ISSN 1754-9086 BOOK ARTS NEWSLETTER No. 61 November 2010
Published by Impact Press at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol, UK ARTIST’S COVER PAGE Steam, Salt, Milk BY Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck
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Artists’ Books Exhibitions University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Tom Trusky Exhibition Cases Special Collections Room, Bower Ashton Library
Amy Davies 28th October - 12th December 2010
You know when something just happens and you know it’s meant to be? One of those turning-points which is desperately needed? After having worked with discarded objects and found materials for a number of years I came across a thrown-out book, just lying there in the path. I took the same route to work for a few days to see if someone would come back and claim it, clean it, dry it and dust off its pages ready to resume its rightful place on a shelf somewhere. Nobody came for it. When I discovered the back cover laying in the grass several metres away I decided I’d come back and rescue it from an eventual, pulpy end.
I have treated the books I have found in the same way as I would do the objects and spaces I’ve worked with previously; it is images found and the objects discarded which spark investigation, the spaces where buildings once were and structures which once had purpose. I travel almost exclusively by foot, using short-cuts of footpaths, cycle track, pavement and wasteland, and so am privileged to have a near-constant exposure to subject matter the opportunity to pass through little-known places. The visual discourse I find between the discarded entity, the location and its specifics, and the journey taken by myself is explored as sensitively as possible; with the medium of drawing taking a central role in the investigation. Often I involve physical elements of discarded objects or materials in question, incorporating them in to the drawings, thus setting up yet another discourse to be explored.
Book now has a place on my shelf. Apart from being So we went home, Book and I, and whilst Book dried out cleaned and dried, Book is untouched. A fragile way- I had a think. Where on earth do I start? This object had marker pinpointing a change in trajectory. Other books so much to offer in terms of inspiration. How on earth have been found and used more readily; each throwing up would this find affect the work I was doing and would more questions, considerations and inspirations. I hope the subsequently make? Profoundly, would be the answer to questions aren’t easily solved; I’m enjoying the process of that question. searching for answers.
Pa g e 1 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k EXHIBITIONS Frolic on First Friday - 23 Sandy Gallery hosts artist receptions every First Friday of the month from 5-8 pm. Winter exhibitions at 23 Sandy Gallery Portland, USA http://www.firstfridayguide.com http://www.23sandy.com Helen Hiebert String Theory November 4 - December 18, 2010 Helen Hiebert is interested Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadsides Tour Winter 2010 in the threads that bind The al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition project was created as us all. In particular: an arts community response to the car bombing of al- knots. Inspired by Mutanabbi street, and has been organising readings and historical images, her events since April 2007 to fundraise for Médecins Sans own contemporary Frontières (MSF). All 130 broadsides created for the project interpretations of knots can be viewed at the Florida Atlantic University/Jaffe Center will be featured in her for Book Arts site. http://www.library.fau.edu/depts/spc/ November/December JaffeCenter/jaffemutanabbistreetstartshere.htm exhibit when she unveils her new suite of handmade paper which incorporates her unique knotted “string drawings.” Helen is thankful that her new suite has been funded by a RACC grant.
Sue Huggins Leopard From Memory November 4 - December 18, 2010 Sue Huggins Leopard’s current artist bookworks celebrate the special joys of 19th century poetry, hummingbirds and ghosts - though not necessarily in that order. Leopard’s work is known for connecting a sense of memory to myth and history through images and words by using her own etchings, relief prints, collages, handwriting and letterpress.
David Kirby’s broadside
Upcoming exhibitions and events with auctions of the broadsides:
Northern Print Newcastle upon Tyne, until 28th November 2010 The final day to see the prints at Northern Print will be Sunday 28 November, from 10-5, over the weekend of Ouseburn Open Studios: Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 November. Northern Print, Stepney Bank, Newcastle upon Sue Huggins Leopard lives in Rochester, NY. Recent work Tyne NE1 2NP. Tel: 0191 261 7000 includes, Past Surmise, a portfolio of 12 Poems by Emily www.northernprint.org.uk Dickinson (image above); Love Old and New, an imaginary love story in 12 volumes and Thirteen Moments, a boxed set UWE Bristol of 13 etchings, inspired by reading Proust. Leopard’s artists’ Bower Ashton campus, 6th December 2010 - 6th Jan 2011 books and broadsides are exhibited widely and included in A special event on Thursday 9th December will include public and private collections in the USA and abroad. The readings and an auction of broadsides for Médecins Sans prize of a solo show was given to her after winning the Best Frontières, in the library from 5pm - 7pm, the auction will of Show award in October of 2009 for Broadsided, a national take place at 6pm. Please join us! www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk juried exhibition of letterpress broadsides here at the gallery. Inkspot Press Gallery hours are: Thursday - Saturday, Noon to 6 pm, Brighton, mid-December 2010 - end of January 2011 First Friday, 5-8 pm and at other times by appointment. www.inkspotpress.co.uk We are located at 623 NE 23rd Avenue, just three doors north of Sandy Boulevard in Central Eastside Portland. We are looking for more host venues over 2011, please help www.23sandy.com us spread the word and raise funds for MSF, do contact [email protected] if you can help.
Pa g e 2 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Courier Artrovert University Art Museum, University at Albany Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK State University of New York Until 14/11/2010 Until December 4, 2010 Artrovert is a group of three Danish artists established in Curated by Corinna Ripps Schaming - Associate Director/ 2003 to provide a professional forum for developing skills Curator, University Art Museum and ideas. The group members meet frequently to discuss, inspire and collaborate on various art projects. Artrovert has participated in several international artists’ books exhibitions with individual as well as collective works. Group members are: Giuli Larsen, Hanne Matthiesen, Lis Rejnert Jensen. “Our creative process is facilitated through regular group meetings and by mail/e-mail.” The last couple of years Artrovert have focused on developing a new type of artists’ Courier brings together a range of contemporary artists book: Book-in-a-suitcase. It all began with an invitation to who have created works that are rooted in the physical, do a submission for “Fabriccanti di Libri”, an international communicative, or iconic properties of the typewriter. art competition in Lecce, Italy. Artrovert work frequently From emblematic homage to pointed social critique, the in a sort of Round-Robin/mail art manner, which allows works selected for this exhibition demonstrate that despite the members of the group to work simultaneously on the its obsolete status, the typewriter remains a potent carrier same project. This is a perfect way to get things done quickly of untapped ideas. Artists include, Leona Christie/Gavin and a very convenient method since the artists all live in Christie, Daniela Comani, Lee Etheredge IV, Ann Hamilton, different geographical areas and don’t have the option of William Kentridge, Matt Liddle, Elena del Rivero, Allyson meeting as often as they’d like. Strafella, Ignacio Uriarte, and Xu Bing, who will exhibit his interactive installation work Book from the Ground. http://www.albany.edu/museum/c_0f201010_courier.shtml
CON-TEXT goes to Gotland A Nordic Artist’s Book exhibition Langska house in Visby, Gotland, Sweden Until 7th November 2010
Artovert were first prize winners in the 2nd Sheffield International Artists’ Book Prize organised and hosted by Bank Street Arts, as voted by visitors to the exhibition for their pull out book ‘Bag Ladies’.
Opening Times: Tues - Sat: 10am - 5pm 32-40 Bank Street, Sheffield S1 2DS, UK Tel: 0114 346 303. http://bankstreetarts.com
Gotland County Art & craft organisation in collaboration with the Nordic Association shows a selection from the The Cover of a Book is the Beginning of a Journey exhibition CON-TEXT at Langska house in Visby. The New Art Gallery Walsall A selection of poetic and subtle artists’ books in different 9th October 2010 - 9th January 2011 technologies – made by 25 Nordic artists. The exhibition The Cover of a Book is the Beginning of a Journey is an includes a joint project based on the individual artist’s interactive exhibition of artists’ books which present or interpretation of the concept of “context”. Each artist has derive from a set of instructions. Each book blurs the transformed a plain cardboard suitcase into a book like boundaries between authors and readers, or artists and object without the suitcase having lost its external shape viewers, inviting the usually more passive reader to take a and its function as a suitcase. See more of the project at: more active part in the creation of the work. http://contextnord.wordpress.com and The exhibition includes books by artists such as Jonathan at: http://www.artists-books.dk Monk, Yoko Ono, Ed Ruscha, and Lawrence Weiner.
Pa g e 3 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k The Possibility of Being Fully Rewritten - or 5 Ways to Enter (or Exit) the Book A solo exhibition by Inge Bruggeman The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Portland, USA 7th November - 12th December
Julian Warren, archivist at Arnolfini and Paul Clarke, member of the Performance Re-enactment Society will give a talk at 2pm on Saturday 27th November about the exhibition, coinciding with the second Artists’ Publishing Fair at The New Art Gallery Walsall.
This is a touring Arnolfini exhibition in collaboration with the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West England. For details please contact Cheryl Jones: Opening reception on Sunday, November 7th from 3-5pm [email protected] The installation The Possibility of Being Fully Rewritten is about our physical and metaphorical connection to the The New Art Gallery Walsall book, as well as, the objectification of the book in the digital Gallery Square, Walsall WS2 8LG age. Gallery Talk: Thursday, November 18, 12 noon thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk Please visit http://www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym and follow the link to current or upcoming exhibitions for more information. Toine Horvers - Hand written books Until 13th November 2010 Inge Bruggeman has been making and publishing fine Christophe Daviet-Thery Livres et Editions d’Artistes press artists’ books under her imprint INK-A! Press since gallery and bookstore - new location - at 34 rue Louise 1992. In addition to limited edition books and broadsides Weiss, 75013 Paris she produces related prints, print-objects and other mixed For many years handwritten texts have been a constant media works. For more information about Inge Bruggeman, factor in the artistic oeuvre of the artist Toine Horvers visit: www.texturaprinting.com (The Netherlands, 1947). Using pencil, Horvers builds up his drawings by writing layer upon layer into chiaroscuro- like patches; upon closer inspection, they turn out to be Banu Cennetoglu Sample Sale - 2010 BC description of reality. Rodeo gallery, Istanbul Until 20th November Abstract at first sight, these layered transcriptions of the Rodeo is very happy to announce SAMPLE SALE / 2010 “portraits” or “landscapes” Horvers tries to describe, often BC the first solo exhibition by Banu Cennetoglu. This result in a surprisingly visual “description” of the original exhibition by Cennetoglu plays with the possibilities in the objects. In recent years, Toine Horvers has bundled series production of art, the system of the art market and acts as of such “drawings” into books – all handwritten and thus an ironic gesture within her own practice, while at the same unique pieces. time it is expanding the traditional limits of exhibition making. SAMPLE SALE / 2010 BC will ‘sample’ new works Christophe Daviet-Thery Livres et Editions d’Artistes. that will be for sale until November 20. 34 rue Louise Weiss, 75013 Paris wwwdaviet-thery.com Cennetoglu’s work for the 2009 Venice Biennial’s Turkish http://davietthery.wordpress.com Pavilion, CATALAOG was a book which displayed four hundred and fifty-one photographs, offered to visitors to download for free via a website and a system of codes
Pa g e 4 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m throughout the course of the exhibition. When the biennial The Center for Book Arts is Pleased to Present was over the website closed while the book remains as a Ear to the Page documentation of the performance. This work challenged Organised by Alan Licht & James Hoff the idea of an artist’s book as something exclusive, the idea Until 4th December 2010 of a catalogue as a classification mechanism of images or Ear to the Page explores the interaction between recordings products, and of photography as a collectible medium. and books, using three categories: sound works that reflect the structure and aesthetic of books; packages that thematically entail a book as well as a CD or vinyl record; and books that have a sound component or somehow serve to transcribe or document ideas that previously existed, or potentially can exist, as sound.
Catalog 2009, Installation view Centre de la photographie Geneve, ‘La Revanche de L’archive Photographique’ 2010
In SAMPLE SALE/ 2010 BC, Cennetoglu is presenting a group of works that brings together the artist’s recent and distant past and also opens new areas in her practise. The main wall of the gallery is used to display all the works while the reception desk relocates to the exhibition space and the gallery’s staff provide visitors with information on the sales conditions of each piece. Each sample on the Artists/Musicians included in the exhibition are: Vito wall is juxtaposed with one CATALOG. In reference to Acconci, Juan Arkotxa & Leslie Mackenzie, Bernard Baschet complementarity and its economical, formal and contextual & Francois Baschet (see above), Cathy Berberian & Eugenio consequences, the artist constructs a power game between Carmi, George Brecht, Inge Bruggeman & Hank Lazer, her previous and new work. Jose Luis Castillejo, Jon Gibson, Kenneth Goldsmith, Grace Jones, Jennie C. Jones, Allan Kaprow, Dan Lander & Micah A maxim composed of found brass letters originally Lexier, Christian Marclay, Marshall McLuhan with Jerome produced for different institutional and commercial signs Agel, Quentin Fiore, & John Simon, Michalis Pichler, Steve dominates the wall and an apotropaic fake Swarovski Roden, Allen Ruppersberg, Tate Shaw & Andrew Sallee, emblem protects the space and the show. A group of Masumi Shibata, Michael Snow, Jan van der Marck/Art by photos selected and printed by the gallerist herself, a video Telephone, and Dennis Yuen & Morry Galonoy. Organized produced with all the images posted between July 2010 by James Hoff and Alan Licht, Independent Curators. and December 2006 on the popular photo blog I Heart Photograph, a shelf with the artist’s souvenirs from her visits A comprehensive catalogue accompanies the exhibition. to Murcia, (the upcoming Manifesta 8, in which Cennetoglu will participate with a new commissioned piece), are some ALSO ON VIEW: of the works in the exhibition. Another sample, 20.08.2010, is a collection of the local newspapers printed in Turkey in Featured Artist Project: Catya Plate: Clothespin Tarot one day and bound in seven volumes. The work is extended Until 4th December 2010 to a reading area which is physically connected to the new This project comprises a series of original drawings and reception counter and CATALOG display. The works in an artist book as well as an animated film. Since 2003 Plate this show draw on Cennetoglu’s practice as an artist, has been working on a series of 78 watercolour and pencil a producer of artists’ books and the founder of the only drawings inspired by the 78 cards of the traditional tarot. printed matter space in Istanbul, BAS. References to Clothespins have always played a key role in Plate’s work Hans Peter Feldmann, Documentation Céline Duval, and in this exhibition they become Clothespin Freaks; Sol LeWitt and John Baldessari relate to the artist’s interest figures who, made of clear plastic clothespins, doll’s body in a conceptual treatment of the image and its immense parts and sewn pieces, are the real heroes in this subversive framing possibilities. Tarot adventure. The installation features a new animated Tütün Deposu // Lüleci Hendek Caddesi No 12 Tophane film, The Reading, which is a culminating artist project to 34425 Istanbul www.rodeo-gallery.com this body of work.
