New Titles

 

New titles: review copies, things we were gifted, and things we bought, including a title from the Halifax Art Book Fair, which took place this weekend. I’ll try to get to all of them in the coming weeks. 

Halifax Art Book Fair

 

The above is our modest haul from the Halifax Art Book Fair last month, including titles by Sonja Ahlers, Nic Wilson, Serena McCarroll, Micah Lexier, Lenka Clayton, Sharyl Boyle, and Lucy Pauker & Mark Cruz. I’ll try to get to all of them shortly, once the last of the identity-theft administrative nightmare is over. 

Halifax Art Book Fair

The Halifax Art Book Fair takes place tomorrow, April 12th. We’ll be there with our Nothing Else Press publications, alongside vendors: 

Folly House

Combos Press

Conundrum Press

Copy Shop Books

Dalhousie Art Gallery

DesiredFX

Emma Allain

Eyelevel Artist Run Centre & Bookstore

Micah Lexier

Municipal Geographic

Seed & Spark Bookstore Co-operative

Special Characters

SpekWork Studio

Struts Gallery / Owens Art Gallery

Susan Mills Artist Books

Tel # Publishing

Visual Arts News

Wonder’neath

The event takes place from 7:30 to 8:30pm, April 13th, at the All Nations Church, 2535 Robie Street, Halifax. For more information, visit: 

https://halifaxartbookfair.ca

Micah Lexier | Collaborative Hole Punch Drawing

 

At the inaugural Halifax Art Book Fair this Saturday, Micah Lexier will be presenting the fifth iteration of his Collaborative Hole Punch Drawing project. First launched at the Toronto Art Book Fair in 2018

(followed by the Prairie Art Book Fair in 2018, the Esker Foundation Art Bookstore Opening in 2019, and the Unlimited Edition Art Book Fair in Seoul, Korea in 2023), the project consists of a letter-size, letterpress-printed sheet of paper, and a hole-punch. 

 

"It is a project where people are invited to purchase and participate in the making of a unique artwork,” Lexier writes. "The collaborator makes a pencil mark at any location (or locations) on the page where they want a hole punched. They then add their initials in the spot at the bottom of the page identified as HOLE LOCATOR. I then punch a hole at the location(s) that the collaborator selected. I have a special hole punch that allows me to punch a 5/16” hole anywhere on the 8.5 x 11 piece of paper. I then add my initials and date in the spots at the bottom of the page identified  HOLE PUNCHER and DATE PUNCHED. I charge $10 a hole. The collaborator can purchaser as many holes as they want to pay for.

 The sheet is blank except for the punched hole(s) and information at the bottom of the page. The drawing then get put in a custom rubber-stamped envelope."

The event takes place from 7:30 to 8:30pm, April 13th, at the All Nations Church, 2535 Robie Street, Halifax. For more information, visit: 

https://halifaxartbookfair.ca/

Dave Dyment | The Artist Multiple As Unbound Book

 

The inaugural edition of the Halifax Art Book Fair (HABF) and conference will take place on April 13th from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the All Nations Church, 2535 Robie Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Admission is free. 

I will be giving at talk at 3:30 pm titled The Artist Multiple as Unbound Book. The PowerPoint presentation will feature a couple hundred images and will trace the origins of Artist Multiple and its relationship to Artists’ Books.