Artist/photographer Dianne Souphandavong and poet Kathryn Souphandavong combined talents on their first collaboration, In the beginning. The book includes sunset photographs abstracted in an atmospheric manner. Many spectres, figures and ghosts appear naturally in the photos. The series dwells within a particular genre of the ‘fantastic’. The images were obtained from two separate visits to… Continue reading Dianne and Kathryn Souphandavong: In the beginning
Category: art/text/clearinghouse project
call for Expression of Interest for the art/text/clearinghouse project and Western Australian Photographic Book Survey for a funding application
Progress on the November Lethologica Press exhibition is continuing. We are pursuing positive leads for funding and sponsorship and need high quality Expressions of Interest to support our bids. Proposals by WA artists/photographers/writers (even unconfirmed and speculative ones) are very welcome by 31 July in order to fulfil a significant grant application. Please fill out… Continue reading call for Expression of Interest for the art/text/clearinghouse project and Western Australian Photographic Book Survey for a funding application
Art+text spotlight: Cataract
Cataract: Some notes after having a cataract removed by John Berger, published by Notting Hill Editions There’s a poetic irony in John Berger – famous for ‘seeing’ art – losing his vision… a situation not lost on the art critic whose recent book consists of notes exploring his experience, and uses artwork to explore the… Continue reading Art+text spotlight: Cataract
Liana Joy Christensen and Marie Lochman: Unnatural History
Writer Liana Joy Christensen and photographer Marie Lochman share a passion for the natural world. They collaborated on Unnatural History: Our book is a strange homage to the exquisitely rendered natural history texts of the nineteenth century. Those seemingly realistic depictions and descriptions of flora and fauna were not neutral. They encoded a whole cultural… Continue reading Liana Joy Christensen and Marie Lochman: Unnatural History
Famous art and text pairings
Rouveyre and Matisse (on Apollinaire) Three decades after poet Guillaume Apollinaire’s death in 1918, his friends the poet André Rouveyre and Henri Matisse decided to make a book about him, suitably honoring the man who wrote visual poetry with… text and art. Between 1942-1952, the duo worked on the book with Rouveyre writing and Matisse… Continue reading Famous art and text pairings
Perdita Phillips, Thea Costantino and Simon Griffith: The Estrildid Orchestra
Perdita Phillips, Thea Costantino and Simon Griffith are currently planning to collaborate on a small tome, The Estrildid Orchestra. Thea has written a creative short story in response to Perdy’s images. Associate Professor Simon Griffith rounds out the book by writing on the scientific importance and ramifications of the complete gene sequencing the zebra finch. The… Continue reading Perdita Phillips, Thea Costantino and Simon Griffith: The Estrildid Orchestra
KITCHEN (britt salt + jon hewitt) with T-SAC: Make Your Own Damn Arts Centre
KITCHEN is a collaboration between britt salt and jon hewitt who recently completed a Trans-Siberian art project which they now wish to turn into a book. Kitchen would like to work with an arts writer or a writer with an interest/background in arts and culture who is keen to write a foreword for our book… Continue reading KITCHEN (britt salt + jon hewitt) with T-SAC: Make Your Own Damn Arts Centre
boom. (2009)
As part of a 2011 showcase of already existing books — antecedents and inspirations — for the November Western Australian photographic books + Art/text/clearinghouse project show at the Perth Centre for Photography… boom., published in 2009 was born from a series of discussions between 20 of WA’s emerging creative practitioners. The resulting cross-platform exhibition, website… Continue reading boom. (2009)
Catherine Higham
Catherine Higham is an artist/photographer looking to work with a poet. Her materials and processes are multidisciplinary: painting, assemblage, photography, ephemeral sculpture. She works with themes that have an environmental focus. My idea for a book — with the tentative title: wild She writes: I would like to work with a poet on the theme… Continue reading Catherine Higham
Ben Reynolds: Beauty in the Burbs
Ben is a photographer looking to collaborate or exchange with a writer. He currently works in the genres of street, seascape, wedding and abstract photography. My idea for a book: Beauty in the Burbs A search for beauty on the suburbs of Perth. Photographing a suburb per week for 52 weeks (or shorter time frame/suburbs),… Continue reading Ben Reynolds: Beauty in the Burbs
What do we mean by collaboration/exchange?
conversation discussion teamwork partnership group effort association alliance relationship co-operation swap trade barter In the Art/Text/Clearinghouse project we welcome a wide range of work and approaches. The central challenge is of course finding and negotiating a collaboration or exchange with someone from a different creative/professional community to your own, and in order to do so… Continue reading What do we mean by collaboration/exchange?