Join us on Monday, April 21 for an online presentation by 2024 Center for Book Arts Research Fellow Nanase Shirokawa Imprinting Space On Artists' Book.
Books are essential intermediaries between people and environments. They act as vessels through which we communicate what spaces look like, and preserve spaces in ways that extend beyond the physical site. Yet conventional modes of translating three-dimensional space into the two-dimensional pages of the book, like architectural monographs and diagrammatic manuals, don’t always succeed in capturing the lived experience of inhabiting these spaces.
This talk explores ways that architects and artists have challenged these established methods of representing space on the page using the material and medium-specific conditions of the book. From books that appropriate the record-keeping devices of bureaucracy, to ones whose physical form recreate the spatial qualities of a building or landscape, these works shed insight into the role of books as sites of negotiating relationships between space and memory.