COPY: Paradiso launch of publication at Wild Pansy Press Project Space

4 February to 9 March 2013

Working with the idea of a ‘writers retreat’ COPY has spent six weeks working from the Wild Pansy Press Project Space to produce new writing and reflect upon models of retreat and the influence of spaces and environments on writing and publishing produced within them. Charlotte Morgan and myself as COPY have produced the publication COPY:Paradiso launched on 6 March ahead of the Artists Book Fair on 8th and 9th March. The publication will be for sale online shortly and can be purchased at the Wild Pansy Press Portable Reading Room at the Leeds International Artists Book Fair.

COPY: at the table

Sunday 24 February 2013

3.30 – 6pm (Drinks from 3pm) £15 Limited places available 

Join COPY: at the table at the 20-21 Visual Arts Centre Scunthorpe for a three course meal with performances and readings from:

Clare Charnley / Holly Corfield-Carr / Patrick Coyle / Kevin Logan / Laura Mahony / Matthew McQuillan

Sermon: “discourse, speech, talk”… “a stringing together of words”, related to Serere: “to join.”
“Food is basic to the mythology of most cultures [...] thus the roots of art, storytelling and religion are linked to cooking.” Levi-Strauss.

COPY invite you to an afternoon of performance and reading at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe. Presented in a converted 19th Century Parish Church and formed around a three course meal, (title) aims to explore ways in which the echoes of previous functions resonate through the gallery’s current use as a place of display, exhibition and education. at the table deals with modes of address and their relation to architectural and social context, considering the interwoven histories of communal gathering, public speaking, reading and listening and presenting an exciting selection of works which play with the form of a lecture, sermon, speech, storytelling, presentation or recital.

In direct relation to the architecture of the space, Clare Charnley’s work to pace interweaves rhythms of walking, speaking and architecture with stories formed around pacing as a process of measuring and Holly Corfield-Carr presents if these walls could talk, drawing upon the material limits of space and bringing the gallery walls into a series of conversations and conversions. These concerns chime through Laura Mahony’s journey around the site during Mirabilis 2013, in which she utilises varying methods of communication. The Endless Inedibility is a series of readings by Patrick Coyle which relate to the ‘edibility’ of certain found and constructed objects, while Kevin Logan’s performance DJ Pedagog: Dialogue of the deaf [a spectral debate] brings in found and collected material in the form of pre-recorded lectures and public speeches on vinyl and reel-to-reel tape, building new narratives and an electro-acoustic environment. Also making use of accompanying props and a number of supporting images, Matthew McQuillan’s Flowers and Obstructions is delivered in the manner of an informal lecture that highlights the affective quality of an object.

Click here to book via eventbrite. 

Places are limited and a subsidised price of £15 covers a three course meal and wine or soft drinks, please see below for a full menu.

Please Email us upon booking to specify any dietary requirements.

Walnut Bruschetta of Chicken Liver Pate, Roast Red Onions and Chives.

Coley Fishcakes with Celeriac Remoulade and Dill. gf

Chicory Leaves topped with Lincolnshire Goats Cheese, Honey and Toasted Almonds. v gf

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Baked Fillets of Lemon, Parsley and Black Pepper Chicken. gf

Rustic Root Vegetable Bubble and Squeak. v gf

Sprouting Broccoli, Cabbage and Sunblush Tomatoes. v gf

Creamy Sauvignon Blanc, Mustard and Thyme Sauce. v

Field Mushroom and Leek Crumble Pie. v

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Pavlovas with Whipped Cream, Orange Curd and Vibrant Rhubarb. v gf

COPY: Charts

Publication Launch

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Roger Evans Auditorium

Saturday 17th November 2012

4-6 pm

Christine Arnold / Dave Charlesworth / Ben Jeans Houghton / Bob Levene / Joanna Loveday / Charlotte A Morgan / Maru Rojas / Aymee Smith

COPY: Charts presents a collection of writing and visual works that explore a relationship to site. Developed through visits to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the works form connections to the Bretton Estate and it's associations with education, leisure, display, the retreat and the archive. The book acts as an ambiguous guide or field survey in which the site and it's varied history meet with fictions, propositions, recollections and shifted cartography.

