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

Books and boats are both strong metaphors,
with which will continue to work.
This is another example, Leseboot/Segelbuch;
two folded objects playing with the boat form
as well as with word combinations.
Leseboot/Segelbuch Ute Schneider / Ulrike Stoltz
Conclusion
To sum it up: the cross connections seem to
be very important. There are even more links
than mentioned so far. For example, the books
Triumpf eines Hosenverkäufers by Veronika
Schäpers, Frau Trude by Susanne Nickel,
Ebene by Sabine Golde / Johannes Bobrowski
and Liegend/Im Fall by Uta Schneider all were
initiated by Gerlinde Creutzburg/Neues
Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop. There are lots of cross
connections within 13 +: some projects by
Hybriden Verlag included works by Gerhild Ebel,
Barbara Fahrner, Sabine Golde, Ulrike Stoltz
and Uwe Warnke.
Ulrike Stoltz also contributed work to some
projects of Frankfurter Edition. Uta Schneider
has collaborated more than once with Uwe
Warnke. Some works by Gerhild Ebel have been
published by Uwe Warnke Verlag.
Some of the artists of 13 + have a concept of art
and work that necessarily involves collaboration
with other artists (also from outside 13 +):
CTL Presse, Editions F. Despalles, Frankfurter
Edition, Hybriden Verlag, Uwe Warnke Verlag,
Uta Schneider. Some of the 13 + artists form
groups (at least duos) themselves: à 3, Carivari,
Editions, F. Despalles, Frankfurter Edition, Fahrner
& Fahrner, v. Ketelhodt & Malutzki, .
It should also be mentioned that Anja Harms,
Ines v. Ketelhodt, Uta Schneider and Ulrike
Stoltz formed Unica T (1986—2001).
This idea of cross connections, cross overs,
networks and related relations works best with
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the book as such, as each and every new book
sits on the shoulders of all other books written,
made and published before, be it consciously
or unconsciously. The net of books is the
original one: the net of nets.
Ulrike Stoltz was a co-founder and for 15 years
(1986 - 2001), a member of the book artists’
collective Unica T (Unica T is a fictitious
person making real books). She is now working
together with Uta Schneider under the imprint
(Uta Schneider & Ulrike Stoltz).
Ulrike Stoltz is Professor for typography and
book design at the Hochschule fur Bildende
Kunste, Braunschweig, Germany.
notes
1. 13 x Künstlerbücher/Livres d’Artistes/Artists’
Books Ed. by Françoise Despalles. With an essay:
“verso : recto” by Stefan Soltek. F. Despalles
Editions, Paris & Mainz, 2000.
2. Wulf D. v. Lucius: Die Sprache der Zukunft:
Aktuelle Buchkunsttendenzen in Deutschland.
In: “Bulletin du Bibliophile, No. 1,” Paris 2001.
Ed. by Electre-Éditions du Cercle de la
Librairie; p. 130 ff.
3. www.livresdartistes.com
4. www.einblicke-insights.com