Pa g e 5 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Barbara Tetenbaum and the Triangular Press: Recent Constellation and Correspondences: Networking Between Works, 2010 Bishop Faculty Fellow Artists 1970-1980 Until 4th December 2010 Co-produced by Artexte and the National Gallery of Every year the Center for Book Arts invites an artist/ Canada Library and Archives instructor from outside of New York to teach a master Exhibition Curator: Felicity Tayler class and to give a formal lecture in New York City. The Presented in Ottawa until 24th December 2010 at the Sally R. Bishop Master Faculty Fellow for 2010 is Barbara National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, the Tetenbaum. Barbara Tetenbaum has been printing artists’ exhibition will inaugurate Artexte’s new space in the books under her imprint Triangular Press, since 1979. building 2-22 Sainte-Catherine Street East in the Fall of 2011. At the end of the 1960s, Canadian artists coalesced She is currently Professor and Department Head of Book into collectives that ran parallel to established museum and Arts at Oregon College of Art & Craft in Portland, OR. She gallery systems. Throughout the 1970s, these alternative is the recipient of two Fulbright awards to teach in Leipzig, spaces experimented with media such as printed matter as a Germany and in Usti nad Labem in the Czech Republic, means for artists to network nationally and internationally. and has received other awards of support for her artwork and research. Her books are held in public collections As hybrid documents blending visual and textual in the U.S., Canada, England, France, Germany and the expression, printed matter functioned simultaneously as Netherlands. information and as art. A constellation of relationships and revelatory practices can be traced through this material, Her masterclass Artist Book Strategies: Exploring Music and providing insight into the impetus of artist-run centres and Musical Scores will be held on November 19-21. the early work of such artists as Michael Morris, Vincent Trasov, Glenn Lewis, AA Bronson, Tom Sherman, Clive Artist Talk: Friday, November 19, 6.30pm Robertson, Garry Neill Kennedy, Tom Dean and Tanya $10/$5 members (suggested) Mars. www.artexte.ca
Monday - Friday, 10am - 6pm, Saturday, 10am - 4pm Admission Free Tomasz Wilmanski - Creme Mouson The Center for Book Arts Galeria XX1 Mazowieckie Centrum Kultury i Sztuki 28 West 27th Street, Third Floor Aleja Jana Pawła II 36, Warszawa, Poland (Located between 6th Avenue and Broadway) Tram: Hala Mirowska Tel: 212-481-0295 http://www.galeriaxx1.pl www.centerforbookarts.org Tomasz Wilmanski is the director of Galeria At, Poznan Poland. An initiator and curator of many collective exhibitions in Poland and abroad working with sculpture, reCRÉER / After Pétronio installation, drawing, poetry, visual texts, artists’ books and CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France performance. He lives and works in Poznan Until 12th December 2010 www.wilmanski.free.art.pl Based upon a series of documents (catalogue and programmes published at the time and letters exchanged between Petronio and the artists involved) the exhibition Funazaki & Flynn - Boxed Arrangements at the cdla is a ‘re-creation’ of the 1969 exhibition; it is 35-41 Folgate Street, London made up of works from the cdla collection as well as works November 15th 2010 to January 7th 2011 on loan (herman de vries, Musée départemental d’art Ketchum Pleon London Hosts a retrospective of the contemporain in Rochechouart and Centre Pompidou in bookwork of Eri Funazaki & Danny Flynn, which includes Paris). new letterpress and screen-printed work. A “meet the artists” private view event is scheduled from 6 - 8 pm on This new ‘hanging’ is partly imagined (works that could Thursday November 18th 2010. have been shown at the time) and partly true with works Eri Funazaki is an award-winning bookbinder and artist. that were actually shown – and concerning the audio works, Danny Flynn is a professional print maker and typographer. they have all been broadcasted in 1969 -1970 (works by Eri and Danny collaborate on bookworks which combine Raoul Hausmann, Timm Ulrichs, herman de vries, Carlo the uniqueness of artists’ books and the craft of fine Belloli, John Furnival, Henri Chopin, Gil J. Wolman, Edgar binding. This started with a series of drawings Eri began Varèse). in 2000 to which Danny was asked to write text for. Danny says: “It is more an exercise in unlocking each Open Tuesday - Saturday 11.00 to 13.00 and 14.00 to 18.00 psychological narrative that Eri has already suggested except public holidays. cdla, 1 place Attane, F–87500 pictorially when adding an object with the figure of a little Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France man.” A little man struggling with his existence who has http://cdla.info now manifested himself in a series of bronzes.
Pa g e 6 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m The Brautigan series of drawings are named for Richard Brautigan, the American novelist, poet, short story writer and revered figure of the 1960s counterculture. Acting as a continuation of the Brautigan works, Ebner’s Jack Kerouac series are hand drawn in a combination of pencil, marker, and pastel, providing an analogue counterpoint to the digital rendering of the former.
Vane, Kings House, Forth Banks Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3PA UK www.vane.org.uk Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday 12-5pm
To the Limit Johan Deumens Gallery, Leipzig, Germany Until Nov 20th 2010 A new exhibition Leipzig: “to the limit”; works on paper by Annesas Appel, Aline Thomassen and Luuk Wilmering and a selection of editions and artists’ books. Spinnerei, Leipzig, Halle 4B Spinnereistrasse 7 / D-04179 Leipzig www.johandeumens.blogspot.com
Theresa Easton’s recent work is on display and for sale at the Open Studios at 36 Lime St 27th & 28th November 36 Lime St, Ouseburn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 2PQ http://aa2a.biz/pg/profile/theresa The exhibition also incorporates an architectural model www.axisweb.org/artist/theresamariaeaston specially produced by Flora McLean. The alphabet prints www.designedandmade.co.uk in this exhibition are taken from one of the books, 28 Characters, an A - X, Y, & Z of letterforms. Each book has been letterpress printed by hand using individual metal Lotta Antonsson - Experiments in Black type. All of the books were handbound using traditional Until 14th November 2010 and modern bookbinding methods, known as ‘design A Permanent Project at The Regency Town House binding’. 13 Brunswick Square, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1EH. The exhibition may be viewed weekdays from www.rth.org.uk 10am - 5pm, November 15th 2010 - January 7th 2011 Open Saturdays and Sundays 11am - 6pm Ketchum Pleon London www.permanentbookshop.com 35-41 Folgate Street, London, E1 6BX www.ketchumpleon.com FLUXUS - POST - FLUXUS, curated by Horst Weierstall 1st - 27th November, THEARTSPACE Nicosia, Cyprus Jorn Ebner - Uncertainty underneath immense skies 8th January - 29th January, THEARTSPACE Dusseldorf, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Germany Until 27 November 2010 The project FLUXUS - POST - FLUXUS introduces 8 Taking the exhibition title from a phrase in Jack Kerouac’s artists from different countries who work in the spirit of novel On the Road, for ‘Uncertainty underneath immense Fluxus now. These artists work in the field of visual poetry, skies’ Ebner creates imaginary realms that seem to hover performative poetry, artists’ books, video and installation somewhere between a vision of utopia and dystopia. His involving drawing-painting and various materials from actions of marking and mapping in these abstracted, media sources. virtual environments are a response to place: small gestures of trespass or disruption exploring and testing basic The interdisciplinary aspect in the early Fluxus movement assumptions around notions of naturalness and artificiality. will be rbought into focues with video screenings of actions Ebner’s diagrammatic renditions of landscapes and and performances by Joseph Beuys (Germany), Paulo cityscapes are designed to unsettle and challenge the idea Bruscky (Brazil) and John Cage (USA). Experimental of fixed meanings and categorisation. contemporary films involving sound, image and text by
Pa g e 7 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k The works operate as imaginary maps for my journey, maps which record the places where particular events from the narratives occurred or could have occurred. The places named in the titles suggest resting points on my way.
The works evoke the tracks and traces of people walking across places, through time. Jan Davis, September 2010
grahame galleries + editions 1 Fernberg Road Milton Brisbane QLD 4064, Australia Tel (07) 3369 3288 www.grahamegalleries.com Gallery hours: 11am – 5pm Weds – Sat (for duration of Demosthenes Agrafiotis and Klaus-Peter Dencker will also exhibition). Other times by appointment. be presented. There will be performance events in the spirit You can also view the exhibition online at of Fluxus at the opening and closing. A text by Dr Holger www.grahamegalleries.com Briel, University Nicosia-Cyprus will be presented during the exhibition. The Hastings Rarities Affair THEARTSPACE, 31 Pigmalionosstr. 1010 Nicosia, Cyprus Until 2nd January 2011 http://www.horstweierstall.com.cy Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, UK THEARTSPACE Dusseldorf, NoemaDanceWorks, Alexandra Waier, Fuerstenplatz 1, Dusseldorf, Germany http://www.alexandrawaierstall.com
Jan Davis - walking home An exhibition of recent works on paper 2009/2010 Until 13 November 2010 grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane, Australia
‘… if memory is imagined as a real space – a place, theatre, library – then the act of remembering is imagined as a real An artist-led project and exhibition that re-interprets an act, that is, as a physical act: as walking.’ infamous ornithological scandal revealed in the 1960s. Solnit, Rebecca 2001, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Inspired by the Museum’s archive and collection of birds, Verso, London. p. 77. thirteen artists have taken both a critical and humourous look at the saga and used it as a springboard for developing Walking Home is my metaphorical return journey to a new body of work. Lorna Crabbe is presenting one Gippsland, the place of my childhood. The images are woman’s curious collection of bird taxidermy presented in drawn from the intersection of two narratives of Gippsland: especially made burial costumes. the myth of Lohan Tuka, the white woman reputedly held Monday- Saturday: 10am- 5pm, Sunday: 11am- 5pm captive by the Kurnai tribes in the 1840s and the story of Lorna Crabbe will also run an artist bookmaking my settler family’s arrival at the same time. workshop on Saturday 13 November, 11am- 4pm.
Pa g e 8 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Taking the Hastings Rarities Affair exhibition as a starting point, participants will learn to make an original book, choosing from a range of traditional or experimental binding techniques. £35/ £30 members of Hastings & St Leonards Museum. Call 01424 451052 to book.
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery Johns Place, Bohemia Road, Hastings TN34 1ET www.hmag.org.uk
Ludwig Gosewitz everything is also there, to relieve that, which is not Barbara Wien Wilma Lukatsch Galerie und Buchhandlung für Kunstbuecher, Berlin Until 3rd December 2010 In 1960 Ludwig Gosewitz (1936 – 2007) began to publish in the Marburger Blaetter. In 1962 he joined the inner circle of Fluxus. Since then he has been closely connected to Emmett Williams, Gerhard Ruehm, Robert Filliou, Dieter observational drawing The Flowers, positive and negative are Roth and Tomas Schmit. His interest in chance operations woven into a continuous mesh, although an abstract painter, and open performance practices, in Concrete Poetry and the drawing from flowers is a constant and foundational combination with language researches led him to his early preoccupation. Conversely, the organic contours that form works like the Wurftexte – a text-picture-mixture. Sawako Ando’s wisteria flower heads in Rokugatsu no Fuji Our exhibition presents works from 1962 to 2007. We (Wisteria in June) are generated through the application of partly reconstructed and kept the presentation of Ludwig pressure on the liquid ink in the print process. Annabelle Gosewitz’ last exhibition in 2007 at Juergen Becker Gallery Dalby’s Memorials series scrutinises plastic flowers plucked in Hamburg. In collaboration with the estate of Gosewitz from tribute bouquets, exposing their bathetic challenge and collectors we developed a small retrospective overview. to the passage of time. In contrast, Becky Beasley’s Peonies Bloom in May is a modest ritual in praise of Springtime, Barbara Wien Wilma Lukatsch extending this volatile season by buying and photographing, Galerie und Buchhandlung fuer Kunstbuecher each year, the very last available blooms. Linienstrasse 158, D - 10115 Berlin, Germany T +49·30·28 38 53 52 www.barbarawien.de Millimetre: project site 01@House 70 Camberwell Church Street, London SE5 8QZ Millimetre is open during cafe hours: Mon - Fri 8.30 - 4.30, Millimetre presents How to do the flowers Sat 9 - 5. www.millimetreprojects.com Sawako Ando / Becky Beasley / Annabelle Dalby / Jacqui Hallum Curated by Jacqui Hallum & Dan Howard-Birt Novel ideas - Eight artists take a fresh look at books Millimetre: project site 01, London Pedlars Gallery, Warwickshire Museum, Warwick, UK Until 12th November 2010 Until 6th November Constance Spry (1886-1960) did more than anyone else ‘Novel Ideas’ is housed at the Pedlars Gallery in to popularise and democratise flower arranging in post Warwickshire Museum, Market Place and is open until 6th war Britain. Spry taught that for little expense, even the November, 10am to 5pm, Tuesday - Saturday. The theme humblest rooms could be transformed by arranging wild ties in well with Warwick Words Festival of Literature and and garden flowers inspired by her own gracious and Spoken Word. often eccentric designs. Published in 1952, How to do the flowers was Spry’s sixth book and encouraged the reader to The eight artists whose work is featured are from abandon any rules of Floral Design and instead experiment Warwickshire and as far afield as Ireland and the USA. with “…a branchlet of fruit, a red seed head, a brightly Emma House, Designer at the Museum, is curating coloured kale leaf, some hawthorn berries or grasses”. The the exhibition in which the artists display their unique artists in this exhibition are similarly unhindered by the creations – all based on books. She wanted to produce an restrictive associations previously levelled at the genre of exhibition which challenged the accepted idea of books, flower painting. Finding instead that the representation and demonstrated different and creative approaches to of cut flowers can potently address not simply beauty producing them. Emma said: “There’s a lot on display and decay, but also memory and loss, nature and to fire your imagination, from books that you can wear synthesis, rhythm and form, et cetera. In Jacqui Hallum’s (ceramic-bound ‘booklaces’) to miniature folding fairy
Pa g e 9 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k tales, traditional bookbinding, altered books, handpainted handmade paper pictures, hangings and jewellery made books, new interpretations of 2000 year old folk tales, and from a wide range of recycled materials. Anita Bell is sculptured musical scores.” inspired by the frescos of Romanesque churches and makes framed pieces, hangings and vessels. Heather Hunter creates intricate three-dimensional books and boxes containing prints and poems. Both Susan Bovington’s hand made books and Clive Stevens integrate paper sculptures. Stevens has created paper sculptures for some of the world’s top advertising agencies.
West Ox Arts Gallery Town Hall, Market Square, Bampton OX18 2JH. Open: Tues – Sat 10.30am to 12.30pm and 2 to 4pm. Sun 2 – 4pm. Contact 01993 850137 or [email protected] www.westoxarts.org
C.K. WILDE: TENDER Until November 13, 2010 Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York PAVEL ZOUBOK GALLERY invites you to an exhibition of new currency collages by C. K. WILDE, whose work engages global issues ranging from the American food supply, the politics of war, historical icons - past and present - and of course, Money! 533 West 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011 (between 10th & 11th Avenues) Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10am-6pm http://www.pavelzoubok.com/node/tender The exhibition includes works by: John Richards (book binder) Alix Swan (miniature books, badges etc. based on fairy tales, Artists Oscar Melara and Kate Connell in collaboration see image above) with the San Francisco Public Library present Eleanor Allit (Inanna folk tale story teller and illustrator) Crossing the Street: Tales from the Portola Pat Round (altered books) Until February 25, 2011, Portola Branch Library Julie de Bastion (The Gypsy Princess story in collage) 380 Bacon St. at Goettingen Katie Coston (booklaces, a ceramicist in training) San Francisco, CA Clive Sheridan (sculpted musical scores) Melara and Connell explore the layers of Portola Spark Deeley (artist/illustrator working with themes of neighbourhood history in seven interactive book spiritual transformation) installations using formats that include a giant book with give-away pages, tunnel books, graphic novels, a handmade Warwickshire Museum, Tel: 01926 412500 atlas, a book of skies printed on silk. The book installations www.warwickshire.gov.uk/museums map the natural, social, cultural and labor histories of this little celebrated corner of San Francisco. For more information visit www.madeintheportola.org Paper Paradise West Ox Arts, Bampton, UK Sat 30th Oct - Sun 21st November 2010 Proteus Gowanus interdisciplinary gallery and reading Many artists work with just paper - making paper by hand, room announces a new exhibition: Observatory, our dying it, cutting it, creating collage, sculpture, handmade partner-in-residence, has rushed headlong into the books, screens, hangings, jewellery - the list goes on... Paradise paradox with a new exhibition: This large group exhibition is a celebration of paper and Paradiso Contrapasso what can be done with it. The artists include world famous Curated by Observatory’s G.F. Newland with Science Fiction author Brian Aldiss. It is little known that Lord WhimsyPlankton Art Co and Susan Crawford he is also an artist; this exhibition will show his cut and Until November 28th, 2010 collaged paperworks which are both serious and comic. To complement the recent opening of Paradise, a year Alison Cockcroft’s playful sculptures and collages are long event at Proteus Gowanus, Observatory explores the about nature, wildness and the sense of place. Toni Clarke’s theme: Paradiso Contrapasso. In Dante’s Inferno, Paradiso
Pa g e 10 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Contrapasso distinguishes each sinner by making his or her ATTRACTIVE ABSTRACTION punishment uniquely appropriate to the committed sin, so IN ART AND ARCHITECTURE that every soul inhabits a Hell all its own. MAGAZIN4, Bregenz, Austria Until 21 November 2010 For example, consider the story of Paolo and Francesca: An unlikely marriage is proposed between the beautiful Francesca and the rich, but ugly Gianciotto. Paolo, the handsome brother of Gianciotto seduces the young bride and they become lovers. When Gianciotto discovers their indiscretion, he murders them both. In Hell, Paolo and Francesca are fused together in an eternal embrace, wishing only to be separated.
