Image above: Corinne Welch.
MAMDP students and alumni have contributed to this exhibition along with artists and writers from Germany, Spain, Sweden, the UK and USA.
For 2018, the World Book Night United Artists issued an invitation to read and respond to the short story ‘Watching God’ in the collection Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville. There were many ways in which readers could respond to the text, through word or image, bookbinding, or even raft building.
The image and text submissions have been printed out and framed to display in the manner of the library and gallery scenes in the short story. Frames to house the submissions were gathered from second hand shops, left dusty, and dented, as if the items on display have just been unearthed from another time and place.
All 50 submissions are on show in the exhibition from 1st – 30th April 2018 in the study area at Bower Ashton Library, Bristol. They can also be found on our World Book Night 2018 Instagram page created by Chrystal Cherniwchan.
Later this month, we will also be making our annual video and artist’s book to launch on World Book Night, 23rd April 2018. Our World Book Night 2018 artist’s book will be published as a paperback ‘ur-text’ in keeping with the contents of the town’s library.
The title of our book is Their Eyes Were Watching God – the book searched for but never found. It will be available through publish-on-demand if you wish to order a copy, published on 23rd April. Please visit our website to find the video and a link to our artist’s book at the end of April 2018: http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/found/
Many thanks to MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking student and artist Chrystal Cherniwchan for all her help with this project. And thanks to Chrystal and Cathey Webb for help installing the exhibition.
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