ABoT - the project
As the term "artist’s book" covers a broad field of artistic production
with fuzzy boundaries, please consider the following text as an
inspiration and/or guideline for your contributions: Art theory
defines artists’ books as a specific art genre comprising visual
artworks that present artistic ideas in book form, relating to the
book’s specific conceptual and physical properties.
Artists’ books are multimedia and transmedia art forms,
characterized by the hybridization of the textual and the visual,
reading and viewing, literary culture and the visual arts. Bringing
various disciplines together, artists’ books create liminal spaces that
uncover new relations between, for instance, the private and the public,
the aesthetic and the political, the gift and the commodity. These
spaces are platforms for the expression of new artistic and aesthetic
contents; they function as communication tools that reveal new aesthetic
and cultural paradigms, processes of political mobilization, and the
effects of ideology.
ABoT - the competition In order to bring visibility to contemporary developments in the field
of artists’ books, we offer artists a platform to share their work
within a unique all-European competition among book artists for the
first time ever. We therefore invite artists to hand in their recent or
planned art projects in the field: submissions will be accepted as
completed physical or digital book objects or in the form of conceptual
designs for projected but yet-unrealized book works. Outstanding works
will be awarded a grant given by an international jury. Online-application Downloads Terms & Conditions
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