As Dante journeys through Purgatorio and Paradisio, he does not revisit this technique of contrapasso. For our event, however, Observatory encouraged artists to consider divine comedic retribution in all of its possible representations, and from sources such as the Bible and religious and esoteric cosmologies, the ethical philosophies of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, Symbolist poetry, the works of Roald Dahl, the Wizard of Oz, Cautionary Tales, Folklore and Fairy Stories, the Twilight Zone, Modern Dystopias, etc. Krüger & Pardeller, Pauhof and Public Space With A The emphasis is on “Divine” and “Comedy”, and on our Roof (PSWAR) who present what might have been is an superstitious fear of getting what we wish for! abstraction Proteus Gowanus Tuesday to Sunday 2 - 6 pm 543 Union Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215 MAGAZIN4, Bregenzer Kunstverein www.proteusgowanus.com bergmannstrasse 6, 6900 Bregenz, Austria Gallery Hours: Thursdays & Fridays, 3-6 pm http://www.bregenzerkunstverein.at Saturdays & Sundays, 12-6 pm
Book works by Claire Jeanine Satin are included in the Different Repetitions exhibition A Stitch In Jewish Time: Provocative Textiles Group Show - Guest Curated by David Senior Booklyn, New York Until November 8th 2010 In a minute, there’ll be another minute. For the forgetful (us), we can assemble minutes, taking them down 1 2 3 or 3 2 1. That’s where photographs are, that’s what words can be. Why not pile them together? Stacking. Filing. Sorting. Binding. If you have a moment. Don’t forget it. Or just forget it.
at the Hebrew Union College Museum, NYU, One West 4th Street, New York City, USA. The exhibition runs until 30th A group exhibition with Céline Duval, David Horvitz, June 2011. A catalogue of the exhibition is available. Elisabeth Tonnard, f.ART magazine and Rick Myers, curated For more information see: www.huc.edu/museums/ny by David Senior. Logo design by Rick Myers. The curator will host the gallery on Saturdays from 1pm -5pm. Other viewing times are available by appointment Erratum: Brief Interruptions in the Waste Stream Mon- Fri, 1pm - 7pm Amy Franceschini + Michael Swaine: 2010 IMPRINT 37 Greenpoint Avenue, Artists in Residence at The San Francisco Center for the 4th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11222 Book, USA, Until Jan 16, 2011 Tel: 718 383 9621 SFCB is pleased to announce the gallery opening of www.booklyn.org Erratum: Brief Interruptions in the Waste Stream, work from
Pa g e 11 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k our 2010 IMPRINT Artists in Residence, Amy Franceschini Exhibition free on admission to the museum and Michael Swaine. Elements of the exhibition include For up to date information visit www.bronte.info performance, sculpture, video, the printed word, and master The Brontë Parsonage Museum is open every day chess player Steve Brandwein. Opening hours: 11am - 5pm October to March Erratum: Brief Interruptions in the Waste Stream is a new book by Futurefarmers’ Remnants: Su Blackwell Amy Franceschini Until Sunday 28 November and Michael Swaine. Exhibition of new site specific paper-cut installations by Erratum uses research, artist Su Blackwell, inspired by the collection and installed experimentation and in the period rooms of the museum - Daily - Free with social commentary to admission to the museum. express a concern and www.bronte.info critique of systems of capital and their effects on the material and SMALL an exhibition of tiny artists’ books curated by social environment. This Julie Johnstone, continues until Saturday 27 November exhibition documents at the Scottish Poetry Library the making of the edition 5 Crichton’s Close, Canonage, Edinburgh EH8 8DT and provides an entry point and tools for the audience Tue, Wed, Fri 10-5pm, Thur 10-8pm, Sat 10-4pm not only to imagine, but also to participate in and alter the www.spl.org.uk devastating effects of pollution by using play to experiment with systemic change. Stroud Students - Artists’ Books Exhibition 300 De Haro Street San Francisco CA 94103, USA University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Tel: 415–565–0545 Special Collections Room, Bower Ashton Library http://sfcb.org Students from courses at Stroud College will be exhibiting their work in the library at Bower Ashton from 15th November - 13th December, in a show curated by a group Charlotte’s Dress: Lisa Sheppy of student representatives as part of their work experience. Brontë Parsonage Museum, UK Until 19th December 2010 Artist Lisa Sheppy has created a series of fused glass artworks, using precious metal leaf and enamel printmaking. The pieces feature motifs taken from garments in the Brontë Parsonage Museum collection and text from Jane Eyre, and become almost miniature museum artefacts in their own right, exploring the life of Charlotte Brontë as well as the narrative of clothing.
Lisa Sheppy has an MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking Truly Eternity by Jessica Dracup from UWE in Bristol. During her MA she carried out research at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, and has Books created in a variety of formats will be on display, exhibited the resulting work as part of the British Glass from editioned books to book sculptures. Also on show, a Biennale 2010, Stourbridge; Studio Fusion Gallery, Oxo selection of altered books and sketchbooks, showing the Building, London, and Royal West of England Academy, working process and versatility of the book form. Bristol. [email protected] www.lisasheppy.co.uk www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk
Pa g e 12 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Tri-Fold: New Perspectives on Book Arts Upside - An exhibition of Illustration, Book Arts and Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, NY, USA Printmaking is on show at Medcalf, 38-40 Exmouth Until 27th November 2010 Market. London EC1R 4QE, until the 7th November. Over 90 works selected by three curators: For more details about the artists, show and venue please T(I)MBOOKTOBOOKAR(ES)T by Nelleke Nix, visit: http://upsideart.wordpress.com Independent Curator/Artist, Seattle, WA Special Choice by Yuko Nii, Director of The WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY Sandra Winkworth: Sleeping Beauties THE MAIDEN VOYAGES PROJECT An exhibition of visual Hand Held Gallery, Melbourne, Australia blogs, diaries, and drawings by Valerie Hird. Curated by Ana November 4th - Dec 4th 2010 Maria de la Ossa. Presented by Nohra Haime Gallery In Sleeping Beauties artist Sandra Winkworth uses altered books and objects to focus on the bird and the unwanted Irmari Nacht of Englewood, NJ is participating in the book exploring issues concerning loss and denial. The artist show “TRI-FOLD - New Perspectives on Book Arts”of collects, forages and assembles discarded ephemera and old artists’ books at the WAH Center. She has exhibited books then reworks them to hold images of bird study-skins internationally, as well as nationally, and received a second sourced from a 19th century collection at the University of Puffin Foundation Grant for “ Who Am I?” an interactive Sydney’s Macleay Museum. Here the bird is out of context, project where the viewer becomes part of the artwork. outside of nature and perhaps is a reminder of our tenuous Irmari Nacht’s recycled books series “SAVED”, uses books connections with the natural world. that otherwise might be discarded and transforms them Suite 18 Paramount Arcade, 108 Bourke street, Melbourne, into artworks. “Fleur Du Mal” has been wetted, painted, Australia curled and distressed, hiding the continuity of the words www.handheldgallery.blogspot.com and questioning the reality of a book. Without readable words it loses the basic integrity of a book and becomes an art object: it now pleases the aesthetic senses as well Rachel Eardley will be showing her works at Lustre as the intellectual ones. This artwork, using the book as a contemporary craft makers’ market, held at the Lakeside metaphor, addresses environmental concerns, altered Arts Centre, Nottingham,13th-14th of November; Selvedge reality, change and transformation, information received Christmas Fair, St Augustine’s Church Hall, London, 4th and denied. December; New England House Studio Sale - Brighton, 9th-10th December. For more details please visit: www. racheleardley.blogspot.com
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Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck Cover Artist for this issue of the ban has been awarded the Birgit Skiöld Memorial Trust Artist Book Award Congratulations to the Danish artist Mette- Sofie D. Ambeck who LesFleurs by Irmari Nacht was awarded the Birgit Skiöld Memorial Trust Nacht began working steadily on the “Saved” series in 2007, Artist Book Award at which she is continuing into 2010. These bookworks are the London Art Book in several collections and have been recently been shown Fair, Whitechapel at the Belskie Museum, NJ, the Lichtenstein Center for the Gallery, London 24- Arts, MA, the Leonard Hansen Gallery, Englewood Library, 26 September 2010 NJ, the Westport Library, Conn, NJ State Museum, Newark for her artist’s book Museum, and in a solo show at the Atrium Gallery, Bard Steam, Salt, Milk – a College at Simon’s Rock, MA. Nordic creation myth. Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck WAH Center (Williamsburg Art & Historical Center) produced this laser cut 135 Broadway, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211, USA and laser etched edition of her originally hand cut unique Tel: (718) 486-7372 or (718) 486-6012 artist’s book during a residency at the Centre for Fine Print http://wahcenter.net/exhibits/2010/trifold/ Research in July as one of the selected visiting artists for
Pa g e 13 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Tom Sowden’s AHRC project: Paper Models: Investigating between the windows and what was going on inside the laser cutting technology to develop new artists’ books and shop. The displays were very home made, but with a paper-based creative practice for arts, crafts and design. particular sense of style. Each window being dressed by ‘June’ (now in her eightieth year) who used to be a window dresser for John Lewis. This was going to be her last year of ‘windows’ for Miss Carol’s - the very last window to be dressed, being in October. I have documented each window June has made a display for in the past 12 months, and am now in the process of making and printing a Miss Carol’s Calendar for 2011.
An evening Calendar Launch will take place at the bookartbookshop on Thursday 11 November (eve of The Small Publishers Fair) from 6-8 pm. with a special ‘calendar signing’ by (Miss) Carol, Janette (fellow stylist) and June from 6-7 pm. Please come along, all welcome.
The calendar will be stocked from November; at Arnolfini Bookshop Bristol, Miss Carol’s Hair Salon, Church Road, Steam, Salt, Milk – a Nordic creation myth (2000) was St George, Bristol and bookartbookshop, Pitfield Street, originally made as a one-off artist’s book, hand cut and London. It will also be sold at the Small Publishers Fair, burnt by the artist. An English translation of the Nordic London on 12 & 13 November on the IMPACT Press stand. creation myth, with text translation by the artist, typeset in Badges and postcards are also available for purchase. DIN 9pt. Utilising the laser cutter and inkjet print during the one week residency, Ambeck was finally able to realise There will be a genteel afternoon calendar launch at Miss this beautiful artist’s book as a limited edition. For more Carol’s Hair Salon on Tuesday 23 November from 1-3 pm, information on the artist and her work visit her website with tea and cake, for clients, friends, & interested parties. www.ambeck.mdd.dk MISS CAROL’S 2011 CALENDAR, £9.99, order now at: www.petgalerie.co.uk
COMING SOON **MISS CAROL’S 2011 CALENDAR** A freshly made production by Pet Galerie A Call to Book Artists 2010-2012 for www.petgalerie.co.uk An Inventory Of Al-Mutanabbi Street An outcome of a year-long residency working with the staff From Beau Beausoleil and clients of Miss Carol’s (a small traditional Hair Stylist) On March 5th 2007, a car bomb was exploded on al- in Bristol. Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. Al-Mutanabbi Street is in a mixed Shia-Sunni area. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. Al-Mutanabbi Street, the historic centre of Baghdad bookselling, holds bookstores and outdoor bookstalls, cafes, stationery shops, and even tea and tobacco shops. It has been the heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community.
The Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadside Project has completed its call to letterpress printers after reaching a goal of 130 broadsides from 130 individual printers. Now the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition Having lived in the area (a few streets away from the shop) is issuing a call to book for a while, I had noticed that the shop window had an artists to work on a project ever-changing display throughout the course of the year, to “re-assemble” some of the celebrating all types of occasions, holidays and themes, “inventory” of the reading some traditional - some less so! I was quite fascinated by material that was lost in the the items in the window, and how some of the same objects car bombing of al-Mutanabbi Street. We are asking book were incorporated each time, but in different ways, into the artists to join our project and further enhance the work of display. I wanted to find out more about the relationship the Coalition by honouring al-Mutanabbi Street, by creating
Pa g e 14 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m work that holds both “memory and future,” exactly what To Book Artists and Friends of the Book Arts around the was lost that day. We ask that you create 3 books for the Idaho area. After completing Tom Trusky’s graduate Book project, which is raising funds for Médecins Sans Frontières. Arts class about 4 years ago several students of that class If you would like to know more, or would like to join this decided to form a bookarts group to stay in touch, yours project, please download the pdf at truly being one. The group grew in size over the span of http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/mutancall10.htm a year or two and like many of these things kind of went for more information, and if you have any questions please by the wayside and petered out. Since Tom’s death I have contact us, we would love to have you contribute. thought about restarting this group to help continue the Bookarts in Idaho. Judy Steele recently contacted me about This call runs until Sept 1st, 2011. Book Artists will this very issue and so there are at least two of us interested have one year from the date they respond to this call to (which by definition I believe constitutes a “group”) and complete their work. I’m guessing probably many more of you are interested. Stephanie Bacon has been gracious enough to permit us An Inventory Of Al-Mutanabbi Street to meet in the Hemingway Center at the Idaho Center Beau Beausoleil - Curator (North and South America, for the Book office (Tom’s old office.) The first meeting Canada, The Middle East) [email protected] is scheduled for Saturday Nov 13th at 9am. In the past Sarah Bodman - Curator (Europe, The Middle East, Asia) we brought bookworks that we were working on, had [email protected] completed, had purchased, liked... we did bookarts things. Contact either one of us from any other Book Artist Please pass this on to any interested book artists or anybody worktable around the globe!! interested in the book arts. Earle Swope [email protected]
BannerRepeater - Reading Room and Project Space Banner Repeater is an artist run contemporary art space Minnesota Center for Book Arts is proud to announce located on Hackney Downs Network Rail, platform 1. the recipients of the MCBA / Jerome Book Arts It has a reading room and project space with a programme Mentorship Series III: of exhibitions, events, and performance. The reading room holds a collection of artist’s books and printed material, * poet Meryl DePasquale for both browsing and purchase. The permanent collection * sculptor and textile artist Caroline Keefe is home to Publish and be Damned’s public library. * photographer Ben Lansky * video artist Amanda Lovelee Banner Repeater will publish an on-going series of * choreographer, playwright and director Rachel Perlmeter pamphlets and posters, in tandem with the arts programme, * photographer and printmaker Keith Taylor as well as events, performance and lectures commissioned from the project space. Kindly supported for the first year Three jurors, reflecting diverse perspectives and by Hackney Council’s Empty Shop Fund, and Arts Council considerable expertise, reviewed 63 applications. Jurors England, the project will run for 3 years. were: Natasha Pestich, Minneapolis College of Art and Design Associate Professor of printmaking; Jeff Millikan, Banner Repeater is one of a series of projects supported University of Minnesota Department of Art affiliate faculty; by Hackney Council intended to bring empty shops and and Sheila Lynch-Salamon, poet, visual artist and recipient premises back to life. The projects are financed by central of MCBA / Jerome Book Arts Mentorship Series II. government funding awarded to the Council, and are to provide activities that will benefit Hackney ‘s residents and Mentorship recipients will now embark on a year-long study visitors. of new artistic disciplines, working one-on-one with master artist mentors to develop their individual book arts projects. Archival publication: The Xerox book, a facsimile copy of The mentorship programme will culminate in an exhibition the Xerox book returns to its namesake through the archival in MCBA’s main gallery in November 2011. process of display (the original being a litho-type printed or more general information on the MCBA / edition). Xerox facsimile made with permission of Jack Jerome Book Arts Mentorship programme visit: Wendler and Seth Sieglaub on the occasion of the exhibition www.mnbookarts.org/artistsprograms/mentorship.html Dematerialised: Jack Wendler Gallery 1971 to 1974 - curated by Teresa Gleadowe 2009. The book will be permanently available for browsing in the library. With thanks to Donald The Library Project Smith of Chelsea Space. An immediate response by students and staff at The Byam Shaw, October 2010 – September 2011 Ongoing activities: philosophy reading group, evening The Byam Shaw Library was due to close in October 2010. meetings - please see website for details. The library space will now operate as an artist-led resource. www.bannerrepeater.org AND will inhabit the library during this time. We’ve moved
Pa g e 15 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k our office and collection of artists’ publications into the Bookbinding for beginners 5-week Evening Class library. We like to create direct encounters with works of art Tuesday 3rd May - Tuesday 31st May 2011 that use the form of publishing to disseminate ideas beyond Led by Tom Sowden the walls of the gallery. We will present exhibitions from our (2.5 hrs per week 5.30-8pm) Max 8 places collection, invite international guest speakers to talk about their practice, hold launch events, workshops and discussions.
