MA BOOK ARTS AND PRINTMAKING EXHIBITION AT CAMBERWELL COLLEGE OF ARTS
The title of this exhibition refers to the physical distance between the Wilson Road site and the Peckham Road site.
Di Suo ' A Bite of Chocolate Truffle' is two small books on half circle shelves an eye level. They both have brown covers and pages. On one shelf is the instruction 'TAKE A LOOK' and on the other shelf 'TAKE A BITE' which reminded me somewhat of Alice in Wonderland and the 'drink me' bottle. 'TAKE A LOOK' is looking at a truffle and what does it remind us of; its word association with one image or word to a page. 'TAKE A BITE' is the experience of taste that is built up in intensity with the second bite and it plays with the association of taste and words and it got me thinking about how difficult it is to describe what something tastes of. These books are simple and effective especially because they are small in scale.
http://www.disuobookarts.com/
Harriet Beven 'A is for apple, B is for Book, C is for Car comprises of a child's wooden desk and chair, a first picture dictionary with loose sheets of tracing paper printed with a list of philosophies and wooden blocks on the floor, Also on the desk are three toy cars and an apple.
Listening to the CD player I hear 'A is for Apple' then lots of voices all speaking at once and I can't make
out what is being said .......
This is a really good idea that could be developed further. I can imagine the effect of being in a small room and voices coming at me from all angles through speakers placed on the walls.
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Karen Apps 'Redacted' 2012 is a codex bookcover covered in grey bookcloth with red paper inside. Zig zag style pages come out of the edge of the bookcover and the text on the pages has been cut out to leave rows of slits. The thin strips of text have been scattered on the horizontal surface underneath the book. It is extracts from Bowlby J (2009) The Making and Breaking of Affectional Books Oxon:Routledge p99-106,113. Walking round the exhibit I see that there are bits of text left behind on the zig zag pages - on the other side to that which was cut .....and this remaining text reads:
She remained calm and constantly avoided her feelings until finally she wept the calm broken by the anger the intensity of anger and lasting dispair the reason deserted her. self reproach was severe and unrelenting separation permanent the urge to search a part of grief to feel abandoned and so out of place and shameful to search is not irrational this urge the sign of restless thinking and the instinctual goal 'Give sorrow words'
As I bent down to make out the words left behind I was aware of my role of a viewer of art or a reader of the (altered) book. I tried to make sense of it. As readers we try to find meaning. I realised how clever it was and how thoughtful the selection of text left behind was. The more closely I looked at this exhibit the more I appreciated it.
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Carolina Diaz The Living Book Project is wall mounted - a display of colour photographs conveying the book as an organic form with seedlings growing inside it. These are the most beautiful images and it must have been a fabulous process to watch day by day and document. The full colour glossy photographs really worked well. It would be interesting to see if this project could be documented into a book form using these impressive photographs.
Margaret Cooter 'Memory Overload' is a large dictionary propped up and open out of which spill little black books that are entirely black and slightly sinister like crows or rooks . This is provoking to me but I can't quite explain why........ I've heard the expression 'information overload' used in relation to the amount of information we can access via the internet. So how does 'memory overload' differ from 'information overload'? The exhibit is a large old dictionary full of so many words and meanings to be remembered. How do we use our memories today with so much information at our fingertips thanks to the digital devices?
http://www.margaretcooter.co.uk/
http://www.camberwellmabookarts.blogspot.co.uk/
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