To celebrate the National Year of Reading and World Book Day in 2008 we invited artists to make contributions to Reading Around… on World Book Day (06/03/08) and send them to us by the end of March.
Artists responded to the call with pages of artwork, audio recordings and video files which have been collated into the Reading Around website archive for you to enjoy.
The works submitted range from pieces inspired by or referencing novels to thoughts about reading, acts of reading, and mail art reading pieces.
We have 60 artists' pages for viewing or download, some short movies and audio pieces about reading / books and a free download PDF e-book, which you can print out and make up into your own book.
The e-book can be downloaded here
The online gallery of images and movie clips can be viewed by clicking here
50 copies of each of the 60 artworks were laser-jet printed from the artwork files as they were received. The resulting 3,000 pages were made up into library and bookstore packs by the Print Centre crack assembly team of David and Matthew Sully in the holidays.
The packs of pages were sent out to slip into random books at the following venues:
| UK: Winchester School of Art Library Park Avenue, Winchester Hants, SO23 8DL Hyman Kreitman Research Centre Tate Britain Millbank London SW1P 4RG Owl Bookshop 207-209 Kentish Town Road Kentish Town London, NW5 2JU Library, Hereford College of Arts Folly Lane, Hereford HR1 1LT Artwords 65a Rivington Street London EC2A 3QQ Dulwich Books 6 Croxted Road West Dulwich London SE21 8SW Library, Camberwell College of Arts Peckham Road London SE5 8UF Guernsey Guilles Alles Library Market Street St Peter Port Guernsey GY1 1HB Bournemouth Library 22 The Triangle Bournemouth BH2 5RQ Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections Sir Kenneth Green Library Manchester Metropolitan University All Saints Manchester M15 6BH Nottingham County Library Glaisdale Parkway Nottingham NG8 4GP Firecatcher Books The Last Drop Village Bromley Cross Bolton BL7 9PZ Bookshop Arnolfini 16 Narrow Quay Bristol BS1 4QA Penzance Library 62 Morrab Road Penzance TR18 4EY Grove Library Grove Building Bradford College Great Horton Road Bradford BD7 1AY Frome Library Justice Lane Frome Somerset BA11 1BE Swindon College Libraries North Star Avenue Swindon SN2 IDY Stroud College in Gloucestershire Library Stratford Park Stroud GL5 4AH University of Gloucestershire Library Pittville Campus Albert Road Cheltenham GL52 3JG Hunting Raven Books Cheap Street Frome Somerset BA11 1BN The Bookshop Aberystwyth Arts Centre University of Wales Aberystwyth Ceredigion SY23 3DE Bower Ashton Library UWE Bristol School of Creative Arts Kennel Lodge Road Bristol, BS3 2JT AUSTRALIA: Barratt Galleries 5 Budgen Avenue Alstonville NSW 2477 NEW ZEALAND: TIVOLI books / exhibits / internet 5/143 Ocean View Rd Oneroa Waiheke Island Auckland 1840 |
FRANCE: Centre des Livres D'Artistes Pays-paysage 1 place Attane 87500 Saint-Yrieix-La-Perche Florence Loewy - Books by Artists 9/11 rue de Thorigny Paris 75003 L'endroit Éditions d'artistes & art imprimé 23 rue Quineleu 35000 Rennes ITALY: Accademia di Belle Arti Via Delle Belle Arti 54 40126 Bologna Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Cannaregio - San Marcuola Calle Seconda del Cristo 1798 30121 Venezia THE NETHERLANDS: Library AKI/ArtEz Hallenweg 5 7522 NH Enschede GERMANY: Library / Bibliothek Hochschule für Bildende Künste Johannes-Selenka-Platz 1 38118 Braunschweig BRAZIL: Zouk Livraria Café / bookshop Matriz Rua Garibaldi. 1333 Bom fim Porto Alegre, RS – 90035-052 Livraria Zouk bookshop UFRGS - Campus Centro Av. Paulo Gama 110 Anexo 1 Reitoria Porto Alegre RS - 90046-900 Instituto de Artes da UFRGS Biblioteca Rua Senhor dos Passos, 248 Porto Alegre RS - 90020-180 SINGAPORE: La Libreria 64A Queen St. Bugis Village 188543 Singapore MEXICO: M • H Centre of Research and Documentation on Artists' Books Empresa no. 101 Insurgentes Mixcoac Mexico D. F. cp 03920 SPAIN: Facultat de belles arts Departament de dibuix C/ pau gargallo, 4 08028 Barcelona Biblioteca facultat de belles arts Universitat de Barcelona Baldiri reixac, 2 08028 Barcelona USA: Diesel A Bookstore 5433 College Avenue Oakland, CA 94618 The Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design 2 College Street Providence RI 02903 Subterranean Books 6275 Delmar Blvd. St. Louis MO 63130 Libraries, The University of the Arts 320 S Broad Street Philadelphia PA 19102 Department of English University of Utah 255 S. Central Campus Drive Salt Lake City UT 84112 Cowles Library Drake University 2507 University Avenue Des Moines IA 50311 The Bookmark Bookstore 721 Washington Street Oakland CA 94607 Hemingway Western Studies Center Boise State University 1910 University Drive Boise Idaho 83725 Otis College of Art & Design Library 9045 Lincoln Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90045 CYPRUS: Moufflon Bookshop 1 Sofouli Street 1096 Lefkosia/Nicosia |
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in Transit by Guy Begbie Recorded on the M1 Motorway on World Book Day, Thursday 6th March 2008. |
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In Transit in Reverse by Guy Begbie Recorded and then played backwards, on the M1 Motorway on World Book Day, Thursday 6th March 2008 |