AND is co-directed by Lynn Harris and Eva Weinmayr The Library Project, Byam Shaw School of Art 2 Elthorne Road, London N19 4AG Nearest tube: Archway www.andpublishing.org
COURSES, LECTURES, CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS An introduction to bookbinding covering 5 different techniques from a simple pamphlet stitch and Japanese Evening Classes at the Centre for Fine Print Research, stab bound books, UWE Bristol through to long stitch, the French sewn Letterpress Printing 8-week Evening Class flatback and perfect Tuesday 8th February - Tuesday 29th March 2011 binding. The course Led by Tom Sowden fee covers all basic (2.5 hrs per week 5.30-8pm) Max 7 places materials, and teas / coffees. Bookbinding tools will be provided for use, and are also available to buy for future work. £175 full price / £140 concessions Any questions on the course content email: [email protected] Bookings email Jesse Heckstall-Smith: [email protected]
For information on all our classes, including summer Use letterpress to create beautifully printed posters, schools, please visit: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/cpd.htm pamphlets, books, cards, broadsides, bookmarks etc. We have a good selection of letterpress fonts and ASSOCIAZIONE PROFESSIONE LIBRO ornaments to use in this Some upcoming courses creative process. You will be taught how to hand set metal FOTOBOOKS (International) Milan, 15th-16th January and wood type, and print and 19th-20th March 2011 with Carmencho Arregui and editions on the Vandercook Cristina Balbiano d’Aramengo. presses. The course fee covers inks and proofing papers, and BOXES - III (International) Milan, 19th-23rd February, teas / coffees. You will need 2011 with Cor Aerssens and Cristina Balbiano d’Aramengo. to bring any other materials Cor Aerssens, Dutch box maker and bookbinder, brings his you wish to print on for your 25 years of experience with him, to lead this workshop. particular project or projects. Tom will advise on this after discussion. £220 full price / £176 concessions THE CRISSCROSS BINDING (FORMERLY THE SECRET Any questions on the course content email: BELGIAN BINDING) (International) Milan, [email protected] 26th February, 2011 with Cristina Balbiano d’Aramengo Bookings email Jesse Heckstall-Smith: and Cor Aerssens. After the great success of the last edition, [email protected] and to make those who were on the waiting list happy,
Pa g e 16 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m we present again this special workshop, to approach the ‘We will not just be looking at the discipline of Information mysterious “Secret Belgian Binding”. This class is based on Design, but broader, to subjects such as visual and statistical a model and a description Hedi Kyle made, specially for literacy - as I believe that good conferences have breadth as this workshop, for your teacher Cor Aerssens. It is a good well as depth.’ opportunity to widen your field of vision on making books. Blog: http://www.thedesignofunderstanding.com More information on all of these courses can be found at: More information: http://www.professionelibro.it http://stbride.org/events/thedesignofunderstanding Tickets: http://designofunderstanding.eventbrite.com ASSOCIAZIONE PROFESSIONE LIBRO Fine Bindings, Book Conservation. Via A. Del Bon, 1 - 20158 Milan, Italy. www.professionelibro.it [email protected] The Designer Bookbinders’ lecture series, London
Evening lecture: Tuesday 30 November, 6.30 pm. Bruce Bookbinding workshops at the Owl & Lion Gallery Howard of the Oak Tree Fine Press, Bound To Do Good: A schedule of workshops in bookbinding, including evening How a passion for books has been used to unite authors courses and full day workshops are taught at Owl & Lion and artists around the world to help children made Gallery by resident Master Bookbinder Isabelle Ting. vulnerable by HIV/Aids. There are also some special techniques workshops with Master Bookbinder Tom McEwan. For more information One-day lecture series, Saturday 8 January, stars at 10.30 please visit our website www.owlandliongallery.com am with Susan Allix - Balancing Acts: On Artist’s Books, Book online: www.owlandlion.bigcartel.com and how words, images and bindings influence each other or phone: +44(0)131 220 0900. For further details please in the making of the complete book. 12 noon, Stephen email: [email protected] Conway 25 and Still Counting: A short review of 25 years Owl & Lion Gallery / Boutique of running a provincial craft bindery. 2 pm, Tom Perkins 15 Grassmarket, Edinburgh EH1 2HS, UK Contemporary Letter Carving in Stone: A personal view. 3.30 pm, Rosemary Temperley Paper-engineered Books: An explanation of paper engineering and how it has been used Forthcoming events at St Bride Library, London in the field of book publication.
Letterpress: Forward thinking Conference All talks take place at The Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Friday 19 November 2010 Square, London WC1. Nearest underground stations: 9:30 am (registration from 8.45) Holborn and Russell Square. In the Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation Admission: DB members £5, non-members £7, students Tickets £75 (£60 FoSB members); concessions £30 (£25 £2.50 per lecture. Four Saturday lectures: DB members £18, FoSB members) non-members £26 and students £9. Join us for a day packed with talks, demonstrations and Further details from Julia Dummett and Rachel Ward-Sale: discussion celebrating new ideas and practice in handset 01273 486 718 / [email protected] typography. Letterpress, we were once told, was a thing of the past. Yet, now letterpress is very clearly the focus of renewed enthusiasm. Interest in setting types by THE ART OF JOURNALING hand continues to grow, with an increase in letterpress 1-day workshop with Jill Carter activity further fuelled by an ongoing concern with visual Saturday 6 November 2010 authenticity. For many, letterpress offers something beyond Rabley Drawing Centre, Wiltshire straightforward graphic reproduction. It offers the means to An odyssey of text, drawing, photography and mixed media. create hand-made objects of worth. A great way of developing travel journals or developing creative project ideas. More information: http://stbride.org/events/letterpress_1 Rabley Drawing Centre, Rabley Barn, Mildenhall Tickets: http://letterpresssforwardthinking.eventbrite.com Marlborough, Wiltshire SN8 2LW Email: [email protected] The Design of Understanding Conference Tel: 01672 511999 Mobile; 0796 7545136 Friday 28 January 2011 www.rableydrawingcentre.com 9:30 am (registration from 8.45) In the Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation Tickets £75 (£60 FoSB members); concessions £30 (£25 The San Francisco Center for the Book offers more FoSB members) than 300 workshops each year in four broad categories: A one-day conference curated by Max Gadney which Printing, Binding, Related Arts and Artist Professional explores design’s contribution to understanding. Development. Upcoming winter courses include: Coptic
Pa g e 17 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Binding, and Bookbinding with Hannah Tashjian; Caterpillar Stitch Book with Rhiannon Alpers; Small and Scrappy: Books Made from Reclaimed Materials with Judith Serebrin; How to Print a Book in Three Days with Lisa Rappoport and Photographic Flip Books with Debbie Kogan. To book a place on any of the classes see: http://sfcb.org/workshops
INTRODUCTION to BOOKBINDING
at Birmingham Printmakers 90 Floodgate Street Digbeth B5 5SR
Saturday 13—Sunday 14 November 2010 10am — 4pm
£95 / £85 BPM members and students
Learn the basics of bookbinding: making your own books by hand. The course covers: single-section bindings, single-sheet Japanese binding, how to incorporate prints into a book, the accordion fold book, an introduction to artists’ books, and multi-section hardback case binding.
For more information or to book a place contact Simon [email protected] 07734652438 www.simongoode.co.uk
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Artists’ Books Fairs & EVENTS
THE BOOK (R)EVOLUTION 11th Biennial Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair and Conference, November 5-7, 2010 Illustration © Karolina Hedström Silver Spring, MD (Washington DC Metro Area) Friday, November 5: 7PM-9PM Preview Party Handmade & Bound Saturday, November 6: 10AM-6PM The affordable London book-art & zine fair Sunday, November 7: 11AM-5PM Sunday 21 November 2010 Conference and fair events include talks, films, stands, St Aloysius Social Club, 20 Phoenix Road, London NW1 demonstrations, specialty marketplace, and a curated 12-6pm. Free entry. Nearest tube Euston. exhibition. For more information: Website: www.handmadeandbound.com More details on the Book Arts Fair website and blog Facebook: Handmade & Bound http://www.pyramidatlanticbookartsfair.org Flickr: www.flickr.com/groups/handmadeandbound http://pyramidatlanticbookartsfair.blogspot.com Follow us on Twitter: @Handmade_Bound
Another great artist opportunity: The Shop at MCBA is officially accepting applications for vendors for our 2010 PRINTED MATTER, INC. presents Book Arts Festival, taking place Saturday, November 20. THE NY ART BOOK FAIR Sell your work and share your skills at this annual gathering, November 5–7 at MoMA PS1 one of the most unique holiday shopping events in the Twin Preview: Nov. 4, 6-9 p.m Cities. Printed Matter, Inc. and The NY Art Book Fair will take over all three floors of MoMA PS1, November 5-7, Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and space to present 275 international presses, booksellers, is assigned to accepted vendors first-come-first-served. antiquarians, museums, galleries, and artists from twenty- The application deadline is November 8 (space permitting). four countries, exhibiting the very best of contemporary art Table costs have been reduced for the 2010 sale; all the publishing. The Fair will open with a preview on Thursday, details are available in the application form, which you November 4 from 6-9 p.m. Admission to the preview and can download at www.mnbookarts.org to the Fair is free.
Pa g e 18 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Alongside the Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference Artists’ Books and Independent Publishing Fair and The Classroom programming schedules, the NY Art The New Art Gallery Walsall Book Fair will include the special exhibition You Are Her, Saturday 27 November 2010, 11am – 4pm organized by Goteblüd (San Francisco), a collection of Join us at The New Art Gallery Walsall for our second more than one thousand Riot Grrl zines from the ‘90s for Artists’ Books and Independent Publishing Fair, back reading and photocopying. by popular demand! You will be able to buy your very own affordable books, zines, and multiples by artists The NY Art Book Fair will also include project rooms and independent publishers across the UK and Europe, organised by several publishers, special performances and including: Books Works, Marbled Reams, Dent-De-Leone, book signings. EAK Publishing, Four Corners Books, Stephen Fowler, Simon Goode, Jatinder Kaur Bains, Variant, Wild Pansy Visit www.nyartbookfair.com for a complete list of Press, Carson & Miller, Enitharmon Editions, Antepress, exhibitors and programmes. and colleges from around the UK.
Printed Matter, Inc. presents THE NY ART BOOK FAIR MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave. at the intersection of 46th Ave., Long Island City, NY. Free and open to the public: Thursday, November 4, 6-9 p.m. Friday & Saturday, November 5 & 6, 11 am - 7 pm. Sunday, November 7, 11 am - 5 pm. www.nyartbookfair.com
Small Publishers Fair Friday 12th and Saturday 13th November 2010 Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Transition Editions at Grand Union Artists’ Publishing Fair May 2010.
Guy Begbie will be running a drop-in book making and binding workshop for adults at 11am–3pm, suitable for beginners. Materials will be provided.
In Conversation, 2pm Join Julian Warren, archivist at Arnolfini and Paul Clarke, member of the Performance Re-enactment Society for a free talk about The Cover of a Book is the Beginning of a Journey, an exhibition of artists’ books on floor 2.
Artists-in-residence a.a.s. will be responding to The Cover The international fair celebrating books by contemporary of a Book is the Beginning of a Journey by constructing new artists, poets, writers, composers, book designers, and their ‘performance scores’ from the exhibition material which publishers; together with a programme of readings and they will perform with the help of visitors on Saturday talks. With more than 50 publishers taking part there will be 27 November. Drop into the artist studio or contact thousands of books and other editions to browse and buy! mailto:[email protected] if you would like to get involved. Open 11am to 7pm each day - admission free. The Cover of a Book is the Beginning of a Journey is an For a list of participating publishers see: Arnolfini Project in collaboration with the University of http://www.rgap.co.uk/spf.php the West of England and the Performance Re-enactment Society.
