presentation given at turn the page 2019

1. what is it to make bookart?
bookness - a way to think about the making of books.

2. bookness
/b kness/ʊ
abstract noun: bookness.
An object or activity that references or contains in its creation or
conception ideas, materials, concepts, production processes,
functionality or other elements that are related to the book and its
associated activities.
synonyms: book, book art, bookwork, artists’ book,
volume, tome, work, printed work/matter, publication, treatise,
whole book philosophy.
More
The naming of an idea which has at its core the essence of book.
Other art forms that have bookness encompass time-based works,
including dance, film, theatre,
Something bound by the concepts that contain the idea of the
book.

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Robinson_(craftsman)
Ivor Robinson

4. http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/reese/classes/artistsbooks/Ulises%20Carrion,%20The%20New%20Art%20of%20Making%20Books.pdf
Ulises Carrión
THE NEW ART OF MAKING BOOKS”
WHAT A BOOK IS
A book is a sequence of spaces.
Each of these spaces is perceived
at a different moment –
a book is also a sequence of
moments.
A book is not a case of words, nor
a bag of words, nor a bearer of
words.
A writer, contrary to the popular
opinion, does not write books.
A writer writes texts.
Ulises Carrion

5. https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/fine-art/postgraduate/ma-visual-arts-book-arts-camberwell
MA Book Art - Camberwell

6. bookness
what can a book be?
what makes a book a book?
when does a book stop being a book?
where does book end?
finding your relationship to book

7. Circle Press John Latham

8. book as material

9. K.O.S
Kids of survival
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Rollins_and_K.O.S.

10. Gary Hill

11. Mounir Fatmi

12. John Latham

15. image of book

19. paper

21. words / text

34. binding

37. How to Wrap Five Eggs: Traditional Japanese Packaging -
Hideyuki Oka

38. K.O.S

43. folding

45. Yoshi Solaris

49. structure

58. David Nash Christo

59. smell

60. The silent smell of paper
Wallpaper / Geza Schoen / Karl Largerfield

61. touch

62. Taryn Simon

63. Peter Friedl

64. codes
/
communication

70. documentation
/
dissemination

75. collecting
/
ordering

78. Tony Cragg

80. performance
/
reading

84. Varvara Stepanova's designs for the performance of
'An Evening of the Book' with the protagonists standing
in front, photographed by Alexander Rodchenko (1924)

89. process
/
making

95. distribution

98. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bristol_Art_Library

99. Meriç Algün Ringborg library

100. Yinka Shonibare

101. Mick Jones

102. The Library of Babel - Borges

105. https://bookartbookshop.com/

107. Francesc Ruiz

108. http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/venice_biennale/2015/tour/all_the_worlds_futures_2/marco_fusinato_2
Marco Fusinato

110. sequence

125. Eames – Powers of Ten

127. which gets you………………..

142. Book as hand tool for thinking
maker – object – audience

144. Daniel Bentley – journey to the podium

147. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XCkhpjg8Ms

148. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAafL2Pud5U&list=UUehDGnEVjKvs3kl6fFef7cA&index=14

150. https://unfoldingthinking.blogspot.com/

151. Aiden Johnson – https://soundcloud.com/clerk37

153. space of a book
the influence a book inhabits

154. http://de-reform.blogspot.co.uk/

155. Parallel Practices Thrishantha Nanayakkara - Naomi Mcintosh

157. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfOVMb5ecsk&list=UUehDGnEVjKvs3kl6fFef7cA&index=85

158. crystallography
Stereographic Projection of Crystal Faces
Duncan Johnstone - @jnjmat

159. electron microscopy

160. electron microscopy

161. electron microscopy

167. rethinking the idea
the books influence

168. Six vignettes from Opticorum Libri Sex
Peter Paul Rubens

172. Circle Press John Latham

173. unfoldingthinking.blogspot.com
http://lesbicknell.wixsite.com/work
http://lesbicknell.blogspot.co.uk
thank you