abbe program

Day 1               Thursday 16th July

8:00–8:45         Registration

8:45–9:15         Professor Ross Woodrow &
                                                                                                                 SDVC Professor Ned Pankhurst – Welcome

9:15–10:00      Brad Freeman – Keynote

10:00–10:30    Morning tea

10:30–12:00    Academic papers – Considering the artists book

Marian Macken

Designing with/for/through the Existing: Artists’ Books and Documentation

Noreen Grahame

Artists’ Books – Respectable Art

Joel Lardner

Re– imagining the picture book as a valid site for contemporary book art practices

12:00–12:45     Lunch

12:45–1:30       Lyn Ashby – keynote

1:30–3:15        Academic papers – Post literacy

Victoria Cooper

The Grafted Image      

Marian Crawford

The News and the Book

Caren Florance          

Machine Translations: Poets, poetics and artists’ books         

Daniel Della–Bosca

The Untouched Book              

3:15–3:45         Afternoon tea

3:45–5:00         Academic papers – Materiality

Gabriella Wilson

The Equal Standard Broadzine: Expanding the readership and language

of social and political critique.

Angela Gardner

Report from a border: text and typography in Australian Artist Books

Doug Spowart

I’m about to ‘read’ a book.

5:00–5:20        Responses to today’s speakers

5:20–5:30        QCA library

5:30–6:30        Set up of artists book fair (level 7, Webb Centre)

6:00–8:00        Opening of the exhibition books by artists: 
in the Webb Gallery

formal proceedings at 7pm

                                                                                                                   

Day 2               Friday 17th July

8:15–8.30        Introduction

8:30–9:15        Sarah Bodman – Keynote

9:15–11:00      Academic papers – The Haptic

Tim Mosely

the haptic – and the reception and evaluation of artists books

Deidre Brollo

Fumbling hands and
Phantom Limbs: the photograph, the hand and the artist’s book

Bridget Hillebrand

Climbing discourse: the legacy of touch

Sara Bowen

More than Seeing: Artists’ books through the lens of Affect Theory

11:00–11.20    Morning tea

11:20–12:50    Presentations – collaborative practice +

Adele Outteridge & Wim de Vos

Collaborative practice and the material book

Jenny Fraser

Artists books to overcome cultural oppression

Fiona Dempster

Reading Intra-disciplinary collaborative artists books

Kym Tabulo

Sequential abstraction in artists books

       12:50        Lunch

1:15–2:00        Plenary Session / discussion

2:00–5:00        artists book fair, level 7, Webb Centre (open to the public)


6:00–9:00        Conference dinner

Day 3               Saturday 18th July

8:30–1:00        Tour of artists book sites

8:30     – Queensland College of Art Library

8:50     – Boarding tour bus (leaving 9am sharp)

– Centre for the Book – Grahame Galleries

– State Library of QLD

– Studio West End 

                        12:30<    – back at QCA   

10:00–5:00      artists book fair, level 7, Webb Centre (open to the public)


10:00–4:00       books by artists: exhibition in the Webb Gallery

  6:30–8:00      Opening of the exhibition the touching eye;

Bosz Gallery, 4a/9 Doggett St Fortitude Valley