13 Jul 2012


Press Release
BookMare
12 – 13 July 2012


open daily 10.00 – 5.00

Private View Thursday 12th July, 5 – 7.30pm

Camberwell Space
Camberwell College of Arts
45 - 65 Peckham Road
London SE5 8UF
www.camberwell.arts.ac.uk/camberwellspace | #BookMare | @ccwgradschool

BookMare at Camberwell Space comprises an exhibition, performance and discussions exploring how artists have used books as concepts and components in their practice, here often causing disquiet.
Packed into two days, the gallery space will be a focus for the engagement artists invest in books. The exhibition will include works from John Latham’s film and book-event archive, Damien Hirst’s commercially produced ‘I Want To Spend The Rest Of My Life Everywhere With Everyone, One To One, Always, Forever, Now’ and ‘et in arcadia’ by Helen Chadwick. landscapist (an ‘opening’ event) will be performed at the opening night and includes works by Hiromi Tshua, Finlay Taylor, Susan Johanknecht, Kate Scrivener, Alva McKenzie and Eli Zafran. Mark Harris will be creating a new sculptural work for the space which further explores his book object-defense series. Talks will include Arnaud Desjardin, a leading theorist and publisher of artists’ books, and Les Bicknell, whose practice focuses on the book and a contraption for holding and accessing ideas. Claire Louise Staunton will present Book as Event: Latham's Language of Form.

BookMare is curated by Susan Johanknecht and Finlay Taylor.



Talks:

12th July – Ceramics Lecture Theatre, Camberwell College of Arts

3.30 the book: revelation and testimony
Les Bicknell, artist

4.00 Library Stack 655
Arnaud Desjardin, artist and writer.

4.30 Book as Event: Latham's Language of Form
Claire Louise Staunton, curator at Flat-Time House

13th July - Camberwell Space

11:30 Informal Gallery Discussion with Curators

Invited artists include:
landscapist (an ‘opening’ event)
John Latham
Arnaud Desjardin
James Keith
Damien Hirst
Helen Chadwick
Kate Scrivener
Les Bicknell
Gefn Press – Cunning Chapters
Pupa Press
George Eksts
Mark Harris
Sean Lynch & Gustavo Montero Grandal
Claire Louise Staunton
Eli Zafran
Alva McKenzie
Hiromi Tsuha
Katharine Meynell
Stephen Bury
Georgios Boudalis
Clippetyclop
William Cobbing
Sigrid Holmwood
Louisa Minkin
Electric Crinolines
Kelly Wellman


                 

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