http://www.booklyn.org/exhibition/000231.php wrfexhibitions/
An Inventory Of Al-Mutanabbi Street Interplay: Photographers Focus on the Book An artists’ books preview exhibition at Westminster Elizabeth Claffey, Lauren Henkin, Clifton Meador Reference Library, London, UK and Laura Russell Until 17th March 2012 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA Organised by Salli Yule-Tsingas 6th April - 12th May 2012 Al-Mutanabbi Street, named after the 10th century Arab 23 Sandy Gallery is pleased to present four photographers poet Abu’ Tayib al-Mutanabbi, has been known for centuries who create artists’ books using very different approaches as the heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual to style, structure, materials and concept. Each of the four community. A winding street lined with booksellers and artists are photographers who use the book form to push bookshops, it was an important meeting place for people beyond the two dimensional limits of the photographic to hunt for books, debate and share ideas. Scholars, poets, medium by melding their photos with book forms, readers, writers and artists often spent their days in the materials, words, structures and processes.
Page 15 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk ANNOUNCEMENTS
Al-Mutanabbi Street Events on 5th March 2012
Hit the Road, Highway 99 Roadside Art•ifacts Volume 1 Laura Russell, 2008
Interplay showcases one-of-a-kind and limited edition artists’ books by Elizabeth Claffey, Lauren Henkin, Clifton Meador and Laura Russell. From fine bindings to altered books to print on demand to pop ups, this show will be a fascinating exploration of the crossover between the art of photography and the art of the book.
Artists Reception: First Friday, April 6, 2012, 5-8pm Artists Talk: Saturday, April 7, 2012, 4pm
23 Sandy Gallery is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Noon to 6pm, plus late on First Fridays. We are also very generous with appointments outside of gallery hours. Artists, poets, printmakers have organised events to mark Please contact Laura Russell to schedule a visit. the day in these cities: London (Clare Skelton), Dublin We are located at 623 NE 23rd Avenue, just three doors (Christodoulos Markis) New York City (Meena Alexander north of Sandy Boulevard in Central Eastside Portland. & Ammiel Alcalay), Los Angeles (Susan Slyomovics & Jim http://www.23sandy.com Tel: 503-927-4409 Natal), Omaha (Denise Brady), Lincoln-Nebraska (Karen Blog: www.23sandygallery.blogspot.com Kunc), Waltham-Mass. (Alex Green) Detroit (Alise Alousi), www.twitter.com/laurarussell23 and San Francisco (Beau Beausoleil). An evening of poetry and prose from the anthology for Cover Artist for this issue of the ban: al-Mutanabbi Street. Double Elephant Print Workshop, Exeter, UK Laura Russell - All Sinners Welcome Monday 5 March 2012 / 8pm / £5 A social documentary, photography project exploring do- Poets, writers, artists and printmakers have responded to it-yourself or “DIY” religion in America. Photographs of the 2007 bombing of Al Mutanabbi Street, the bookseller’s storefront churches, quirky handmade signs and expressions quarter and cultural heart of Baghdad. Double Elephant of faith in the landscape have captured my eye over six printmakers Catherine Cartwright and Simon Ripley are years of travel and are a segment of my favourite topic: two artists involved in this international project. our commercial and cultural landscape. Raised a Catholic, On the fifth anniversary of the bombing, join us for a organised, sanctioned religion is familiar territory. special evening of poetry and prose selected from the As an adult I consider myself more of an agnostic and anthology published this year for al-Mutanabbi Street. find “disorganised” religion much more interesting. View broadsheets created by international letterpress artists for the project. This special event is our first foray into live The motivation to hang a sign on a building and call it performance at Double Elephant Print Workshop. a church is fascinating even beyond my usual interest in The event will be recorded for broadcast on PHONIC FM. typography and signage in the landscape. This project is a celebration of our country’s freedom of religion, freedom Space is limited so please reserve through: of speech and our undying do-it-yourself, entrepreneurial [email protected] spirit. This project has resulted first in a slide show video of the images and now a limited-edition artist’s book featuring Double Elephant Print Workshop 24 of my favourite images of church buildings and signs Lower Ground Floor, Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place plus a word cloud poem and a location index. Learn more Gandy Street, Exeter EX4 3LS, UK. Tel: 07855 206 659 about the book and see a slide show of images here: [email protected] http://laurarussell.net/store/all-sinners-welcome/ www.doubleelephant.org.uk Page 16 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm The Metropolitans - Art Metropole Memberships Reserve your spot on the Metropolitans wall now! The Metropolitans is a new initiative designed by Art Metropole as an invitation to enter more fully into the fold of Art Metropole’s programming, activities and projects. It also doubles as an incentive club that includes a host of enticing privileges.
THE OFFER Your privileges as a Metropolitans affiliate include: • Notice of all upcoming Art Metropole projects and events • 15% discount off all shop items, and 25% off of more than 150 Art Metropole-published titles • Free delivery of Art Metropole’s printed shop + distribution catalogue • Advance invitations to artist talks, conversations, workshops, performances, reading groups, artist-directed tours and calls for submission or participation • Invitations to special Metropolitans events • Invitation to submit artist proposals for the annually commissioned Metropolitans Edition • A $65 charitable tax receipt for $100 membership • Plus, a Metropolitans Membership Card to make everything official
THE FEE $35 gets you in with a basic Metropolitans membership. $100 awards you all the benefits of the basic Metropolitans membership, plus a $65 charitable tax receipt. Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts in Dublin The Winding Stair Bookshop, Dublin Monday 5 March 2012, 7pm THE BONUS Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts in Dublin is the Dublin edition As a token of membership, all Metropolitans will receive of a series of events taking place around the globe on 5th the annual Metropolitans Edition, the edition size of which March 2012 to mark the 5th anniversary of the bombing, corresponds to the number of Metropolitans. and will feature readings, performances and exhibitions A special version is produced for Metropolitans affiliates by the Ireland-based participants in ‘An Inventory of at the $100 level. Al-Mutanabbi Street’ and other friends of these projects. More specifically, and among other contributions, the event will include a short play, a poetry reading with musical accompaniment, a performance of poetry in translation, a short talk on the significance of the project, and exhibitions of images from books produced for the project.
The writers, performers and artists contributing to the evening are Alansary, Cah-44, Evelyn Conlon, Sue Cosgrave, Djeribi, Kit Fryatt, Judy Kravis and Sarah Lewtas. The event is co-ordinated and will be introduced by Christodoulos Makris. The venue is The Winding Stair Bookshop, 40 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin 1, start time 7pm. Admission free.
An artists’ books event for Al-Mutanabbi Street The inaugural 2012 Metropolitans Edition marks your UWE Bristol, UK permanent presence at Art Metropole in the form of a Monday 5 March 2012, 5pm - 7pm (end) glass tumbler bearing an ambigram conceived by the Art A drop in event with readings from some of the artists’ Metropole Board of Directors Membership Committee. books created for An Inventory of al-Mutanabbi Street. We invite you to invert your ‘Absence’ and make your Broadsides will also be avaliable for viewing. Free, although ‘Presence’ known by using your glass whenever you visit Art donations to MSF would be much appreciated. Metropole. At the end of the year, the tumbler relocates to your home. Room OC4, Bower Ashton Campus, Kennel Lodge Road Bristol BS3 2JT, UK. Please email [email protected] Join up now at: http://www.artmetropole.blogspot. for a map if needed. Tel 0117 328 4915 com/2012/02/welcome-to-club.html
Page 17 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Call for Typewriter Artists of Cambridge, UK, will focus on illustrated and richly The Caseroom Press is compiling a resource of illuminated manuscripts that address the themes of love International Typewriter Artists for possible inclusion in and devotion. a future project. The image here is from Barrie Tullett’s typewriter art version of Dante’s Inferno. RMIT Storey Hall Auditorium, 336–342 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Australia Free. To book, call 03 8664 7099 or email [email protected]
This lecture is part of the Love and devotion: Persian cultural crossroads conference. http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/ event/arts-book-diffusion-persian-culture
Small Press Atlas - International Conference organised by the Édith Laboratory from the ÉSADHaR, École If you produce typewriter art, please e-mail your details, or Supérieure d’Art et de Design Le Havre/Rouen those of artists you might recommend (name, link to work/ (Normandy, France) at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen websites, location, and short bio if possible) to: 22nd - 23rd March 2012 [email protected] Un atlas de la microédition : quelles routes pour quels enjeux ? The Édith Laboratory was founded in 2009 within the ÉSADHaR (École Supérieure d’Art et de Design Le Havre/ Dorothy Simpson Krause has been selected to be the first Rouen) and brings together researchers from various Helen M. Salzberg Artist in Residence at Jaffe Center for artistic and theoretical directions. The research undertaken Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, forms part of the study of publications, primarily artists Florida. She will be using their letterpress and papermaking and graphic designers, for the period from the eighties facilities to make a limited edition book/ portfolio, “River until the present, in France as well as abroad. It refers in of Grass”. This homage to Marjory Stoneman Douglas and particular to circulatory methods of these publications her seminal book about the Everglades will accompany her which are outside main institutional and commercial show, also called “River of Grass”, which opens May 31st at networks. One of the objectives of the Édith Laboratory is 571 Projects in NYC. http://dotkrause.com the publication of an atlas on the small press in the fields of art and graphic design over the last thirty years.
