[artbooks] 4th Australian Artists Books Forum - program

Friday 8 February 2008
6.00pm - 9.00pm Exhibition Opening
2008 Libris Awards: Australian artist book awards exhibition
&
The foreigner in ourselves: recent works by Clyde McGill (winner of 2006 
Libris Awards)
Artspace Mackay

4th Australian Artists' Books Forum
9.00am - 3.30pm Saturday 9 February & 9.00am - 3.30pm Sunday 10 February 
2008
Mackay Entertainment Centre

Saturday 9 February 2008

9.00am - 9.30am Registration

9.30am Welcome 
- Welcome to country
- Welcome by Michael Wardell, Director, Artspace Mackay

9.45am - 10.30am Session 1

Michael Desmond
Early /conceptual making and collecting artists' books with focus on 
National Gallery of Australia collection

10.30am - 11.00am morning tea

11.00am - 12.30pm Session 2
Patrick Pound 
The Conjurer's Book: the representation of limits and the limits of 
representation

David Sequeira
The book-ness of books: looking at the significance/symbolism of and 
within books

12.30 - 2.00pm lunch

2.00pm - 3.30pm Session 3

Michael Wardell
The recycled library: a look at Australian altered books from the 70s to 
today

Forum on altered books:
Michael Desmond, Michael Wardell, Patrick Pound, David Sequeira

4.00pm - 6.00pm Exhibition opening
Ron McBurnie, Dianne Fogwell and Euan McLeod at Arthouse Gallery

7.00pm - 10.00pm Conference Dinner at Mackay Entertainment Centre

Sunday 10 February 2008

9.00am - 10.30am Session 4

Tim Mosely
The Codex event, Southern Cross University
Exploring the potential of pulp printing with fine text and imagery 
embedded within the sheet of paper

Doug Spowart
A picture is worth 10,000 words: The photographer and the artists' book

10.30-11.00am morning tea

11.00am - 12.30pm Session 5

Marian Macken
Beyond simulacrum: artists' books as architectural models

Victoria Cooper
Evoking place within the page: the artists' book as an integral part of 
the development and presentation of site-specific work and concepts

12.30pm - 2.00pm lunch

2.00pm - 3.30pm Artists talks
- Glen Skien
- Clyde McGill
- Dianne Fogwell
- Carne Florence
- Julie Barrett

Further information and registrations:
http://www.artspacemackay.com.au 



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