BOOK ARTS NEWSLETTER ISSN 1754-9086 No. 90 June - July 2014 Published by Impact Press at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol, UK ARTIST’S COVER PAGE: CFPR BOOK ARTS SUMMER INSTITUTE 2014 In this issue: National and International Artists’ Books Exhibitions Pages 1 - 23 Announcements Pages 23 - 24 Courses, Lectures & Workshops Pages 24 - 36 Opportunities Pages 37 - 39 Artist’s Book Fairs & Conferences Pages 39 - 41 Internet News Pages 41 - 43 New Artists’ Publications Pages 43 - 52 Reports & Reviews Pages 52 - 61 Stop Press! Pages 61 - 62 Artists’ Books Exhibition, UWE, Bristol, UK Please note - due to library building works, all exhibitions will be on display in room OC4 at Bower Ashton until October 2014. Artist’s Book Club ABC - Open Call: Summer Show Monday 2nd June - Wednesday 30th July 2014 ABC is an independent club working with book arts. We are based at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK. The club, founded by Lilla Duignan in 2009, has developed from the MA Multidisciplinary Print course. It is a student-organised, autonomous group that includes both current students and alumni, many from Folded Books was the Spring project. We had an extended MA Printmaking but also from other undergraduate and discussion about what constituted a ‘folded’ book, after postgraduate courses in the faculty. initial preconceptions depending on difference in practice. There were some assumptions that the result would be a concertina format but the conclusion was that a folded book is a book that features folds. The results of this project formed the basis of the ABC stand at Leeds Artist’s Book Fair at the Tetley in March 2014. The group meets once a month and tends to follow an annual cycle in line with the academic year with a couple of volunteers acting as co-ordinators for each year. Altered Books is a collaborative intervention project. Attendance at meetings varies from between eight to After much discussion within the group, the project is a very eighteen. The main purpose of the group is to act as a flexible one. All ABC members donated a commercially focus for making and sharing artists’ books. printed, mass-produced book of their choice. These books are then available for anyone from the group to take and Since September 2013 we have worked with four projects: - make an intervention. The book is then returned to the What’s in the Box?, Folded Books, Altered Books, and an collective storage box where it is available for anyone else to Open Call: Summer Show. At our last meeting the then make any further interventions. At a recent meeting it programme was summed up by a colleague as: was agreed to extend this project for another year to allow “all-in-all we have attempted quite a lot!” time for multiple layering of interventions. What’s in the Box?: is a project based on the construction Open Call: this project forms the exhibition at Bower of a book from a single, double sided A3 sheet, using a Ashton, UWE from June 2014. The content on display is template in Adobe InDesign, which is then folded and cut from an open call to ABC members to submit book art to make a sixteen-page A6 book. A second A3 template is projects completed during the past twelve months. used to make a soft cover. Other than the limitations of the making process there are no restrictions on content. All the For further information contact: individual books are associated by their covers and form a Bernard Fairhurst: [email protected] or collective edition in a box. Helen Thomas: [email protected] Page 1 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Circle and Arc Scored londonprintstudio, London, UK Until 27th July 2014, Open Book Lobby Gallery Until Saturday 14th June 2014 The international network of Fluxus artists, composers Work by Ron King, Victoria Bean, Karen Bleitz, and Sam and designers were known for blending different artistic Winston, from Circle Press and Arc Editions - and their media and disciplines and were inspired by serendipity, collaborations with artists, writers and poets. humor and the integration of art with daily actions. In addition to creating physical work, Fluxus artists embraced performance-based expression. Today, contemporary artists continue to stage concerts and compose event scores involving familiar actions, everyday objects and simple concepts. Scored features a wide variety of both classic and contemporary Fluxus scores. The events can be performed by anyone at any time in any place. The goal is to highlight and explore the possibilities of significance in what is usually deemed insignificant. