The library, AKI, ArtEz, Enschede, The Netherlands
17th May - 19th June 2008
For the Borders of Perception Workshop: Enschede textile city - the border between body and surroundings (www.bordersofperception.com)
These books and multiples explore aspects of human identity, whether a study of artist themselves, or of gender or assumptions made about the sexes. There are also studies of people observed - Guy Begbie’s New York Dolls is a book of printed video stills of people observed on New York streets and subways, unaware that their actions are being observed. In Paul Auster and Sophie Calle’s Double Game, Auster writes a fiction that Calle lives for one week.
Other books explore more personal aspects of the artist-makers, from Bird High in the Sky (You know how I feel), by Louise Best, to Harland Miller’s book about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: First I was Afraid, I was Petrified (Book Works, 2000). Meir Agassi’s Correspondence, sees an exchange of letters and artworks by three fictional artists Mo Kramer, David Strauss and Susan Lipski. As a document of an artist’s residency Forty Two 19.03.06 - 30.04.06, by Lucy May Schofield, examines the artist’s own personal observations of spending six weeks in the remote and beautiful countryside of the Scottish borders.
The books reflect upon many aspects of the human psyche, from assuming another’s identity as camouflage, or celebrating unsung heroes to deliberately impersonating others or furtively looking through people’s belongings to make assumptions about them.
Books in the exhibition include:
Angelier, Sarah Bodman, 2000
Bird High in the Sky (You know how I feel), Louise Best, 2003
Correspondence: Mo Kramer, David Strauss, Susan Lipski, Meir Agassi, 1996
Double Game, Sophie Calle and Paul Auster, Violette/ DAP, 1999
En Finir, Sophie Calle and Fabio Balducci, Actes Sud 2005
Exquisite Pain, Sophie Calle, Thames and Hudson, London, 2004
Fife Heroes, John Bently, Liver & Lights No. 25, 1998
First I was Afraid, I was Petrified, Harland Miller, Book Works, 2000
Flair, Sharon Kivland, domoBaal editions, 2004
Forty Two 19.03.06 - 30.04.06, Lucy May Schofield, 2007
Freud on Holiday Volume I, Freud Dreams of Rome, Sharon Kivland, Information as Material, 2006
Glasses of Hope (Red Squirrel Crossbills) Marcus Coates
Gray’s Brain - The Hidden Rebellious Gene (HRG), Gray Fraser, 2003
Heimwee Arno Arts, 2002
Me, Myself and I, Rudi Bastiaans 2002
New York Dolls, Guy Begbie, Bristol 2003
Onschuld, Arno Arts, 2002
Paula Cooper Art Dealer Gloves, Bill Burns
Solitude, Lucy May Schofield, 2006
Thirty People, Liver and Lights, No 30, John Bently, 2003
Thrift Store, The Past and Future Secret Lives of Things, Emily Larned, Ig Publishing, New York, 2006
Typo Negative, David Kirby, 2001
Woman’s World, Graham Rawle, 2005
Women, Eilis Kirby, 2004
You wear it well…, Gill Addison’s Important Labels series, Proof Multiples, 2000
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