The collective, Inkalicious, will be displaying and selling The Fifth Manchester Artists’ Book Fair will take place their hand-bound books and prints on Saturday 6 at The Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art, November at the Contemporary Craft Fair situated at Lord Manchester Metropolitan University on Saturday 6 Riddell Memorial Hall, Deans Lane, Walton-on-the-Hill, November 2010. 10am-6pm. For more details visit Surrey 11am - 4pm. www.hotbedpress.org
Pa g e 19 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k OPPORTUNITIES Entries are invited for the 2011 award. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue of selected works. ReSite - Manual of Scores, Manifestos and Radical Actions ReSite magazine, published by Field Study, will be Works to the value of $5000 will be selected at their re-launched with a new format and philosophy of intent. catalogue price for inclusion in the Southern Cross ReSite will no longer be a loose-leaf publication, but instead University Artists’ Book Collection. Acquisitions will be will take the form of a wire bound manual. ReSite will announced at the opening of the exhibition on Friday 25th remain an assembling publication where all pages are to be February 2011. Entries to arrive by 6 December 2010. conceived as having an element of audience participation or Successful entries will be notified by 3 January 2011 interaction. Works can take the form of scores, instructions Selected work to arrive by 4 February 2011 or interventions, to be realised by the reader. All entrants must complete the Entry Form. Entry is free for SCU students. All other entrants must include a ReSite is part of the tradition of Fluxus editions where nonrefundable entry fee of AUS $25.00 (inc. GST). anyone can perform a Fluxus action or score. In addition Download the application form at: to the concept brief, future participants should think about http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/sass/visarts/next/ their works in a more critical way and tap into the rich tradition of the avant-grade. ReSite will become a manual reflecting the diversity of current alternative practice. grahame galleries + editions Australia Hopefully this will encourage writers and musicians to Call to artists! for an exhibition of artists’ books on the produce visual scores as well as continuing contributions by subject of ‘Democracy’ in August/September 2011 conceptual artists. More information on how to participate Lessons in History Vol. II Democracy is at: http://daviddellafiora.blogspot.com/2010/07/new- resite-manual-of-scoresmanifestos.html “…In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. Picture this: postcards and letters beyond text In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five A conference at the University of Sussex hundred years of democracy and peace and what did March 24 2011 – March 26 2011 that produce? The cuckoo clock.” Our website, with our call for papers and submissions Harry Lime in The Third Man (1949) process, is at http://www.postcards-letters.org.uk Confirmed speakers: Ann Dumas (Curator of The Real Graham Greene’s character expresses contempt for Van Gogh, Royal Academy); Professor Nicholas Royle democracy in stark contrast to our sense of ‘democracy’ as (University of Sussex); Professor Marcus Wood (University a ‘feel-good’ idea. With missionary zeal, we have undertaken of Sussex) wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in part to bring a western ‘democratic system’ to the citizens of these countries. Picture this: postcards and letters beyond text welcomes But is the ‘democracy’ we wish to impose already broken? researchers, creative writers, visual artists, curators and all Will the cuckoo clock be all that is left? who are interested in letters, postcards and the epistolary. For information on submitting an artist’s book go to Abstracts and proposals to be submitted via our website www.grahamegalleries.com by 13th November at the latest. For further information PO Box 515, Paddington Q4064 Australia and details of other events associated with the conference, T +61 7 3369 3288 / F +61 7 3369 3021 including a research skills seminar at Brighton Museum as [email protected] well as our innovative Postcards Competition, please visit www.grahamegalleries.com www.postcards-letters.org.uk We’re happy to answer questions or comments – please email: [email protected] Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York Artist’s Book Residency These residency grants are designed to enable artists to Acquisitive Artists’ Book Award 2011 produce a limited edition book work at WSW. Working Southern Cross University Artists’ Book Award is an intensively in our studios for six to eight weeks, artists international prize initiated by the Southern Cross print and bind their own books. WSW technical assistance University Library and next Art Gallery and in 2005. Now in includes training on new equipments, introduction to new its sixth year, this biennial prize contributes to the growth of materials, and assistance with production. artists’ books practice in Australia through the acquisition of works by national and international artists. The award The grant includes a stipend of $2,000 to $3,000 for six to provides Southern Cross University with the opportunity to eight weeks, materials up to $750, access to all studios, travel continue to develop a collection of national significance. costs (within the Continental US), and housing.
Pa g e 20 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Projects are chosen by a jury of outside artists and curators. Submission guidelines: Read the full rules. Yes, there are Generally, we encourage an edition size no larger than 100 rules, at: http://www.theAGYUisOutThere.org/ABotM and no smaller than 50. WSW has developed a series of archive and exhibition opportunities for the books. The And complete an ABotM submission information contract stipulates 10% (or ten books) for WSW archives, document available online at exhibition, and display copies; 10% of the edition for the http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/C59K3FH artist; and 80% of the edition for general marketing. Artist have the option of collaborating with WSW on marketing Send the book(s) you wish considered for the AGYU ABotM of artists’ books for a 50% commission fee. WSW has artists’ competition to the Art Gallery of York University. Please books in collections world-wide and six institutions are include contact information with each entry. repositories of all the artists’ books published by WSW. Books must be received by the AGYU by January 10th, 2011. The repositories are: Indiana University (Bloomington), Do not send books COD. Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Delaware, Wait for the results of the adjudication. Vassar College, Virginia Commonwealth University and Yale University. Mailing address: The Art Gallery of York University, attn: ABotM Postmark deadline is November 15 Accolade East Building, 4700 Keele St Grant recipients are notified by February 1. Toronto ON M3J 1P3, Canada Full details at: http://www.wsworkshop.org/_art_opp/ [email protected] artopp_grant_abr.htm
It’s Time to Get Back to Work! If you are tired of vacationing and long to get your focus Looking for bespoke marbled papers? back but find it hard to sit at home alone after the crowds Jemma Lewis is a full time professional paper marbler based of summer, consider joining Study Hall at Proteus Gowanus. in Wiltshire, UK. She has a standard range of 43 designs Study Hall members work together in companionable but also happily produces bespoke papers and one-off art solitude breaking for free coffee or a moment of papers. See: www.jemmamarbling.com conversation, before returning to WiFi-enabled concentration.
The 2010 Artists’ Book of the Moment Call AGYU ISO ABotM You: maker of artists’ books Us: aficionados of artists’ books
The Art Gallery of York University is now accepting submissions to the second ever AGYU Artists’ Book of the Moment competition, aka the ABotM. We’re fickle, I guess. It seems that only a few months ago we announced that Rob Kovitz’s Ice Fishing in Gimli was the 2010 ABotM. We still like the books, Rob, but we’re in search of the next one. After all, it is the Artists’ Book of the Moment and the next moment is nigh. So, to everyone else out there, it’s time to dust off that magnum opus (or parvum opus, we’re not picky) and send it on in. Our jury is standing by. It’s a very good way to work. Pleasant, cheap ($50/month) with books and art and good chairs. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 10 January 2011 To join, email [email protected] Visit http://proteusgowanus.com/main/study-hall All submissions will be available for viewing in February to find out more. We hope you will join our community at The DepARTment, as adjunct to an off-site AGYU of writers and readers and coffee drinkers. exhibition of Ice Fishing in Gimli. The 2011 short-list of Tel: 718-243-1572. Proteus Gowanus, New York ABotMs will be announced at the end of the exhibition, and 543 Union Street down the alley off Nevins then the finalist, the top of the ABotM 2011, will be revealed www.proteusgowanus.com at our Spring exhibition opening at the Art Gallery of York University. As with the 2010 ABotM, the winning entry will receive $1,500 CAD … and our undying love [until next year].
Pa g e 21 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k P.T.O. FOR MORE BOOK ARTS NEWS… Doverodde Book Arts Festival 2-5 June 2011 Johannessen’s artistic work has given him the reputation A beautiful meeting place in North Jutland for book artists of one of the leading performance artists from Norway. In the old restored merchant’s warehouse in Doverodde His international reputation is based on his beautiful, by the Limfjord, our festival is a meeting place for both poetical, minimal expressionism. participants and visitors. Amidst the beautiful countryside Visit the BBeyond Performance website for documentation: you can experience book arts both formally - exhibition and http://www.bbeyondperformance.org and talks - and informally - stands, workshops and book café. Kurt Johannessen’s website www.zeth.no
Themed exhibition of book arts 2 June-26 June Artist, writer and book artist Mike Nicholson wishes to Participants: practising artists and crafts folk. mention that there is a new development for his Ensixteen Works: artists’ books, book-objects, hand bound books, etc Editions imprint – in the shape of a blog. selected from submissions. Theme 2010: ... in the air Only works treating the theme will be included in the main exhibition.Official opening: 3 June. Insurance: works in our care will be covered by our insurance. We will return works by, and cover the cost of, regular parcel post.
The theme is “… in the air” … in the air / ... i luften …something is in the air something invisible? something intangible? something physical? something mechanical? oxygen, nitrogen, Co2, particles, clouds, kites, planes, ghosts, spaceships, castles, rain, snow, wind, birds, bees, flying bicycles, ... love? or maybe it’s just your book hanging from above.
Stands 3-5 June 10:00 - 17:00 On top floor of warehouse - 24 tables (85 x 120 cm) - show, discuss and sell. Some tables have wall space available for He would be delighted if you should like to visit and display. There is a 100 DKK / EUR 13.50 booking fee – peruse the variety of material there – including detail on payable on arrival – incl. rental of white tablecloth for stand. his working process, background on the entire range of his Coffee/tea is provided (free) for stand-holders during graphic narrative editions to date, short films, tips of the hat opening hours and links to his inspirations, current thoughts on the past and speculation about the present. . . and any number of other things. The address is: Contact information: www.ensixteeneditions.blogspot.com Liz Hempel-Jørgensen: Project coordinator Please do drop by. Mette-Sofie Ambeck: Consultant, network site http://nordicbookarts.ning.com editions solo ma non troppo Karin Nikolaus: Leader, Limfjordscentret, +45 97959266 Geneviève Hergott and Jean Bescos are French artists www.bookarts-doverodde.dk and editors based in Paris who are publishing Ral Veroni’s “teatrito de entidades” under their editions solo ma non troppo imprint. You can see some of their work at DIY Zines INTERNET NEWS - a community website about drawing zines. Follow the links for members: solo ma non troppo at: www.diyzines.com Abandonment, a film by UK book artist Bernard Fairhurst of 21st Century Corporate reorganisation, and what is left behind, can be viewed at: From Helen Allsebrook: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Ucc7jF2yA Zine Library + info. Here you will find hundreds of radical zines ready to print. You can also upload zines to the site, Angela McKay has a lovely new website with images of her comment and contribute. http://zinelibrary.info illustration works at: www.bytherealmckay.com From Helen Allsebrook: Bbeyond presented INBOUND: A Performance Art The Institute for the Future of the Book. A small think- Exchange between Bergen and Belfast in Northern and-do tank investigating the evolution of intellectual Ireland this October. The Norwegian artists featured Kurt discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked Johannessen, Rita Marhaug, Ane Sagatun and Robert Alda. screens. http://www.futureofthebook.org
Pa g e 22 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Book Arts Resources Mary Pullen has a new website. A resources list compiled by Linda Kiley and Laura Russell “I am a London based freelance Book Artist, Illustrator and of 23 Sandy Gallery for book artists in the Portland area Educator. Exploring the themes of folklore, language and and further afield. Portland is a great city for the arts in the everyday, I love to work with paper, book structures, general, particularly book arts. An online list of schools, felt pen and line. My workshops give me the opportunity to suppliers, organisations and other resources that support pass on knowledge and skills which have given me creative the book arts by offering inspiration, education, supplies, passion and enriched my life.” resources, and networking. www.astringofwordsandpictures.blogspot.com http://23sandygallery.blogspot.com/2010/08/book-arts- resources.html Randy Klein has a new website with sections dedicated to his catalogue of works, including books and a new From Natalie McGrorty: interactive book, at: www.randyklein.co.uk A link to lovely book furniture: http://flavorwire. com/118722/the-bibliophiles-guide-to-home-decor An online essay by Wojciech Kalaga - Professor of literary And one to America’s 10 Greatest Comic and Graphic theory and English literature, Director of the Institute of Novel Stores: http://flavorwire.com/119588/americas-10- English Cultures and Literatures at the University of Silesia greatest-comic-and-graphic-novel-stores - Liberature: Word, Icon, Space, can be read with images of liberature book works at: From Magnus Irvin: Dear Friends, fellow artists, http://www.biweekly.pl/article/1422 neighbours, world travellers and everyone else, I have a delightful new website. If you fancy a look you will find it at: You can also read a Liberature Report on pp 36-38 of this www.magnusirvin.com issue from Katarzyna Bazarnik and Zenon Fajfer. If you know anyone who wants something painted, drawn, made, eaten or burnt please do point them in my direction. May good fortune smile on your pencil. NEW ARTISTS’ PUBLICATIONS Louffa Press was established by David Moscovich in the USA, who has been producing limited edition chapbooks Kommune by Youth since 2003. Its aim is to introduce new and innovative Published by Bracketpress micro-fiction and non-fiction, published as limited edition Bracketpress are pleased to announce the publication of print and electronic chapbooks that bend genres, blur lines the third collection of poetry, prose and illustrations by between the arts and to disturb and contort readers with renowned record producer and musician Youth. Written a very vigorous scrub. New offerings in print from Louffa over the past few months the main recurring theme Press this year are chapbooks by Steve Katz (author of is community: “Now more than ever, where we live Moving Parts, Stolen Stories, Creamy and Delicious), increasingly in isolated and virtual worlds afraid of the Munter Jack, David Moscovich and New York flash unknown. Where fear rules and we are taught that stranger fictionist Mike Topp. www.louffapress.com means danger. Where we are conditioned to distraction through the hollow promises of marketing bourgeoisie From Marie-Therese Wisniowski: via consumerism and entertainment. Community becomes Dear Friends and colleagues, I have recently set up my blog: even more relevant and still more important. This is where http://artquill.blogspot.com The present post includes we can share, help and learn from each other. Where we photos of the international ArtCloth: Engaging New Visions can regain our personal sovereignty and re-discover our exhibition at Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Queensland and divinity and humanity.” – from the introduction by Youth Curator’s Talk. I hope you enjoy the images and keep coming back for updates on the blog. The book is available to buy at venues hosting Killing Joke’s ‘Absolute Dissent’ tour which is currently shedding much Lisa Wigham has recently launched a new website for light and joy across many parts of Europe and will move The Two am press. The Two am press was co-founded to on through America and Canada during December. make and disseminate artists multiples taking the form of We have a limited number available for immediate dispatch books or editions of prints. Lisa Wigham uses digital or through our website. traditional printmaking - such as etching, for the expression of contemporary ideas. This explores landscape as an 170mm x 128mm, hardback, pp 80, printed on Vancouver autobiographical equivalence or a mirror for thought and Book 80gsm with coloured end papers, gold foil-blocked desire. www.twoampress.com cover, b/w text and illustrations. £17.50 UK, £18.00 Ireland & Europe, £20.00 USA, Canada & Australia Helen Shaddock has recently added some new sculpture The book contains a link to a free download of the and artists’ books posts to her blog: ‘Kommune’ album by Youth. For more information and http://helenshaddock.blogspot.com images of the book please visit: www.bracketpress.co.uk
Pa g e 23 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k COMING SOON ** MISS CAROL’S 2011 CALENDAR ** Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935) On the 75th anniversary of A freshly made production by Pet Galerie his death “Mir fehlt ein Wort” www.petgalerie.co.uk
I am in lack of a word - more than 60 essays and sayings of Tucholsky and authors influenced by him (in German throughout). Kurt Tucholsky had studied law, and was one of the most famous journalists in Berlin during the years of the Weimar Republic. He was among the first people expatriated by the Nazis in 1933. His writings were against war and censorship, against the manipulation of a people by An outcome of a year-long residency working with the staff means of cutting them off from information - he was urging and clients of Miss Carol’s (a small traditional Hair Stylist) people to be aware of the dangers of fascism and another in Bristol. The calendar will be stocked from November; at impending war. His aim always was to make his readers Arnolfini Bookshop Bristol, Miss Carol’s Hair Salon, Church develop into a responsible citizen. When he realised the Road, St George, Bristol and bookartbookshop, Pitfield German people were following Hitler, he stopped writing Street, London. It will also be sold at the Small Publishers and in December 1935 committed suicide in his exile home Fair, London on 12 & 13 November on the IMPACT Press in Sweden. stand. Badges and postcards are also available for purchase.
