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To all book artists - don't forget!

The December 2011 Book Arts Newsletter, No. 70 is now ready for download at: http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm

BOOK ARTS WORKSHOPS
BOOK ARTS WORKSHOPS, LONDON

The Create Place run lots of arts and crafts workshops and often also book arts and bookbinding: check out their listings for January 2012

Venue: 29 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, London E2 9PJ
020 3022 5612
email: thecreateplace@stmargaretshouse.org.uk

Website: www.thecreateplace.co.uk/home-3/

BOOKBINDING WORKSHOP, LONDON, UK LONDON - INTRODUCTION TO BASIC BOOKBINDING for Beginners) - ‘MAKE YOUR OWN BOOK’
Dates throughout 2012
1/ 2/3 day workshops
10.30am – 4.30pm in Crouch Hill, London N19

All Materials are included.
Various skills demonstrated and taught so that you make and take home your completed book. £70 per one day workshop. Minimum age 18. Please note these workshops are not for restoring books. For further information please contact Debra Thompson via contact page at: www.tufnellartpress.co.uk
BOOKBINDING WORKSHOP, BATH, UK Japanese Bookbinding:
A One-Day Bookbinding Course With Guy Begbie

Bath Artists’ Studios, Bath, UK
11 Dec 10.30am - 4.30pm £35
This is an opportunity to make and take away two bespoke hand made books. Using Japanese side sewing techniques you will be taught how to produce soft and hardback cover books in a landscape format using paper based materials and book cloth.
This bookbinding method can be used to bind sets of single pages together using traditional Japanese sewing patterns.
The workshop is designed for participants either with or without previous experience of bookbinding and all materials will be provided. See below for venue information
BOOKBINDING WORKSHOP, BATH, UK

Multi-Functional Pocket Sized
Hard Back Concertina Books

A One-Day Bookbinding Course With Guy Begbie
Bath Artists’ Studios, Bath, UK
Saturday 17 Dec 10.30am - 4.30pm £35
Back by popular demand just in time for Christmas. Here is your opportunity to make and take away your own uniquely designed handmade book. Learn the art of bookmaking, crafting a multi-functional pocket sized hard back concertina book containing a variety of page sequencing, viewing configurations and pull out options for display. Discover different methods of folding, sewing and pasting and learn how to use various types of paper stock, paper engineering and page cutting techniques.

The workshop is designed for participants either with or without previous experience of bookbinding and all materials will be provided.
Bath Artists’ Studios, The Old Malthouse, Comfortable Place, Upper Bristol Road, Bath BA1 3AJ
http://www.bathartistsstudios.co.uk/classesworkshops.html
Tutor Guy Begbie.

Guy is an internationally established book artist and traditionally trained bookbinder. He is the Book Arts Coordinator and lecturer at Hereford College of Arts and has taught book arts in UK universities since 1995.
To Book a place on the workshop please contact Guy Tel: 07989393015. Email: g.begbie@live.co.uk
www.guybegbie.com

BOOK FAIRS AND EXHIBITIONS 2011 and 2012
GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS BOOK FAIR 2012, SCOTLAND

Glasgow International Artists’ Bookfair 2012

We are pleased to announce Glasgow International Artists’ Bookfair 2012.

Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th April 2012
GIAB 2012 will be open to the public between 11am - 6pm both days.

GIAB is a showcase of artists’ books produced by local, UKbased and international artists. Books as artworks, old-style letterpress books, audio books, sculptural books can be seen and bought.

This exciting event will be held in the Exhibition Hall of Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, which is ideally situated in a prime location on the corner of Sauchiehall Street & Buchanan Street in the heart of the city. As ever, entrance is FREE! There will also be the possibility of participating in a range of bookbinding workshops.