The jury of the 9th Correspondence Book Art Festival The conference will be held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, 2012 in Poland, has awarded first prize to the artist Susan Rouen, March 22nd and 23rd 2012, for details or booking, Johanknecht for her artists’ books: Subtext Localities, please contact the organiser, Océane Delleaux: Baring Antebellum, Bishopsgate Within. CITY A.M. [email protected] Susan Johanknecht works under the imprint of Gefn Press, publishing over thirty books to date with a retrospective exhibition at the University of Vermont, Burlington USA InkSpot Press, UK has a new series of courses for Spring in 2007. She also works with artists’ books as a site for Photopolymer Etching, Bookbinding, Relief Printmaking collaborative practice, co-curating projects including: ‘Here http://www.inkspotpress.co.uk/relief-press-courses are my Instructions’ 2004 with Redell Olsen, ‘Volumes (of Book On-line or call the studio 01273 691 496 vulnerability)’ 2000 and ‘Cunning Chapters’ 2007 with Katharine Meynell. She is Subject Leader of MA Book Arts at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts guy begbie book arts workshops London. Her upcoming collaborative project is entitled One Day Workshops At Bath Artists Studios, UK Poetry of Unknown Words. Saturday 10th March 2012 Longstitch Binding: COURSES, LECTURES, CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS A Cloth Covered Multi Section Hardback Book 10.30am – 4.30pm Course Fee £35 (includes The arts of the book & the diffusion of Persian culture all materials) A Lecture by Professor Charles Melville This workshop is Presented by the State Library of Victoria designed for participants April 12, 2012 from 7pm - 8pm with or without Manuscript books were one of the main vehicles for the bookbinding experience. expression of Persian high culture and its transmission to western and central Asia. The books’ content ranged from The workshop religion and science to history and poetry. participants will have the opportunity to make and In this lecture Charles Melville, Professor of Persian take home a cloth bound hardback multi section book, History and Director of the Shahnama Project, University constructed so that the cover and pages are sewn together
Page 18 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm using a longstitch sewing method with chain stitching at Saturday 5th May 2012 each end of the book cover spine. A Double Codex Two & Three Section Book With Decorative Spine Sewings The sewing is exposed as a feature on the outside cover 10.30am – 4.30pm Course Fee £35 (includes all spine of the book. Inside the book, space between the pages materials). This workshop is designed for participants allows for the optional adding of paper based materials with or without bookbinding experience. The workshop if necessary. Although this type of book structure has a participants will have the opportunity to make and take contemporary appearance in a hardbound cover, it is a home a double codex two & three section cloth bound bookbinder’s sewing technique with medieval origins. hardback book. This double codex bookbinding method This book structure is versatile and the sewing method can enables you to create two books within one hardback cover. be applied to hard & soft back covers. All equipment and materials will be provided for the workshop. Two types of decorative sewing will be used to join the Tutor: Guy Begbie page sections directly to the cover and will feature as focal points on the two outside cover spines of the book. Each of Sunday 18th March 2012 the two sets of pages can either be interleaved or separated, French Sewn Flat Back Case Bound Book this offers an option for a variety of reading or viewing 10.30am – 4.30pm Course Fee £35 (includes all materials) sequences of the book’s content. This workshop is designed for participants with or without bookbinding experience. The workshop participants will The bookcloth cover presentation is finished with an have the opportunity to make and take home a cloth bound integrated ribbon tie closure. All equipment and materials hardback French sewn multi section book. will be provided for the workshop. Tutor: Guy Begbie
This is a traditional classic book structure that is strong Saturday 19th May 2012 and durable; the section page spreads will lie flat when the Japanese Bookbinding book is opened. This type of book construction can be 10.30am – 4.30pm Course Fee £35 (includes all applied universally to books of varying scales and formats, materials). This workshop is designed for participants with providing a professional binding finish and a neutral or without bookbinding experience. This is an opportunity elegant space to contain image/text content. All equipment to make and take away two bespoke hand made books. and materials will be provided for the workshop. Using Japanese Tutor: Guy Begbie side sewing techniques you Saturday 21st April 2012 will be taught Concertina Binding: Multi-Functional Pocket Sized Hard how to produce Back Concertina Books soft and hardback 10.30am – 4.30pm Course Fee £35 (includes all materials) cover books in a landscape format Here is your opportunity to make and take away your using paper based own uniquely designed handmade book. Learn the art materials and of bookmaking, crafting a multi-functional pocket sized book cloth. hard back concertina book containing a variety of page sequencing, viewing configurations and pull out options for This bookbinding free standing display. method can be used to bind sets of single pages together using traditional Japanese sewing patterns. All equipment and materials will be provided for the workshop. Tutor: Guy Begbie
To book a place or enquire about availability and course details, please use the contact details below:
07989393015 [email protected] www.guybegbie.com
Discover different methods of folding, sewing and pasting Guy Begbie is an internationally established book artist and learn how to use various types of paper stock, paper and traditionally trained bookbinder. He is the Book Arts engineering and page cutting techniques. Coordinator and lecturer at Hereford College of Arts and has taught book arts in UK universities since 1995. The workshop is designed for participants either with or without previous experience of bookbinding and all Bath Artists’ Studios, The Old Malthouse equipment and materials will be provided for the workshop. Comfortable Place, Upper Bristol Road, Bath BA1 3AJ, UK Tutor: Guy Begbie www.bathartistsstudios.co.uk
Page 19 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk BINDING re:DEFINED, upcoming UK workshops Book Arts Workshop @ The Create Place 29 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PJ, UK THE TUNNEL BOOK 17th - 18th May with Emily Martin Sunday 18 March 2012, 1pm - 5pm American book artist Emily Martin makes her debut in In this workshop participants will make a collaborative the UK to teach two fantastic workshops. The first is the limited-edition artist book using a simple binding technique Tunnel Book, a 3-D concertina structure first used in and hand-curved rubber stamps. Participants will also learn the Renaissance to study perspective. Participants create a how to create a number of different ‘instant book’ structures narrative that is then displayed and folded into this by folding and cutting one sheet of paper into a book! All intriguing book. Emily adds her own particular variations materials will be provided and no previous bookmaking to the tunnel book for a very enriching and productive experience is required. The workshop will be delivered by two days. Lina Avramidou and Manuel Mazzotti both professional book artists and designer bookbinders.
Fee: £45 includes materials and refreshments. Limited places available. For more information or to book a place please email [email protected] www.wemakebooks.co.uk
September with A Pretty Book Hazell Designs Books is delighted to announce a delectable collaboration with Pretty Book Adventures NOW YOU SEE IT NOW YOU DON’T 19th - 20th May at Tenuta di Spannocchia in the Tuscan hills Tutor: Emily Martin (http://prettybookadventures.com/retreat-location/). The second workshop presents a variety of manipulated An organic farm with a twelfth century tower, a pool, wine and unconventional book structures, many used by Emily with lunch, a trip to Florentine paper treasures… oh and a Martin in her own work. Her reputation for humorous and five day bookart workshop centred around the theme unusual artist’s books makes them popular with collectors of Recipes. Mmm booking lines are now open… and major museums around the world. This two-day course http://prettybookadventures.com/dates-deadlines/ offers UK binders the chance to study with one of America’s most highly anthologised maker of books and sought after tutors. See her work at www.emilymartin.com Easter Printmaking Workshops 36 Lime St, Newcastle, UK EDLEPAPPBAND 2nd - 3rd June Have a go at printing and binding a simple book or try your Tutor: Benjamin Elbel hand at silkscreen printing onto glass ready to be kiln fired. Widely used in Europe, this elegant and attractive binding is not to be confused with the millimetre binding. Narrow Screenprinting onto Glass edgings of leather give a clean and modern look that turn Sat 21st & Sun 22nd April 2012, 11am-5pm this binding into a very sophisticated alternative to everyday This 2-day workshop offers participants the chance to case work. This workshop teaches the methods used to create a series of screen printed glass, using simple produce the edlepappband with precision and ease. stencil making techniques and glass enamels. Theresa Easton delivers a bespoke workshop to participants, THE MODIFIED SEWN-BOARD BINDING working with complete beginners to those with some glass 5th - 6th July Tutor: Lori Sauer and/or printmaking experience. £140 per person As a follow up to the Sewn-Board Binding course held earlier in the year, this workshop develops the structure further. There are adjustments made to the joints and the addition of a wooden spine. It is a no-nonsense binding with great design potential and the modifications make it even more visually striking.
