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BOOK ARTS NEWSLETTER ISSN 1754-9086 No. 106 September - October 2016 Published by Impact Press at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol, UK ARTIST’S COVER PAGE: LINDA WILLIAMS In this issue: National and International Artists’ Books Exhibitions Pages 2 - 19 Announcements Pages 20 - 21 Courses, Conferences, Lectures & Workshops Pages 22 - 30 Opportunities Pages 30 - 37 Artist’s Book Fairs & Events Pages 37 - 44 Internet News Page 44 New Artists’ Publications Pages 44 - 57 Reports & Reviews Pages 58 - 63 Stop Press! Page 64 Artists’ Books Exhibitions in the Bower Ashton Library CARBON FOOTPRINT (2007) CarbonArt, City Hall, cases, UWE, Bristol, UK London. An exhibition addressing issues on Climate Change. Footprints from a global database, including her Sumi Perera et al. [SuperPress EDITIONS] own Sri Lankan diaspora were used. These etched footprints 1st September - 30th October 2016 were inked with marmite, peanut butter, saffron etc., An interdisciplinary artist working within various medical, considered imported exotic non-local foods to Sri Lankans scientific & artist collectives involved in writing, printing in the 60s. and publications, Sumi Perera has often generated work with groups and individuals sharing skills and resources. She makes the prototype of each prospective collaborative work herself, researching, experimenting and developing, until the work acquires a distinct voice. She then reverses the editorial control, by inviting others to take over the final artistic license to intervene and alter it by re-sequencing, adding, subtracting, inscribing, erasing etc. She does not set a brief or deadline to participants, but merely asks that they respond to the assembled work in any manner they wish to. The books and pages exhibited are a cross-section of selected collaborations over the last ten years from a cohort of international artists, curators, gallerists, actors, dancers, choreographers, singers, hairdressers and animals; in an active or passive capacity and are all ongoing projects. MEDIA IS THE MESS AGE (2011, image above) Fishwick List of contributors/participants are included with Papers, Smokehouse, London. Papers were printed using each project within the exhibition. Some were solitary ‘smoke signals’ and placed on the ground (replacing respondents, working in different spaces, and others worked extracted floor-tiles) for visitors to intermix quotes, phrases communally altering each others’ work. and build new narratives. Hardcopy and paperback books were also published using only Wikipedia data. TURN THE PAGE… (2008) ‘Book to Book’ at the Leeds Art Gallery [11th International Contemporary Artist Bookfair, Leeds]. A tribute to my mother (pianist), and a recording of only each ‘page turn’, with the ‘performed music’ in between kept silent (composer/pianist: Samantha Fernando) WORK IN PROGRESS (WIP) James Joyce & Company, Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios Mansion, Nicosia, Cyprus; LOOP 2014 Bankside London. A tribute to Finnegans Wake - it speculates on the combined acoustic effects Joyce’s typewriter clicks and his daughter Lucia’s dancing feet, might have had on the aural component of the novel. The largest collaboration so far (100+ contributors-from an unborn baby to a posthumous contribution from my father) PERCEPTIONS (2006, image above). Helen Keller UNBUILDING BLOCKS (UB) [Sketch 2013, Rabley International Award. Designed to increase awareness of Drawing Centre; Standout Print, Highpoint Centre for deaf-blindness. An artist’s book with detachable SSAEs Printmaking, Minneapolis USA; LOOP 2015, Bankside circulated to form a multi-authored work. The etching Gallery; ELP 2015 Embassy Tea Gallery-Lawrence King plate was designed by Perera, while wearing a blindfold and Publishers Prize; Press & Release, Phoenix, Brighton 2016; earplugs following a visit to Sense Scotland, Glasgow. Impressions 2016 Artistbook Biennial, Galway; Liminal Page 2 http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters.html Space-Flourish Award, Huddersfield Art Gallery]. Many paranormal activity, urban myths and psychological fear. variant responses including a daily headstand to flatten the The exhibition is presented as part of a global celebration embossing (Gerry Turvey, dancer/choreographer). of the bicentennial of the writing and publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The celebration encompasses a wide variety of public programmes, physical and digital exhibits, research projects, scientific demonstrations, competitions, festivals, art projects, formal and informal learning opportunities, and publications exploring the novel’s colossal scientific, technological, artistic, cultural and social impacts. Local partners include the Bakken Museum and the Science Museum of