On the scene accounts of San Francisco and European art activities during the 70's and 80's. As of this summer, current events and activities are added.
Richard Tipping provided this great view of the fair. Click to enlarge this impressive image.
Volume 2017 - Jim Anderson was there at 5 in the afternoon on Friday (13th October)
and took a few quick photos with the tables barely set up and the crowd
arriving. The Fair continues through
Saturday and Sunday. They say the big publishers are having a hard time.
The small publishers are just having fun. You can have a book made on
the spot, have your portrait taken, interviews, talks, videos, a
seminar or two. For aficionados, not to be missed.
Hi Ginny, thanks much for getting a copy of your book, Inter DaDa all
the way from California in '84 to us in Australia in 2017 (a Network
event crosses both the Millenial and the Date Lines making history that
just won't die). The image was made for us by Jim Anderson, famous for
Oz magazines and the Oz magazine trials in London when London was the
centre of the action. Hope to send a few bits and pieces from Jim's
megaphone (better than Donald's) into the grinder of your publicity
machine. Best to you. terry reid
TropiChaCha Press/Ginny Lloyd at the NY Art Book Fair. Find us at A19. Printed Matter puts this on at MOMA PS1. September 28–30, 2012 Preview: Thursday, September 27, 6–9 pm
Purchase a piece of artistamp and mail art history! In 1986 artist Ginny Lloyd asked several artists to complete and return a page of artist made stamps (artistamps). The results are compiled into this fun book, demonstrating how artists use clever approaches to stamp making. This project was rediscovered in her archives during 2010. Includes Banana, Baroni, Bidner, Blurr, Pittore, Stetser, Cavellini, Dogfish, Dudek-Durer, LeClair, Fricker, Gaglione, Galantai, Held, Higgins, JES Archives, Hoffberg, Olbrich, Kantor, Lake, Lloyd, Spiegelman, Maurer, Johnson, Scott, Alter, and Worrell. Go to http://stores.lulu.com/ginnylloyd
a day at the races is a photo book showcasing artists' performances (Lloyd, Banana, Cleveland, Gaglione and more) taking place in a photobooth. Images were taken from 1980 to 2010. Includes humorous dialog.6" x 9", saddle-stitch binding, 24 pages
Call for Photobooth Performances
If you want to participate in the next photobooth book, mail in four photobooth style photos with dialogue bubbles documenting a photobooth performance by November 30thm 2011 to: PhotoBooth Book, PO Box 1424, Jupiter, FL 33468 For quality control, no electronic submissions please - original photobooth or photobooth like photos only - no copies! No returns. Future exhibitions to be announced to participants. Be sure to use the prescribed format - photobooth style image size and include dialog bubbles..
Steps for submission:
1. Take/make 4 photos of your photobooth performance.
2. Put this in an envelop - do not email
3. On a piece of paper draw dialogue bubbles for talk, think and/or holler (or you can collage from the ones provided here and also in the FB group). Make sure you indicate which bubble goes with each photo.
4. Clearly print your text in the bubble(s).
5. Add the paper to the envelop.
6. Mail envelop to PO Box 1424, Jupiter, Florida 33468 USA
To understand the format fully see a preview of book pages at the Lulu link given above allowing slight delay time in preview. (The prescribed format files are below and downloadable from here. If you do not have access to a photobooth you can use clear photos of quality in the format.) You can send in as many performances as you want but I can only guarantee space for one submission at this time.
Participants will be able to get a copy of the next book as a free PDF download or print copies at wholesale. Updates and announcements will be made on this blog.
Use this as a gauge for adding photos.
Add dialogue to bubbles either by hand print or type - just be very clear! You can use the below images pasted or hand drawn so I know which mood you intend, I will be adding text electronically during prepress work.
I have to admit my visits at the Sackner Archive and the Printed Matter Book Fair were inspiring. This manifested into a new visual poetry book. All of the works included are new and are derived from copy art, photographs, and computer graphics - sometimes collaged with text or just about the visual beauty of text. I wanted to achieve a modern look for these images as compared to classical visual poetry. I had a great time putting this together as the theme emerged with each piece having a relationship with another - pairs or pairings.
Redfoxpress hand prints and hand binds their suite of collectible books and I'm proud to be part of their editions. To order a copy you can purchase directly from them (see link), on Amazon, or I can sell you a signed copy. Prints of images from the book are also available directly from me. http://www.redfoxpress.com/dada-lloyd.html
Anticham and Francis of Redfox Press, Ginny, Sticker Dude aka Joel Cohen.
Here we are again with Mark Bloch (Panman) added to the crew.