SIMPLIFIED BINDING 16th - 17th August Tutor: Lori Sauer Made in three pieces and with the advantage of decorating and covering the boards off the book, this binding is rounded only and opens flat. There is a secondary sewing of linen for the board attachment, leather rolled headbands with silk tie-downs, leather spines and decorated paper Handmade Printed Books - Sat 14th April 2012 10am-5pm sides. It’s a neat and very smart binding that is extremely The workshop aims to introduce you to simple textural robust and once tried will become a firm favourite. prints using relief printing techniques and found materials. The session gives you the opportunity to transform your Please see all of our 2012 workshops at prints into unique artists’ books using paper sculpture, www.bookbindingworkshops.com folding and traditional stitching techniques. £55 per person
Page 20 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Wire edge styles use metal wire along the binding edge. NE1 2PQ. To book, call Theresa Easton 07981381830 The result in all cases is a binding that opens exceptionally Email: [email protected] smoothly and flexibly. All levels of experience are welcome. http://theresaeaston.wordpress.com Registration and more info through the BK network, www.bokbindarkompetens.se at Jouper Design: [email protected] or [email protected] WSW’s Summer Art Institute Tel: +46 73 73 555 44 With the announcement of this year’s online Summer Art Institute (SAI) workshop catalogue, WSW is once again readying itself to welcome artists from near and far to take Some upcoming workshops and courses organised / part in over 20 intensive art courses featuring expert studio promoted by Professione Libro instruction and innovative processes in printmaking, hand papermaking, ceramics, fibre arts and book arts. ORIENTAL BINDINGS Milan, April 14th/15th, 2012 with Cristina Balbiano d’Aramengo Our 2012 book arts workshops include: Two full days to get closer to Far East bindings. We will deal Full Tilt Book Binding with Susan Mills; Encaustic and the with different Chinese and Japanese models and study the Sculptural Artist’s Book with Catherine Nash; The Printed basic sewing structure plus some variations. We will also Book with Abigail Uhteg… in addition to many, many more study some basic construction by working with traditional exciting workshops! concertinas.
Workshops fill quickly, so early registration is We will use Oriental paper for the inside of the books and mrecommended. All course descriptions, instructor bios, decorated paper for the bindings as well as different kinds of housing recommendations, and registration materials are coloured silk, cotton or hemp threads, allowing for personal available online at http://wsworkshop.org/_class/sai.htm approaches and results. You will also learn how to line fabric Register online by March 31, 2012 and receive our to make a small binding with decorative details. More info $50 Early Bird Discount! and booking: www.professionelibro.it
Women’s Studio Workshop is a visual arts organisation with CAROUSEL BOOKS (International) Milan specialised studios in printmaking, hand papermaking, May 26th/27th 2012 with Maria G. Pisano ceramics, letterpress printing, photography, and book A carousel book is an ingenious work, containing arts. Our mission is to operate and maintain an artists’ three-dimensional panoramic scenes that are revealed workspace that encourages the voice and vision of in multilayered openings that recede into space. Its individual women artists, to provide professional seductiveness comes as a result of its construction: a series opportunities for artists, and to promote programmes of five scenes, which when taken together are a play in designed to stimulate public involvement, awareness, and five acts. In this two-day workshop we will create a large support for the visual arts. Women’s Studio Workshop carousel book and if time permits, a miniature one. Binnewater Lane, Rosendale, NY 12472, USA More information and booking: www.professionelibro.it www.wsworkshop.org LOOSE AND SIMPLE BINDINGS 2 (International) Stockholm, Sweden Wire Edge Bindings 28th July - 3rd August 2012 A week-long workshop in Stockholm 2012 with Cristina Balbiano d’Aramengo With Daniel E Kelm from the Garage Annex School After the great success of “Loose & simple bindings - 1”, the in Easthampton, Massachussetts, USA. October 29 - follow-up includes all kinds of unusual booklets, envelopes, November 2, 2012 at Jouper Design, Stockholm, Sweden pamphlets, cases, folders and so forth, based just on folding, Whether you wish to produce an elegant codex of sewn cutting and sometimes sewing, without any glue. With signatures - even one comprised of problematic paper new models of our own, Hedi Kyle, Carmencho Arregui, (pulpy and soft or thick and stiff) - or are interested in and more... Like the first workshop, a series of different creating a non-traditional book that is sculptural, wire edge materials, techniques and expedients will give you a breath binding can help you achieve your goals. of fresh air to change your point of view in bookbinding.
The themes explored are suited to anyone interested in paper and book arts as well as anyone who might be looking for new ways to present ideas and projects. We welcome participants from all related professional fields, such as graphic designers, artists, bookbinders, calligraphers, architects and more. No special skills are required to successfully follow the workshop. In order to create a high learning environment, materials will be pre-cut for all participants. More information and booking: www.professionelibro.it
Page 21 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Making Books: Binding, Pages, Covers and Cuts 3D Printing and Interactive Technologies Tuesday evenings from 1st May 2012 – 29th May 2012 Two week course UWE Bristol, UK. Led by Angie Butler 9th - 20th July 2012 This evening course offers an introduction to bookmaking: With Peter Walters and by looking at hard copy examples and following step-by- David McGoran step demonstrations covering different techniques - This new and exciting two such as simple week course is perfect for pamphlet artists, designers, hobbyists, stitch and hackers and anyone Japanese stab interested in creating bound books, interactive objects or environments. a cut-page http://www.uwe.ac.uk/sca/research/cfpr/courses/ book, making cpdcourses/3dprinting_interactivetech.html a sculpted case bound cover, Inkjet and Laser cutting for Arts and Crafts to a French 2nd - 4th July 2012 sewn flatback With Paul Laidler and Tom Sowden binding. Perfect for those who have little or no experience in bookbinding and artists’ books, or just need a refresher.
Angie is a multi-disciplinary artist, working in letterpress and artists’ books with Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden at The Centre For Fine Print Research, UWE. She holds This three-day course explores the possibility of combining Masters Degrees in both Multi-disciplinary Printmaking inkjet printing and laser cutting, whether producing paper (specialising in artists’ books) and Visual Culture: Fine sculptural objects with surface pattern, artists’ / pop-up Art. She has been awarded two prizes for her recent artists’ books, paper slipcases or multi-layered prints. books: the Sheffield Book Arts Prize (Student Prize) 2009, http://www.uwe.ac.uk/sca/research/cfpr/courses/ and the Agassi Book Arts Prize, UWE, 2011; Angie’s work cpdcourses/inkjet_laser2012.html is held in both UK, and international private and public collections. Advanced Bookbinding for Book Artists 9th - 13th July 2012 Limited to 8 participants. Tuesday evenings from 1st May – With Guy Begbie 29th May 2012. Each sessions runs from 17.30 - 20.00 An intensive five-day £190 full-price (£176 concessions) includes basic materials, advanced course teas and coffees. Bookbinding tools will be provided for use of bookbinding and are also available to buy for future work. structures. The course is designed Print Centre, UWE Bristol, Kennel Lodge Road, Bristol to be appropriate BS3 2JT, UK. Any questions on the course content email: for people with [email protected] Book via the online store link at: some previous http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/cpd.htm experience in basic bookbinding. http://www.uwe.ac.uk/sca/research/cfpr/courses/ Centre For Fine Print Research cpdcourses/adv_bookbinding2012.html UWE Bristol, 2012 Summer Institute Please see the links for more information on each course Letterpress and online booking. 23rd - 27th July 2012 With Angie Butler Bookbinding for Book Artists 2nd - 6th July 2012 With Guy Begbie This course is designed to be appropriate for those both with or without previous bookbinding experience. http://www.uwe. ac.uk/sca/research/ cfpr/courses/ cpdcourses/ Learn how to set type and print letterpress using metal and bookbinding2012. wood type. Letterpress offers beautiful qualities for printing html text for books, bookmarks, postcards, posters or pamphlets. We will print on Vandercook presses which allow editioning of multiples. http://www.uwe.ac.uk/sca/research/cfpr/ courses/cpdcourses/letterpress2012.html
Page 22 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm Pop-up Rubber Stamps Libraries of the University of Oxford, as well as editions 24th-26th July 2012 of European literature, travel books and maps from the With Alexandra Czinczel and Stephen Fowler collections of the State Library of Victoria. Learn how to make rubber stamps and It is co-curated by Susan Scollay, an art historian who turn them into specialises in the art and culture of the Islamic world, and pop-ups. Clare Williamson, the Library’s Exhibitions Curator and co-author of The World of the Book. On the first day you will learn how to A lavishly illustrated publication, with contributions make single colour by scholars from around the world, will be available for and multiple colour purchase, and the exhibition will be complemented by rubber stamps. a diverse programme of events and activities. For more You’ll be taught how information, visit http://www.love-and-devotion.com to register and mask your prints. You will also be taught how Venice Summer Residencies 2012 at the to make homemade Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia stamp pads. Artists’ Books, Printmaking, Painting/Drawing, Writing The Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia was On the second day you will learn a variety of structures and founded in 1969. In the large facilities in Cannaregio, one mechanisms for pop-ups including pull-tab mechanisms. of the most lively neighbourhoods in Venice, the Scuola Your stamp ideas from the first day can be used as a starting organises programmes for graduate and undergraduate point. Italian and international students and offers studio space for independent artists-in-residence. On the final day you will combine and develop your rubber stamps and pop-up ideas to incorporate in a limited edition To apply please email Deirdre Kelly: [email protected] pop-up book for all participants to take home. or download the application form at: www.scuolagrafica.it Scuola Internazionale di Grafica http://www.uwe.ac.uk/sca/research/cfpr/courses/ Cannaregio 1798, 30121 Venezia, Italy cpdcourses/rubberstamp2012.html Tel: 041·721· 950 / 041·524·2374 www.scuolagrafica.it / [email protected]
The State Library of Victoria in partnership with Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford presents Love and Devotion: Persian Cultural Crossroads OPPORTUNITIES A conference at the State Library of Victoria 12th - 14th April 2012, Melbourne, Australia This cross-disciplinary conference will explore cultural Doverodde Book Arts Festival IV & Symposium – 2012 convergences in literature, art and architecture, history and philosophy from the time of Firdausi in the early Final chance: 11th century to the present day, within the various Persian International Call for Entries to our themed exhibition: empires, Ottoman Turkey, Mughal India and Europe. On the margins (May 17th- August 5th, 2012). Deadline: April 10th 2012 with entry fee: 300 DKK The two-day conference coincides with a major exhibition (includes a copy of the printed catalogue). at the State Library of Victoria, Love and Devotion: From Three works selected from the exhibition will receive the Persia and Beyond. The conference is presented by the Doverodde Book Arts Center of Denmark Award. On the State Library of Victoria in partnership with the Australian jury panel are two Danes: former Art Museum Director National University and with support from The Asian Arts and senior researcher, Nina Hobolth and artist, Hanne Society of Australia. Matthiesen alongside – from the UK – our writer-in- residence, printmaker and poet, Nancy Campbell. Distinguished international guests and Australian specialists will explore themes including Persian ideals of love and This will be the fourth time that the restored merchant’s devotion as expressed through the arts, intersections with warehouse by the waters of the Limfjord plays host to a the west, and the contemporary legacy. unique mix of book arts social and creative activity. The 2012 Doverodde Book Arts Festival & Symposium Full conference programme: www.slv.vic.gov.au/node/4217 extends what have been so special about previous events at this scenic Northern Jutland location. About the exhibition: Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond. This landmark exhibition at the State Library of At the Limfjordcentret on May 17th events will begin as Victoria (9 March - 1 July 2012) will feature more than before, with a one-day workshop: ‘Nature & Book Art’. 60 rare 13th- to 18th-century Persian, Mughal Indian and This popular feature of the Festival involves in-house Ottoman Turkish illustrated manuscripts from the Bodleian Nature Guide Søren Kiel leading a guided tour through the
Page 23 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk local landscape of woods, hills and along the water’s edge. Tower called ‘Prayers and greetings from the outskirts of This is then followed by a bookmaking/binding workshop Denmark.’ The work will be exhibited from May 17th - by designer and book artist Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck that August 5th, 2012. draws material – and inspiration – from the experience. Meanwhile, two special book arts exhibitions by French/ From May 18th – May 20th the book fair itself will then Dutch artist Anne Bossenbroek-Bouchard and British take place. printmaker and poet Nancy Campbell will add greatly to our programme of events. The grand opening on the first day will include a talk by Søren Ryge Petersen about his work and personal history. To view/download the full programme go to our website: Søren is a bit of a Danish cultural icon, having had his own www.bookarts-doverodde.dk which is now solely dedicated TV gardening programme since 1988. His more recent to information about the 2012 Festival. To learn about our broadcasting has also concerned people living in remote previous Festivals (going back to 2009), go to our places, often living a simple life but their human stories NEW blog: www.doveroddebookarts.blogspot.com being the richer for it. Music in a Garden will accompany Here you will also find links to most of the artists who this, old friends of the event from Germany. have exhibited with us in the past.
