Open Book

The book to the left is Catarina Leitão’s Uplift, a letterpress printed pop-up book. It’s shown in the exhibition Open Book: An International Survey of Experimental Books at Eastern Michigan University. The show “investigates the role of the book in the contemporary art world” and “defines the term ‘book’ loosely as a vehicle for information that is organized into ‘sections.'” They are showing the more traditional artist’s book, like Leitão’s, sculptures made of books as well as something called Murmur Study: A live Twitter visualization and archive. I’m a bit hard-pressed to see how the sculptures fit the defintion of “vehicle for information that is organized into ‘sections'”… But see for yourself, as well as all the other work in the exhibit, here — to see the books scroll right, then click on the pictures to see more about each artist and book work. (First seen here)