Children’s workshop
Wednesday 9.5 11 am–4:30 pm
Malmö Konsthall
Children’s workshop in the art hall’s studio where participants get to create their own artist’s books. We explore different techniques and materials, from paint and paper to collage and drawing. The workshop is open to all children and requires no prior experience.
Note-to-self: Riso workshop with Mori Press
Friday 15.5 12–6 pm,
Saturday 16.5 11 am–5 pm
The stage at Victoriateatern
Turn everyday reminders into beautiful printed objects! In this workshop you will create a practical and personal artist’s book, meant for daily use. Write down notes to yourself – practical, poetical, spiritual – anything you need to remember on a daily or weekly basis. Make the words big or small, draw and collage with analogue materials. Your finished design will be printed on our risograph and folded into a mini-zine for you to take home.
Free participation, materials included, no experience needed.
The magic of the artist’s book – an intervention by Rachel Marsh
Friday 15.5 12–6 pm,
Saturday 16.5 11 am–5 pm
Loge 2 at Victoriateatern
When an artist’s book is picked up and read by someone, something peculiar happens. A certain quality of attention sparks a relationship between the book and the person interacting with it – and at that moment the book comes to life and starts to speak.
In my intervention at MABB I aim to celebrate the strange power of the artist’s book, by working with time and an element of chance. I will take portraits of the relationality between the book and its artist, and between the book and its reader, through film-based pinhole photography.
In my role as ‘The Photographer of Magical Books’ I will invite artist’s book makers and artist’s book buyers to have their portraits taken interacting/reading/opening an artist’s book. We will collaborate to create a scene of magical bookishness to be captured on film.
As a pinhole image is created over a period of time (usually a few seconds), and because I use a modded pin-Holga camera (unpredictable) – it is the perfect medium to capture the frisson of magic between book and reader. There’s no knowing what the camera will reveal!