We are also pleased to reveal that the Keynote speakers for We hope you will join us at the Limfjordscenter and be a the Symposium: Artists’ Books Anonymous: On the margins part of making the Festival & Symposium 2012 even more will be the two Canadian artists Maureen Piggins and Ewa special than previous years. Don’t miss the opportunity Zebrowski. The Symposium will take place on the evening to come to the edge of Denmark and enjoy beautiful of Saturday May 19th. Further speakers will be announced book arts while meeting fantastic artists and people in in March via our website. wonderful surroundings.
Finally we at the Limfjordcentret are excited to announce, All information can be found on: in our fourth year, a continuation of our exhibition of new www.bookarts-doverodde.dk work by current artists: Any relevant questions please contact the Festival Organiser Danes Anita Pedersen and Gunnar Stefansson have been 2012: Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck – [email protected] selected to exhibit an installation on the 3rd floor of the
Page 24 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm Christina Mitrentse studio team kindly request your The Library of Lost Books - Call for Artists/Printmakers participation in the ongoing project/exhibition Deadline for applications - 31st March 2012 ADD TO MY LIBRARY VOLUME III The Library of Lost Books is an ongoing project to rescue Please write the title of your favourite ‘art book’ and old, discarded and damaged books, donated by the Library author (any language is welcome) this will be featured in of Birmingham (UK), and to re-work them, breathing new the production of installations in a touring exhibition UK/ life into them through the interactions and interventions Europe 2012 of contemporary artists and printmakers. As many of the books date from the mid - late 1800s it is an opportunity If you wish to be credited in the printed matter and website for artists to work with books, manuscripts, papers, to accompany the project please write your name/ email and typefaces and bindings that they might not otherwise have your occupation at: [email protected] an opportunity so to do. Chosen artists will be sent a book from the collection to work with and can work into the A free publication of Bibliographic Data Flow Vol III will be book they receive in any way and with any media. However, sent to all contributors as well as invitations to the previews the book must be able to be closed so that it can sit on a of events. We look forward to receiving your valuable bookshelf, and must be robust enough to withstand some contributions. To see more info go to projects at: handling. The Library of Lost Books will form part of the www.christinamitrentse.net opening festival for the new Library of Birmingham in 2013. The exhibition will celebrate the history of the book and the elements of the book-as-object. It will explore the pleasures Call for Artists: Book-Art-Botany of the book form and the intimacy that forms between the Curator Mikhail Pogarsky reader and the book object. The finished exhibition will Mikhail Pogarsky is inviting artists to take part in the enchant the audience through the magic, beauty, wonder, project Book-Art-Botany. The exhibition will be in autumn humour and mystery of the works presented. Artists are 2012. Artists’ books devoted to plant life. In this project, encouraged to be as imaginative and playful as they can. botany and art will complement each other. We welcome submissions of books on various subjects, made with Although the selected artists and printmakers can work natural plant materials: sections of trunks, branches and with the book in any way they choose, successful work will bark of trees, different flowers, herbs, leaves and seeds. Or, exhibit at least one of the following: artists’ books exploring plants, ecology and environmental 1. The work explores the book as an object of wonder, subjects. The project hopes to include more than 20 artists beauty and/or magic. from different countries up to c.50 examples. 2. The work is driven by a considered engagement with the At the end of the project we will print a small run of the book-as-object. catalogue (20-30 copies). 3. The work is technically interesting or innovative. 4. The work engages with the book as an historical object.
Eligibility and Restrictions: The Library of Lost Books is open to any artist resident in the UK, except students in full or part-time art education, with the exception of MA and PhD students. Exhibition and Copyright: All the books will remain the property of The Library of Lost Books. Artists retain copyright of their work and will be properly acknowledged in any advertising or promotion. The books will initially be exhibited in the new Library of Birmingham in summer 2013 as part of its opening festival. It is intended that The Library of Lost Books will then tour other venues across the UK after Birmingham.
A catalogue for the exhibition will be produced by the Library of Birmingham. Entry Fees: None. Notification: The work will be selected from a small panel of book artists and printmakers and their decision is final. All artists will be notified if they are successful or not by the 31st April 2012. Selected artists will then be sent a book from the The project aims to encourage the general public and a collection. The books will be sent out with no particular younger generation to consider environmental issues. To bias, so that artists will not know what book they are going emphasise and demonstrate through the artists’ books, the to get until they receive it. However, an artist may request variety and beauty of the flora, whilst emphasising their to receive a particular volume from the list posted online, natural harmony. And here the Japanese principle of mono if they can show a strong reason for the selection. Artists no aware “a sensitivity to things,” is fundamental to the may request to receive a music manuscript rather than a project. book. Submission of work: If successful, you will be sent a book in April 2012. Acceptance of a book implies agreement For more information contact Mikhail Pogarsky curator, with the terms and conditions of the project. All re-worked [email protected] www.pogarsky.ru books must be returned to no later than 31st August 2012.
