December - February 2009 Diary (PDF, 187Kb)
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Exhibition Preview Card. Font with reference to Ed Ruscha and Mason Williams, Crackers, Heavy Industry Publications, 1969. Design by Thirteen.
The Cover of a Book is the Beginning of a Journey
Exhibitions
22 Nov 08 - 18 Jan 09, 10am - 6pm (Closed Mondays)
Free
Building on Arnolfini's recent approach to more experimental formats for presenting art, this exhibition uses a specific tendency in artists' book works to generate an energetic series of events and activity. Focusing on books that either offer sets of instructions or are derived from instructions - the books unsettle the usual distinctions between writers and readers, artists and audiences,
and act as prompts to go beyond the conventions of reading.
Partly drawing from Arnolfini's archive, which includes several hundred artists' books - many dating from the 1960s and 1970s, and from the artist book collection at the University of the West of England, the exhibition presents a whole range of publications by renowned and emerging artists including: Angela Bulloch, Sophie Calle, Melanie Carvalho, Don Celender, Douglas Huebler, Boem Kim, Alison Knowles, Jonathan Monk, Ed Ruscha and Lawrence Weiner amongst others.
The title for the exhibition was determined by the instruction from Jonathan Monk's artist book Meeting #13.
As part of the exhibition you are able to download, print and make your own copy of artist Duncan Speakman’s book for every step you take I take a thousand (2007). The book also has an accompanying soundtrack, to be played whilst reading. Link here to download.If you have access to a motor vehicle, and would like to join in a ‘do-it-yourself’, multiple location, mass participatory performance event of George Brecht’s ‘event score’ Motor Vehicle Sundown on the 10 Jan, you are also able to download, print and make the set of instruction cards required to participate. Link here to download. Beginning in unison, performers follow a set of 22 instructions, drawn from a pack of 44 shuffled cards, to carry out a sequence of actions using their motor vehicles.
On Sat 17 Jan there will be free screenings throughout the day featuring films from Ed Ruscha, Emily Wardill and Jonathan Monk.
Exhibition Events and Film Programme
The exhibition is accompanied by film and events including the Performance Re-enactment Society, Motor Vehicle Sundown and Household Orchestra performance.
With support from the University of the West of England and Great Western Research.
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The Cover of a Book is the Beginning of a Journey Exhibition Guide (PDF document, 350Kb)
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