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COURSES and WORKSHOPS, INTERNET NEWS, EVENTS, CALLS, EXHIBITIONS, CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, PUBLICATIONS |
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To announce your events on Zybooks please send Gandha an email |
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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 |
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BOOK ARTS WORKSHOPS |
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| 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 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 The workshop is designed for participants either with
or without previous experience of bookbinding and all
materials will be provided. 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. |
BOOK FAIRS AND EXHIBITIONS 2011 and 2012 |
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| 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 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 |
| EXHIBITION, LONDON, UK | PECKHAM SPACE OPEN EXHIBITION 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:
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| 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 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 |
RESIDENCIES |
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| 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 |
INTERNET NEWS and ONLINE PROJECTS |
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Where Spheres Intersect -
Stuart Mugridge 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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Rare Autumn has made some changes to her website. |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| From Edith Derdyck in Brazil: Amir Brito Cadôr’s website
with lots of information on some inspirational artists’ books: www.gramatologia.blogspot.com |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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Also from Gracia & Louise, a link to the artists “talking
about collage, collaborations, honeybee scissors and http://www.mixcloud. com/radiovalerie/lets-art-with-camila-galaz-episode-9- november-9th-2011/ |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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Banner Repeater is an artist led reading room and project
space, situated on Platform 1, Hackney Downs railway |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 Sections: painting, sculpture, photographic art, videoart and performance, virtual art Application : http://www.artelagunaprize.com/index.php/enrollment-of-the-6-international-art-prize-arte-laguna.html Anna Zancan, |
| Call for bookworks | Call for Entries: 6th International Artist’s Book Triennial 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
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| CALL FOR BOOK ARTISTS | A Call to Book Artists 2011-2012 for:
An Inventory Of Al-Mutanabbi Street We ask that you create 3 books for the
project, which is raising funds for Médecins Sans Frontières. for more information, and if you have any questions please
contact us, we would love to have you contribute. |
| 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
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| DATABASE of ARTISTS BOOKS | Artists'
Book Database launched on the V&A website http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/prints_books/artists_books/database/index.php
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PUBLICATIONS AND ONLINE FORUMS |
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| 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 |
| 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 |