Page 25 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk To be considered for this project, please email your CV, a ARTIST’S BOOK FAIRS link to your website/blog/online gallery or attach 3 jpeg images (each no more than 600k) to: 15th International Contemporary Artist’s Book Fair 2012 [email protected] Friday 9 March, 11am - 6pm Deadline for applications - 31st March 2012 Saturday 10 March, 10am - 5pm The Parkinson Court, University of Leeds, UK The 15th International Contemporary Artist’s Book Fair CALL FOR ENTRIES will take place in the resplendent Parkinson Court at the The Poetic Pen: Celebrating Calligraphy and Poetry University of Leeds. The fair forms the core of PAGES, 22 June- 28 July 2012, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon an ongoing project of interrelated events establishing Entry Deadline: 20th April 2012 critical engagement with the medium of the artist’s book, 23 Sandy Gallery announces The Poetic Pen, a juried encouraging production and awareness. The venue is exhibition of calligraphic artwork that uses poetry as located in central Leeds, a major European city with its main textual excellent transport access by road, rail or air and home to focus. Calligraphers a number of major artist book collections and archives. throughout history Admission to the Artists’ Book Fair for visitors is Free. have employed poetry A comprehensive and fully illustrated catalogue is available. to illustrate the art and fine craft of If you require any further information please contact the lettering, letterforms Book Fair coordinators: Chris Taylor or John McDowall by and calligraphic email: [email protected] design. Open to pen or brush works in the form of wall-hung Publish and Be Damned at the ICA, London pieces, broadsides, 17th March 2012, 12 – 8 pm books, sculptural objects and more. http://www.publishandbedamned.org/fairs.html Complete information for this show can be found at http://www.23sandy.com/poeticpen/callforentries.html Stick, Staple & Stitch Artists’ Book Fair Colchester Arts Centre, UK 17th March 2012 CALL FOR ARTISTS - Locating Boccaccio in 2013 Essex Book Festival’s first ever artist’s book fair presents a John Rylands Library, Manchester, UK selection of the country’s finest book artists displaying and 11 July-24 November 2013 selling their work. With exciting contributions from artist We invite national and international artists to design in residence Mary Pullen. Colchester Arts Centre, Church and make books inspired by the fourteenth-century Street, Colchester CO1 1NF, UK. 10am to 4pm Italian author, Giovanni Boccaccio. In 2013 there will be Admission free. http://www.colchesterartscentre.com/book- events held world-wide to celebrate the seven-hundredth fair/stick-staple-stitch-artists-book-fair anniversary of Boccaccio’s birth; in the UK these will be focused around an exhibition of manuscripts and printed books relating to Boccaccio at the John Rylands Library in Artists’ BookMarket Manchester. The Fruitmarket Gallery, UK Saturday 14 April, 11am–6pm Alongside these ‘historical’ books, we propose to exhibit a Artists’ BookMarket returns to The Fruitmarket Gallery number of artists’ books which respond to any aspect(s) this spring, with artists who work in book format from of Boccaccio’s life and works. Boccaccio is most famous near and far setting out their stalls. The Fruitmarket for writing the Decameron, one of the most provocative Gallery bookshop is open throughout, specially arranged and irreverent texts of the Middle Ages, which had an to spotlight its own stock of artists’ books. The Fruitmarket immeasurable impact on storytelling across Europe and Gallery, 45 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DF. inspired Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, but he also wrote many www.fruitmarket.co.uk other prose and poetical texts in both Italian and Latin, most of which have been translated into English. The Pacific Center for the Book Arts 2012 Printer’s Fair The exhibition will be free and open to the public, and the will be held: Saturday April 14th from 12 noon to 4pm artists’ books on sale if desired. Contributing artists will on the campus of San Francisco State University in the be invited to the exhibition launch on 10 July and to the Fine Arts Department Building, 1600 Holloway Ave, San international conference on Boccaccio studies which will Francisco, CA 94132. http://pcba.info/about/ take place in Manchester on 11-12 July.
For further details and to register your interest please Glasgow International Artists’ Bookfair 2012 contact Rhiannon Daniels by 30 May 2012 Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th April [email protected] GIAB 2012 will be open to the public between 11am - 6pm http://locatingboccaccio.wordpress.com both days. GIAB is a showcase of artists’ books produced by
Page 26 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm local, UK-based and international artists. Books as artworks, INTERNET NEWS old-style letterpress books, audio books, sculptural books can be seen and bought. Annette C. Disslin of Buchdruckatelier bleikloetzle has put together a website for the project An Inventory of Al- Held in the Exhibition Hall of Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Mutanabbi Street: www.al-mutanabbi-street.bleikloetzle.de on the corner of Sauchiehall Street & Buchanan Street in the heart of the city. As ever, entrance is free. There will also be Charlotte Hall began an Artists’ Books Archive Internship the possibility of participating in a range of bookbinding at the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of workshops. the West of England, Bristol this month. She has started to research various book artists and is using her blog as Stephen Fowler will be runing a rubber stamps workshop a portal for reviews and dissemination: on the Sunday afternoon. Come and learn how to make & http://eccentrichorace.blogspot.com print your own hand cut rubberstamps. http://www.giab.org.uk Stephen Fowler has just launched his new website, with images and information on his work, influences and books: http://stephenfowler72.blogspot.com Turn the Page artist’s book fair 2012 Friday 4th - Saturday 5th May Artists’ books by Noor van der Brugge, The Netherlands 10am to 6pm each day @ The Forum, Norwich, UK www.noorvanderbrugge.nl
From Paolo Tonini: Dear friends and bibliophiles, I would be happy to meet you on my blog Toccare le idee. Libri parole immagini / Touching ideas. Books words images: http://touchingideas.blogspot.com
Artists’ Books and Multiples Dave Dyment, an artist, writer and curator in Toronto has set up a new website dedicated to artists’ books, multiples, recordings, postcards, magazines and ephemera.
The site will feature reviews of recent titles, features on artists and publishers, random listings of older works, the occasional longer essay or interview, straight-forward ‘Garden Flowers’ - Heather Hunter pictorials, links to recent news, etc. etc., in an attempt to create an aggregate of information on editioned artworks. 2012 sees the launch of this exciting new juried annual http://artistsbooksandmultiples.blogspot.com event for the eastern region and beyond, showcasing the work of UK and International book artists. From Heinz Stefan Bartkowiak: The world premiere of Linotype: The Film took place in Turn the Page aims to provide an exhibiting and selling New York City last month, before its tour of East Coast USA platform for the contemporary book arts community - venues. Linotype: The film is a feature-length documentary embracing contemporary modes of book production by Doug Wilson, Brandon Goodwin and Jess Heugel, and dissemination, whilst fostering the preservation of centred around the Linotype type casting machine. traditional skills Called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” by Thomas such as printmaking, Edison, it revolutionised printing and society. The film tells letterpress, paper the surprisingly emotional story of the people connected to making and the Linotype and how it impacted the world. bookbinding. There is an official trailer for the film at View the work of www.linotypefilm.com/clips.html A resources page over 40 artists in this www.linotypefilm.com/resources.html has also been set eclectic mix of hand up as a hub for Linotype information in the future. bound, sculptural http://www.linotypefilm.com and unique books, self published and From Juergen Wegner: A link to the website of small press limited William S. Peterson and Sylvia Holton Peterson, authors of editions, book The Kelmscott Chaucer: A Census, published by Oak Knoll ‘The Book Apothecary’ - Theresa Easton based installation Press in April 2011. “The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, issued and performance by William Morris’s Kelmscott Press in 1896, is probably alongside digitally generated works, in the light and visually the most famous of all private press books, set in types, stunning glass fronted atrium of the Forum building in ornaments, and initials designed by Morris and lavishly Norwich City Centre. www.turnthepage.org.uk illustrated by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. There were 425 www.theforumnorwich.co.uk copies printed on paper and 15 on vellum.
Page 27 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Our Census is an attempt to trace as many as possible than an email or tweet. (Can you imagine all these little of those copies, to describe them thoroughly (including tents popping up at the White House and in the offices on bindings), and to summarise the history of ownership of Capitol Hill!) Plus, the post office will love you for your each.” http://kelmscottchaucer.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/ business. For a list of your government representatives, visit searching-for-a-famous-book/ CongressMerge.com For more pop ups visit: http://www.popularkinetics.com/making_page.html David Kirby artist, writer. publisher of Silt ‘zine, Stone Dead Forever poetry/photo project and PCM regular, has a new Marshfield Screen Print Studio in the UK, which is also the website at http://losdave.blogspot.com home of book artist and illustrator Otto, has a new blog http://marshfieldprintstudio.blogspot.com Krausse Editions now online in 3D Books published on paper are worshipped. They want to be Sylvan Type Works, Sydney is now manufacturing wood touched and smelled. type for letterpress. Historical faces and new designs never Their texture, shape before cut in wood. All type finished by hand: a 19th and colour are basic century artefact made for the 21st. For enquiries, please visit elements. In an attempt www.sylvantypeworks.com.au to bring a little more dimensionality of our The Oxford Summer School 2012 is now online at: publications through www.oxfordsummerschool.com our website, we decided to experiment, and VerySmallKitchen’s residence at X Marks the Bökship, provide images of participation in the exhibition A Pigeon, A Kitchen and an our publications in Annexe: Sites of Alternative Publishing at Five Years, London, 3D anaglyph. When and publishing collaborations with LemonMelon, including clicking on one of our editions you can choose the “3D” their first title Uh Duh by Sarah Jacobs are detailed at: option. Using anaglyph 3D glasses Red-Cyan you can enjoy http://verysmallkitchen.com/author/verysmallkitchen/ the images of our editions. http://www.editorialkrausse. com/blog_ediciones Krausse en 3D_en.html
From Lilla Duignan, a link to “a funky, interactive site ...for creative types interested in the (un)conventional world of Book Arts!” See the delightful visual archive - http://fuckyeahbookarts.tumblr.com/archive
Newthink books has decided to make something for free. Every Monday you can download a free e-zine of the weeks news, thoughts and goings on as a pdf file (or read it on the site) if you really want, you can print it out and make it into a real newspaper: www.newthink.co.uk
David Moscovich of Louffa Press, New York has just released Moscolallia Issue14: ColdKimCheeHotKimChee, at: http://soundcloud.com/user3728033 coldkimcheehotkimchee Nicolas Frespech has just made an e-publication “Lovely” You can also access all Moscolallia issues at: with sound and image for children, which works on iPad 2 www.soundcloud.com/user3728033 and iBooks 2+ .02-2012 V.1.1 You can download it here: http://db.tt/JeS2CHOt Nick Davies is currently setting up an artist-run Risograph Press. Follow this latest venture on Twitter: www.twitter.com/prtscrpress NEW ARTISTS’ PUBLICATIONS Anne Rook has a new website: http://www.annerook.net Geologic Shift From Carol Barton: Here’s a creative way to occupy your David Kirby space on the national map and get your message heard: In 2008 I started writing on the pebbles on the beach, near with a Pop-Up Occupy Tent. www.occupypopup.com where I live. I photographed the stones and in the spirit Download the USA map card and tent pattern of your of the Free Art Movement, left them there for people to choice. Write your message on the side and follow the find and enjoy. The project is still going on and I have directions for cutting out and constructing the pop-up into now scribbled on over 400 stones. The text is derived from the card. Then address it to your government representative. experiences, ideas, song lyrics, poetry and conversations. A few have been written by request, but I would rather Make several. Set up your own encampment. Send them encourage you to grab a permanent marker and go out to all your representatives. It’s fun and harder to ignore and scribble, write or draw on your own pebble.