There will be a genteel afternoon calendar launch at Miss Carol’s Hair Salon on Tuesday 23 November from 1-3 pm, with tea and cake, for clients, friends, & interested parties. MISS CAROL’S 2011 CALENDAR, £9.99, order now at: www.petgalerie.co.uk
Annette C. Disslin has produced two new artists’ books The new artist’s book is made up of three parts (volumes): under her bleikloetzle imprint 1) “Die er kennt, sagt er du.” - Whom he knows he makes friends - on the use of the Rucola - wer hat das gefunden? German language and on the use of the book. (Rocket - who’s found that?) “Das wäre dann aber keine Reklame für den nächsten Krieg.” 2) However, this would not be promoting the next war - on treating war & peace and the rest of the world 3) The extra volume is part of the special edition only: “Laß ihn in Ruhe.” Leave him in peace - on treating artists and arts. Special edition: record copies 1-6 containing all three volumes in a brown corrugated cardboard box Standard edition: record copies 7-12 of both volumes, bleiklötzle’s handbook for the self responsible gourmet each in a brown corrugated cardboard box. Size of the box: Descriptions and leaf outlines of 21 species that could be 45 x 65 cm. The volumes are each sewn to make up a record mistaken for Rocket (Arugula, Roquette) - giving growth (resembling a court record or a secret service file). height, time of blossoming and the degree of being edible or More information and images at Recent Work: poisonous on a scale on the bottom of each page. www.bleikloetzle-goes-british.de Book in German with German, English and scientific species names. Stitched through the back with black thread. Each book contains dried and pressed Rocket leaves in a Cuneiform Press Iis pleased to announce the publication little cellophane bag. Standard edition Copies No 1-15 of Alan Loney’s The Books to Come with a foreword by Special edition copies No I-X, every copy comes with a Jenni Quilter. Of Loney’s long-anticipated collection of poster showing all 21 linocuts Book size approx. 20 x 25 cm essays, Johanna Drucker has written: “Few people have Poster size approx 65 x 45 cm mused with such imagination on the topic of the book as Alan Loney does in this volume. His reflections distill a
Pa g e 24 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m lifetime of practice Master of Apocalypse’. All fourteen of Neumann’s paintings and reading, of are reproduced alongside the texts (translated by Ottilie knowing books Mulzet). The cahier is introduced with a preface by Irish and living with and novelist Colm Tóibín. around them. His thoughts about The Cahiers Series is published in association with The libraries, writing, Center for Writers & Translators at the American University texts, the codex, of Paris. The goal of this series is to make available new printed books, the explorations in writing, in translating, and in the areas artist’s book, fine linking these two activities. 40 pages, 14 colour images, 240 press traditions, and x 150 mm. Sewn paperback with dust jacket, ISBN 978-0- bibliography are at 9565092-1-5. £10 (including postage in the UK). once philosophical Purchase online or see the list of stockists at: and poetical. http://www.rotem.eu/Sylph/C14/c14.html Though writing in the tradition of Mallarmé, Jabès and Blanchot, Loney’s sensibility is contemporary and original, Three new titles from Café Royal Books informed by his practice as a printer and a profound engagement with books as expressive objects and objects of contemplation. I predict that this thoughtful, provocative, book will become a crucial reading on the codex. Loney’s writing is wonderfully suggestive, but clear, fresh, and precise. He addresses issues much debated but rarely articulated so well and with such a skillful ability to open up the field for investigation and discussion.”
The Books to Come is available from Cuneiform Press at the University of Houston-Victoria. Hardcover edition limited to 200 copies. To purchase in US dollars send a $40 check made out to “Cuneiform Press/UHV” to the address below, plus $7.50 for domestic shipping in the US or $15 for shipping overseas. Dr. Kyle Schlesinger Cuneiform Press, University of Houston-Victoria 3007 North Ben Wilson, Victoria, TX 77901-5731, USA Calton Hill - Craig Atkinson If you prefer to pay by credit card, please contact Film photographs taken one morning around Edinburgh Small Press Distribution: www.spdbooks.org city centre, starting at Calton Hill and working over towards the castle. 2010, 28 Pages, 14 cm x 20 cm, b/w digital, numbered edition of 100, £3.50 UK, £4 Europe, £4.50 The Cahiers Series In association with The Center for International including P&P. Writers & Translators at the American University of Paris is pleased to announce the publication of Cahier 14 Animalinside László Krasznahorkai & Max Neumann This cahier is the result of a collaboration undertaken specially for The Cahiers Series, between a writer and a painter. Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, author of The Melancholy of Resistance and War & War, responds with fourteen texts to fourteen From Sometime Around Then Until Somewhere About depictions of a strange and ill- Now - Craig Atkinson formed creature made by his friend the renowned German Photographs taken in the North of England and Berlin painter Max Neumann. The texts speak from within the between January and September 2010. 140 mm x head of Neumann’s creature that seems to be menacing 200 mm. Printed on Cyclus Offset 140 / 250gsm. Full existence itself; serving, as they do so, to confirm Susan colour, numbered edition of 100. £11 UK, £11.50 Europe, Sontag’s estimate of Krasznahorkai as ‘The Hungarian £12 International including P&P.
Pa g e 25 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k unknown and internal. Similarly, SuorrcolfOoa Be s, Qrori lo C c e, and Ttepye fe fn rr t, being made up as they are of alternating lines of three novels of modernist erotica, have parallel narratives running through all three. It is important to the artist that, as books, they are seen to be beautiful objects, and that their form, that of the book, is as important as their content. Whereas collage usually takes several images and cuts them up into one new image, Christopher often removes large amounts of text, the resultant absence creating space in which the meaning of the remaining words is radically altered and heightened.
Rear Window - Erik van der Weijde “The wife is at work, the son is at school and I’m stuck in the new apartment. With a cup of coffee and my video camera…”. 2010, 24 Pages, 14cm x 20cm, b/w digital, numbered edition of 100, £3.50 UK, £4 Europe, £4.50 International including P&P. Order online at: www.caferoyalbooks.com
A new book by David Kirby - Stone Dead Forever The Bell Jar, 2009, (image above left - paperback book, 270 pages b/w text). The Bell Jar is a facsimile of the 1978 Faber Paperbacks edition of Sylvia Plath’s 1963 novel of that name with all text removed other than the first and last sentence of every chapter. £20.50
La Chamade, 2009, (image above right - paperback book, 160 pages b/w text) La Chamade is a facsimile of the 1977 Penguin Books paperback edition of Francoise Sagan’s 1965 novel of that name with all text removed other than sentences beginning ‘She…’ up to the first piece of Freshly published on blurb.com - “Stone Dead Forever”. punctuation. £19.00 A book of 60 stone/poem/photos from the last two years. Available to buy direct from Blurb.com - check it out at: Sunlight on Cold Water, 2010, http://www.blurb.com/books/1602249 (paperback book, 146 pages b/w text). Sunlight on Cold Water is a facsimile of the 1978 Penguin Books Artists’ Books by Christopher Robinson paperback edition of Francoise In his books Christopher Robinson applies simple rules to Sagan’s 1969 novel of that name with pre-existing texts. By applying processes more usually found all text removed other than sentences in collage he disrupts the narrative to expose its underlying beginning ‘He…’ up to the first piece structure and create new, or ‘novel’, fragmented narratives. of punctuation. £18.50 By using the works of well known modernist literature as his starting point he raises questions of authenticity. Whose words are we reading? Whose story is he telling? Although Wonderful Clouds, 2010, (paperback all the books can be read as individual works, they together book, 112 pages b/w text). Wonderful form an expanding enquiry into the nature of language Clouds is a facsimile of the 1978 Penguin and of storytelling. For example, when read together, La Books paperback edition of Francoise Chamade, Sunlight on Cold Water, and Wonderful Clouds, Sagan’s 1961 novel of that name with all taking novels by Francois Sagan as their instigation, all text removed other than sentences give the impression of the same narrative told from three beginning ‘I…’ up to the first piece of different perspectives, one male, one female, and a third punctuation. £17.50
Pa g e 26 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Words, 2010, (paperback book, 162 pages b/w text) Words is a facsimile of the 1967 Penguin Modern Classics paperback edition of Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1964 novel of that name with all text removed other than an eleven word phrase of the artists’ own devising. The phrase, these words of dead poets fall like corpses from my mouth, is a reference to Andre Breton, who in a stream of consciousness poem once wrote the phrase ‘like a corpse in the mouth’. £19.00 THE RUBAIYAT of Omar Khayyam SuorrcolfOoa Be s, 2009, 2010. 28 sheets, format: 195 x 295 x 20 mm. 16 images: (hardback book, 326 pages woodcuts, text: Garamond’24, Translation into English: full colour images). £110.00 Edward FitzGerald. Handmade paper by the artist was Qrori lo C c e, 2009, prepared specially for this book. Cover: colour linocut from (hardback book, 326 pages one printing plate. Leather spine, special slipcase. Printing full colour images). £110.00 & binding: Dmitry Sayenko Edition: 15 numbered & signed Ttepye fe fn rr t, 2009, copies. For more information and price please visit: (hardback book, 326 pages www.artist-sayenko.com or email Dmitry Sayenko: full colour images). £110.00 [email protected] or [email protected] Contact in the UK: The Tom Paine Printing Press SuorrcolfOoa Be s, Qrori 151 High Street, Lewes, East Sussex lo C c e and Ttepye fe fn rr Tel: 01273 476265 or 07956821971 (10 am-5 pm). t together form a triptych of novels collaged line by line from Henry Miller’s ‘Tropic of Cancer’, Jean Genet’s The catalogue of Julie Barratt’s Hankie project is now ‘Querelle of Brest’, and Pauline Reage’s ‘Story of O’. available on DVD for $10.00 (Plus P&P) from barratt galleries, Alstonville, Australia. Designed by Carolyne Lewis, Christopher has a website currently under construction and full of lovely photos and stories. Please email the gallery where his books can be viewed alongside his collage work. via the website at www.barrattgalleries.com.au The address is: www.wordsofdeadpoets.co.uk
All his books can be previewed at and are available to buy Pattern-Story, Anansi-Tales - Hormazd Geve Narielwalla from: www.blurb.com/user/CJRobinson Hormazd Geve Narielwalla’s latest work draws inspiration The paperbacks are all limited to editions of one hundred from two sources: Savile Row tailoring patterns and and the hardbacks limited to an edition of twenty five. traditional African Anansi tales. Produced by the Artist in association with Dege & Skinner, Savile Row, No.10
DMITRY SAYENKO A NEW BOOK “THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM” I think it is difficult for me to say exactly why I decided to make a book with the texts of Omar Khayyam. Why did I? Was it from a desire to The book is a celebration of a popular character from West touch lightly upon Oriental African and Caribbean folklore brought to life using the culture, or to feel his verses discarded Savile Row patterns. “Anansi”, the trickster, is the and imagine his poetry in wise and clever Earth God. Many aspects of his stories have my work? When I visited the trickled into to Western society and into children’s stories, V&A Museum in London, super-hero characters and fictional literature. In some I marvelled at the rooms versions of the stories Anansi created the sun, moon and of Persian Fine Art. The all the stars. This attribute of the stories makes it through impressions left in my mind were the inspiration to begin into Narielwalla’s work where Anansi dances, teases and my own book using the poetry of Omar Khayyam. entertains himself with his most prized creation, the sun.
Pa g e 27 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Issue 5 of the award winning KAREN MAGAZINE is out Have you met KAREN yet? She’s pretty ordinary.
KAREN is more interested in the weather than what to wear, sell by dates than celebrity. KAREN MAGAZINE serves up a delightful dish of the everyday, gently observed and presented as something quite unique. A glossy magazine without the gloss. And as it says on the cover of this little Edition: 100 (numbered, dated and signed). piece of reality, priceless! Published: 2010, printed and hand-bound in London, UK The book is bound on both sides and opens from the centre to reveal the Anansi-pattern prints. Some of the drawings appear in the centre, thus breaking away once the page is turned. New images are created if the pages are not turned in their sequence. 14 pages on each side. Bound in archival black lizard print with centre opening. Printed on egg shell archival paper. 62 x 42.5 cm. Photography, text, illustrations – mixed media. Hormazd Narielwalla www.narielwalla.com Artist in Residence, Dege & Skinner 10 Savile Row, London W1S 3PF Tel: 020 7287 2941 / 07786011530 Fax 020 7734 8794 www.dege-skinner.co.uk
A new artists’ zine by Hong In Young SCHOOL SYMBOL
In this issue, there’s Jo a hairdresser, Vincent a carpenter, Judy a farmer’s wife. There’s Lesley and her pompoms, Hong In Young has published the first issue of a zine, Judith’s sandwich list, Anna’s car boot, a short story by Lola, “SCHOOL SYMBOL”. 16 pages, 14.8 x 21.0 cm dogs, dreams, teabags, bandits and bananas. Full colour. Printed in South Korea. Edition of 500 copies You can order by email at [email protected] KAREN is a very extraordinary ordinary magazine and has become cult reading among those that have discovered her.
The Black Page - 73 Artists and Writers responses So, treat yourself and sit down with KAREN. She’d like to Page 72 of the first volume of Tristram Shandy announces meet you. UK Price: £8.00 inc P&P the death of Parson Yorick ‘Alas, poor Yorick’. Europe: £8.50 inc P&P. Rest of the world: £10.00 inc P&P On the page opposite this gloomy literary reference [73] Order online at www.karenmagazine.com Sterne places a black rectangle in the space that should be occupied by text. In the year of the 250th anniversary of this memorial, 73 writers and artists were invited to make their ELCA - An artist’s book by the writer Francisco Brines own Black Page and each one was for sale by auction. and the painter Mariona Brines. This catalogue brings together all these pages and reveals Bookbinding has always been linked to art, and the union who the artist or writers are of each page and how their between them is the essence of the creative process of the page was made. Published after the exhibition in 2009 to Valencian publishing house Krausse. One example is its celebrate the 250th anniversary of Vols I & II of Tristram latest edition, an artist’s book by the poet Francisco Brines Shandy by Laurence Sterne. £40.00 Available at: and the painter Mariona Brines. This first publication http://www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk between them is a tribute by its authors to the family house,
Pa g e 28 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m ELCA. A tribute to the memories, a tribute to the present. A organises exhibitions to help promote this particular field of book conceived by the painter and the publishers in the city contemporary art. Located in Rennes, LENDROIT Gallery of Berlin. For a month, they worked together creating the is an open space where the public can consult and purchase image of the book, selecting the materials to form this work a wide range of publications. All publications and events of art. can be seen online at: www.lendroit.org
The Lumberyard The Firecracker Press and Typecast Publishing have been producing a twice-yearly letterpress magazine that combines poetry and design called the Lumberyard.
A limited edition of 25 copies, signed and numbered by both authors was presented on October 13th in the Colegio Mayor Rector Peset (University of Valencia). Hosted with the presence of Mariona Brines and the writer and journalist Fernando Delgado, representing the poet.
ELCA is a reflection of the personal and artistic union between the artists; its visions of art and their love for life. Seven collages printed with electrographic technique merge with the poem of the Valencian writer. The abstraction of Mariona Brines’ paintings, the objects, the colours and the levels fit perfectly with the reflection and intimacy of the poetry of Francisco Brines. A project which searches individualism, not just in an artistic way, but also for the art of bookbinding.
