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Café Royal Books / 10 years The Photographers’ Gallery / 6pm 03.12.15 BOOK ARTS NEWSLETTER ISSN 1754-9086 No. 101 December 2015 - January 2016 Published by Impact Press at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol, UK ARTIST’S COVER PAGE: CAFÉ ROYAL BOOKS In this issue: National and International Artists’ Books Exhibitions Pages 1 - 20 Announcements Pages 20 - 21 Courses, Conferences, Lectures & Workshops Pages 22 - 27 Opportunities Pages 27 - 32 Artist’s Book Fairs & Events Pages 33 - 34 Internet News Page 34 New Artists’ Publications Pages 34 - 45 Reports & Reviews Page 45 Stop Press! Pages 45 - 51 Artists’ Books Exhibitions in the Bower Ashton Library cases, UWE, Bristol, UK A Year of Making Artists’ Books Monday 7th December - Sunday 31st January 2016 This exhibition brings together work from the students of the one-year Hand-Printed Artists’ Books Course at Spike Print Studio (Jan-Dec 2015) led by Angie Butler. The books were made throughout their course from detailed project briefs and individual inspirations and designs. From very large to very small books, the exhibition covers many printing techniques including lino-printing, letterpress, rubber-stamp, roller printing, inkjet and photocopying, all held within the book format. There is a variety of structures, reconfigured books, various book- Jocelyn Châteauvert Amethyst Spiral bindings and fascinating foldings; just about something for everyone. Featured artists: Islam Aly (Iowa City, IA) Jocelyn Châteauvert (Charleston, SC) Mandy Coppes-Martin (Johannesburg, South Africa) Melissa Jay Craig (Chicago, IL) Ann Marie Kennedy (Raleigh, NC) Nnenna Okore (Chicago, IL) Trisha Oralie Martin (Chicago, IL) MCBA/Jerome Book Arts Mentorship Series V Until 19th February 2016 The Book Arts Mentorship is an artist development programme aimed at introducing book arts to emerging artists whose primary medium is in another discipline. There are many reasons to explore book arts as a new artistic medium. As a highly malleable and versatile form of expression, book arts extend the possibilities of other art forms. You can create a conceptual space. Experiment with Featuring work made by Olga Fear, Keren Lewis, Sue Mara, sequence and visual or verbal narrative. Use book art forms Ruth Sidgwick, Katherine Stevens, John Sweeney, Cathey to extend, explore, document or re-examine work produced Webb, Carol Wood, Asa Yoneda. in other artistic disciplines. http://www.spikeprintstudio.org/courses/2244 Exhibitions at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, USA: Exceptional: Handmade Paper Beyond Substrate Until 7th February 2016 Co-curated by Jeff Rathermel and Mary Hark. Paper is often thought of as just the material art is created on. Exceptional explores handmade paper itself as a powerful messaging device. Page 1 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk This exhibition represents the culmination of a year-long Buzz Spector: The Book Under (De-) Construction mentorship and study of new artistic disciplines and one- Until 12th December 2015 on-one work with master artist mentors. Artist mentors for Master Faculty Fellow / Featured Artist Project Series V were: papermaker Mary Hark; letterpress printer Organised by Alexander Campos, Executive Director & and book artist Monica Edwards Larson; and printmaker Curator, The Center for Book Arts. Each year the Center and book artist Wilber H. “Chip” Schilling. invites a notable artist to teach a master class with an exhibition as part of our “Master Faculty Fellow” series. Featured artists: Graphic designer Brandon Alvarado Photographer and printmaker Claudia Danielson Filmmaker and photographer Sam Hoolihan Puppetry artist Olli Johnson Printmaker Amira F. Pualwan Origami artist and painter Ioana Stoian For more information, visit our Mentorship page: http://www.mnbookarts.org/mentorships/ Minnesota Center for Book Arts 1011 Washington Ave. S. #100 Minneapolis, MN 55415, USA http://www.mnbookarts.org Monday – Saturday: 9.30am to 6.30pm Buzz Spector, Beautiful Scenes installation (detail), Cranbrook Art Tuesdays open late: 9.30am to 9pm. Sundays: noon to 5pm Museum, 1998. Buzz Spector is an internationally-known artist whose Exhibitions at The Center for Book Arts, New York: work makes frequent use of the book, both as subject and object, and is concerned with relationships between public Archive Bound history, individual memory, and perception. His work with Until 12th December 2015 altered found books dates back to 1981, and his collages Main gallery. Organised by Karen E. Jones, Independent incorporating dust jacket elements date from 1987. Curator. Archive Bound examines methodologies within the presentation, documentation, historiography, and exhibition Spector has received much recognition for his art, including