Hangout: 29th April​

We heard from Sarah about her book which I mentioned recently. She had gone for the dual booklet I mentioned her showing me and it looks great although Sarah felt there were limitations that are likely to prompt her to choose another option as he keeps developing through SYP.

We were both interested in hearing about other options and some happily showed us some examples by other artists and galleries that broke with the traditional book format

• Lots of little pamphlets in a book
• Or – https://www.eamonndoyle.com/endphotobook
• Foam – Play edition 54 https://shop.foam.org/en/foam-magazine-54-play.html
• Deutsche Börse 2018 artists’ catalogue (an outer booklet with mini books inside)

Hazel then showed a fantastic online gallery space  – worth thinking about as a space to show things, you can link to your own website but $12 a month, albeit very reasonable, add further costs so something to think about. You can add video though so it’s certainly something I would think about when presenting the work at the end of the course for assessment. We were all very impressed with Hazel’s example.

• https://art.kunstmatrix.com  – online gallery

A useful two-hour session (sorry I kept ducking out though as children yelled, beat each other up and basically did what children do in the background. Thank goodness for ‘audio off’

Adding some links (provided by Catherine)

https://www.esopus.org/issues/view/20

I have also been looking at the Situationist Magazines I have for inspiration – and in fact, many of the ones above seem to be influenced by that kind of thing too. These magazines have been at the back of my mind throughout the project and when I handed in A3, I felt it too clean, too sterile. (From Situationist Mags)