Milojevic’s recent work has been described as hybrid. Using the oldest and the newest print technologies in tandem, he creates images of strange birds and impossible beasts, using books such as Jorges Lois Borges’ The Book of Imaginary Beings and Konrad Gestner's Historia Animalium as resources and reference points. Like the artist’s book, these animals are anomalies. Milojevic uses these unlikely creatures to refer to cultural displacement and the hybrid nature of the migrant condition. Milojevic will discuss the use of books in his work, as well as his use of the medium of the artist’s book.
Milan Milojevic is a member of DARF (Digital Art Research Facility) and Head of Printmaking at the Tasmanian School of Art. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, with regular solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia, USA, UK, Europe and Asia, and has also undertaken several international residencies in Scotland. His work is held in major public and private collections in Australia and Europe, including National Gallery of Australia, Art Bank, Art Gallery of NSW, Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia, Parliament House, Canberra, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Montrose Academy, Scotland, and the Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions, Poland.
This artists’ talk will focus on the artists’ books they have made to date and the nature of collaborating. Examples of their most recent books, The Case of the Lost Aviary, By the Pricking of My Claws, The Dubious Clue, and Trouble at Sea will be shown, as well as several of their more recent zines.
Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison work together as a collaborative duo on various joint ventures, and have been doing so since 1999. Using paper as their primary medium to create an ongoing series of limited edition artists' books, several lithographic offset prints, and even sculptural objects folded, cut and molded into shape, as well as a host of zines created on the photocopy machine.
Artists’ books are often accused of being impossible objects. They make definition difficult and classification troublesome. Yet it is in this hybridity that their great potential exists. This talk will discuss the book as a metaphysical or mythical object, exploring ideas such as the ‘book of the world’ and ‘the total library,’ and how such concepts have informed artists’ books.
Deidre Brollo completed a PhD at Sydney College of the Arts in 2006, composed of a thesis entitled Memory, Perception & the Art of Seeing Double, and an exhibition, the return room, an installation of artists’ books. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Germany and France and her work is represented in the collections of the State Library of Queensland, and Southern Cross University. She is currently Visiting Artist at National Art School, Sydney.
Carolyn Fraser’s most recent book, The Extinguishing of Stars, was made in collaboration with Cleveland artist Holly Morrison. It features fourteen hand-pulled photogravures, a technically demanding intaglio process that produces photographic images unmatched in their beauty and subtlety. The typography complements the images: letterpress imparts a sculptural, luminescent quality to the page. With a detailed slide presentation, Carolyn will discuss the production of this book and the techniques involved.
Carolyn Fraser is a writer and printer. Her imprint, Idlewild Press, specialises in limited-edition artists’ books and custom-designed ephemera. Her books are included in national and international collections including the New York Public Library, Yale University and the Library of Congress. She has taught letterpress and artist book production at the San Francisco Center for the Book, Cleveland Institute of Art and the Victorian Writers' Centre.
(followed by a discussion with Garcia Haby and Louise Jennison) This talk will serve as an introduction to zine culture, including examples of different kinds of zines and a discussion of the different uses of zines in the twentieth century. A variety of approaches to the uses, production and distribution of zines will be looked at, as well as the kinds of political, artistic and personal expression found in zine culture in Australia and internationally.
Anna Poletti completed a PhD at The University of Newcastle in 2006, researching autobiographical writing in Australian zine culture, with a focus on the materiality of the zine form, and the production of reading/writing communities in diy (do it yourself) culture. She has been involved with a number of art and writing projects including the This Is Not Art group of festivals held in Newcastle, Sticky zine store in Melbourne, and has conducted zine workshops in NSW and Victoria. She currently lectures in Communications and Writing at Monash University and has been making zines since 2002.
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