Minnesota. Frankenstein Read-a-Thon! Monday 31st October, 6pm Come for a Halloween night Read-a-Thon to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as community members read chapters aloud throughout the evening. http://www.mnbookarts.org/itsalive/ 2B or not 2B (2016, detail image above). A multi-component 3D print and sound installation. (electroconductive inks Collected Voices: 30 Years of Quatrefoil Library programmed to generate sound upon touch) A tribute to Until 16th October 2016 the 400th Death Anniversary of the Bard. The phrase TO BE Launched in the 1980s by the book-loving couple OR NOT TO BE is interpreted in various formats: spoken, Dick Hewetson and David Irwin, Quatrefoil Library in drawn, written, typed or danced (see page 54). Minneapolis has grown to become the country’s second- largest LGBT lending library, with a searchable catalogue of She also coordinated the exhibition REMIX/REIMAGINE more than 30,000 books, periodicals and DVDs, more than (New Brewery Arts, Cirencester) for Impress 2016 half of them circulating. an International Print Festival, with members of the Gloucestershire Print Cooperative over 6 weeks, responding to several of the above works [WIP, UB & IO-OI] More details and names of participants are included within the exhibition accompanying each project, more info is available online: https://www.saatchiart.com/sumiperera Anyone interested in contacting the artist-email: sumi_perera@hotmail.com Two exhibitions at Minnesota Center for Book Arts, USA: It’s Alive! Until 31st October 2016 Run entirely by volunteers, Quatrefoil is open seven days a week at its 3,000-square-foot location at E. Lake St. and 13th Av. S. Its members checked out more than 3,400 items last year, and thousands visited the library to browse, join book clubs and attend events. The library’s popular annual used- book sale on Pride weekend in June benefits the library’s ongoing operational expenses. Quatrefoil opened in north Minneapolis in 1986, and moved to St. Paul in 1987, where it remained until moving to its current 3,000-square-feet space in 2013. Along with the archival Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection at the University of Minnesota, Quatrefoil makes the Twin Cities a center for LGBT books and history, rivaling Ghost Postcards, Stephen Fowler, rubber stamp on found postcards much larger cities, including New York and San Francisco. Only one LGBT lending library, in Chicago, has a larger As an exhibition, It’s Alive! demonstrates a variety of circulating collection. approaches that book, paper and print artists employ to express “horror.” The theme is deliberately broad with the Dedicated volunteers and veteran board members can intention to present a range of works: from those inspired tell the story of Quatrefoil and its value to people who are by campy B movies, to works addressing contemporary coming out, those doing research, or just avid readers with Page 3 http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters.html an ongoing interest in LGBT issues, culture, literature 20/20 Vision: and history. Celebrating the Next Generation of Book Artists The San Francisco Center for the Book, USA Minnesota Center for Book Arts Until 16th October 2016 1011 Washington Ave. S. #100 The San Francisco Center for the Book celebrates its first Minneapolis, MN 55415, USA 20 years by looking ahead. “20/20 Vision” introduces http://www.mnbookarts.org 20 emerging book artists from around the country, Monday – Saturday: 9.30am to 6.30pm representing a diverse generation that will help define, and Tuesdays open late: 9.30am to 9pm. Sundays: noon to 5pm redefine, the artist’s book in decades to come. Artists: Islam Aly, Hannah Batsel, Tia Blassingame, Andre Sheherzade’s Gift: Subversive Narratives Bradley, Kyle Anthony Clark, Trevor Clement, Lyall F. The Center for Book Arts, New York, USA Harris, Sarah Hulsey, Mirabelle Jones, Jenna Rodriguez, Until 24th September 2016 Woody Leslie, Kyoko Matsunaga, Allison Milham, Candida Organised by Jaishri Abichandani, Independent Curator and Pagan, Radha Pandey, Matt Runkle, Jaime Lynn Shafer, former director, South Asian Women’s Creative Collective. Leslie Smith, Ariel Hansen Strong, Casey Tang. For more information on the artists visit: One of the most enduring and influential books in global https://sfcb.org/20-20-Vision popular culture is A Thousand and One Nights. Understood as an amalgamation of fables originating from West and Curator: Steve Woodall. A fully illustrated catalogue of this South Asia, its main protagonist is the fictional Queen exhibition may be purchased from San Francisco Center for Sheherzade, whose stories are told to countless young girls the Book. from North Africa to South East Asia. The Queen has been a polarising figure for many women who have grown up with San Francisco Center for the Book