“We’re delighted to bring the Bristol Artists Book Event (BABE) back to Arnolfini. Due to ongoing Covid restrictions, it won’t be quite the same sort of big, crowded book fair that we’re used to but we are still able to bring you work by over 160 book artists and small publishers from around the world, online over the weekend.
Ranging from recorded talks from Australia to Mexico about international collections and exhibitions, through documentation of printing processes, to book-based performances and experimental short films, this is an amazing set of creative responses to what ‘digitising a book’, or ‘online reading’ might mean.
The films are available to view here from the 16 April 2021.” (Extract from the press release)
Hyphae, my performance/video in collaboration with Bev Hayes and behind the scenes will be included.
Gaby Berglund Cárdenas, Lightness I, II and III, 2020, copper, India ink on altered Spanish Bible pages. Note: The words hunger/hambre, plague/pestilencia, mortality/mortandad, earth/tierra, and verses of ruin and devastation on earth/asolados has been left unredacted.
Location:Grafik i Väst, Storgatan 20, 41138 Gothenburg (visit the website for safety rules)
Period: February 20 – March 10, 2021
Opening: Saturday, February 20th (Time: 12:00 – 16:00)
‘PRINTS, BOOKS AND SOLITARY THINGS’
‘In this exhibition, the artist presents a series of etchings, artist’s books and objects made during the pandemic. Whether performing, making installations, objects, prints or artist’s books, the repetitive aspect of her process becomes a meditative ritual to explore the elemental uncertainty of time, space and being or social inequities with regard to gender, migrations or race. Thread, ink, fabric, metal and handmade paper are used in metaphorical ways, while honoring sustainability.
Cárdenas’ process involves mindful rituals of repetition and flow, which suggest dichotomies of sacred and profane, East and West, lightness and weight, creating and erasing.‘
Click here to see more images and to read about the collaboration project between Gaby Berglund Cárdenas and Bev Hayes (performance/camera respectively).
David Medalla: Founder and Director Adam Nankervis: International Co-ordinator
Hyphae series @Bev Hayes & Gaby Berglund Cárdenas 2020
Hyphae series @Bev Hayes & Gaby Berglund Cárdenas 2020
Hyphae series @Bev Hayes & Gaby Berglund Cárdenas 2020
A cryptic question appears in which each video is a visual puzzle in and of itself.
The concept and edit, developed by the artist Isolde Kille (Timespecific), is creating a collage in film in order to offer an important clue for understanding the microcosm that each artist is describing in their own visual language. Above all, the collaborative film suggests an unadulterated sense of being in the moment, the pursuit of a self momentarily, yet perfectly suspended, during the time of the international pandemic.
36 artists from Germany, Latvia, Indonesia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, and the US contributed their individual video scenes.
Participants: Rita Bard, New Mexico, USA Gaby Berglund Cárdenas & Bev Hayes, Gothenburg, Sweden Cecelia Chapman, Massachusetts, USA Robyn Ellenbogen, New York, USA Kathleen Ferguson-Huntington, New Mexico, USA Sachie Hayashi, New York, USA Dasol Hong, New York, USA Will Kaplan and Jessa Henschel, New York, USA Helena Kauppila & Itir Sezik, Berlin, Germany Linda Kozule, Riga, Latvia Nina Kuo and Lorin Roser, New York, USA Xavier Lopez, Washington, USA Sandra March, Barcelona, Spain Regina Masuhr, Schaffhausen, Switzerland Christina Mitrentse, London, UK Pawel Pacholec, New York, USA Diane Rolnick, New Mexico, USA Linda Sibio, California, USA Wavelength Art Collective from Bergen, Norway, Torild Stray, Anette Friedrich Johannessen, Ivan Andre Paulsen, Elisabeth Moberg, Mona Oddekalv, Enara Barnés Larrukert, Bergen, Norway Elyandra Widharta, Indonesia Sascha Windolph, Germany Watugunung performance group from Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tanti Barbara, Lukas Priyo A, Bima Aldy S., Roni AW, Dedy S.
To read more about each artist please click here and click here for the press release.
For all further inquiries please contact info@timespecific.com
Gaby Cárdenas 