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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
| A Call
to Action for Letterpress Printers! - Mutanabbi Street Broadsides Round Three - Spring 2009 To protest & commemorate the bombing of Mutanabbi Street, the centre of bookselling in Baghdad, on March 5th 2007, the MUTANABBI STREET COALITION is organising readings and other events that will begin in March 2009 as a fundraiser for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).. On March 5th 2007, a car bomb was exploded on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad.
Mutanabbi Street is in a mixed Shia-Sunni area. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. Mutanabbi Street, the historic centre of Baghdad bookselling, holds bookstores and outdoor bookstalls, cafes, stationery shops, and even tea and tobacco shops. It has been the heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community. Over 50 artists have already contributed, but the organisers would love to get the total up to 130, and are asking the International Print community to help. You can view previous contributions at: www.library.fau.edu./depts/spc/JaffeCenter/jaffemutanabbistreetstartshere.htm. Download the essay AL-MUTANABBI STREET By Lutfia Alduleimi. This is a call for more printed works to help with fundraising, you would need to make an edition of 15 broadsides. For full details please see the Mutanabbi Street Broadsides page and download the PDF file. The deadline for the third call is April 15th 2009 The Centre for Fine Print Research will pay to send over a consignment of prints if you can deliver or send yours to us to go in the boxes. e-mail : Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk for details. For more information contact: Coordinator of Mutanabbi Street Broadside Project II, Lisa Beth Robinson, at robinsonli@ecu.edu or Beau Beausoleil at overlandbooks@earthlink.net |
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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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