Interim show exhibition catalogue.

Our catalogue is self assemble book, where the audience is invited to select and choose their own pages to create and bind their own unique record of our show. There are a number of different methods of binding in which the audience is encouraged to choose from. The variety of different work ensures that every catalogue made will be singular and personal.

Victoria Organ  
‘Repository’
 
“The books on my shelves have shaped me as a person and as an artist. Without the books I grew up around, I would not exist. I like to think you can tell a lot about a person from what they read.
 
For me, every book has a personality, a voice that speaks. The colour of the page, the look of the type, the smell of old pulp and mold, the powdery softness left on my fingers.
We are surrounded by texts, and it is sad to think that when we speak of the book, the future of it is most commonly discussed.
 
But, contrary to popular belief, I believe the book is alive and well, although its role in our lives is changing. In my project, I intend to show the reader the personalities of my most prized books in cataloguing them, and in some way, reveal a little of myself. In doing so I hope the reader will remember their own books and engage again with the texts and writings that shaped and moulded their personalities.”
 
“Dispelling loneliness, lovelessness, the quiet desperation of daily life, reading befriends and comforts.” S. Fischer, A History of Reading

See more if Tori’s work on her website at http://www.toriori.co.uk/

Mina Bach & Nancy Fleischauer
‘Eastwing X’

“The brief set by the final year students of the Courtauld Institute of Art demanded the production of a book to celebrate this year’s 20th anniversary of biannual exhibitions. The Eastwing X book will be displayed at Somerset house for 18 months, taking its place amongst paintings, sculpture and pieces by emerging and well-known artists such as Peter Blake, Su Blackwell and Damien Hirst. After the exhibition, the book will then be archived in the Institute’s library and displayed again in the coming years with new content added every year.

Our response to the brief is this piece, the original now on show for ‘Eastwing X’ at the Somerset House until July 2013. We developed an alphabet based on our research of the architectural features of the building. The display book draws inspiration from a letter found in the Courtauld archive, a manifesto of sorts that called for free access to Art for all. Conceptually, it’s also to show how having art hung from the bare walls can be a life changing experience for everyone, a connection to a deeply meaningful statement. The content of our display book spreads as an X shape with all the pages hanging from perspex hooks. Those in turn are bound together via a long tube after the exhibition, with the rest of the hooks becoming the support for the structure. Therefore, the entire piece is sustainable and can be dismantled to be used again in the future.”