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

As long as the sheets are in the box, they can
be turned like the pages of a book, the
transparency of the paper creating new images
in the combination of the sheets. But this book
is not bound: this offers the opportunity to the
reader to combine the sheets in a different
form, thus making up his or her own text.
Liegend/Im Fall Uta Schneider / Uwe Warnke
Ulrike Stoltz has a focus on mythological
themes and antiquity, the old stories and texts.
In her opinion, the past is not gone, it is still
there and has an influence on us. Ulrike Stoltz
is interested in the presence of the origins, she
likes to question the past what it has to tell us
for today. She also likes to experiment with
unusual materials.
Medea Fragmente has a poem written by Ulrike
Stoltz, that refers to the Greek goddess and her
magic power. The text is printed with a laser
printer onto paper, the images were created on
a computer and printed with archival ink from
an ink-jet printer. The sheets were then
laminated and bound in the form of a palm -
leaf binding. This is a one-of-a-kind book.
Above and below: Medea Fragmente Ulrike Stoltz
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Orakelblätter (oracle sheets) is the seventh of
Ulrike Stoltz’s Sibylline Books. This refers to
the ancient prophetesses, the Sibyls, whose
prophecies were kept in nine books on the
Capitol Hill in Rome. This book contains a text
written by Ulrike Stoltz, a set of poems on
remembering and forgetting. The images are
photographs – some of them are clearly
recognisable for what they are, others are more
vague. As loose sheets they can be laid out in
different combinations and interpreted in
various ways. The images are printed with
archival ink on joss paper.
Orakelblätter Ulrike Stoltz
Uta Schneider and Ulrike Stoltz have been
collaborating for more than 16 years, now
under the imprint . Their latest project
is called The Boat-Book Project and deals with the
idea that boats and books are both containers
as well as means of transport.
Boundless consists of 7 folded sheets, each is a
chapter dealing with various aspects of both
books and boats. The pages of the folded sheets
can be turned and read, this way the book
functions like a concertina. When you unfold
them, you will see collaborative drawings by the
two of that run across the text.
On the other side, you will see photographs of
a boat passing under a bridge: all 7 sheets put
together show the whole boat.
Boundless Ute Schneider / Ulrike Stoltz