We have updated the website so please take a look - http://www.giab.org.uk

* If you are interested in booking a table, you can do this online now - have a look at the menu item how to book a table to the left of the website
* If you are interested in becoming involved with the GIAB & the event, why not contact us, we are always looking for volunteers to help us out on the two days.
* If you would like to run a workshop, please email us withdetails of the workshop *
The booking deadline is Tuesday 31st January 2012

EXHIBITION, LONDON, UK

PECKHAM SPACE OPEN EXHIBITION
Tuesday 29 November-17 December, 2011

Venue: 89 Peckham High Street, London, SE15
Pekcham Space is showcasing artworks connected to Peckham.
The selection panel included representatives from Tate Modern and Space Station 65,

LINEAR B- A memorial project responding to the works in the collection of artists Nikos Alexiou. The Stephen Lawrence gallery , University of Greenwich, Queen Ann Court, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS , 17 Nov 2011- 6 Jan 2012, Click here for more info

Current Public project: Emblem Deconstructed And Destroyed :A Homage To John Latham. A site-specific billboard viewable 24/7. Trinity, 310 Creek Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9SW

Christina Mitrentse, artist/curator/educator. Tel: +44 (0)7969184101
mail: christina.mitrentse@googlemail.com
site: www.christinamitrentse.com

Book Fair 2012, UK

Turn the Page Artists Book Fair 2012

Submissions are now being invited for this new two day event at the prestigious glass fronted 'Forum' building in Norwich city centre

Dates: 4th and 5th May 2012.

More about the ‘Forum’ here; www.theforumnorwich.co.uk
‘Turn the Page’ combines the selling opportunities of a traditional book fair With an exciting platform for exhibiting book related artworks and will be the first in the region to showcase an eclectic mix of sculptural and altered books, traditionally produced limited editions, zines, folio’s and multiples alongside book based installation, digital and virtual books.

Examples or proposals of up to six works can be submitted for a fee of £10. Please note that this is to provide an overview of the work and does not limit the amount of works for table exhibitors. Selected artists will not be charged commission on sales but will be required to pay a fee of £50 for a stand/exhibiting space for the two day event. Submissions from artists groups and small presses are welcome.

For further details and to download submission forms go to www.turnthepage.org.uk
Deadline 5th December 2011
Join us on; www.twitter.com/turnthepage2012
www.facebook.com/turnthepage2012

RESIDENCIES

RESIDENCY, SLOVENiA

Dear Zybooks team,

I'm contacting you on behalf of D'CLINIC studios; a new initiative for artistic re-search.

Following our main mission to deliver a supportive community where artists can focus on their own creative practice free from constraint, harshness or formality, we created several frameworks for creative growth.

One of them is the so called MiXER programme; a collaborative "playground" where artists from widely different art-forms and cultural backgrounds can engage, share methodologies and inspire each other. Through simply working together artists are given the opportunity to regenerate their creative dynamism, exchange and develop new ideas, experiment with no fear of failure and assess their own artistic process - often learning valuable insights from other art forms.

Last but not least this type of working together provides artists with an superb opportunity to resist our far too estranged society.

This cross-disciplinary/culturally mixing is designed as a 4 weeks residency at D'CLINIC studios, where the selected artists from diverse artistic disciplines are paired up to work collaboratively on a new body of work. Their specific new work is documented and thereafter published in a form of an artist's book.

In order for the project to more fully complete its mission to promote cultural cooperation and/or coexistence, we would like to attract international collaborators. More specifically, we are seeking spaces to host a final exhibition/event to present the outcome of MiXER 2012 ( a collection of unique artist's books)

Regards, Katja Pál - http://dclinicstudios.com/

RESIDENCY 2012

RESIDENCY and EXHIBITION program at AIR/HMC, Budapest in Hungary for December and 2012!

Hello friends, collaborators, those who I have never met, and those I one day hope to. "Artist residencies allow the time for dialogue and create connections that contribute to the future..."

Session 5: Tuesday, December 26, 2011 - Wednesday, January 11, 2012. Application Deadline: September 6, 2011

The HMC is a not-for-profit arts organization founded in 1990 and based in Dallas/Budapest. Please visit our website for more information on the International Artist Residency Program

http://www.hungarian-multicultural-center.com

or email to: bszechy@yahoo.com

Beata Szechy
bszechy@yahoo.com

INTERNET NEWS and ONLINE PROJECTS

Where Spheres Intersect - Stuart Mugridge
Earlier in 2011 Stuart Mugridge was one of three artists commissioned by Chrysalis Arts to take part in a project called Geo Art Cache. The idea behind the project was simply to put art into geocaching.

