Fair
Friday 24.5 12–6 pm
Saturday 25.5 11 am–5 pm
The fair will be held at Victoria Theatre in the centre of Malmö with about 30 exhibitors from several different coutries.
Free entrance.
Other events
Book presentation
Wednesday 22.5 6–8 pm
Bokvärlden, Fridhemstorget 22, Malmö.
In his coming sequal to Artist’s books from a Swedish point of view Thomas Millroth states the essence of artists’ books as disturbing the ordinary. Together with Ida Börjel he discuss this aspect for example in connection with her book Sabotagemanualerna.
Thomas Millroth, art critic and author.
Ida Börjel, author.
Performance
Performing the artist’s book
Saturday 25.5 6–7 pm
Galleri Ping-Pong
Can an artist’s book be performed? Can a work of performance art be labelled a book? These are two of the questions this evening of performances seek to investigate. The four works performed either began life as a book, are an integral part of a book project or utilise the book as a starting point for a performance.
Participants: Karenjit Sandhu (UK), Sharon Paz (IL/DE), Guy Bigland (UK), Marja-Leena Sillanpää (FI/SE).
Meet the book artists
Presentations by some participants at MABB2024.
The stage at Victoriateatern.
Sunday 26.5 10.30–11.30:
Tim Shore (UK)
Kurt Johannessen (NO)
Olle Essvik, rojal publishing (SE)
Sunday 26.5 11.30–12.30:
Hartmut Abendschein (CH): TetrisYoga™
Imri Sandström (SE): The Weave Reader
Seminar
The Artist’s Book as Commodity: selling and distribution
Sunday 26.5 1.30–3 pm
The stage at Victoriateatern
Jan Voss, Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam, NL
Tanya Peixoto, Bookartbookshop, London, UK
Rebecca Krasnik, Bladr, Copenhagen, DK
Three sellers og books by artists talk to us about their experiences and discuss current issues with each other. The seminar is chaired by Dr Angie Butler, artist-printer and senior research fellow, Centre for Print Research at the University of the West of England.
Artistic print on demand
Sunday 26.5 3–3.45 pm
The stage at Victoriateatern.
Andreas Bülhoff (DE)
Print on demand has revolutionized publishing. Digital printing and online platforms anyone to publish a work immediately and without financial risk. This has democratized production and opened up spaces beyond the established trade book world and its gatekeepers. At the same time, new dependencies emerge.
Workshop
Stephen Fowler
Friday 24.5 12–6 pm,
Saturday 25.5 11 am–5 pm
Dressing room 1 at Victoriteatern.
Stephen Fowler is a UK based printmaker who specializes in experimental forms of lo-fi printmaking such as kitchen sink litho, rubber stamp, foam print, and watercolour silkscreen print. During this year’s MABB he will be running a series of printmaking workshops for adults and children. Fowler will be utilizing pasta machines instead of traditional etching presses to facilitate plastic packaging dry point printmaking, Tetra Pak print with chine collé and all forms of cereal packet collagraph print.