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono’s 1964 compilation of event scores, is one of the most popular and best known examples of Fluxus art. Fluxbox The Left-handed Punch Until 27th July 2014, Open Book Lobby Gallery Ronald King (artist) Roy Fisher (poet), Guildford, 1986 Box assemblages have been a mainstay of Fluxus art for over fifty years. These intimate “museums” are grounded Circle Press and Arc Editions are noted for their creative in traditions and methods first established by earlier artists work as artists who publish books and editions. Circle Press, such as Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell. Like the formed by Ron King in 1967 has had a profound effect, scores presented on the adjacent wall, box assemblages are directly and indirectly, on other artists working with books. not complete without interaction. They become art only Over the years, Ron King / Circle Press has collaborated when they are explored and experienced by a viewer. with many artists and poets. Arc Editions was founded by three younger artists, Victoria Bean, Karen Bleitz and A selection of works from the exhibition Fluxbox are Sam Winston who emerged from Circle Press, and who presented in these cases. This collection of boxes, packages, continue to reference Circle Press, working within its and games was curated by Keith Buchholz and debuted ethos of ‘bringing like minded artists and writers together’. at Chicago’s Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection Gallery, This exhibition celebrates work produced by different School of the Art Institute of Chicago, during Fluxfest 2014. generations of critically acclaimed artists, with a selection As a group, they demonstrate a variety of Fluxus themes of prints and creatively significant books. associated with chance encounters, ephemerality, humor and the integration of art with everyday life. londonprintstudio 425 Harrow Road, London W10 4RE, UK. 50 Years / 50 Objects Open Tuesday - Saturday 10.30am to 6.00pm Until 10th August 2014 Entrance to the gallery is free. Open Book Cowles Literary Commons www.londonprintstudio.org.uk Performer and visual artist Tom Cassidy exhibits 50 objects plucked from his vast collection of books, oddities, ephemera and what-nots. See history through the eyes of Fluxjob someone dedicated to the elimination of fine art through Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, USA occasional action. Until 6th July 2014, plus associated exhibitions until August 2014 Minnesota Center for Book Arts is open to the public seven In the 1960s, George Maciunas urged a small group of days a week: Mon, Weds-Sat: 10am-5pm; Tues: 10am-9pm; artists to purge the world of bourgeois sickness and dead Sun: 12-4pm. Minnesota Center for Book Arts is located in art. The result was Fluxus, a non-movement that expanded the Open Book Building in downtown Minneapolis; 1011 the definitions of what art can be. Washington Ave S, First Floor, Minneapolis, MN 55415, USA.www.mnbookarts.org Fluxjob is an exploration of contemporary artists who continue to create interdisciplinary anti-art that is ephemeral, inexpensive, and interactive. The exhibition is Pulp Mastery: Mary Ellen Long and Melissa Jay Craig co-curated by MCBA Executive Director Jeff Rathermel Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, USA and noted Fluxus artist, publisher and performer Keith 20th June - 2nd August 2014 Buchholz. 910 Santa Fe Dr, #101, Denver, CO 80204, USA Tel: 720.282.4052 or 303.340.2110 Free and open to the public. Upcoming coordinated www.abecedariangallery.com exhibitions and events include: http://abecedariangallery.wordpress.com Page 2 this newsletter can be downloaded from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm Remuer ciel et terre their qualities, both aesthetically and conceptually. All of Centre des livres d’artistes, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France the artists in the exhibition share an interest in memory, Until 14th June 2014 language and narrative. They use books as a way of filtering A collaboration between le Centre des livres d’artistes and their ideas. Beyond the Book aims to demonstrate how les Abattoirs – Frac Midi-Pyrénées. The exhibition takes as a diverse the book art movement is in the UK by showcasing starting point Luke Howard’s On the modification of clouds. British-based talent, and to illustrate the notions and narratives behind the making. Alongside the ‘why’, the Alighiero e Boetti / Marinus Boezem / Christian Boltanski exhibition will examine the process, material and nature of / Denis Briand / Marcel Broodthaers / Stanley Brouwn / production. George Brecht / Claude Closky / Simon Cutts / Thomas A. Clark / Les Coleman / Wim Delvoye / herman et susanne The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey de vries / Jan Dibbets / Peter Downsbrough / Hans-Peter Tracey, Devon, TQ13 9AF, UK. www.crafts.org.uk Feldmann / Philippe Favier / Alec Finlay / Hamish Fulton / Paul-Armand Gette / Eugen Gomringer / Felix Gonzalez- Long & Ryle, 4 John Islip St, London SW1P 4PX, UK. Torres / Geoffrey Hendricks / Dick Higgins / Jean-Marie www.longandryle.com Krauth / Robert Lax / Richard Long / Hansjörg Mayer / Stuart Mills / Simon Morris / Maurizio Nannucci / Bruce Nauman / Julien Nédélec / Yoko Ono / Dieter Roth / David Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower: Artists’ Books and the Elk / Bernard Villers Natural World Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA Claude Rutault.