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Artists' Book Fair BOOK ARTS NEWSLETTER ISSN 1754-9086 No. 64 March - April 2011 Published by Impact Press at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol, UK ARTIST’S COVER PAGE BY guylaine couture IN TH I S I SSUE : NAT I ONAL AND INTERNAT I ONAL ART I STS ’ BOOKS EXH I B I T I ONS PAGES 1 - 13 ANNOUNCEMENTS PAGES 13 - 14 COURSES , CONFERENCES & WORKSHO P S PAGES 14 - 19 Opp ORTUN I T I ES PAGES 19 - 24 INTERNET NEWS PAGES 24 - 25 ART I ST ’S BOOK FA I RS PAGES 26 - 28 NEW ART I STS ’ PUBL I C AT I ONS PAGES 29 - 34 RE P ORTS & REV I EWS PAGES 34 - 38 STO P PRESS ! PAGE 39 Artists’ Books Exhibitions Additionally, the sequencing provided by the pagination of the book form can enhance and reflect the aspect of time University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Tom Trusky Exhibition Cases which underpins so much of self-documentation, allowing a story to unfold in a sequence proposed by the artist and Special Collections Room, Bower Ashton Library at a pace determined by the viewer. The Artist’s Book As Document Curated by Natalie McGrorty 8th March - 25th April 2011 They bear witness to voyages of discovery, of achievement, of loss, of homecoming. They give enduring form to a great span of human experience, from a simple personal journal though all the complicated transactions of civilization, to the spiritual vision. Books are vessels of human experience as it is worked through and passed on to others. They embody our activities and intentions, our schemes and our insights; our various journeys, both individual and collective. (The Book As Vessel: A Catalogue of the 1991 Oregon Book Biennial. p3) This exhibition brings together artists’ books from Dreamlog 1998 by Genie Shenk twenty-three practitioners across Europe and America. Each work embodies the activity of self-documentation; In terms of production, photography, photocopying and demonstrating in a variety of ways, the virtues of the book digital scanning increasingly facilitate documentational as a place to document a personal collection, experience, work, providing a fast and efficient way of documenting or period of time. artifacts and events pertaining to daily life. The facility to make copies of personal documentation allows items to be From a young age we are intimately acquainted with books used that might otherwise be considered too precious to and they have long provided a holding space in which to part with, or too awkward to include in book form. More record human experience, enabling stories and ideas to traditional methods of reproduction are still very much in be collected and preserved. The book form itself offers a use however, such as drawing, screen-printing, Letterpress degree of privacy for its contents, revealing or concealing and Lithography. its innermost secrets in a controllable and intimate way, making it ideal for use as a diary or lending itself to work Researching acts of self-documentation, with regard to my of a personal nature. own practice, led me to curate this exhibition and I am delighted to present such a diverse collection of work. Today we have at our disposal the means to document and share our lives in a growing number of ways, both physically, The artists exhibiting are: and virtually through the Internet. Yet, in a culture engulfed by the outpouring of information, artists’ books offer a Ahlrich van Ohlen, Bea Nettles, Caryl Burtner, Donald creative alternative for working with and recording personal Baechler, Francis Elliott, Frans Baake, Genie Shenk, Harland experience and ideas in a more considered and creative way. Miller, Imi Maufe, Kenneth Goldsmith, Kristen Merola, In contrast to other more ephemeral types of document, Laurie Clark, Lucy May Schofield, Michael Landy, Sally artists’ books provide something desirably tangible and long Alatalo, Sarah Bodman, Scott McCarney, Skúta Helgason, lasting, and are often engaging in form as well as content. Sophie Calle, Susan Johnson, Susan Kae Grant, Tom Sowden The tactile nature of these books not only invites interaction and Victoria Lucas. and engagement but demands such interaction if the work is to be animated and its content revealed. Held in close proximity to the body, the viewer partakes in the intimate www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/natext.htm performance of the book’s contents, gaining insight into another’s world with the turning of each page. PAGE 1 WWW .BOOKARTS .UWE .AC .UK Again, A Time Machine Again, A Time Machine reappears at Motto, Berlin with A Book Works touring exhibition in five parts a Book Works’ archive, presentation and one-night of Part one, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK performance with Maria Fusco, Stewart Home, Katrina Until 16th April 2011 Palmer, and Archive Books. A new commission for Sarah Artists are playing with words again – raiding the archive, Pierce at the Showroom, London