The book as an art object, and the book as content. Under this premise, Krausse and the painter worked together during the month of May in the German capital. Searching for paper that was able to convey the light the poem and the images, material for the cover and the right typography. Under the intention of turning the book into a work of art, ELCA is being released this October in the Art?Books collection of Krausse. www.editorialkrausse.com The product of collaboration between siblings Eric and www.blog.editorialkrausse.com [email protected] Jen, the name recalls their family’s tradition of making beautiful things. Eric is the owner of the Firecracker Press (http://www.firecrackerpress.com), a letterpress shop based LENDROIT aims to promote artists’ publications, facilitate in St. Louis, MO, USA which does the design and printing their access and understanding, and support contemporary of the magazine. Jen Woods “Woodsy” previously served creation in its role as a publisher. LENDROIT is a non- as Associate Editor for Sarabande Books, a nonprofit profit association dedicated to the promotion of printed literary press in Louisville, KY, before co-founding Typecast art and contemporary art publications. Founded in 2001, Publishing, home of The Lumberyard. It has been called, LENDROIT Gallery distributes and publishes the work “the most physically beautiful journal I’ve seen this year” by of artists for whom the printed medium is an integral The New York Times and has had plenty of attention from part of their art. The aim of the gallery is to constitute a the graphic design community and the poetry community unique and eclectic collection of contemporary printed as well. You can read more about the magazine as art, with particular emphasis on work published in non- well as see the call for entries on their website limited editions. Whilst supporting current artistic http://www.lumberyardmagazine.com creation through publications, LENDROIT Gallery also
Pa g e 29 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Two new books by Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck mfc-michèle didier is pleased to present two new As featured on the cover of this issue of the BAN, and publications produced during a four-day residency at UWE in July 2010 working with Tom Sowden and the laser cutting technology. The Book of Shapes by Allan McCollum Two volumes 21.6 cm steam, salt, milk – a Nordic creation myth (2010 edition) x 27.9 cm each A remake of the unique book from 2000 of the same name Volume I: 616 pages, is now available in a limited edition. Volume II: 360 pages. Limited edition of 70 numbered and signed sets of 2 volumes and 10 artist’s proofs. Produced and published in 2010 by mfc-michèle didier, Brussels. Certificates signed and numbered by the artist. ©2010 Allan McCollum and mfc-michèle didier
Diecimila by Jonathan Monk 35.9 cm x 21.1 cm. Limited edition of 35 copies and 5 artist’s proofs. Produced and published in 2010 by mfc-michèle didier, Brussels. Certificates signed and numbered by the artist. ©2010 Jonathan Monk and mfc-michèle didier The book tells the story of how the world was created according to Nordic Mythology using inkjet-printed text You can view more images, download the technical files for and laser-cut illustrations and pop-ups. 20 x 20 cm with these works and order from: www.micheledidier.com laser-engraved covers and 72 pages and comes in a grey slip- case. Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck was awarded the Birgit Skiöld mfc-michèle didier Memorial Trust Artist Book Award at the London Art Book 19 rue de la Senne, B-1000 Bruxelles Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London in September 2010 for [email protected] this artist’s book. http://www.micheledidier.com Tel & Fax: + 32 (0)2 374 75 98
Catalogue A A new artist’s book by Rick Myers
Day Return A video-recorded return train journey to London transformed by laser-engraving into image poetry. A metre-long concertina book double-side engraved onto 250gsm black Somerset paper. Height 180mm edition limited. Comes in a grey hand-made box. 36 pages + foldouts, hand sewn, b/w offset, 19.5 x 10.5 cm. $22.50 including postage in the USA from: For more information: www.ambeck.mdd.dk www.rickmyers.co.uk
Pa g e 30 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m VE1 - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman byLaurence Sterne Introduced by Will Self, Published by Visual Editions
“A lot of nonsense is written about Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman – and that’s just as well. It would be depressing in the extreme if this triumphant tangling up of the threads of reason with the strands of linear narrative were to admit of any effective unravelling; which is as much to say, that were you to find This CATALOGUE OF XEROGRAPHIC BOOK 1891- yourself picking apart a lucid, non-discursive exposition of 2009 by Louise Odes Neaderland is a somewhat hastily the novel – its themes, its techniques, its plot – you would put together documentation of twenty eight years of know that you had finally gone mad.” - Will Self my xerographic bookmaking. In 1982 I founded the International Society of Copier Artists. The ISCA was a non-profit professional organization to promote and recognize the use of the copier as a legitimate creative tool. Our journal, the ISCA Quarterly, turned out to be the longest running international assemblage project on record, 1981-2002. The June issue of the Quarterly was a box of small bookworks, which is how I became interested in xerographic bookworks. I went on to create and edition more than sixty books which deal primarily with political and social issues. The most popular workshops I taught were The Copier As camera, Darkroom, and Printing Press, and Multiples and Mantras. I used multiples of a single image to create narratives which revealed revealed a great deal about that single image. There are still a few back issues of the ISCA Quarterly, both the spiral bound print issues, When talking to people about visual writing, conversations and the June Box of artists’ books available for sale. always seem to come back to The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, just Shandy, for short). I was born in Brooklyn in 1932 and received an MFA in The book was originally published in the late 18th century Printmaking from the State U. of Iowa where I studied with in nine volumes and is still, by far, one of the most Maurizio Lasansky. My paintings and prints were exhibited contemporary books around. When we say contemporary, quite widely, but it was the International Mail Art Network we mean in terms of how it looks and reads. The sad thing back in the sixties that really attracted me to using modern is, though, Shandy has long been relegated to the realm of technology to further the power of communication and cheap and nasty classic editions and has lost its magic and activism through art. The Catalogue of my books shows lustre along the way. When we briefed design studio, how I have pursued and expressed that interest. My books, A Practice for Everyday Life, we asked them to breathe new and the Quarterlies are in major collections, private and life into the book’s design, adding new visual elements, institutional, here and abroad. I presently continue to make while staying faithful to the original spirit. We also asked books and compose music for the piano. Will Self to introduce the book, and that he did, with Louise Neaderland 10/10/10 email: [email protected] typically irreverent brilliance. Paperback, 688 pages
Pa g e 31 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Design by: A Practice for Everyday Life New and forthcoming books from Clemens-Tobias Lange Published 21 September 2010, ISBN 978-0-9565692-0-2 at CTL Presse Available at 15.00 plus postage from www.visual-editions.com/our-books/book/tristram-shandy GHIACCIATURE I Watch a short animation of the book by Airside at: http://vimeo.com/15220070
Toasting right now... a new book by Theresa Easton Easton’s projects in glass, artist’s books and print share a concern with fictionalised and idealised representations of nature and the female form. The work seeks to reconstruct the female form through the eyes of the artist. Working collaboratively with photographer Roger Coulam, the work explores the relationship photography has with ‘the real’, and the notion of authenticity in the subject. More questions are raised than answered. Is it possible to present the female form in a non-objectified way? An artist’s book collaboration between Domenico Brancale The work is (author) and Clemens-Tobias Lange. Photographs of frozen contradictory rivers in Siberia. Photo sensitive gelatine was applied, as the artist exposed – melted again to float – and finally “iced up” struggles to showing a crystalline structure. In the concise texts in acknowledge Italian by the poet Brancale, the rivers of the frozen planet her sexuality become a metaphor for us. Gelatine silver papers, letterpress and present the and screenprint on light Japanese Ganpi-cotton paper. viewer with a Loose pages in a soft, white folder, embossed, with a white non-objectified spine; comes in drop back box, bound by Thomas Zwang, presentation Hamburg. Cover material: Moulin de Larroque, Colombe of the female 600, box: Sicilian paper, Alcantara, blu. Edizioni CTL. 48 body. Currently on show at Sunderland’s National Glass pages, 24 x 38,5 cm. Edition of 9 copies, signed by Centre, the work will also be on display D. Brancale and C. T. Lange and for sale at Manchester’s Artist’s Book Fair 6th November & 36 Lime Street, Open Studios, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 27th & 28th November. Mechachal - Shewa Ber ‘Toasting right now....’ is a concertina style book, screenprinted onto 170gsm Rivoli, 13 x 24 cm, £35.00
‘Mannequins’ series of glass pages 20 x 29 cm screenprinted vitreous enamel on glass £55
Theresa Easton 36 Lime St, Ouseburn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 2PQ The Shewa Ber is a market place in Harar, in earlier times Mobile; 07981381830 the largest one in East Africa. At Shewa Ber not only goods www.axisweb.org/artist/theresamariaeaston and multiple colours mix, but also Muslims, Christians and www.designedandmade.co.uk more than further 50 ethnic groups, with their languages www.nationalglasscentre.com and habits. The term Mechachal is used often in Harar.
Pa g e 32 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Its meaning is for complementary cultures: Respect each The publication, produced in an edition of 220, priced other, present and accept with love. An admirable peaceful £5.99, plus an exclusive boxed edition of 10 at £30 (which and respectful blend – a dream for other places of this includes a unique bound collection of the original unsaid world. words) can be purchased from the Trigger Editions online shop, where details of other stockists can soon be found. The book has irregular borders. Nine double pages are You can also watch a video of the book on the Trigger made of cloth, two tissues each, gelatinated and sewn to Editions website at: http://triggereditions.com keep them in shape. Photographs by Clemens-Tobias Lange . Printed as intaglio „chine collé“ and other images, printed with letterpress. Inserted between the colourful material are Atom Egoyan - Dear Sandra/ Vaghe stelle dell’Orsa smaller-sized white soft pages with excerpts of the Bible and Published by Volumina the Quran. Bound and cased by Thomas Zwang. Egoyan reinterprets the Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece Edizioni CTL (8), 84 pages, 19 x 36 cm. Number of copies: Vaghe stelle dell’Orsa (Sandra of a Thousand Delights, Golden 25 + IV a/p, signed and numbered. Date of completion: Lion at the Venice Festival in 1965). The artbook, which is December 2010. numbered and signed by the author, contains unpublished b/w 35mm photos shot on scene, digital colour photographs For more information, please visit: shot on site 40 years later, graphic interventions based on http://www.ctl-presse.de/index-of-books.html film posters, and an hand-written letter by Egoyan to the main character, Claudia Cardinale. The volume is 200 pages long. Printed in 300 signed and numbered copies. English Trigger Editions is delighted to present… Unsaid Words text with Italian translation enclosed. An alabaster slate The poetry book inspired by this two-year long project has adorns the packaging. There are 223 copies available. just been published! Price: 250 Eur. ISBN 978-88-901996-1-5 www.volumina.net
All the things you wish you had said but never did… All the things you are glad you never said… Things you just forgot to mention.
A fascinating and diverse collection of poetry, this beautiful thread-bound, full colour, limited edition anthology is the culmination of a project by artist Sarah J Trigg. Unsaid words, collected by Trigg over a two year period, inspired a national poetry competition from which the poems in the book were selected. Each poem sits alongside the original, hand-written statements that inspired them. Bee-Zine This beautiful little postcard-sized book, designed and A new Zine by Gordon Yapp tackles a global problem. hand-finished by the artist, echoes the dimensions and The title is ‘Bee-Zine’ and it spells out the problems bees are aesthetic of the original unsaid words, which were written in having now. Without the insect that pollinates many of the white on the patterned insides of used envelopes. plants we rely on for food, beekeepers warn of an economic The poems capture the very intimate range of sentiments and ecological disaster. The serious message is made sharper expressed within the unsaid words. Introducing new works by contrasting it with humour over some 24 pages of A5, by Dave Wood, Norton Hodges and Gwen Seabourne, codex format. Over 50 illustrations and cartoons are by the Trigger Editions is also delighted to be showcasing artist. Printed in black on cream stock of 160 & 90 gsm. emerging poets Octavia Cox, Luke Mundy, Cathy F Wilson, Copies are available from Gordon Yapp at £5 each plus and Genevieve Mae. postage. Email contact: [email protected]
Pa g e 33 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Franticham’s Assembling Box Nr 8 and grows through drawing, colour, collage, semic and VISUAL POETRY AND WORKS INFLUENCED BY asemic writing, creating not only a visual feast for the senses FLUXUS, REDFOXPRESS, IRELAND but an implied narrative. etceteras is a gorgeous artist’s book with strongly multi-dimensional and layered pages. It is unique, hard to put down, and hard not to pick up again and again.” Publisher Luna Bisonte Prods, 56 pages, soft cover, U.S. Letter , Black Coil Bound, Full-colour print. Available from: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback- book/etceteras/8380410
this is visual poetry by Marilyn R. Rosenberg From the this is visual poetry chapbooks by chapbookpublisher.com “Interacting within themselves and with the viewer/reader – content, vehicle, A5 box with contributions from 23 invited artists:: medium, form Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Greece - Fernando Aguiar, Portugal and word, within a - Hartmut Andryczuk, Germany - Antic-Ham, South Korea concept, pull together - Vittore Baroni, Italy - Lancillotto Bellini, Italy - John M. merging the themes Bennett, USA - Theo Breuer, Germany - Allen Bukoff, USA - and the means. J.M. Calleja, Spain - Darlene Domel, USA - Gyorgy Galantai, It is you, the reader- Hungary - Antonio Gomez, Spain - Klaus Groh, Germany viewer, that completes - Richard Kostelanetz, USA - Serse Luigetti, Italy - Emilio the work.” A full Morandi, USA - Fritz Sauter, Switzerland - Schoko Casana colour chapbook. Rosso, Germany - Litsa Spathi, Germany - Pete Spence, Cover stock 10pt Australia - Christine Tarantino, USA - Francis Van Maele, gloss, inside 16 pages, Ireland Mohawk 70#, 5 1/2” w x 8 1/2” h, saddle-stitched, with coloured end papers, Visual poetry, collages, prints, multiples and objects. 2010. Published by chapbookpublisher.com, Dan Waber, 40 copies signed and numbered 1/40 to 40/40. Only 15 Kingston, PA. More information at copies available for sale. Price: 70 Euro / 100 $ / 60 GBP http://thisisvisualpoetry.com/?p=200 Out now. Order by email or by Paypal at http://www.redfoxpress.com/ass.box8.html REPORTS AND REVIEWS
A new publication from Road Books Tomasz Wilmanski and Joanna Adamczewska were in Mesmerized - Judy Kravis & Peter Morgan residence with a performance MANDALA for Boekie A collective contemplation of water through the words Woekie at Boekie Woekiein Amsterdam in the summer. and drawings of schoolchildren in Bandon, County Cork, The image shows the sand MANDALA. For more assembled and transformed by JK and PM. ‘A big flowing information on the artists see: www.at.free.art.pl river stretched from one end of my eye to the other ... the closer I got the more mesmerized at every step.’ Commissioned by the Engage Arts Festival, Bandon, County Cork. 24pp, stapled, 210 x 200mm, pbk, text and drawings Numbered edition of 201, Road books 2010. EUR 7. www.roadbooks.ie etceteras - by Marilyn R Rosenberg “etceteras was gleaned from fragments of visual poems, images of poetry bowls, and collage remnants from bookworks created by artist and visual poet Marilyn R. Rosenberg over the past 25+ years. Originally based on her bookwork named “5”, from which many middle layers for etceteras pages can be found, Marilyn R. Rosenberg creates a totally new spatial and meaningful experience that evolves
Pa g e 34 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m To date eight artist’s books have been published in Ral In Tamaño del Absurdo, Absurdity in turn has to fight a Veroni’s series Little River Plate Theatre of Entities. constant battle against the rest of the entities in order to The series in total comprises of 100 plates & 100 poems keep a certain balance between nonsense and life. created to accompany the Bicentennial of Argentina’s May Revolution on 25th May 2010. The titles are released Pain and Fear become ‘payadores’, the XIX century gaucho on the 25th of every month, in line with the symbolic version of a rapper. In Gauchesca entre el Miedo y el Dolor anniversary date. they sing the long song of their relationship with Absurdity, Destiny, Injustice and their position in the world.
Caracara, Ketekete y Klenklen is based on the personifications of totemic birds. They correspond to the eagle, falcon and hawk according to the names given by Guarani and Mapuche indians of the land known nowadays as Argentina. The poetic figures of these 3 birds mingle in situations with Oblivion, Existence, La Pampa and the River The eight artists’ books released so far are: Hueso sueña con Plate before “the conquest of the desert”, as the western llegar a Nada / Bone dreams of reaching Nothingness; colonization called the military campaign. El Tamaño del Absurdo / The Size of Absurdity; Gauchesca entre el Miedo y el Dolor / Gaucho Dialogue between Fear and Pain; Llamita y Destino / Little Flame and Destiny; Caracara, Ketekete y Klenklen; Trece entidades / Thirteen Entities; La Nada, Certificado de inexistencia / Nothingness, Certificate of non-existence and Miscelánea iconográfica / Iconographic Miscelanea.