Stuart developed a cache series called Where Spheres Intersect. After much research into place narrative and local topography nine geocaches were sited in the Upper Wharfedale area of Yorkshire.

Would-be participants will need to register with www.geocaching.com (it’s simple and pain-free!) before they take part. The series has eight traditionally listed geocaches with the ninth only being revealed once you have visited the others. If you succeed a prize awaits…

The prize is a limited edition artist’s book by Stuart with one page dedicated to each of the nine sites. The pages are screen-printed and through text & image explore some of the hidden stories of the cache site.
The nine geocaches can be visited in a day by fit walkers but are more realistic over two days… Or more, apart from a bit of rain what’s stopping you?
The series will remain live until at least Spring 2012. Screen-printed on 360gsm Lambeth cartridge with 2000
micron millboard covers. 34 in edition. Published November 2011
http://wherespheresintersect.blogspot.com
http://www.geoartcache.com
http://www.geoartcache.com

NEW: T.P. 2011 - Out of binding by Carmencho Arregui
Tomorrow’s Past Paris 2011 is on line. Visit here to see this year’s bindings: http://www.outofbinding.com/2011.htm
If you want to know about Tomorrow’s past binders and see the description of their bindings and books visit: http://www.outofbinding.com/tp_binders.htm
Pauline Lamont-Fisher has a newly updated website.
“I have been making artist’s books for nearly 10 years. My practice is principally based on walking but some of my books have not involved walking at all, although the idea for the book may have been formed on a walk.” www.burntbarn.co.uk
Word on Promotion or The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Dematerialisation by Herman Schmitz Published in dematerialised universe that is the Internet, but keeping the classic format of the book, this book brings together a site some philosophy, something of literature, science, criticism, and my mental trips, coupled with a graphic treatment specific to each page. This is a selfevident example of the process of dematerialisation of the
artwork and present a way of promoting my independent book to publishers and major media. http://www.palavraempromocao.com.br

Rare Autumn has made some changes to her website.
With an extensive overhaul of the link lists, a resource for book related stuff, such as libraries/institutions/collections, people that make books, collectives/networks/small
bookstores & presses, etc. http://rareautumn.blogspot.com

New online works by Tony Kemplen, Using the GPS tracking on my mobile phone, I made a series of short walks in central Sheffield in the run up to the Libdem spring conference.

The 21 walks spell out a message to Nick Clegg from the streets of Sheffield.

The individual walks can be seen at: http://on.fb.me/gblCCZ
Also, online Underground and Overground in London and Sheffield. Twenty-five GPS tracked walks carried out over the last three months brought together on a single map. These can be viewed at: http://on.fb.me/fs5yBy
And the individual walks can be viewed at: http://on.fb.me/fcEA96
www.kemplen.co.uk

From Carmencho Arregui NEW - SPINES 1, 2, 3
The spine is of primary importance for books, just as it is for human beings. We talk about good opening and
flexibility as opposed to the stiffness of some volumes that can hardly be read. And when a book cannot be read…
can we call it a book? There are three new bindings in“Spines 1, 2, 3” at Carmencho’s website. To see Pergamo,
twoStars and Rodback visit:
http://www.outofbinding.com/spines1.htm
http://www.outofbinding.com/spines2.htm
http://www.outofbinding.com/spines3.htm
From Edith Derdyck in Brazil: Amir Brito Cadôr’s website with lots of information on some inspirational artists’
books: www.gramatologia.blogspot.com
Paul Coldwell has a new website with his projects at: www.paulcoldwell.org
An expanded article on Accordion and Tunnel Books by Randolph Huebsch, published in the Guild of
Bookworkers Journal can now be downloaded from his website as a PDF at: www.randhuebsch.com/write.html
From Gracia & Louise. A link to the film of Gracia Haby’s most recent artists’ book, Those First Aerial Travellers.
“The sixth tiny film in an ongoing series, this time we are taking you to the moon in our hot air balloon. This artists’
book, The First Aerial Travellers, was made especially for Hand Held Gallery’s In Suspense exhibition, November
2011. This film is our record of said book. This film is for you to turn the pages, as it were, as Rudy Vallee (Home)
sings in your ear soft lullaby. Shh... we are in a library.” http://vimeo.com/31713529