This is a free event, but please RSVP via email or book online. Drinks and refreshments will be available.

COPY: Charts is designed by Dust.

Papers, Fictions, Scripts and Circles

Exploring forms, processes, structures and concerns within contemporary art writing and publishing, Papers, Fictions, Scripts & Circles combines a series of themed discussions, four artist print editions and an accompanying publication. The project was produced as part of print it: COPY in residence at Site Gallery, 10th August - 8th September 2012.

Audio recordings of the discussions can be found on the COPY website. The events  featured seventeen invited speakers with audience contributions and took place over brunch. Four silkscreen print editions were launched at the events, reproduced alongside a collection of speakers' notes in a Papers, Fictions, Scripts & Circles publication, which acts as an errant guide or index. 

Papers, Fictions, Scripts and Circles
£6 + £1.50 postage and packaging.

You can purchase this new publication on Paypal sending payment to: info@copypages.org

The Papers, Fictions, Scripts & Circles publication is also available for purchase at Site Gallery where it was bound live at the print it: COPY in residence closing event and publication launch on 6th September 2012. To buy prints (just £15 each) visit the Site Gallery Shop. 

An Ode to the Book and Library

What if the library is the only place you can get your hands on a book?

A book that’s not a school book.

A fun book

Any book.

Not a comic or a magazine.

Not lines of sums or hard spellings.

But a book with many endings

A book that’s a bit saucy.

A scary book

A picture book.

Consider the education a book holds in its sleeves. The worlds you can escape into. The worlds you can escape from. The page, the paper, not the screen.

The empty notebook, its feel, its paper dictating what you write.

Getting lost in new genres, down an aisle, up a shelf.

It’s the book you never would have bought,

the big tome.

The deadline.

Forgetting to renew.

But it’s an acceptable fine – so don’t worry, it’s just a pound and no one will tell on you...

Akin to sharing food or wine, prepared with care.

A hug, not a poke.

Some money in your hand, not a blithe credit card.

A conversation in person, not a text or a tweet.

Sweating it out at the gym, over the lipo or the knife.

Something visceral, real, and solid. It is tactile, fragile, human. 

Written during COPY residency at Site Gallery, Sheffield. Posted on the COPY notebook.

print it: COPY in residence notes #1

print it: COPY in residence
Here are some of my first notes from the Saturday Conversations 'Papers, Fictions, Scripts and Circles' hosted by COPY as part of our residency at Site Gallery. You can see the notebook tracking mine and Charlotte Morgans time in residence as COPY here. We'll be posting until the end of the residency on 8 September.

Papers - 11.08.12
Chloe Brown from RGAP quoted Sol LeWitt, founder of Printed Matter, in her explanation of what constitutes an artists book:

‘Artists’ books are, like any other medium, a means of conveying art ideas from the artist to the viewer. Unlike most other media they are available to all at a low cost. They do not need a special place to be seen. They are not valuable except for the ideas they contain. Art shows come and go, but books stay around for years. It is the desire of artists that their ideas be understood by as many people as possible. Books make it easier to accomplish this’. (LeWitt, 1976)


The Printed Matter website, as of today, still states:

Printed Matter is dedicated to the examination and interrogation of the changing role of artists’ publications in the landscape of contemporary art.

Printed Matter’s mission is to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists' publications, which we define as books or other editioned publications conceived by artists as art works, or, more succinctly, as "artwork for the page." Printed Matter specializes in publications produced in large, inexpensive editions and therefore does not deal in "book arts" or "book objects" which are often produced in smaller, more expensive editions due to the craft and labor involved in their fabrication.
http://www.printedmatter.org/about/index.cfm


Things to explore:

Book Arts (as other from the artists book)
Book Objects (as other from the artists book)
Craft
Labour


What constitutes a large edition?

What constitutes inexpensive?

How are Coracle placed in regards to the above?

How do COPY place themselves in regards to the above?

print it: COPY in residence programme