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Awaiting Transmission
E. F. Stevens
31/10/08 - 05/11/08
We invited the artist E.F. Stevens, who lives and works in Boulder, Colorado, USA, to produce a phone-based piece for our AHRC project this winter, as a series of short, texts to create an artist’s book in five instalments (plus afterword).
Her practice includes artists’ books, installation, video and phone text-based works, and this short piece was written and sent by her in 160 character installments to people who responded to her offer of the free transmissions, for 6 days from 31st October 2008.
E.F. Stevens has allowed us to also upload the texts here after the event for viewing as part of the project archive, if you would like to read her “text book” click here
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| Arnolfini, Bristol 22nd November - 18th January 2009 Curated by Arnolfini, the Centre For Fine Print Research, University of the West of England and the Performance Re-enactment Society
As part of the exhibition you are able to download, print and make your own copy of artist Duncan Speakman’s book 'for every step you take I take a thousand' (2007). The book also has an accompanying soundtrack, to be played whilst reading (download at http://project.arnolfini.org.uk) If you have access to a motor vehicle, and would like to join in a ‘do-it-yourself’, multiple location, mass participatory performance event of George Brecht’s ‘event score’ Motor Vehicle Sundown on the 10th January, you can download, print and make the set of instruction cards required to participate at http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/?t=3&st=2 Beginning in unison, performers follow a set of 22 instructions, drawn from a pack of 44 shuffled cards, to carry out a sequence of actions using their motor vehicles. We would like you to take part, wherever you are in the world, whether by yourself or with groups of friends. All you will need is a motor vehicle - car, boat, moped, sit and ride lawnmower, whatever vehicle you like - and the instructions that Brecht wrote in 1960, downloaded ready from the website as above. On Sat 17th Jan 2009 there will be free screenings throughout the day featuring films from Ed Ruscha, Emily Wardill and Jonathan Monk. Arnolfini 16 Narrow Quay Bristol BS1 4QA Tel: 0117 917 2304 www.arnolfini.org.uk Exhibition open 10am - 6pm (Closed Mondays) |
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University of the West of England, Bower Ashton Campus, Bristol
Friday 20th March 2009
Artists’ books reports from Poland, Germany and the USA, plus two artists’ views from the UK.
A day of discussion 10.30 am - 3.30 pm
A day of studies and discussion led by Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden plus guest speakers. We will be reporting back on the project’s findings, and our series of interviews with artists working with books over the last six months. We will be discussing how artists in different areas work with books, how artists’ books are perceived and show examples of the variety of concepts and formats we have studied recently.
Guest speakers will offer two in depth views of their own practice:
Guy Begbie will show his artists' books and discuss the possibilities of the book form, and how artists' books can be taught as a subject across a range of courses
Barrie Tullett from Caseroom Press will discuss their book works and how they are developing the relationship between the artist’s book, small press publishing and mainstream publishing.
Places are limited to 40 attendees.
Please email Sarah Bodman or Tom Sowden for a booking form: Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk / Tom.Sowden@uwe.ac.uk
This seminar is subsidised by our AHRC project, the attendance fee is £10 per person, which includes refreshments and lunch.
For any queries or bookings contact:
Sarah Bodman / Tom Sowden,
Centre for Fine Print Research
UWE, Bristol School of Creative Arts,
Kennel Lodge Road,
Bristol
BS3 2JT
Tel : +44 (0) 117 32 84915
Fax: +44 (0) 117 32 85865
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/canon.htm
Call For Papers :
Traditional and emerging formats of artists’ books: Where do we go from here?
at the School of Creative Arts
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
9th and 10th July 2009
10am - 5pm each day.
We believe that content is paramount for any artist’s book, yet format is also part of its context. We are currently working on a 2-year AHRC funded project at the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England, UK: What will be the canon for the artist’s book in the 21st Century? Our aim is to create a manifesto for a canon of the 21st Century artist’s book, to be published in February 2010.
The study will consider the traditional publishing formats for artists’ books and assess their potential for future expansion within the field. We also aim to quantify how artists are using new technologies and screen-based media as publishing tools.
Johanna Drucker stated in 2005, that “…we don't have a good, specific, descriptive vocabulary on which to form our assessment of book works.” (see the whole article online at www.philobiblon.com/bonefolder/ Critical issues/ Critical issues/ Exemplary works, Johanna Drucker, The Bonefolder, Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 2005).
We would like to address some of these problems with input from the international community, and will publish all our results as freely and accessibly as possible. We think that perhaps “book arts” or “artists’ books” have become too small an umbrella; perhaps “artists’ publications” would give us a better heading to start classifying and contextualising the field.
We are seeking papers and members for discussion panels for a two-day conference we will be hosting on 9th and 10th July 2009. We invite artists, academics, students, presses, publishers, curators, dealers and collectors to submit abstracts for papers and discussion topics, based upon the title of the conference: Traditional and emerging formats of artists’ books: Where do we go from here? There will be a total of twelve papers presented over the two days and two discussion sessions for which we are seeking the abstracts to be refereed.
Speakers who are selected by the referees will not be paid to present a paper so we encourage participants to apply for funding elsewhere. The funding from the AHRC will be used to subsidise the cost of attending the conference to allow as many delegates as possible to join in.
Attendance will cost £20 or £10 for students for both days, and includes lunch and refreshments. These fees will be waived for speakers/panel members. If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us
Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words and a copy of your current CV by 31st January 2009 to:
Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden
Centre for Fine Print Research
School of Creative Arts
University of the West of England
Kennel Lodge Road
Bristol
BS3 2JT
UK
email : Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk / Tom.Sowden@uwe.ac.uk
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/canon.htm
Bookmarks VI Infiltrating Europe and the USA is at the following venues:
Lord Louis Library, Isle of Wight, UK
Rosenberg Library, San Francisco, USA
Martin County Library, Fairmont, USA
The greenhouse, Guernsey, UK
Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Art and Design, USA
Cheshire County Council Arts Service, Chester, UK
Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, Seattle, USA
Hampshire County Council Recreation and Heritage Dept., Winchester, UK
IES San Rosendo, Lugo, Spain
Collins Memorial Library, Tacoma, USA
Bower Ashton library, UWE, Bristol, UK
A one-day artists’ books event on Sunday 14 September at: Limfjordscenter Doverodde Købmandsgård, Hurup Thy, Denmark
Lauren Curl, who graduated this summer from Cardiff School of Art & Design, UWIC - with a 1st Class Honours in Fine Art, interned at CFPR in July to help with the Bookmarks project. Thanks also to Rebecca Sully for a day’s help with Bookmarks stamping in June.
Bookmarks VII 2009-2010 is full, we have spaces for artists in Bookmarks VIX 2011-2012, and for librarians only in Bookmarks VIII: Escaping the Library System, 2010-2011. Quite a few of our previous bookmarks makers have been librarians, so we thought we would ask them to infiltrate some other places with their own bookmarks. If you work in a library and would like to join, then please get in touch.
email : Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk for more details if you would like to join in.
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