Also from Gracia & Louise, a link to the artists “talking about collage, collaborations, honeybee scissors and
Diana monkeys with Camila Galaz on her show Let’s Art (episode #9) on Radio Valerie.”

http://www.mixcloud. com/radiovalerie/lets-art-with-camila-galaz-episode-9- november-9th-2011/

Craig Atkinson of Café Royal Books has started a new blog / site. “It’s for me really but feel free to look! The ability to,
and process of recording a split second as a photograph fascinates me. The new site is me kind of doing that and
noting how, perhaps, and the camera I use. I ‘try’ a lot of cameras and tend to go back to the same one / two most of
the time.” www.grd4.com
Book Works is pleased to announce a newly designed website and digital archive that, for the first time, includes
material ranging from finished works to ephemera, correspondence, photographs and manuscripts providing
an insight into the working processes of both the publishing and studio sections of the organisation.
The website now presents a timeline, from the present year to our origins in 1984, of Book Works publications, projects,
and events; examples of work from the Book Works Studio; and a digital archive of documents, images and ephemera.
www.bookworks.org.uk

Banner Repeater is an artist led reading room and project space, situated on Platform 1, Hackney Downs railway
station, London E8 1LA. Its reading room dedicated to artists’ printed material provides an important bibliographic
resource, somewhere that all visitors to BR can browse, alongside an ambitious exhibition programme of new art
work installed in a highly visible and accessible project space. The reading room and project space is open 6 days a
week. www.bannerrepeater.org

FOLD - Clare Bryan, Sue Doggett, James Keith, Penny Stanford would like to invite you to view their current
and new work on their new website: www.cargocollective.com/fold
contact: four.fold@gmail.com

Slavs and Tatars is a faction of polemics and intimacies devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. The collective’s work spans several media, disciplines, and a broad spectrum of cultural registers (high and low) focusing on an oft-forgotten sphere of influence between Slavs, Caucasians and Central Asians. View their work at: http://www.slavsandtatars.com

Scenes from a village 26 - Fire stations and village shops Andrew Norris - The latest posting from the village. Just
how important is the village shop to the local community?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJmylwdDzMk

When she came for
A new short animated film by Andi McGarry which was made using paintings and Indian ink drawings together
with a newly crafted song.
http://www.youtube.com/user/AAAAAAndi

CALLS FOR ARTISTS FOR 2012

CALL FOR ARTISTS Exhibition details regarding Artists Book Cornucopia III, Abecedarian Gallery’s annual juried artists’ book exhibition are now available.
The exhibition will be held
April 20 - June 2, 2012 with an entry deadline of January 31, 2012.
Tony White will be jurying this years’ entries. Tony White is the Head of the Fine Arts Library at Indiana University Bloomington. He is an independent curator and book
artist who has been involved in the field for 20 years. He is a founding board member of the College Book Art Association and founder of the Contemporary Artist’s
Books Conference that has been held annually in New York City since 2008.
The full prospectus is available via PDF download from Abecedarian Gallery’s website
www.abecedariangallery.com or you can email alicia@abecedariangallery.com to request a copy.
CALL FOR ARTISTS

6th International ARTE LAGUNA Prize
Prize amount: 160.000 Euros

Sections: painting, sculpture, photographic art, videoart and performance, virtual art
Participation: open to all the artists, without any constriction and with free topic
Deadline: 30 November 2011
Application fee: 50 € one work, 90 € two works
Collective Exhibition: Venice
Finalists: 110 Artists
Special Prizes: Personal and Collective Exhibitions, International Festivals

