ART ON POETRY
SEASON OF ARTISTS’ BOOKS CURATED BY KALEID EDITIONS
Twelve internationally acclaimed artists engage with the Saison Poetry Library’s collection in a diverse programme of exhibitions, interventions, residencies and participatory events.
KALEID editions represents ‘artists who do books’, advocating public library collections and an interdisciplinary approach to artists’ books.
KATHERINE JONES
wORKS ON PAPER
Wednesday 3 August – Sunday 28 August
Katherine Jones’ collagraph prints focus on Britain’s coastal erosion and are exhibited alongside an artist’s book made in collaboration with the award winning poet Retta Bowen. A continuum of Jones’ ghostlike, mid-air motifs, the artist’s book as a suspended mobile, challenges conventional form through its kinetic structure and references Lynn Chadwick’s Fisheater, commissioned for the Festival of Britain in 1951.
GoTO10
DIGITAL MEDIA
Wednesday 3 August – Sunday 28 August
GOTO10 exploits Wi-fi signals and combines them with the library’s
database to create original digital verse. With a simple hack to a wireless router, the international digital arts collective GOTO10 present the unsuspecting passer-by with anything from a playful cut and paste collage to creative propaganda. Drawing comparisons with SMS and Twitter poetry such as ‘twaiku’, messages are transmitted from the library, feeding poetry to public spaces around the Southbank Centre.
MEGHANA BISINEER
TIME LAPSE ANIMATION
Bisineer’s residency culminates as a 3 minute animation set against the Southbank Centre’s cityscape and artist’s book.
IO BEVO ROMAGNOLO
Wine Tasting Preview, Monday 1 August 6.30pm – 8.30pm
PRESS
Tuesday 2 August, 6 – 7.30pm
PRIVATE VIEw
Tuesday 2 August, 7.30 – 9.30pm
KALEID editions’ private events are sponsored by Io Bevo Romagnolo, an association of vineyards in Romagna, Italy.
Saison Poetry Library Royal Festival Hall London SE1 8XX
Open: Tuesday to Sunday 11am – 8pm
info@poetrylibrary.org.uk www.poetrylibrary.org.uk
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Phone: 020 7921 0943 / 0664
Underground stations: Waterloo & Embankment Railway stations: Waterloo, Waterloo East & Charing Cross
Curator: Victoria Browne victoria@kaleideditions.com
Assistant Curator: Kasia Wlaszczyk kasia@kaleideditions.com
www.kaleideditions.com Press: 07870 173 524
