or-bits.com presents On the upgrade, a new limited edition series in a box, during the Artists Books Weekend (Thu 22 to Sun 25 September)
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“Is going to print a type of technological obsolescence ?”
Used stencils courtesy of Hato Press
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For On the upgrade (September 2011), six artists who have previously produced a work for or-bits.com’s Programmes, PATRICK COYLE, BENEDICT DREW, JAMIE GEORGE, TAMARIN NORWOOD, DAMIEN ROACH and DAVID RULE, have been commissioned to create an extension of that very same work for the printed format.
LAUNCH EVENT on SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER, 4 – 6 pm, at The Mews Project Space Common Room.
In response to the Artists Books Weekend and to On the upgrade, artist MAGDA FABIANCZYK will present an ‘act for a consumable text’, On defining a First Class Banana, make an apple a Royal Gala , which is part of her ongoing project The Edible Interventions series. Fabianczyk’s act will be interspersed with the reading We Go Like This by TAMARIN
NORWOOD and the performance Empty Grey Squares (Registration) by PATRICK COYLE.
WHERE:
The Mews Project Space
15C Osborn Street [alley behind the Whitechapel gallery]
London E1
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The Artists Books Weekend is an initiative of The Mews Project Space. Other participating organisations are: Banner Repeater, Donlon Books, IMT Gallery, The Modern Language Experiment, X Marks the Bökship, and more. Please check the ABW website for the many events taking place over the weekend at The Mews Project space and affiliated organisations.
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