Screening & Reading Night: Ulises Carrión & Other Books

Wed 11 Nov 2015, 7.30 pm
Six Space

From the organizer:

Come to a special evening about the work of Ulises Carrión, and his passion for experimental books and publishing.

About Ulises Carrión:

Ulises Carrión (1941-1989) was an artist born in Mexico. He began as a writer, and later became regarded as Mexico’s first conceptual artist, working through video, books, text and performance. On his move to Europe in 1971, he began to take a deep interest in artists books. Making artists books himself, and collecting those of others, led to two things:

– He opened the first ever artist bookshop, Other Books and So, in Amsterdam in 1975. The space became known internationally as a vital cultural centre for exhibitions, collaborations, performances, and the making and publishing of artist’s books.

– In the same year, he published “The New Art of Making Books” – a major theoretical work on the subject of artist’s books. The text was first published in the art magazine Kontexts, and printed and distributed for free from the Centre for Book Arts in New York.

About the evening:

“The New Art of Making Books” has been published in five languages. This event will see the launch of the sixth – translated into Vietnamese for the first time, and distributed for free to all attendees.

The evening will also be the first Vietnamese screening of Carrión’s short film, “Bookworks Revisited”, part 1 (1979, 34min), in which he discusses his ideas around artist books, and showcases 72 publications from the Other Books and So archive.

Joining the evening will be a selection of books from the Arc mobile reading room for your browsing pleasure.

So: come, watch a short film, drink tea, listen to a short talk, read some books, and walk home with a wonderful piece of writing…

Event schedule:

• A short talk about Carrión and artist’s books
• A screening of Carrión’s short film “Bookworks Revisited”, part 1
• Launch of the Vietnamese translation of Carrión’s important 1975 essay, “The New Art of Making Books”
• A selection of artist’s books from Arc Mobile Reading Room
• Tea and reading

Free Entry.

Arc is part of the Vietnam Artists Book Project

“Bookworks Revisited”, part 1 appears courtesy of LIMA