Ginny and Francis with his silkscreens on the wall.
I love books! I have since I was a kid, before I could read I loved to look at books. I read anything and everything in the house. I came to believe I could learn to do anything if I could find something in print on the topic. I also believe you can become anything, as long as you can find the instruction manual.
I have written a sizable number of instruction manuals for corporate clients and their employees/customers and developed training programs for the same. But I digress into a different "blog". I went up to NYC for this fair for several reasons. When I heard about it I knew I had to....see the books (what is happening now in artists books?), look for publisher leads for a planned artistamp book, meet Anticham and Francis, get to see their books first hand, and go tot he MOMA for a good modern art fix.
I was not disappointed. After getting my room squared away - unbelievably the hotel was sold out and did not have my reservation!! Adding to the stress of this, their internet access was down so I could not quickly find another. But that ended up with them putting me into a suite, reserved for this type of issue, the manager said. (Does this happen often?)
I spent my first afternoon at MOMA and dinner, then over to see Bill Wilson, the Ray Johnson and May Wilson art collector. Bill and I have only met in person once before but it is as though I've known him for years. Well I could have, since we grew up across the river from each other on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. A long way from international artists book art, mail art, FLUXUS, artistamps and more. It's a rural, small town Southern culture we're from and we share a few historical connections that is for another story. Southerners like to talk about family history when they get together.
Kitchen Fluxkit by George Maciunas
Yoko Ono Fluxus Score
Wonder photo of Potatoes Flying by (don't remember)
Bill and Ginny
Bill Wilson
The book fair was huge - 3 stories of a former school filled with books; their makers and publishers ready to answer questions and sell you copies. It took 2 days for me to take it all in. The crowd Saturday afternoon was so thick you could barely move. Nevertheless it was wonderful to see how much artists books as an art form has grown. I recall my first book fair in Frankfurt where artists books were the rarity put in one corner. No longer.
On the third floor I discovered the zines and alternative books. And to my surprise, several booths of artists from San Francisco. We had lots to talk about and I shared my own zine history with several of these folks. One requested an interview for the SFMOMA which I gladly granted. I met a couple zine artists who looked younger than my grown grandchildren. I laughed as they did a double-take when I admired their zine art while I told them I used to make zines. I guess their grandmother doesn't make zines? I also saw works by Ulises Carrión and a $1,000 artistamp sheet by General Idea for sale.
Mark and Ginny
Antic and Francis
The Redfox Press booth was very popular. The output by Francis and Anticham has both quality and consistency, enough for them to make a living and do their international travel for the fair circuit. The suit of books by both of them and the guest artists were wonderful to see spread out amongst two long tables. Joel Cohen (Sticker Dude) was on hand to sign books, and played the guitar for the crowd. See the books in the video below.
I have been teaching a copy art workshop at the Florida Atlantic University's Jaffe Center for the Book Arts. The enrollment has been huge so I have taught a second one and a third is planned in November, also sold out.
The photos posted here are some of the participants' works made during the second class. The first class produced equally wonderful works. I'm proud of them all.
NY Art Book Fair 2012: Interview by Jennie Hinchcliff
Duluth Billboards
Videos of My Scores Performed
Published on Jun 3, 2016
“FLUXUS TOAST”
score by Ginny Lloyd
performed by Viv de Dada and Bibiana Padilla Maltos
video Mary Campbell
C. Mehrl Bennett performs Ginny Lloyd's Fluxus Direction Score at the Roanoke Marginal Arts Festival in Roanoke, Virginia during March of 2013. Video courtesy of Kala Ladenheim at flux@fluxus.us
Performance artist, Jennifer Weigel performed the Real News score at the Nature of Experience conference. Salem, Mass August 15 - 19, 2015
Write Your Own Score (advance to 15:13) - Mary Campbell performing my score at Fluxfest in Chicago, February, 2012.
Screw Head performed by Melissa McCarthy with Reed Altemus at the Knaus Biennale in Lithuania October 2011
Write Your Own Score - Keith A. Buchholz performing at Stampland in Chicago, Saturday Afternoon July 31, 2010.
Fluxus Meets Futurists - September 2009 performed at Chromospores opening with Ginny Lloyd and Jennifer Zoellner
Fluxus Sonata - September 2010 at the Jaffe Center of Book Arts with Lloyd, Wood, Altemus, Maltos, Buchholz, Coutrone, Seth and Jonas.
Pick Out A Book and Read - September 2010 performed at the Jaffe Center of Book Arts.
Score for Dali Museum - September 2010 performed at the Jaffe Center of Book Arts with Reid Wood.
Posts
