Archive for November 2013
Print Shop: Victor & Hester TURNINGS | FSSMTWTF / Visit Friday 29 November 5 – 8 pm
Print Shop: Victor & HesterTURNINGS | FSSMTWTF
Victor & Hester are at X Marks the Bökship, London, printing a new visual journal produced in-house over a week at the Bökship.
Victor & Hester is a non-profit artist run project, formed in 2010 by Amelia Bywater, Kirstin Carlin, Emma Fitts and Camillo Paravincini. Working collaboratively for the past three years with artists from Scotland and abroad Victor & Hester produces an ongoing and expanding journal and events series that places emphasis on the working processes and social spaces created around the presentation of new work. Since 2011 the project has been fluid in its format, and is currently structured around a collaborative practice between Amelia Bywater and Emma Fitts.
Day of Exchange @ Wysing Arts Centre / From 1pm, Saturday 30 November 2013
Alternative Models of Distribution
1pm Publishers’ Lunch
Independent publishers and those interested in publishing are invited to join us for a free 1pm lunch at Wysing to discuss recent books they have published and distributed.
2-4pm Alternative Models of Distribution Think Tank
Discussion on Adam Burton’s text Some Problems of Distribution for Independent Publishers and Independent Booksellers, written for X-Operative. Read PDF here Some problems of distribution for… or pick up a free copy at Wysing Arts Centre.
Distribution think tank with presentations from Louisa Bailey (Luminous Books) and Eva Weinmayr (AND Publishing) and independent publishers, distributors and booksellers and discussion on Print-on-Demand platforms and social distribution initiatives.
Print Shop: Victor & Hester: TURNINGS | FSSMTWTF
Print Shop: Victor & Hester
TURNINGS | FSSMTWTF
Victor & Hester are at X Marks the Bökship printing a new visual journal produced in-house in a week at the Bökship using the Riso and Photocopier, to be launched on Friday 29th November.
More details to follow during the week.
Victor & Hester is a non-profit artist run project, formed in 2010 by Amelia Bywater, Kirstin Carlin, Emma Fitts and Camillo Paravincini. Working collaboratively for the past three years with artists from Scotland and abroad Victor & Hester produces an ongoing and expanding journal and events series that places emphasis on the working processes and social spaces created around the presentation of new work. Since 2011 the project has been fluid in its format, and is currently structured around a collaborative practice between Amelia Bywater and Emma Fitts.
X-Operative Exhibition at Wysing Arts Centre / Saturday 16 November 2013, 5 – 8pm
X Marks the Bökship is setting up shop at Wysing Arts Centre for a special programme that is part exhibition, part events series and part functioning shop for artist’s books and independent publishing.
The title X-Operative is taken from an essay by Ksenia Cheinman, who uses the term to describe common places where the cultural space becomes creative, productive, commercial, domestic, and educational all at once. Using this playfully as a blueprint the exhibition includes specially commissioned artist-made display systems by Adam Burton, Sophie Demay, Rory Macbeth, Beatriz Olabarrieta and Keef Winter, each supporting a selection of publications available to read or purchase from each station. Independently produced by artists, designers and writers these books sit in relation to five separate themes illustrating the multi operations of X Marks the Bökship: reading & writing, production, performance, distribution and exchange.
Over the duration of the five weeks, each construction will become activated as the focus of a packed events programme focusing on each theme including talks, screenings, workshops, readings and performances. The events allow for an environment for exchange and study as well as action, reflection and discussion and include contributions from Anagram Books, And Public, Eleanor Vonne Brown, Adam Burton, Adam Chodzko and Rob Young, Michael Dean, Chris Evans and Will Holder, Rory Macbeth, PERSONA Journal with Melissa Gordon, Jessica Wiesner and Marina Vishmidt, The Fox with Mathew Whittington, and Lucy Woodhouse. Rebecca Jagoe will be based at Wysing Arts Centre as Bökship Writer-in-Residence for the duration of the exhibition.
