March 2011 Blog Posts (13)

TOAST: A Night on Weevil Lake

An event held on World Book Night, Saturday 5th March 2011, in tribute to Douglas Coupland's novel The Gum Thief, an evening of nothing being cooked, Chinese food having to be ordered in and eaten off of paper plates from Staples. Collaborators were asked to send photos of toast, produce music, write 200 words from the perspective of a piece of toast, to make things on the night etc.

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BABE - Bristol Artists Book Event 2011 

Arnolfini and the Centre for Fine Print Research present BABE 2011 at Arnolfini

Sat 30 Apr, 11am - 6pm and Sun 1 May, 11am - 5pm. Free.

Bristol Artists Book Event (BABE) is back and bigger than ever for 2011. Spread over three floors, more than 80 artist bookmakers, dealers and small presses from Bristol and around the world will come together at Arnolfini to show and sell their work. BABE…

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Follow-ed (after hokusai), curated by Michalis Pichler and Tom Sowden, is on show concurrently in Bristol

and Ljubljana. Featuring conceptual artworks, which for the most part use photography, the book form, and are somewhat ruschaish.

 

Follow-ed (after hokusai) 15th March - 1st May 2011

Arnolfini Reading Room, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

Previous re-makes of Ed Ruscha bookworks are displayed in the set of the new cover version of Crackers. Sit or…

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Cover-ed is a series of curatorial and creative interventions into and around Ed Ruscha and Mason Williams’ bookwork

Crackers. Over two months the book becomes the script, score, instruction, and inspiration for a three-day performance

of photography, a participatory performance event, an installation, and a new artist’s book.

 

SALAD DRESSING: A COVER OF CRACKERS, BOOK LAUNCH & PERFORMANCE

Sat 30 April 6pm

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Someone posted this link on our Australian artbooks email list - it looks great but I have no idea what it says...

 

http://theoryandpractice.ru/posts/1511-nauka-buk-arta-novaya-zhizn-starykh-knig

 

 

It's ironic that as the world becomes increasingly digital, as books move toward the e-publishing sphere, the art of handmade books has made a resurgence. I think people today are longing for craft and beauty, for something they can touch and hold, that comes from the hands and heart of another person; something that seems a good distance away from a machine.…

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Norah Nanake interviewd me about my artist book, 'Barcode Book 1' part of my barcode series of works.

Read about  it in the arts review   Fogged Clarity here.

 

Be a part of our world-wide celebration of book arts -- with over $8,000 in awards!



The MCBA Prize 2011

http://www.mnbookarts.org/mcbaprize



The MCBA Prize is the first honor in the United States to recognize book art from across the field and around the world. Five finalists will be selected to each receive a $500 cash award, and up to $750 travel and lodging stipend to be honored at a gala celebration at… Continue

Found a cool idea: using lego for letterpress!

 

Check it at: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2010/10/lego_letterpress.html

Libri d'artista

www.alfonsofilieri.com

 

L'Arte di fare il libro

sezione didattica e attività dell'Archivio Internazionale del Libro d'Artista

www.operalibro.it

 

 

 

 

i've been making his book for about 3 or 4 years or maybe more on and off. it gets buried under stuff and brought out  after  few years. I lost the original for the screen  printing.when it turned up again i started it again. now its just about finished and I cant think of a name for it. It had a nick name (working title) 'the brain book'. I know I will eventually settle on the right name but I haven't yet.

The March - April 2011 Book Arts Newsletter, No. 64 is now ready for free download at: …

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I predominately make one-off unique books. When they are bought, they sit on shelves gathering dust, very seldom seeing the light of day. So now, once they are made, I cut them up and send them out as mail art into the world. A process based art practice.  The World is a Town, inspired by the Novgorod Codex was the first recycled hand made book to  suffer this fate. The second book to undergo the knife is Bones of Contention. This work originally took nine months to complete. In one…

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