will start in June 2010, bringing the dead to life, making the living look dead. and is accompanied by a monthly series of spoken word Quicker than the ever-elusive present, they are forging a and performative writing events, to include Paul Buck, practice through words, images, books, and ephemera, that Alex Cecchetti, Mark Geffriaud, Melissa Gronlund, The begins to anticipate the past, forecast possible histories and Happy Hypocrite, Plastique Fantastique, Kit Poulson and re-visit alternative futures. others. A new commission with Laure Prouvost at Spike Island, Bristol, accompanies a rethinking of Book Works Again, A Time Machine is a fluid tour, reinventing itself archive and the annual ‘zine fair on 9 October 2010 . White as work moves from venue to venue. Based on new Columns, New York will host the first retrospective of artist commissions and archival presentations, it will generate and writer Stewart Home. Again, A Time Machine makes ephemera, performance and printed material, in response its last appearance back at the Showroom, London in April to a theme that plays with and inverts notions of time, 2012, with a final exhibition, and the publication of a new archive, distribution and received pasts and perfect futures. anthology. New commissions for Eastside Projects sees the start of a poster project by Jonathan Monk, the reimagining of Open Thursday 12 - 6.30pm, Friday and Saturday 12 - 5pm a Polish–Iranian solidarity by Slavs and Tatars, readings Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham B9 4AR of Dora Garcia’s All the Stories, artists’ talks, The Happy www.eastsideprojects.org Hypocrite-Say What You See: a cycle of readings co-hosted by An Endless Supply and Maria Fusco, and a newspaper. Events Délires de Livres 2011 Collégiale Saint André Chartres, France Slavs and Tatars artist’s talk 16th April - 8th May 2011 Thursday 24 March, 6.30 - 8pm Only Solidarity and Patience will secure our victory billboard, 594.6 cm x 296.8 cm, Slavs and Tatars, 2011 Presenting the work of the collective Slavs and Tatars, in particular the use and influence of books and printed material in their practice, with a particular focus on the archive of Iranian and Polish books used for Again, A Time Machine, in their installation Dear 1979, please meet 1989 The Happy Hypocrite - Say What You See Co-hosted by An Endless Supply and Maria Fusco Thursday 31 March, 6.30 - 10pm Drawing on the methodology of one of the sections from The Happy Hypocrite, An Endless Supply and Maria Fusco present a series of artists’ readings and spoken word performances. Dora Garcia artist’s talk 160 artists respond to the theme of: Blue/white/or black. Thursday 14 April, 6.30 - 8pm An exhibition of artists’ books and book objects. Dora Garcia and Gavin Wade discuss All the Stories, and Daily: 1.30 - 6.30 pm. More information on the website: future collaborations. www.am-arts.com PAGE 2 THIS NEWSLETTER CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM WWW .BOOKARTS .UWE .AC .UK /BANLISTS .HTM COVER-ED The Performance Re-enactment Society (PRS), Tom Sowden & Michalis Pichler, and Arnolfini Archive Exhibition, Events, and a New Publication at Arnolfini, Bristol, UK until 30th April “By the way, what salad dressing do you prefer?” Cover-ed is a series of curatorial and creative interventions into and around Ed Ruscha and Mason Williams’ bookwork Crackers, a copy of which is held in Arnolfini’s Archive. Over two months the book will become the script, score, instruction, and inspiration for a three-day performance of photography, a participatory performance event, an installation, and a new artist’s book. Three exhibitions at the cdla, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France run until June 2011 From now until June, cdla is showing three exhibitions and hosting three informal seminars around the concept of a collection. Probably any collection (of stamps or of anything else) aims towards a state of completion. The collection of the Centre des livres d’artistes is of course lacking. The new exhibition uses this as a starting point and displays a few incomplete series of works and publications. piéces manquantes. Until 25/06/11. Poésies concrète, visuelle (pour mémoire). Until 16th April. Pour information 1 (passe à ton voisin). 20th April - 25th June For the full programme, please see http://cdla.info/en cdla, 1 place Attane, F-87500 Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France. Tel + 33 (0)555 75 70 30 JOCKUM NORDSTRÖM - BY AND TO JOCKUM follow-ed (after hokusai) Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France 15th March - 1st May 2011 Until 27th March 2011 Arnolfini Reading Room Christophe Daviet-Thery Curated by Tom Sowden and Michalis Pichler. Previous 34, rue Louise Weiss 75013 Paris re-makes of Ed Ruscha bookworks will be displayed in the Tel. +33 1 53 79 05 95 set of the new cover version of Crackers.
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