The books are for sale via Galería Mar Dulce of Buenos The collection also includes a certificate of non-existence of Aires, Argentina or Vamp and Tramp in USA. Produced a book that was never published and an ambitious volume in editions of 50, the prices vary from $170 for the first 15 of 112 pages describing all the characters and actions copies made on handmade paper to $70 USD for fineprint involved in the Little River Plate Theatre of Entities called paper of the last 35. Miscelánea iconográfica has a unique Miscelánea iconográfica. price of $300 USD. La Nada, Certificado de inexistencia is given free with the purchase of one of the books. For more The Little River Plate Theatre of Entities’ blog (at present information please write to Linda Neilson at Galeria Mar in Spanish only) features a selection of poems and images Dulce (contact details below). updated weekly: http://13entidades.blogspot.com For more information on each title please follow these links: About Little River Plate Theatre of Entities: The building Hueso sueña con llegar a Nada - http://13entidades.blogspot. of Argentina has occurred against a backdrop of 200 com/2010/01/hueso-suena-con-llegar-nada.html years of civil unrest, military conflicts and coup d’etats, El tamaño del Absurdo - http://13entidades.blogspot. the rise and fall of the gaucho (archetypal figure of the com/2010/02/el-tamano-del-absurdo.html pampas), the destruction of indigenous communities, the Gauchesca entre el Miedo y el Dolor - http://13entidades. disappearance of the African population through war and blogspot.com/2010/03/gauchesca-entre-el-miedo-y-el- disease, a massive European and Asian immigration and the dolor-el.html ‘disappearance’ of left wing activists under the dictatorship. Llamita y Destino - http://13entidades.blogspot. com/2010/04/llamita-y-destino.html In Little River Plate Theatre of Entities 13 characters - Caracara, Ketekete y Klenklén - http://13entidades.blogspot. including Absurdity, Time, Oblivion, Injustice and Fear com/2010/05/caracara-ketekete-y-klenklen.html - alternate as actors facing situations of conflict and Trece entidades - http://13entidades.blogspot.com/2010/06/ complicity in a tragicomic play. The scenes draw on various trece-entidades.html sources: from creole surrealism to indigenous myth, and Certificado de inexistencia - http://13entidades.blogspot. from the African-colonial carnival to the Latin epigram, com/2010/07/el-teatrito-rioplatense-anuncia-la.html without leaving aside philosophy, or the purely nonsensical. Miscelánea iconográfica - http://13entidades.blogspot. com/2010/08/miscelanea-iconografica-viii-volumen.html A brief outline of some of the poetical plots (N.B. all texts are in Spanish): In Hueso sueña con llegar a Nada, Bone Galería Mar Dulce, Contact: Linda Neilson, Director (Death) dreams of reaching Nothingness where he thinks Galería Mar Dulce, Uriarte 1490, C1414 DAN, he truly belongs. The only obstacle is Absurdity and its huge Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina countenance. Bone explores Absurdity’s edges hoping one E-mail: [email protected] day to fall to the other side. http://galeriamardulce.blogspot.com
Pa g e 35 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k LIBERATURE in Theory and Practice
LIBERATURE OR TOTAL LITERATURE. COLLECTED ESSAYS 1999‐2009 by Zenon Fajfer and a collection of his liberatic poems TEN LETTERS, both in Katarzyna Bazarnik’s translation, have been published in bilingual editions by Korporacja Ha!art. The former gathers programmatic articles by the Polish writer and poet, who suggested that literary works displaying an authorial unity of verbal content and material form should be called liberature (from Latin liber), or literature in the form of the book. The collection is prefaced by prof. Wojciech Kalaga’s essay on liberature as a hybrid and transgeneric phenomenon and complemented by three other articles: Bazarnik’s discussion of constituent features of the genre, Agnieszka Przybyszewska’s account of liberature’s reception over the ten years, and Lukasz Jezyk’s imaginative reading of Fajfer’s poetry volume ten letters. It also contains selected bibliography of articles on liberature.
The requirements posed by liberature shape a new kind of recipient. The experience and the behaviour of an empirical reader in the traditional mode are rather precisely programmed (...). A certain variation and at the same time a disturbance in this structure of expectations and strategies was the recognition of open works (Umberto Eco) or scriptible texts (Roland Barthes) which introduce uncertainty and play into those structured expectations and modes of behaviour. But neither the open work in Eco’s understanding nor Barthes’ scriptible text negates the structures of response written into the texts – instead, they form a spectrum of parallel paths and alternatives. Certainly, however, both the open work and the scriptible text do constitute a qualitative change in “programming” the reader’s experience: his active and creative participation becomes necessary in the “production of senses” and, in a way, is written into the structure of the work by appropriately devised gaps or omissions. The liberary text is the crowning of this tendency: here the visuality plays a role just as important as the semantics of language. Such a text enforces a reading which is nonsequential, nonlinear, and which enforces (more or less conscious, more or less contingent) decisions. From the preface by Wojciech Kalaga
Read more at: http://www.biweekly.pl/article/1422
TEN LETTERS offers a whole range of Zenon Fajfer’s poetic techniques, opening with the printed version of the emanational “Ars poetica”, through philosophically imbued “Zeno’s Paradoxes”, “Irriversibility”, the interactive “7 letters”, and a series of sign‐poems “Act‐eon”, to close with “Primum Mobile”, an emanational electronic poem recorded as a DVD. Thus, this exquisitely edited volume of innovative poetry embraces both the printed and the virtual word, creatively exploiting and exploring the tensions between the two media.
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Lukasz Jezyk
See kinetic “Ars poetica”: http://www.techsty.art.pl/magazyn3/fajfer/Ars_poetica_english.html
Both books provide a handy demonstration in theory and practice of liberature, a new, fascinating trend in Polish literature. Complimentary sets can be ordered from Foundation Korporacja Ha!art via e‐mail: [email protected] (mailing charge ranges from ca. 8 to 25 Euro, depending on the region). Course packs (up to 12 sets) also available for free upon request (mailing charge applicable).
Watch a video on liberature (English subtitles): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGWG4EYSLkg&feature=related
Also available from Ha!art: http://www.ha.art.pl/sklep/index.php?p185,oka‐leczenie‐opatrzenie
OKA‐LECZENIE (Mute‐I‐late) by Zenon Fajfer and Katarzyna Bazarnik, the first book referred to as LIBERATURE. Build up from three codices joined by back covers, it is a work on transgression: of the borders between the body and the psyche, the visible and the invisible, the book and the word. It is about birth and death in which words are born and die, and about the in‐between that can be accessed through the invisible text. It is written with an original, emanational technique devised specially for this book. The invisible text can be decoded by putting together all the initials of the printed words; the procedure can be repeated until the reader gets to the ultimate word that emanated the whole discourse. The readers are free to follow the thread and decode the hidden layers, or they can skip them, remaining on the surface. So this is ultimately the reader who decides on the final shape of the text. Published with the twin (O)patrzenie [Ga(u)ze], both books constitute the classic works of Zenkasi writerly duo (Katarzyna Bazarnik and Zenon Fajfer).
Watch Oka‐leczenie on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsDdj4oFBFc&feature=player_embedded
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Watch (O)patrzenie on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=‐Z_Etuv_cl4&feature=related
KATARZYNA BAZARNIK and ZENON FAJFER are a couple of creators and theoreticians of liberature, the authors of jointly written books Oka‐leczenie (prototype edition 2000, 1st ed. 2009) and (O)patrzenie (2003, 2009), which initiated the Liberatura movement; the editors of “Liberature” line in Ha!art publishing house, and founders of Liberature Reading Room in Krakow, Poland. In 1999 Fajfer wrote the manifesto‐essay “Liberature. An Appendix to the Dictionary of Literary Terms”, while Bazarnik edited a volume of essays Od Joyce’a do liberatury (2002) and Liberature or Total Literature. Collected Essays 1999‐2009 (2010) that have introduced the concept in the Academia. She works as a lecturer of English literature and literary theory at the Jagiellonian University, and Fajfer focuses on creative writing, authoring also a bottle‐book “But Eyeing Like Ozone Whole” (2004) and a multimedial poetry volume “ten letters” (2010).
SPUREN A report from Klaus von Mirbach The many drawings, in my kindergarten, where I work once It’s raining. But in between the sun shines. The sky is blue a week. Drawings the children give me. Drawings found in with some thick white clouds. Autumn light. For the first magazines and paper scraps. Drawings that deliberate on time this year I sweep up leaves in front of our house. It is cold. The family is on the way and comes home in the what drawing really is. Drawings that are created out of pure afternoon. But in the whole house, I find traces of things boredom. Copied from magazines and art books. which report something. Traces of life. Drawing while surfing the web. Telefonkritzeleien=doodles. This wonderful disparate material I use as a starting point In December, my book project SPUREN (=TRACES) will for making the books. All my drawings and books arise end. Every week of this year 2010, I wanted to make a book. from everyday situations. Shopping, sweeping leaves, However, it did not become 52 and I have stopped counting. cooking, tidying up the rooms, long hikes through the Counting is somewhat pretentious and boring. And the first town and across the fields, filling in the income tax return, working method - collecting, sorting, cutting to size, doing taking a break and looking out of the window. Without this the best binding, case bound, ready - is also boring. The life, this wonderful life-I know there are also some not so last three drawing-diaries have emerged with an enjoyable, successful moments, I’m no fool - I would not draw. What imaginative slowness. I don’t want to be ready! Not: should I tell? And as different as all these living situations again, I have done a book! Time for drawing, recording, are, so are the drawings, the books: without a traditional storytelling. Drawing in different situations. Here at home. suspense, without conventional sales-oriented drama,
Pa g e 38 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m designed and decided by a sense of coherence. There is no Group Show connection! And only if one accepts this, one can see the Heuser Art Gallery, 1400 W. Bradley Ave, Peoria, IL, USA connection. I can allow that myself, I am unsuccessful and Until November 28, 2010 can do what is right for me and can go on searching. An exhibition that explores group work, and includes work from the groups Temporary Services, Okay Mountain, And yet a couple of books have been sold, given away and Carnal Torpor, and The League of Imaginary Scientists. swapped. Amazing that this drawing-telling, this personal, individual recording, can then be repeatedly read and For Group Show, Temporary Services are debuting understood by others. The Self-Reliance Library, one of their most recent projects. “The Self-Reliance Library is an autonomous reading and creating library. It is a collection of books and reference materials that we find inspiring, and that could help us to build and improve our lives. Topics explored by the books in the library include visionary architecture, wildly imaginative mobility, nomadic living, self-publishing, repair solutions, fantasy worlds, technology created in marginalized settings, ecologically-sound living, survivalism, weapon production, and approaches to living radically.
We have also created new banners with quotes from several books found in The Self-Reliance Library. These are made of reconstructed plastic grocery bags, as a continuation of our Personal Plastic project. Visitors to Bradley will be able to pick up a free copy of a new booklet we have made that And so the project “SPUREN” will continue in the next year, describes each of the books in The Self-Reliance Library. will develop different working methods, different bindings, The booklet will be available for purchase from Half Letter different no matter what, but always in an attempt to tell of Press soon. There are also free copies of our Personal Plastic our lives. Besides my PC is Schnuffi, the sleep-cuddle-dog of booklet/poster at the gallery.” Pauline. “Take good care of him, daddy, he doesn’t want to be alone.” More information: Heuser Art Gallery at Bradley University www.klausvonmirbach.blogspot.com http://art.bradley.edu/bug/?p=1265 The Self-Reliance Library & Personal Plastic (with photos): http://www.temporaryservices.org/current_services.html
STOP PRESS! A Unique Library 2010 - Kate Bufton’s new exhibition is on show until January 2011 at the Wheatsheaf Library, LAUNCH AT bookartbookshop on Thursday 4th Baillie Street, Rochdale, OL16 1JZ, UK November 6.30-8pm UP! A postcard book by Richard Tipping and an exhibition of prints and multiples. Richard Kelly Tipping is an Australian poet and artist who bridges text and image to make artpoems and other wordworks: from large roadsigns and printed concrete poems, to photographs, neon sculptures and public language installations. Tipping’s artpoems are sold through art gallery shops internationally. An artpoem is a hybrid, made between word and image, between text and context, between verbal graphics and signs, a mix of poetry and art. These are open-edition multiples in traditions of publishing established by artists associated with Fluxus. His works have been exhibited in galleries and events in Australia, Europe and the USA in recent years, and acquired by major collections. www.richardtipping.net My work is an ongoing developmental exploration, manipulating the shape and form of old books. The bookartbookshop 17 Pitfield Street, London N1 6HB physicality of old books is an important inspiration to Tel: 02076081333 Weds-Fri 1-7pm, Sat 12-6pm my work with the stained pages holding many unknown
Pa g e 39 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k possibilities. The rough textures and musty smells are “The Fascinating Power of Magnets” is a four day integral to the progress of my practice as I continue to workshop, April 5 - 8 2011, where we will discover the explore their physical structures. By altering the books mysterious and fascinating power of magnets and how to original form through various cuts and folds they are use them as clasps on fixed bindings, brochures and boxes. transformed from a carrier of text to an object that Participants will learn to process neodymium magnets may be admired. and magnetic film visibly and invisibly, as well as have the opportunity to implement their own ideas. In order to participate some experience from bookbinding or similar activities is encouraged.
There is a ‘meet the artist’ day at the Wheatsheaf Library on 28th October. More information www.katebufton.co.uk
“Loose and Simple Bindings” and “The Fascinating Power The workshop is tutored by Nadine Werner from Clenze, of Magnets” workshops Germany. Nadine works as an independent designer. “Loose and Simple Bindings” is a four day workshop Among others, she designs magnetic solutions for Hartley scheduled in Stockholm for next Spring from March 31 and Marks in Vancouver, BC, Canada, the originators of the to April 3, 2011 and is given in conjunction with “The brand, Paperblanks, well known here in Sweden. Presently, Fascinating Power of Magnets”, also a four day workshop Nadine is working on a new series called “Paper Oh” which and scheduled for April 5-8, 2011. “Loose and Simple will be coming out Spring 2011. Bindings” is tutored by Cristina Balbiano d’Aramengo from the association Professione Libro in Milan, Italy Both workshops take place in Stockholm.Participants (www.professionelibro.it) registering for both workshops will get a reduced fee. The workshops will be given in English. For more information contact Helene Jouper, e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +46 (0)73 73 555 44 www.bokbindarkompetens.se www.helenejouper.se
UWE Bristol Exhibitions at Bower Ashton Library Opening hours, term time: Mon - Thur. 08.45 - 20.00. Fri. 08.45 - 17.00. Sat. 09.30 - 13.00. Please call to check opening hours before travelling as times vary during inter-semester weeks and vacation periods. Library main desk telephone: 0117 328 4750
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The workshop is suited to anyone interested in paper and Next deadline: 14th November for the book arts, as well as anyone who might be looking for December issue new ways to present ideas and projects. Participants from all related professional fields such as graphic designers, Sarah Bodman, Centre for Fine Print Research artists, bookbinders, calligraphers, architects and more are UWE Bristol Faculty of Creative Arts, Humanities and welcome. Some of the models used during the workshop Education, Kennel Lodge Road, Bristol BS3 2JT, UK have been provided by book artists: Hedi Kyle and www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk / [email protected] Carmencho Arregui, as well as box master, Cor Aerssens.
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