Five sculptural display systems have been commissioned by artists, writers, designers and publishers to present a selection of publications, subverting and playing with how we read, write, collect knowledge and publish information. On the theme of Reading and Writing, Rory Macbeth has reproduced a set of glasses to the same prescription as Sigmund Freud that can be used to examine the stack of journals and texts placed alongside. On the theme of Production, artist and publisher Keef Winter has installed a destructive production line, books about production are shredded and reformed into concrete book blocks.
On the theme of Performance, artist Beatriz Olabarrieta imagines the scripts and publications her sculpture holds are theatrical characters, presenting them to the audience as if on stage. On the theme of Distribution, artist and publisher Adam Burton has written an essay investigating the problems of independent distribution and suggesting alternatives. Copies of his publication are being distributed from throughout the exhibition. Finally, on the theme of Exchange, designer Sophie Demay has created the centre stage of the exhibition – a reading area that also functions as a space for conversation, discussion and performance events.
Saturday 16 November 5-8pm
Preview and Launch event
5-7pm Keef Winter Lets Build Our Own Tomb, Durational Performance
6pm Introduction by Eleanor Vonne Brown
6.30-8pm Lucy Woodhouse Experimental Ink Jet, Durational Performance
Keef Winter will activate his installation, shredding books about production and reforming them into concrete book blocks throughout the evening. Lucy Woodhouse uses printers and scanners to create live visuals and unique prints based on H.G. Wells ‘World Brain’.
Coach to the X-Operative exhibition
There is a coach traveling from the Bökship to Wysing Arts Centre near Cambridge for the opening on Saturday 16 November.
Meet at X Marks the Bökship at 3pm
Coach leaving from Museum of Childhood, Cambridge Heath Road at 3.15pm
Arriving back in Bethnal Green at 10pm
Cost £10 per person
Spaces for 50 people
Book a ticket here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/9256802345
Directions to Wysing
Wysing Arts Centre is located outside the village of Bourn, nine miles west of Cambridge. Fast trains leave from Kings Cross every half an hour. From Cambridge, take a taxi direct to Wysing or take a bus to Cambridge central bus station and then catch the No 18 bus from Cambridge Bus Station on Drummer Street. Buses run hourly from Cambridge at 45 minutes past the hour, Monday to Saturday.
Wysing Arts Centre
Fox Road
Bourn, Cambridge
CB23 2TX
http://www.wysingartscentre.org
Motto @ Bökship / TLTRPreß Launch of The Significance of the Photographic Image in a Filmic Context / Thursday 7 November 2013, 6 – 9pm
Motto @ Bökship
a temporary bookstore project
Thursday 7 November – Sunday 10 November 2013
Thursday 7 November 2013, 6 – 9pm
Launch of The Significance of the Photographic Image in a Filmic Context
By Paulius Petraitis.
Published by TLTRPreß
Most recent debates about the impact of digitalization on photography either advocate a rupture between analog and digital, or deny that there are any differences at all. The present project, however, wants to emphasize the continuity of several cultural aspects without denying the differences between the two ways of image-making. Paulius Petraitis’ text follows a trajetory around a less focused relation in film and photography and adds both to the so-called “classic” understanding of photographic images, as well as rejecting any rupture in the current cultural perception of photography.
— Sahar Askari
NEW TLTRPreß title out now:
Paulius Petraitis: The Significance of the Photographic Image in a Filmic Context
Motto @ Bökship
a temporary bookstore project
Thursday 7 November – Sunday 10 November 2013
Opens Thursday 7 November, 6 – 9pm
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 12 – 6pm
Motto is a collection of temporary and permanent bookshops, a publisher and a distributor of independent publications. Motto distributes more than 150 publishers to a more than a 100 stores worldwide. Motto Berlin regularly functions as a space for book and magazine presentations, as well as special evenings dedicated to different discussions around publishing about art, graphic design, photography, typography and related matters.
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