Page 28 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm A re-printed edition, Travels in Time is a folding book that enlightens the viewer at each turn of the fold. The direct result of research carried out in the World Culture section of the Great North Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 6 x 8 cm, edition of 15. Re-printed and accompanied by a hand made box. £26 UK, £26.50 Europe & £27 International Theresa Easton 36 Lime St, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle- upon-Tyne NE1 2PQ. http://theresaeaston.wordpress.com
The first book, ‘Stone Dead Forever’ came out in 2010 and featured more than 60 photos of inscribed stones. ‘Geologic BASBOEK Publishers presents two unconventional Shift’ is the second book of photographs, continuing the flipbooks by Dutch artist Bas Fontein project. This book collects together 40 more of the most popular stones for you to enjoy. www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2860219
In 2010, the project was featured in an online interview on the GPS website by the South Bank Centre, London. http://litandspoken.southbankcentre.co.uk/2010/06/29/ the-saga-of-the-south-sea-stones/ There is also a group on Flickr, at http://www.flickr.com/groups/stone_dead_forever/ where you can see the full set and upload pictures of your own poetical pebbles.
Both books are available from Blurb.com at: www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2860219 I just arrived this morning www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1602249 The first flipbook I just arrived this morning is made completely from leftover photo material from five holiday albums made by the artist’s brother. His brother cut out Johan Deumens Gallery recently published a new catalogue the best parts and gave the discarded bits and pieces to Bas, of artists’ books and publications. It is available to download which he has recycled into this flipbook. The book gives at: www.johandeumens.com/cat-johandeumens-0112.pdf an impression of a holiday experienced from the corner of your eye. 19 x 10 cm, soft cover, 135 pages printed on photo Johan Deumens Gallery paper, only 50 copies, numbered and signed by the artist: Gabriel Metsustraat 8, 1071 EA Amsterdam Euros 65 T: +31 (0)6 22451545 e-mail: [email protected] www.johandeumens.com
Johan Deumens Gallery, Branch in Leipzig, Germany Spinnerei, Leipzig, Halle 4B Spinnereistrasse 7 / D-04179 Leipzig T: +49 341 478 429 26 / e-mail: [email protected]
Travels in Time Theresa Easton
Einmal um die Welt (Once around the World) The second book is named Einmal um die Welt (Once around the World). After his grandmother passed away, Bas inherited the complete photo archive of his German grandparents. From this archive he selected 37 photos his grandfather took of his grandmother during vacations, weekend excursions and day trips. In each picture we see his grandma in her wheelchair sitting in the middle of a landscape. While flipping the book, she turns around once on her axis. 17 x 10 cm, 37 postcards, soft cover, 2nd edition offset print: Euros 15
You can find the books on www.basfontein.com And order by email at [email protected]
Page 29 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Chantier A bibliography of recommendations for Guylaine Couture Al-Mutanabbi Street A spontaneous creative exercise is the springboard for Hazel Grainger “chantier” (under construction), which has become a Each page contains one person’s description of a book series of published works, each containing 16 pages. Each that they recommend, and the ISBN number of the book. issue must be an attempt at something new: an unusual The idea being that a reader can decide if the book is of technique, another approach, etc. The reader follows an interest without being influenced in advance by the author idea page by page, stepping into a shifting artistic realm. or a recognisable title. I wanted to give some indication of the contributor so the reader can see where the recommendation has come from, so I have included their initials, age, occupation and location.
To reflect the connections with the bookselling trade of Al- Using a 16-page imposition arranged on four large sheets, Mutanabbi Street I also asked participants for details of any I produce a complete issue within a short time span. work they had done in book shops. 20 loose leaf Folex pages I use all sorts of materials: ink, gouache and collage, in a custom made expanding card folder with ties, working with my hands, with words as well as sentence 180 x 120 mm. Edition of 5, more information at: fragments picked up here and there. Once the composition http://hgmakes.blogspot.com/2012/02/year-of-book.html is done, my large sheets are printed back-to-back, folded, cut and assembled to form a “chantier” issue. Printed Matter is pleased to announce a new pair of The content is developed using a very personal slant; benefit editions by AA Bronson, co-published with the often, moods come out in the form of automatic poems. ICA, London, on the occasion of their exhibition Each one of the 7 issues takes on a different idea and sets In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955 a different tone. Finished size 8.5 in. x 5.5 in., 20-copy digital print run. Find more information and photos under The digital prints entitled The Call of The Wild and Self- éditions isotopelab at www.gycouture.com Disclosures form part of a new series of works relating to Bronson’s Queer Spirits, a collaborative publication with artist Peter Hobbs. The works feature a selection of book Journey of Life, Volume 1 covers, both well-known and unfamiliar, as a shorthand for Hanne Matthiesen wilderness, masculinity, and sexual energy. The themes are played out by park rangers, who monitor the behavior of wild animals, and queer witches, whose deviance lies in their deference to nature. Each digital pigment print on cotton- rag paper is signed and numbered in an edition of 50, measures 42 x 30 cm and retails for $200.
The exhibition In Numbers, on until March 25, 2012, at the ICA, surveys the often-overlooked genre of serial publications produced by artists around the world from 1955 to the present day. From the rise of the small press in the 1960s, to the DIY zine culture in the 1980s and early 1990s, professional artists have always seized on the Dramatic and crazy events as experienced along the route... format of magazines and postcards as a site for a new kind 30 x 18 x 8 cm. One-of-a-kind, accordion, suitcase book. of art production. The publications in In Numbers, often Collage and drawing. http://www.hannematthiesen.dk idiosyncratic and produced in collaboration, are by young http://ihanne.wordpress.com artists operating at the peripheries of mainstream art cultures and established artists looking for an alternative to
Page 30 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm the marketplace. The presentation of material is organised My Suffolk Downs in part by Phil Aarons, Printed Matter Board President, and Melissa Shook also comes from his collection. Pressed Wafer and Kat Ran Press http://www.printedmatter.org/catalogue/ Melissa Shook came to Boston from New York in 1974 to teach photography at MIT. She soon discovered Suffolk Downs. Though she did not bet, she felt comfortable at the track, enjoying the sounds, the crowd, and the people who worked with the horses. Over the next thirty years she documented her Suffolk Downs in photographs and poems concentrating on the trainers, hot walkers, exercise riders, horse shoers, dentists, those who delivered hay, feed, and ice, and the jockeys and their agents. My Suffolk Downs is the result of that work.
Suffolk Downs, located in East Boston, opened in 1935 and flourished into the 1980s. The Beatles played there, and in JOYCE CAGE BECKETT 1969–1970 Bill Veeck (who is in National Baseball Hall of A collaborative bookwork by Ian Tyson and John Christie Fame as an owner) managed the track. He wrote about his JCB is a bookwork collaboration between Ian Tyson experiences in his book Thirty Tons a Day. In 1989 Suffolk and John Christie made in memory of their friend Leo Downs closed for two years. When it reopened the track Koenders who died in 2011. Leo was a collector of Joyce, came slowly back to life. Laura Hillenbrad’s book Seabiscuit: Cage and Beckett. An American Legend published in 2001 and the movie made from it, are credited with reviving interest in Suffolk Downs.
A photographer, installation artist, and writer, Melissa Shook has taught at MIT and UMass Boston. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and Bibliotheque Nationale, and has been shown at MIT, the Boston Public Library, and the DeCordova Museum.
Regular Edition. 72 pages with 23 duotone photographs and 30 prose poems by Melissa Shook. 9 x 7.3 inches. $33 postpaid within the United Sates. International Orders. $36 postpaid for orders outside the United States.
Deluxe Edition. Forty-five copies hand-bound by Sarah Creighton and signed by Melissa Shook. $155 postpaid. Shipping in April 2012. View some sample spreads here: http://www.katranpress.com/typography52.html For more information, visit www.katranpress.com/horses http://pressed-wafer.blogspot.com
New from Redfoxpress Franticham’s Assembling Box Nr. 17 Visual poetry and works inspired by Fluxus. Ian Tyson’s hand-cut pages are contained in black covers Visual poetry, collages, prints, multiples and objects with an initial letter cut into the paper and John Christie’s 40 copies signed and numbered 1/40 to 40/40. A5 box with pages are hand-coloured using pastel. contributions from 23 invited artists from 9 countries.
The edition consists of eleven books, each copy is signed and numbered in a solander box 305mm x 225mm.
