Artist's Book Yearbook 2003-2005 - Book Arts - University of the ...

solid international network and database of
artists, educators, book art organisations, and
collecting and exhibiting institutions. At this
time book arts organisations have no central
association, Booklyn would like to initiate a
dialogue exploring how such an association
could form.
Finally, in acknowledging Booklyn’s success, we
want to be a model for how a group of artists
can successfully take the means of education,
exhibition, distribution, and production into
their own hands. With that in mind we look
forward to assisting other Booklyn style artists’
organisations to form and flourish throughout
the world. Can we talk?
Article distilled by Marshall Weber with assistance
from Amy Ferrara, Emily Larned, Mark Wagner,
and Eleanor Whitney
Appendices
Appendix 1 - Programmes:
Available Exhibitions Committed to making the
book arts accessible to a wider public; Booklyn
curates and produces thematic exhibitions of
artist books and related media for galleries,
museums, libraries, schools, universities and
other public sites. Exhibitions are modular and
available in various configurations.
…even the birds were on fire…
A touring exhibition which features nine books
created by New York City artists who witnessed
and responded to 9/11 and its aftermath, with
accompanying audio, installation, printed
matter, performance artworks, community
meetings, lectures, classes, workshops, and
poetry readings. The exhibition features a fortyfive
foot long and eight-foot high scroll collage
of material related to 9/11 collected from the
streets of New York in 2001. The exhibition has
toured throughout the United States and will
tour Australia in 2004.
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The Scroll Marshall Weber & various, 2001, collage, 50’ x 8’.
Parallel Botany/Vegetable Mind
A collaborative / interactive exhibition
consisting of the pairing of innovative
contemporary artists’ books and prints with
rare sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and
nineteenth century botanical prints and books
selected from the host library’s collections.
The exhibition explores the resonance between
contemporary and antique botanicals and is
structured to illustrate the historical
development of natural theory from the
Enlightenment to the current philosophy of
deep ecology. Originally part of the Parallel
Botany exhibit, the Vegetable Mind performance
is a simple yet striking, site-specific ecological /
endurance piece involving planting people in
the ground for varying amounts of time.
Evidence of Creation; The Gabberjabs of Walter
Hamady’s Perishable Press
The Perishable Press has published one
hundred and twenty-eight fine and awardwinning
editions and will celebrate its fortieth
anniversary in 2004. Hamady has published
collaborations with various writers, including
Robert Creeley and Allan Ginsberg, and artists,
such as Warrington Colescott and Herman
Zapf. This exhibit features the Gabberjab series;
seven encyclopaedic, self-referential
explorations of the book production
accompanied by sketches, proofs, mock-ups and
other materials that comprehensively illuminate
the books’ creation.