Site Gallery talk
Nick Thurston will give an invited talk at Site Gallery, Sheffield, on the subject of libraries and artists’ publishing, in conjunction with the gallery’s current exhibition, ‘Print It’. You can also enjoy iam books as part of the specialist bookshopinstalled during the show
Man Booker Quiz samizdat warriors
Umi Baden-Powell (right) offers a quiz sheet to a guest at the entrance to the Man Booker Prize award ceremony, London 2011.
Information as material Samizdat warriors, Umi Baden-Powell, Corinne Macdonald and Sasha Litvintseva distributed the Man Booker Shortlist Quiz to guests arriving at the Man Booker Prize Award ceremony at the Guildhall, London, Tuesday 18 October 2011. See The Man Booker Shortlist Quiz! PORTFOLIO entry for details.
Take the quiz online here.
Download the quiz as a PDF sheet here.
Iam archive on year long public display
iam’s ‘Z-Shelves’, designed by Michael Farion; installed at the Whitechapel Gallery, 2011-12.
Public archive of iam catalogue.
Foyle Archive Room, Whitechapel Art Gallery, April 2011-March 2012.
Simon Morris commissioned the Canadian architect Michael Farion to design the Z-shelves in 1999, for the ‘bibliomania’ project. Finally, in 2010, and with the support of The Henry Moore Foundation and Arts Council England, the invisible bookshleves were fabricated by Dauphin Restoration in Oxfordshire. Farion’s brief was to design a transparent, self-standing book presentation unit in the spirit of Victor Burgin’s 1969 art work, Photopath. Which is to say, Farion was asked to produce an unintrusive sculpture that could function as a discreet frame for the books it holds, so that they could seemingly float like a constellation of covers and spines.