The first book is for presentation to the Collection Leo Koenders and six copies now remain for sale. Enquiries to: John Christie, Parham House Barn, Brick Lane, Framlingham, Suffolk IP13 9LQ, UK [email protected] or [email protected] Contributions from: Antic-Ham, South Korea - Tiziana Baracchi, Italy - Vittore Baroni, Italy - John M. Bennett, USA - Keith Buchholz, USA - Bruno Chiarlone, Italy - David Dellafiora, Australia - Joaquin Gomez, Spain - Klaus
Page 31 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Groh, Germany - Kommissar Hjuler, Germany - Serse the shade of Bob Cobbing, Jarry’s Ubu Roi, ‘Daily Twit’ Luigetti, Italy - Emilio Morandi, Italy - Leo Morrissey, USA proprietor Magno Irvin, ‘Liver & Lights Scriptorium’- - Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Mexico - Skooter, USA - Litsa founder John Bently, Anthony Aloysius St. John Hancock, Spathi, Netherlands - Pete Spence, Australia - Carol Stetser, Bristol’s own indefatigable Angie Butler (alongside the USA - Giovanni Strada, Italy - Christine Tarantino, USA - ladies of ‘Miss Carol’s’), CFPR stalwart Sarah Bodman and Richard Tipping, Australia - Cecil Touchon, USA - Francis many others – not least of which being the unique Tanya Van Maele, Ireland Peixoto and the lad himself, Alastair Brotchie. The edition – as with the shop – represents a broad church. 15 copies available for sale, price: 70 euro / 100 $ / 60 GBP. You can order online with Paypal at The edition was first sold at the bookartbookshop tenth http://www.redfoxpress.com/ass.box17.html celebrations at London’s RED Gallery in February 2012, Or simply by email: [email protected] but copies will also be available – alongside the full Ensixteen back-catalogue – at these upcoming events, where Nicholson will be exhibiting:
15th International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair, Leeds – Parkinson Building, University of Leeds: Friday 9th & Saturday 10th March Stick, Staple & Stitch Artists Book Fair, Colchester – Colchester Arts Centre: Saturday 17th March
Otherwise by all means contact the artist at [email protected].
The edition comprises 10 pages of all-new artwork at A5 (15 X 21 cms), laser-printed in an initial edition of 40. Available at £6/£8 (including postage) upon enquiry.
Ensixteen Editions – Update: Spring 2012 From Sole Proprietor Mike Nicholson
The newest edition under the Ensixteen banner is The Power of Ten – the 20th in the ongoing ‘bio auto graphic’ series and created for the 10th Anniversary celebrations surrounding the legendary bookartbookshop of Pitfield Street, London N1. As always, for coverage of Ensixteen Editions, connected The artist/writer presents a freewheeling narrative exploring inspirations and creative commentary please visit the singular qualities that have made this tiny space such www.ensixteeneditions.blogspot.com a hub of book arts activity in the capital, interpreting it in familiar fashion for those who are regular readers. Roma Publications presents 4 new titles: The venue not only expands the mind and heart but almost seems to defy the normal laws of physics, with a Rob Johannesma - Spots of Time dimensionally-transcendental capacity to host such varied Roma Publication 175 activity with such generous welcome and rather decent 128 pp, 17 x 24 cm, 18 Euros. wines. www.orderromapublications.org/Product.aspx?pid=220
A host of characters who have formed Nicholson’s own Mark Manders - Les Études d’ombres experiences of the place appear in cameos, including Roma Publication 176
Page 32 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm 128 + 8 pp, 21 x 27 cm, 27 Euros. www.orderromapublications.org/Product.aspx?pid=221
A Dutch Landscape / Un Paisaje Holandes Javier Hontoria (ed.) Roma Publication 177 76 pp, 20 x 28 cm, 15 Euros. www.orderromapublications.org/Product.aspx?pid=222
Nigel Shafran - Ruth on the Phone Roma Publication 178 I titled my three books after the ex-votos, votive offerings 156 pp, 16.5 x 24 cm, 30 Euros. that cover the walls of certain little churches in devoted www.orderromapublications.org/Product.aspx?pid=223 communities, mostly of Southern Europe and South America. It is a very intimate and traditional way to For more information visit: communicate with the supernatural that has always www.romapublications.org/Roma100-200.html impressed me.
My intervention consisted in printing old medical images Shed Press Publications presents of hearts directly on the pages and in carving the books Next – to – Nothing with surgical cuts Poems by David Charleston that would reveal Shed Press Publications was founded on Cheshire Street, the volumetric and London in 2009 by Amelie Genestine-Charlton, book material quality of binder, printer and artist, and Jessica Jane Charleston, the objects. editor and artist. Their very first publication, ‘Next – to – Nothing’, is now available. This treatment, of course, doesn’t allow the text to be completely read. The words and images are still there though: they interact with the added images creating new patterns on the altered paper.
Milestone events in Wells’ History are evoked by the names, the fragments of maps and the portraits that survived the cuts and that can be found when flipping through the scattered wounded pages. In the three books, History doesn’t follow a This beautifully bound book consists of a limited edition of chronological order: 102 copies containing the poetry of David Charleston, set the eye is drawn and printed on their Adana Press. Each book includes five through the holes original photographs, hand printed in the Dark Shed, Shed and deep into the space, carved away by the scalpel, to create Press London by Jessica Jane Charleston. connections between events otherwise distant, allowing www.shedpress.wordpress.com the reader to experience a dynamic and organic way of conceiving the evolution of the World.
The books have been Ex-votos: altered books donated to the Linda Toigo, UK Al-Mutanabbi Street I have recently finished my contribution to the Project: they will tour in Al-Mutanabbi Street Project: a series of three altered copies national and international The Outline of History by H.G. Wells. exhibitions and one of them will be sent to the The English science fiction writer, not satisfied by the Iraq National Library. quality of educational History books of his time, wrote his personal contribution to the History of the World: while I was wandering around second-hand book shops, I found http://www.lindatoigo.com three different American editions of his texts and I decided http://lindatoigo.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/ex-votos- to transform them into objects that would carry a sacred altered-books/ symbolic value.
Page 33 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk X Exercises for Kurt Johannessen Waterfall Sarah Bodman Estelle Liebenberg-Barkhuizen Sarah Bodman made her first artist’s book tribute to Kurt The relationship between the content of a book and its Johannessen after Tanya Peixoto introduced her to his books binding is, for me, of cardinal importance in the making at bookartbookshop. She produced ‘An Exercise for Kurt of an artist’s book. The idea of this book came from the Johannessen’ in 2010, in tribute to his book ‘Exercises’. Howick Waterfall, which is about a 20-minute drive from Pietermaritzburg in South Africa, where I live. The titles of the 100 short stories she wrote and buried for that exercise, have since been taken up by BookArtObject an At this stage, my international book arts group, based in Australia, with 100 focus lay with the artists each making a book using one of Sarah’s story titles. spine: to emulate http://bookartobject.blogspot.com the waterfall with beads. I discussed As 2012 sees the 10th anniversary of bookartbookshop with this with Annette a fiesta based on theme of: x or what is to be done? Sarah Henderson, who asked Kurt Johannessen if she could choose another 10 (x) was a Master of exercises from his artist’s book to carry out. Arts in Fine Arts student of mine some years ago, and she informed me that she was now writing poetry. She agreed to write me a poem about a waterfall.
The next challenge was to relate the actual printing on the page, the content of the printing and the shape of the page, so that the whole (words, form and structure) reflects ‘waterfall’. The pages of the book were torn so that the text block creates an impression of a cascade; and the words are printed on this torn edge using different colours ink, like water changing colour as it moves along. I used the colours referred to in the poem to make the paper for the cover of the book.
The result is ‘X Exercises for Kurt Johannessen’ an image based artist’s book, published as a free download, DIY assembly book on 21.02.2012 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of bookartbookshop.
The exercises can be identified through reading the texts in Kurt Johannessen’s ‘Exercises’.
