BOOK ARTS NEWSLETTER ISSN 1754-9086 No. 65 May - (mid) June 2011 Published by Impact Press at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol, UK ARTIST’S COVER PAGE - THE PEOPLE BY JOHN BENTLY 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 - 9 ANNOUNCEMENTS PAGES 9 - 10 COURSES , CONFERENCES & WORKSHO P S PAGES 11 - 16 Opp ORTUN I T I ES PAGES 16 - 20 INTERNET NEWS PAGES 20 - 21 ART I ST ’S BOOK FA I RS & FEST I VALS PAGES 21 - 24 NEW ART I STS ’ PUBL I C AT I ONS PAGES 24 - 32 RE P ORTS PAGES 32 - 33 STO P PRESS ! PAGE 33 Artists’ Books Exhibitions University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Tom Trusky Exhibition Cases Special Collections Room, Bower Ashton Library Future Fantasteek! Jackie Batey 27 April 2011 - 14 June 2011 Future Fantasteek! had been bubbling for some time before I thought of making it into a serial zine in 2006. I commute to work, about 3 hours per day - only 3 days per week though. I sit on the train and often draw or write to while away the journey. I soon noticed that my drawings were generally a visual rant about what had happened that day or week. Over the course of a year, I built up many images; some typographic; others drawn in the form of fake advertisements or patronising advice. When flicking through a batch of these sketchbooks it seemed like a fun idea to try and edit them into a serial zine. Themes kept reappearing - broken machines, rude people, apathy and quick fixes, fake medical promises, fashion, celebrity endorsements, xmas, commercialism, and on and on, and on... Strangely enough, drawing [down] everything This touring exhibition and catalogue celebrates the first that made me mad, made me smile more. So now I give the ten issues of Future Fantasteek! spanning the last 5 years. illusion of being happy person. The ‘train’ sketchbooks also form part of this exhibition that started at University of the Arts London, LCC, London I title each issue of the zine to reflect current topics, in March 2011, and is now touring venues across the UK it’s strange now looking back over 5 years to see zines and USA until March 2012. themed around: Carbon Footprints: Comfort & Security: Credit Crunch: Quantitative Easing: Fiddle Your Expenses: UK Locations Deepwater Horizon and the latest, Issue Ten, Royal Wedding 5 Sept 2011 - 28 Oct 2011, The Library, Hereford College of Souvenir. Is this really the world we all live in? Arts, Hereford. 21 Nov 2011 - 13 Jan 2012, INVIA, Institute of International Visual Arts, London. 1 Feb 2012 - 1 March Introduction from Issue Ten: ‘The Royal Wedding Souvenir’ 2012, The Ministry of Books, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth. The Damp Research team have been trotting out this stuff for FIVE years now. At some point you might have USA Locations thought someone would find something better to do ... Until 31 May 2011, Colorado College Special Collections, but apparently not. Well, the walls of money have Colorado Springs, CO. 27 June 2011 - 7 Oct 2011, The stuck to rich people again and University is now soooo Sallie Bingham Center, Duke University, Durham, NC. expensive only the Queen can afford to send her eldest 30 Oct 2011 - 20 Nov 2011, Joan Flasch Collection, School son, don’t even bother sending girls - they just need to be of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. pretty these days, start saving up for a boob job and sod the degree... (unless it’s in cosmetic surgery). Jackie Batey www.dampflat.com PAGE 1 WWW .BOOKARTS .UWE .AC .UK TRIBE SIDESHOW 27 April 2011 - 14 June 2011 Special Collections Room, Bower Ashton Library University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Tribe will be giving you a sideways look at their current practice: combining Anne On’s ongoing series of insertions (pictured), Teri Makassih’s development of the concept of gift, and Allil Nangi Ud’s explorations of some metaphorical meanings of everyday things. Most recently exhibiting at Minnesota Center for Book Arts Visual Research Centre is part of Duncan of Jordanstone in Parts of a Whole: New Work by MCBA’s Artist Community, College of Art & Design and is located on the lower floors of there will also be examples of collaborative work between Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 Tribe and the audience there. 