In the old restored merchant’s warehouse in Doverodde by the Limfjord, the festival is a meeting place for both participants and visitors. Amid beautiful countryside the festival offers an experience of book arts both formally - exhibition and talks - and informally - stands, workshops and book café. www.bookarts-doverodde.dk
Sarah Bodman, Tom Sowden, Paul Laidler, Angie Butler and Natalie McGrorty travelled to Denmark to participate in this year’s festival. Sarah, Tom, Paul and Angie presented talks and workshops. Angie and Natalie also ran a stand representing ABC, the artists’ books club at UWE, Bristol. You can download handouts, talks and workshop notes from the event as free PDFs below.
The exhibition is on at the Limsfjordcenter until 21st June.
This year’s theme was Place of Interest, and as they did last year, Sarah and Tom made an artist’s book A Place of Interest for the exhibition en route during the drive and ferry crossing with a typewriter, Polaroid camera and GPS. You can download a PDF of the book to print and assemble yourself.
A collaborative video of the journey and making of the book was produced with the whole group of travellers. Watch the A Place of Interest video
Angie Butler presented the Pet Galerie tour of the galerie situated on a coat peg rack. The galerie space is a gentleman’s tweed jacket, containing a collection of ephemera, objects and books.
Paul Laidler : Recording Landscape
A free workshop with Paul Laidler - Research Associate at CFPR, specialising in Digital Print and Digital Photography. Participants were shown how to produce and stitch panoramic photographs of the landscape for digital print and books.
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the worksheet with information and tipsTom Sowden : The art of laser cutting paper
Tom’s talk discussed how artists are using the laser-cutter as a creative tool, with examples of artists works on paper and artists’ books.
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the slideshow Download
the handoutSarah Bodman : Artists' books, nature, landscape
A themed talk of Collections and Observations of nature, Textscapes, Journeys through landscape, Working in the landscape, The politics of landscape, Altered books and nature, and A darker (then lighter) side of nature.
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the slideshow Download
the handout| An Exercise for Kurt Johannessen
Whilst in Denmark Sarah asked two of the group to bury a book for her in the forest. Inspired by Kurt Johannessen’s Exercises - a small book of instructions such as 'Kiss the wind' and 'Follow a snail for a day'. One of Kurt Johannessen’s exercises is 'Write 100 stories and bury them in the forest'. Before leaving for Denmark Sarah wrote 100 stories in an exercise book, and has documented the making and burying of the book alongside the titles of the100 stories, for an artist’s book called An Exercise for Kurt Johannessen. Sarah thought it would be fairer not to bury the book herself so she would never be able to find it. Thank you Paul and Simon for carrying out the burial. |
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Download the apoi.pdf and
set your print/page set up to landscape.
To assemble the pile of pages, start with the page 1 and 2 place with the cover face down, then place page 3-4 so Sarah and Tom's signatures are facing up, then page 5-6 so the image of the disused building is facing up, 7-8 so the little summer cabin is face up, 9-10 so the image of the ship's deck is face up. |
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Staple in the middle and fold all the pages over so the title is on the front page.
*We used recycled cream paper for our original copies.
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