Free download PDF at: 21.2 x 14.7 x 3cm; paper: Amadeo 350gsm water colour http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/kurtj12.htm paper, rubber stamp letters, thread and glass beads. Poem by Annette Henderson. http://artistbooks.ning.com/profile EstelleLiebenbergBarkhuizen
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Artists’ talks for Art/Text/Clearinghouse Project + Western Australian Photographic Book Survey Saturday 3 March 2pm - 3.30pm Perth Centre for Photography 100 Aberdeen Street, Northbridge, Australia
Please join us for artists’ talks and readings in an informal atmosphere. A number of Artists/writers/poets/ photographers will be in attendance. We will also be reflecting on what we have achieved, what we have learnt about different methods of book publishing and the potential for book projects and photographic books in the future. Poetry readings by: Liana Joy Christensen, Vivienne Glance and Gail Robinson. Perth Centre for Photography 100 Aberdeen Street, Northbridge, Australia The two concurrent exhibitions investigate the relationship between books, photographs and the textual form. They Lethologica Press is a small independent press based in the combine current collaborative book projects between artists Western half of Australia, publisher of contemporary art and writers from a variety of backgrounds and a survey of books, poetry, prose, limited edition and online projects, Western Australian photographic books. edited by Perdita Phillips and Nyanda Smith www.lethologicapress.org
9th INTERNATIONAL BOOK ART FESTIVAL CORRESPONENCE 2012-2014 The exhibition schedule for the touring show continues over 2012 throughout Poland. A website with information on the festival, awards, and images of all of the artists’ books has now been launched at: http://korespondencja.bookart.pl/en/books.html
Livres d’Artiste Japonais / A selection of 52 artists and writers Atelier Vis-à-Vis, Marseilles, France Art/Text Clearinghouse Project 12th - 31st March 2012 What dynamic results can occur when artists and writers Yukiko Kanno- Ryuzo Onoe- Keiko Suzuki- Takeshi Iida- publish books in collaboration? This was the wager put Yuria Iida- Tamaki Yamashita- Kayo Matoba- Yoshikazu to Western Australia six months ago by Lethologica Press. Ikeya- Miyako Akai- Masataka Ohta- Ryoko Ito- Takashi This exhibition is the result of this project, that encouraged Hiraide & via wwalnuts- Hiroshi Kiyosaki- Atelier Elément artists and writers to meet, work together and publish books Présent- Fumika Sato. Panama Books: Yoshio Mizo- Natsuki using conventional and new digital print technologies. Suyama- Yoshifumi Takeda- Yushi Kobayashi- Manako The result is a myriad of artistic combinations producing Kuroneko- Jun Tada. Pepper’s Project: Mika Matsumoto- publications that span small limited-edition handmade Satoko Shimozono - Azusa Hayashi- Haruna Yasui- Maho art books, to visual artist catalogues with critical essays, to Nishimura- Hiroki Kato. Imprimerie Rétro JAM. short-run digital and ‘Print On Demand’ books. Zine Port: Fujico sato- Mayumi Oku- Coppi- Emi Harukusa. Tokyo Bookbinding Club: Maki Sato- Akiko Western Australian Photographic Book Showcase Tsumura- Eiko Nakao- Shinki Fukuda- Minori Komahara. This exhibition features a survey of contemporary Artistes-éditeurs résidant en Espagne, France et Maroc: photographic books by Western Australian photographers, Atsuko Ishii (F)- Masako Hattori (E)- Motoko Tachikawa substantially about, or produced in, Western Australia. (F)- Ikumi Inoue (F)- Keiko Hagiwara (F)- Aya Hashimoto Shining a spotlight on the richly diverse range of (M)- Kimihito & Catherine Okuyama (F). photographic publishing in Western Australia’s was the impetus behind this exhibition. From emerging to Paradigme/ Comptoir International du Livre d’Artiste established photographers, large books from leading Contemporain / 41 Rue Clovis Hugues 13003- Marseille, publishers to small self-published publications and France. Tel: 04 91 33 20 80. Thursday - Saturday, 3pm-7pm, catalogues, a spectrum of work is included. other days/times by appointment. www.ateliervisavis.com
Exhibition runs until 11th March 2012. Gallery hours: Thurs + Fri 12pm - 5pm, Sat + Sun 12pm - 4pm
Page 35 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk LemonMelon will be at ‘Publish and Be Damned’ ICA, London 17th March 2012, 12 – 8 pm For more information on ‘Publish and Be Damned’ see http://www.publishandbedamned.org/fairs.html
LemonMelon will be at ‘PA/PER VIEW’ ART BOOK FAIR Brussels, Belgium 23rd – 25th March 2012, 11 – 6 pm PA/PER VIEW art book fair brings together +/- 40 leading artist book publishers. Leave your laptop behind and come and browse amongst the finest titles of these consistent players of the printed word and image. For more information on the ‘PA/PER VIEW’ ART BOOK FAIR see http://www.paperviewartbookfair.org/
Further publications in our programme include: Uh Duh by Sarah Jacobs LemonMelon & VerySmallKitchen The conversation between a poet and an artist at their first meeting was recorded. An extract from the transcription is presented: ‘So how would you where would you how would you describe what you what you do?’ 2012 | £8 | Softback | 32pp | 15 x 21 cm | ISBN 978 1 908260 11 6 AT LAS AT LAST For more information and to order a copy see An exhibition curated by Édith Laboratory http://www.lemonmelon.org 23rd March - 21st April 2012 Grandes Galeries, ESADHaR, campus de Rouen 186 rue Martainville, 76000 Rouen, France Poetry of Unknown Words A collaborative project by ATLAS AT LAST: Morgane Allais, Gilles Balmet, Sophie Susan Johanknecht and Katharine Meynell Bouvier Ausländer, Leïla Brett, Lucie Calmon, Aurore Saison Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall, London Chassé, Guillaume Constantin, Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Friday 9th March 2012 - Friday 25th May 2012 Rodolphe Delaunay, Benoît Delbecq, Marcelline Delbecq, Five double-sided prints (shown recto and verso) Morgane Fourey, Gilles Furtwängler, Marina Gadonneix, in response to work by Gertrude Stein, HD, Mary Guillaume Ginet, Michael Günzburger, Rainier Lericolais, Wollstonecraft, Emmy Hennings and Valerie Solanas. David Liaudet,Tom Molloy, Hyojin Moon, Simon Nicaise, This display is the first section of a collaborative project by Elise Parré, Clara Prioux, Guillaume Raoult, Philippe Susan Johanknecht and Katharine Meynell entitled Poetry of Rekacewicz, Batia Suter, Cannelle Tanc, Franca Trovato, Unknown Words. Olivier Vary, Guillaume Viaud. An edition Edith 31°19’56.54’’N 110°17’46.98’’O by Guillaume Ginet, artist Susan Johanknecht is proprietor of the Gefn Press. She had and former student of the school will be launched at the a retrospective at the University of Vermont in 2007 and is opening on 22nd March 6.30pm. Subject Leader of MA Book Arts at Camberwell College of Arts. This exhibition coincides with Small Press Atlas - International Conference organised by the Édith Katharine Meynell’s artists’ books include ‘It’s inside’ Laboratory from the ÉSADHaR, École Supérieure d’Art (Marion Boyars) and forthcoming ‘Mutual Dependencies’ et de Design Le Havre/Rouen (Normandy, France) at the (Artwords). Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen 22nd - 23rd March 2012. The pair has co-authored and co-edited several books and their work has been exhibited internationally, including at News from LemonMelon: The British Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, The Dean Clough Galleries in Halifax and Mills College in California. filling in the blanks Their work together focuses on the overlaps between X Marks the Bökship, 210 Cambridge Heath Road, London artwork and multiple publications, often bringing together 15th & 16th March 2012, 7 – 9 pm an unusual combination of writers, poets, performance filling in the blanks is a series of events, investigating how artists and forms. one could perform the blank book. With performances by David Berridge, Patrick Coyle, Marc Godts, Rupert Hartley, Saison Poetry Library, Level 5 at Royal Festival Hall, London Sarah Jacobs, Lisa Jeschke & Lucy Beynon, John Morgan and Tuesday - Sunday, 11am - 8pm. Free DJ Roberts. For more information see www.southbankcentre.co.uk http://www.lemonmelon.org
Page 36 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm Roger McGough’s Liverpool Doors Also see Mark Cockram’s blog which has information on Launch exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool, UK the project and will have more images of how it was all Doors from famous Liverpool landmarks are part of an put together over the next few weeks: art installation in the Museum of Liverpool by poet Roger www.studio5bookbindingandarts.blogspot.com McGough - president of the Poetry Society; book artist Mark Cockram, and students from Liverpool John Moores Museum of Liverpool University’s School of Art and Design. Pier Head, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool L3 1DG, UK Free entry. Open daily 10am-5pm The Liverpool Doors exhibition includes doors from http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/ Strawberry Fields, the Trophy Room at Liverpool Football Club and a turnstile from Everton’s Goodison Park, donated to Roger and book artist Mark Cockram following a public After the celebrations at RED Gallery London for appeal. The installation was created by McGough and book bookartbookshop’s 10th Anniversary, Tanya Peixoto artist Mark Cockram along with students from Liverpool has announced the 10 winners of the artists’ books John Moores University’s School of Art and Design. Roger competition responding to: X or what is to be done? and Mark supported the students throughout the artistic The ten winners who shared the £1000 prize money are: process, which began in November last year. Debra Thompson October
Egidija Ciricaite Wade True
Julie Shaw Lutts X=?
Madeleine Walton What Is To Be Done?
Mary Yacoob Ten Ways
Melanie Bush Xanthic
Neil Mabbs Missing
Otto What Is To Be Done
Sharon Kivland The Missing Slogans
Tim Grothaus Portraits Of People Drawn From Memory
The exhibition at the RED gallery was a great success attended by over 400 people. A catalogue was produced on newsprint, listing all the participants, with images of the 20 shortlisted books and 20 books that deserved a special mention.
The winners’ books are now on display at bookartbookshop, Roger said: “It has been a hugely rewarding experience 17 Pitfield Street, London N1 6HB, UK. to work alongside Mark and a group of enthusiastic and http://www.bookartbookshop.com talented art students, and the project has provided me with the opportunity to be playful and present poetry in a vibrant and visual way.” UWE Bristol Exhibitions at Bower Ashton Library Opening hours summer time: Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm Also featured within the exhibition, will be a bound copy Please call to check opening hours before travelling of the entire Liverpool Saga. The Saga is an 800-line poem as times vary during vacation periods. written by people from across Merseyside to celebrate Library main desk telephone: 0117 328 4750 Liverpool’s 800th birthday. If you have any book arts news, please email items for the Roger wrote the opening and closing verses of the Saga, Book Arts Newsletter to: [email protected] which book artist and bookbinder Mark Cockram has Please supply images as good quality RGB jpegs (300 dpi) bound specifically to accompany the Liverpool Doors exhibition. Next deadline: 1st April for the mid-April – May newsletter Read more about the project at: http://www.sevenstreets. com/art-and-creativity/visualising-the-verbal-roger- www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk / [email protected] mcgough-and-liverpool-doors/
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