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The London Centre for Book Arts.
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Well a great day in London culminating in the private view
at Camberwell – the show looks most excellent with some interesting inroads
into the courses ongoing discussion around and engagement with book. The first
show was over 20 years ago in what is now the canteen! – It’s been an exciting
journey of discovery. The show titled BOOK LESS NESS is worth a visit and is on
from the 16th – 23rd July. In the next room there is also
some good printmaking on display! It was good to meet past students and to
catch up with their success stories – they are all doing most great things
and it felt good to be a small part of their journey. I also managed to meet
some prospective students and some that are actually joining the 2014-15 cohort
– the projection has started. There were a number of prizes awarded – not only
money and prestige from a book art Alumni group but opportunities in the form of a
residency at The London Centre for Book Arts with Simon in Hackney http://londonbookarts.tumblr.com/ and two
interventions at thebookartbookshop with Tanya http://www.bookartbookshop.com/ – I look forward to it all.
Another session of Pulse Festival wondrousness at the Dance
House in Ipswich last night – first was Words into the Dark by Wendy Houston a
wonderful piece – finding a way forward – an expression of a person managing –
a person coping with a mass of information – creating language. Second was a
piece by Hetain Patel - American Boy – a mixture of
impressions and actions looking at popular American Culture it was at its best when
it mashed up these ideas and expressions of Americanness – Spiderman doing
impressions of Micheal Caine doing Kung Fu as Michael Jackson! There’s a double
bill on Saturday with world factory the shirt first and then Feel about your
body by the fabulous New Art Club I’m already looking forward to it – they are
always quite marvellous http://www.wolseytheatre.co.uk/shows/pulse14-feel-about-your-body/
. I had resisted the new version of Old Boy as the original needed nothing especially
not a remake. But it does have some extraordinary special effects in the form
of exploding heads mainly – but.......
Part of today’s teaching at Camberwell was a visit to The London
Centre for Book Arts http://londonbookarts.tumblr.com/
- a most excellent space deep in the hinterland of Hackney almost next to the
Olympic park. A great talk by Simon who in founder and runs the place, although
far too modest to say so himself he really is a force for good.