display of non-object based and site-specific artworks. a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship in 1991, Additionally, the exhibition includes books, photographs, and three NEA individual artist fellowships. He received the and ephemera associated with Conceptual, Performance, distinguished teaching of art award from the College Art and Site-Specific Art practices. Several first generation Association in 2013. avant-garde figures lay the groundwork for a discourse on the contemporary utilisation of these crucial genres. Elena Berriolo: Why Didn’t They? Until 12th December 2015 The premise of Conceptual, Installation, and Performance Featured Artist Project - Organised by Alexander Campos, practices emerging in the 1970s was a polemic based on Executive Director & Curator, The Center for Book Arts non-material art production. Artists were aggressively Why Didn’t They? highlights Elena Berriolo’s work of the refusing both the materiality of the art object, the gallery/ last three years, encompassing books, performance and museum circulation and the resultant commercial value photomontage. Continuing her investigation into the of the art product within the context of the art market. possibilities of the line traced by the sewing machine, The ephemeral nature of the performance and the Berriolo presents 12 unique 16-page books made with dematerialization of the art object were the intellectual thread, watercolour, and ink on paper that address a variety currency of the performance and conceptual movements. of themes, including a speculative rewriting of art history These historical practices set in place the groundwork for from a feminist point of view, the interweaving of poetry a second-generation of performance and conceptually and visual art, and a direct engagement with nature. based artworks and ushered in the present day conundrum Each book will be displayed on a music stand and will be regarding their (re)presentation within a museum setting. available for leafing through by visitors. Also on view will be photomontages that take a humorous and critical look Artists included are: Laylah Ali, Justin Amrhein, Cory at art history. Arcangel, Aurora De Armendi, Sophie Calle, Paul Chan, Rainer Ganahl, Jacqueline Goss & Jenny Perlin, Guerrilla Three separate series of unique books are included in the Girls, Paula Hayes, Thomas Hirschhorn, Sasha Huber, Liz exhibition. In Transcriptions from Canonical Male Artists Magic Laser, Dean Moss, Karyn Olivier, James Romberger, (including Lucio Fontana, Henri Matisse, Ellsworth Kelly), Martha Rosler, Marion Scemama, Seth Siegelaub & Robert Berriolo asks the question: Why didn’t they (these male Projansky, Situationist International, Marguerite Van Cook, artists) think of using the sewing machine? Berriolo points Martha Wilson, and David Wojnarowicz. out that, in contrast to conventional art tools such as the pencil or paintbrush, the sewing machine creates a “true Page 2 this newsletter can be downloaded from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm three-dimensional line with a top and a bottom that in a Participating artists include: Carol Blackwell, Alane book, by turning the page can be moved through space.” Broderick, Gail Coito, Dennis Dahill, Diane Dolan, Tama If innovative artists such as Matisse, Fontana, or Piero Drasher, Helga Felleisen, Ania Gilmore, Jane Goldman, Manzoni failed to think of using the sewing machine, it Chrisina Hajosy, Gail Hansen, Ronni Komarow, Yvonne was because they associated it with women’s work. Berriolo Maura Lamothe, Margo Lemeiux, Ralph Mercer, Ann first raised this issue in her 2012 Brooklyn Rail article Miller, Jeanette O’Connor, Laurel Rogers, Margaret Scoppa, “Why Didn’t Lucio Fontana Use My Sewing Machine?” and Patty Simon, Martha Shea Smith, Alice Stanne, Marcella explores it in more depth in her newly published manifesto Stasa, Julia Talcott, Jennifer Weigel, David Weinberg, X Why Didn’t They? (Milanville Editions, 2015). Bonnie Woods, Annie Zeybekoglu. In the series From/With Poetry, Berriolo interweaves her sewn line with lines of poetry (by Catullus, Apollinaire and Emily Dickinson), liberating word and image in a kind of visual dance. On December 4, Berriolo will present Feed Me the Line, a performance with sewing machine and poetry in collaboration with the poet Steve Dalachinsky. In the series From/With Nature, the artist incorporates different natural elements into her process. For the book My Grass Brush, she draws with a brush made from fresh grass, acknowledging that the cotton of her sewing machine thread is also made out of grass. In I am a Beetle, she imprints with leaves that have been attacked by Japanese beetles, connecting the perforations made by the insects with the holes made by her sewing machine needle. Related Event - Friday, December 4, 6:30pm