602: PMVABF - General Looking

ABC (Artists’ Books Cooperative) is an international group of artists, publishers, and educators seeking to create, engage, and experiment with the form of the book, and to foster alternative forms of distribution through collaboration. As well as working on our own practices, we work together to produce collective projects. 

At the invitation of Wil van Iersel, twenty-nine international artists each produced a book on a chosen day between June and July 2020. The result is an archive of 29 works made by artists - sometimes in quarantine - during a period encompassing the Covid-19 outbreak and worldwide protests against racism and police brutality.

Books collected into blue perspex box for the artbook fair. 

- Thinking about this for B6 and a way of collating the publications to be part of a collection.

- Think it would be a good to continue this project through after my study, would be a brilliant way to keep my graphic design skills up to scratch and also for developing visuals and ideas. 

Atelier Éditions is an independent publishing house established in 2015. Developing collaborative projects across an array of disciplines, the atelier offers curatorial and editorial consultation, creative direction, content creation, and print innovation. Authoring archival monographs, contemporary art books, catalogue raisonnés, and exploratory printed matter, Atelier Éditions regularly curates exhibitions, and envisages cultural programming.  

An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour: The Harvard Art Museums’ Forbes Pigment Collection, is a monograph produced in collaboration with the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums.

Anthology Editions is an independent book publisher based in Brooklyn, New York. An imprint of the record label Mexican Summer, Anthology is dedicated to uncovering and presenting new narratives via thoughtful, exceptionally designed publications in the fields of art, music, and pop culture history.

“Once on a foggy day, I came across a very peculiar bar with a huge hedge just in front of it. I took a photograph and went on. I didn’t really know where I was and never saw that bar again on my future explorations”

Guided by Mekas’s distinctive prose and suffused with warmth, A Dance with Fred Astaire is rhapsodic, poetic and funny as all get out. A revealing visual autobiography of a genuine culture hero.

Back Bone Books. Claudia de la Torre founded Berlin-based backbonebooks in 2011 to formalize her own practice and publish other artists’ books. Creating objects, fields, spaces in relation to the book as a highly historical & contemporary medium – backbonebooks performs consistently in a flexible, conceptual and collaborative process, aiming to open a new perspective into what a book can be.

Underlay, to lay under. A book is a sum of layers, one underneath the next one. An under-sheet (Shitajiki) was placed on a scanner bed, deconstructing the A5 sized transparent sheet.

- Really exciting books here! Found the ideas to be fascinating, and the ways ideas are generated and visualised is really cool. 

- I think the approach here is the most interesting part the visuals as well I really like and think they're very similar to the direction my current project is going (B7 - Research Brief). The publications here have a more clear focus and experimentation into light and dark, this is really nice and directs the audience through the books. 
- They really feel as though they explore publication like an image (as Dayanita spoke about in a previous talk). 

http://backbonebooks.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/backbonebooks_catalogue_2020.pdf