Application : http://www.artelagunaprize.com/index.php/enrollment-of-the-6-international-art-prize-arte-laguna.html

Anna Zancan,
Premio Arte Laguna
tel.+39 041 5937242 – int 4
web@premioartelaguna.it
www.artelagunaprize.com

Call for bookworks

Call for Entries: 6th International Artist’s Book Triennial
Vilnius 2012. Exhibition theme: “Love”
“If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.” 1Cor 13,1-3.
Deadline: 15th of November 2011

Time and place: 2012 March, Leipzig Book Fair, Germany; 2012 April, Gallery “Titanikas”, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2012, France; 2012 September, Kloster Bentlage, Rheine, Germany; 2012 October-November, in Bengladesh; 2013 China.
Curator: Kestutis Vasiliunas
E-mail: vasiliunas@bookart.lt

Tel. +370 5 2154796 in Vilnius, Lithuania; mob. tel. +370 656 05379
For more information, please visit our homepages:
http://vasiliunas.arts.lt and http://artistsbook.lt

CALL FOR BOOK ARTISTS

A Call to Book Artists 2011-2012 for: An Inventory Of Al-Mutanabbi Street
From Beau Beausoleil
The Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition is issuing a call to book artists to work on a project to “re-assemble” some of the“inventory” of the reading material that was lost in the 2007 car bombing of al-Mutanabbi Street. We are asking book artists to join our project and further enhance the work of
the Coalition by honouring al-Mutanabbi Street, by creating work that holds both “memory and future,” exactly what was lost that day.

We ask that you create 3 books for the project, which is raising funds for Médecins Sans Frontières.
If you would like to know more, or would like to join this project, please download the pdf athttp://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/mutancall10.htm

for more information, and if you have any questions please contact us, we would love to have you contribute.
An Inventory Of Al-Mutanabbi Street
Beau Beausoleil - overlandbooks@earthlink.net
Sarah Bodman - Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk

INFORMATION

EXPERIMENTAL LETTERPRESS WORKSHOP, LONDON, UK

The Experimental Letterpress Workshop was established in 2006 by Alexander Cooper and Rose Gridneff, a Graphic Design/Book Arts collaboration, who seek to challenge the boundaries of letterpress whilst respecting its traditions.

You can view their new blog site at:
www.experimentalletterpressworkshop.blogspot.com

DATABASE of ARTISTS BOOKS

Artists' Book Database launched on the V&A website

The National Art Library (NAL) at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London has recently launched a visual database of artists' books featuring a selection of objects from the collection. The database currently features over 100 objects from the collection of over 5000 artists books held at the library. The visual database can be viewed at:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/prints_books/artists_books/database/index.php
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PUBLICATIONS AND ONLINE FORUMS

GUIDE FOR BOOK ARTISTS

A Free Guide for the book artist - Artists Books Creative Production and Marketing, Sarah Bodman

You can download a free 87pp PDF version at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/surv10.htm

ONLINE FORUM Robert Heather has launched a new book arts forum site: Artist Books 3.0 for artists, curators, librarians, students and researchers interested in artists books and the book arts. You can browse discussions and events or join at http://artistbooks.ning.com
AMERICAN ARTISTS BOOKS

Bertram Rota Limited has produced a new, finely illustrated catalogue of American Artists Books which you can download from: http://bertramrota.co.uk

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PEEP! QUARTERLY A new publication of art and writing. Open submission. No poetry. The intention is to distribute it internationally, to create a community on paper. First issue due February 2008. Each issue will be black and white, colour cover, free inserts/gifts. The initial run is expected to be 200 copies and ideally we want to double that with each subsequent issue. We have no funding, this is all self-published. We do plan to sell the publication and any profit is going to be put back into the project and the PEEP! gallery. All mail art will be shown at PEEP! gallery in 2008:

http://bobmilner.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/29/

Bob and Tom, 6 Savile Drive, Horbury WF4 6JP, England.

www.milktwosugars.org / www.creaturemag.com