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

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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:

12^th 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