abc : is a cross-disciplinary forum for makers of artists’ books and ephemera. It provides an opportunity to get together for focused critical and constructive dialogue, to contextualise work, explore ideas and to develop creative practice and theory.
"The perfect space in which mystery meets matter and conjoins, is for me the book"
Allil Enna Nangi-Ud
January 2010
abc meetings
upcoming abc meeting: Thursday 18th February in the M.A. room, Bower Ashton Campus
from abc's ocasional newsletter
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present."
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Net info
To stay connected, check out Bristol Art Diary at http://myBristolArtDiary.co.uk, a really inclusive timetable diary of arts events - you can email all event details to Rhys Coren:
mybristolartdiary@hotmail.com.
As an artist, group, or exhibition space you can also join their list of links.
for downloadable free fonts visit http://creativenerds.co.uk/freebies/50-best-free-fonts-from-2009
A delicious video on artists’ books, inside & out, it's just under 3 minutes long, by Malcolm Enright, and has no title: posted July 2008 http://artistbooks.ning.com/video/2172913:Video:2312
a r t b a b b l e
a most useful feature of this site is the notes that accompany each video; use the site, created by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, to access videos from sources including the Museum of Modern Art and PBS-TV series "Art:21." Reference different categories by artists, series, and channels. Includes diverse artists from Ida Applebroog, through Richard Tuttle to Michel Gondry.
Archived ABC events and pages
December 2009 featured: Guidelines to Critical Discourse :The context: an environment where we each feel psychologically and physically comfortable, with an atmosphere of trust and openness. Also, Collaboration: two heads are better than one - or are they? some "questions of collaboration" you could ask...
Spike Artist Book & Zine Fair 31st October 2009
On Halloween abc & friends made their debut appearance @ Spike Island. It was made possible by the 21 people who contributed their work for showing on the day. We had a fantastic and eclectic range of work including multiples, zines, bookworks, badges, reconfigured books, and postcards, which all looked great together and made for a really successful day with something to interest everyone.
On 8th October 2009 abc held OShO (official shelf opening) to celebrate a feast of source materials housed on a shelf - catalogues, artists' books, newsletters and other related archival material to facilitate research, reflection and historical contextualization of book arts practice…
lilla.visionworks@blueyonder.co.ukFounded by Lilla Duignan, artists’ books club is for students based at Bower Ashton