Fired books

1968. Un-titled.

 

1968. Un-titled.

  

My present work focuses on memory, identity, historical truth, change, our links with past and fragility of those links. I take books, that no longer have the society that supports them and I reduce their materiality and their content to an immensely fragile state  - so fragile, that they may disintegrate in hands - just like the memory of the times, that they represent.

I do not fire random books. The books fired for this project come from a wheelbarrow in Lithuania: in the summer of 2009 they were ready for the fireplace. The books are old Soviet text books and propaganda books, published in the sixties and the seventies. They very much representative of their times and their locale. Not only for then truths they contain, but also for their indexality. So I cremate them, I purge them of the memories and the thoughts and the residue that they carry.




- Egidija Čiricaitė

An experiment into the immersive nature of the page. In reading are you cut off from everything? In reading do you absent yourself? It was important that it was printed on newsprint. The lightness in the paper has an immediacy. Like it could get caught in the wind and blown anywhere, your eyes caught in the text as it blows by. For a split second your there on the page. A moment of realisation, then it’s gone.

I’ve been fascinated with catching a glimpse of pages. Like discarded newspapers. You make a connection with a word. Are you there with the word for that split second of reading? Are you in the space of the page? Do you get caught within it?

The control of the page is very important and how language is used within the context of this space.

How can language control the page and how can the page control you?

George

http://georgecullen.tumblr.com/

If July comes I stay

Hi everyone!
This is a link to a summary of the book for the H.D project. http://www.sabigotho.com/acedia/books/Pages/If_July_comes_I_stay.html
And this is a link to the little video clip of it ( bottom right) http://www.sabigotho.com/acedia/Movingcollage.html (there is sound so make sure you adjust the volume of you computer before visiting).

See you on Wednesday!

natalie

This is my Helen Douglas project. The piece is called 'Tightly Coiled' and its my first animated project. You need to click on the image to view. The piece contains imagery of the downstairs corridor at Wilson Road and the spots refer to emotions. Any feedback is welcome. Danny Aldred

Saved

Different Whelms:

Renee, Janine, Wiebke... this is my fave doodle from the 'whelm' ideas we were talking about, did you get on with it much?

sorry for the multiple posts... x, christa.

Art/writing

There is a series of talks at spike island in Bristol, we've missed the first one but here is some info:

This is the second in a series of three exploratory talks, panel discussions of invited speakers, curated by  Fullam and funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. Art/Writing: Text and Context will consist of a short presentation by each speaker, discussion and a question and answers session and aims to bring together writers, art practitioners and theorists for a public exchange of ideas. Invited speakers for Spike Island on Saturday 27 November are Daniel Jewesbury, Tamarin Norwood and Jesse Jones.

The talks consider and explore the intersection of art and writing. Writing is increasingly occupying the spaces between the live experience, exhibition, and documentation. In addition writing has taken on a role in the making of work itself, in exhibition making and as finished work. Art-writing is, or has the potential to be, both means and end. What forms can art-writing take and how and where can this kind of work be disseminated? Art-writing could be said to include critical writing, reviews, related theoretical or philosophical writing, art-writing - which links the visual and the textual, and also textual visual art. Where and what are the links between these and what kinds of knowledge can be produced at these points of intersection? These discussions endeavour to investigate and develop a range of ways of reading or responding to and discussing such work, both individually and collaboratively.

And here is the link: http://www.spike-island.org.uk/?q=events/textandcontext

it looks interesting and i might go if i can finish the essay, get in touch if anyone wants to meet me!        - booking is recomended.

On the subject of Tamarin Norwood, i have got the guides for one of her performances 'musica practica' and i was thinking if anyone was interested (Janine?) we could organise a performance exhibition with a few different works and i could ask Tamarin for her permission to perform it? all it needs is 2 people and a little audience participation, its very interesting.

see you soon, christa.

growth book

The 'Broccoli binding' reminded me of this book structure i've been working on, the pics show how the book unfolds (clockwise from top left...)  Anyway, there you go!

Christa

Helen Douglas Project - Wiebke and Renee

Wiebke's

colour diary

I hope one can actually click on the image to enlarge it, so you can read the text on the box.  I will do this little experiment this week and post the results as soon when it's done.

I'm thankful for your thoughts, ideas, ... whatever you think about it interests me.  

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 Renee's:


This is my book about walking in the mist early in the morning. The photos were taken with my mobile phone as my instant camera stopped working - so this has become a little narrative about not seeing things clearly, and trying to read a landscape but not doing it very well.

Tree Books

Just wanted to share my eureka moment of the week… while playing with structure for Les's project, almost by chance i came to this:

… i affectionately call it my 'broccoli-binding'.  x  ᕩarolina.

The performing book

The performing book is a structure for five or more dancers co-authored by the audience in a playful exchange. For the above performance at Siobhan Davies Studios the work was realised by Anais Bouts, Rosalie Wahlfrid, Katja Nyqvist, Kat Cooper, Lizzie Sells,Vanessa Abreu, Katy Pearce, Lena Kimming and Mark Carberry.

Hello!

This is a space for Camberwell Book Arts' students to share their work.