4DY. Tel: 01382 385330 www.exhibitions.dundee.ac.uk Documenting the journey, engaging in the process, is as ever www.vrc.dundee.ac.uk/artistsbooks an important aspect of Tribe’s work, with this show making [email protected] further connections with elements of handmade work. Visit Tribe online at: The Faculty of Arts of the Pontificia Universidad www.thesmallcentreforcollaborativepractice.com Javeriana, Bogota; University for the Creative Arts (UCA), Maidstone, England, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, Poland, are pleased to invite you to the opening cabin:codex - The Centre for Artists’ Books Re-launch of the exhibition: Some books are to be tasted ... Project. Centrespace, Visual Research Centre, DJCAD, A curatorial project by Book Triangle collective, linking Dundee, 30 April - 29 May 2011 three schools of art. A mixed exhibition of artists’ books Co-curated by Exhibitions at DJCAD and artist David produced by students and alumni. Faithfull, the exhibition showcases over 100 Artists’ Books 27th April - 17th May 2011 and multiples selected from the collection of Centre for Artists’ Books at VRC. The exhibition considers two inter- related but opposing ‘landscape’ themes: the Urban and the Feral, and is presented as an open display available for handling by visitors. The exhibition includes a newly commissioned book TENT by Paul Noble. There will also be a programme of live works responding to the notions of book and reading. Artists include: Christian Boltanski, Ulises Carrion, Alec Finlay, Hamish Foulton, Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Hamilton, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Sol Le Witt, Richard Long, Hans Maanders, Bruce McLean, Toby Paterson, David Shrigley, Lawrence Weiner, Weproductions and more. Bookwork by Andrés Valero Opening hours for this exhibition: Weds - Sun: 12-4.30pm Preview: Friday 29 April, 5-8pm The Warehouse Art Gallery, Calle 20 No. 3-19 este Events of live works: Bogotá, Colombia. For more information visit our website: Fri 29 April, 5-8pm & Thurs 26 May, 6-8pm http://somebooksaretobetasted.wordpress.com Curators’ Tour: Saturday 21 May, 11:30 – 12:30pm or email us at [email protected] PAGE 2 THIS NEWSLETTER CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM WWW .BOOKARTS .UWE .AC .UK /BANLISTS .HTM 1,983 Rejections: 3 Acceptances An Installation by Mary Bennett 23 Sandy Gallery, USA May 19 - June 25, 2011 New to Portland, conceptual artist Mary Bennett presents an homage to an unknown poet. In the early 70s this persevering artist recorded on hundreds of index cards her submissions to literary journals. Many years later those index cards were rescued from a dumpster. Part installation, part exploration, part interactive meditation on how artists define success. 23 Sandy Gallery 623 NE 23rd Avenue, Portland, OR 97232, USA www.23sandy.com Spring Fling 2011 Open Studio Event The Aquarium, Skyreburn, Gatehouse of Fleet, DG7 2HD Saturday 28th – Monday 30th May 2011 Isabell Buenz will show a range of altered and artists’ books, paper shoes and photography as part of the Dumfries and Galloway Spring Fling Open Studio Event. Hereford College of Arts Book Arts Opening times: Sat 10.30 am – 7 pm Competition Exhibition 2011 Sun/ Mon 10.30 am – 5.30 pm Artists’ books produced by students and staff for the book arts competition will be on show at the college from Wednesday 11th May 2011. Hereford College of Arts, Folly Lane, Hereford HR1 1LT, UK Tel: 01432 273 359 www.hca.ac.uk 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 F r i e d e r u n F r i e d e r i c h s - Wi t h a L a c u e s t a SISTER II ART, (T)reib-Art Gallery, Lenningen, Germany 23rd April - 20 July 2011 Zwei Schwestern: ja! Aber gleiche Kunstwerke? Nein! An exhibition of artists’ books by Friederun Friederichs and For more details check out: www.spring-fling.co.uk and watercolour paintings by her sister Witha Lacuesta. www.isabellbuenz.co.uk/news.html Bissinger Str. 56, 73252 Lenningen, Germany http://www.treib-art.de PAGE 3 WWW .BOOKARTS .UWE .AC .UK Camera Obscura & Other Stories vivid and poetic. It is a mysterious outburst of texts and Solo Exhibition of New Works by Ellen Bell images. It is the movement of ideas and feelings. It is an 24th – 29th May 2011 attempt to archive the space...” Mikhail Pogarsky Offsite exhibition from Four Square Fine Arts at The Gallery in Redchurch Street, 50 Redchurch Street, 75 Hebden Court, Laburnum Street, London E2 8BG London, E2 www.studio75.org.uk For more information visit: www.pogarsky.ru Have you ever picked up a photograph from a flea market or looked through a family album of relatives you have never known and wondered what they were thinking or feeling? “Pop-ups!” the Harold M.