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I think I'll speak today

Archive Print Item: Artists' Books 301

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Type of record: Book

Title: I think I'll speak today

Other titles: Centrefold

Level: Item

Classmark: Artists' Books 301

Additional creator(s): Aramesh, Reza (1970-) (Artist); Bonacina, Andrew (Artist); Spear, Tina (Artist); Carbone, Dave (Artist); Brotherhood, Matthew (Artist); Ghazi, Babak (Artist); Gluzberg, Margarita (Artist); Hunt, Will (Artist); McAlpine, Elizabeth (1973-) (Artist); Mellor, Dawn (1970-) (Artist); Murdoch, Sadie (Artist); Norfolk, Rupert (1974-) (Artist); Raedecker, Michael (1963-) (Artist); Ruggaber, Karin (Artist); Olde Wolbers, Saskia (1971-) (Artist); Sykes, Richard (1946-2019) (Former owner); Mason, Penny (Former owner)

Related people: Aramesh, Reza, 1970-; Bonacina, Andrew; Spear, Tina

Publisher: Reza Aramesh, Andrew Bonacina

Publication city: London

Date(s): 2005

Language: English

Size and medium: 30 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/793116

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991021192665505181

Description

Creators taken from page 30. Creator's last name misspelled; should read Aramesh.

Artists' publication. Scrapbook format with printed paper, paper bearing drawings, paintings or handwriting, photographs, pieces of textiles, an envelope with an insert with title: "Fiction Map, New York City 2005" and a CD with title: "a hoshimoto 2005 compilation for CENTREFOLD" attached to page 3 of cover. Handwritten page numbers.

"Centrefold is a limited edition publication in scrapbook format, with a print run of no more than 60 copies. Born in 2003 from a curatorial project entitled Wooden Hearts, Centrefold is a low-tech cut-and-paste production. For each issue artists are invited to treat one or two pages as their own scrapbook; while a writer/historian/curator or artist is usually invited to produce the centrefold. All the pages are then complied, formatted, and designed - the latter by Reza Aramesh, or in collaboration with a guest artist. Centrefold attempts to record a non-linear (local) art history through the view of an artist (Aramesh), rather than echo how art is recorded and fictionalised by art historians. To date... scrapbooks have been created, the title of each taken from a socio-political issue at the time of its production."--ICA website.

Reza Aramesh and Tina Spear collaborated on Centrefold between May 2002 to November 2004. Reza Aramesh continues to work on centrefold. -- centrefoldx.com

Limited edition of 43 numbered versions or copies.

Scrapbook is copy no. 20/43. Printed sheet and insert with title: Fiction Map, New York City 2005, on pages 12-13, signed by Elizabeth McAlpine and numbered 38/60; signed by Will Hunt on page 4; signed by Babak Ghazi on page 28.

4 & 5. Will Hunt -- 6. Sadie Murdoch -- 7 & 8. Saskia Olde Wolbers -- 10 & 11. Margarita Gluzberg -- 12 & 13. Elizabeth McAlpine -- 14. Dawn Mellor -- 15-18. Centrefold / by Reza Aramesh and Andrew Bonacina -- 20 & 21. Karin Ruggaber -- 24. Andrew Bonacina -- 25. Rupert Norfolk -- 26. Dawn Mellor -- 28. Babak Ghazi -- 29. Dave Carbone and Matthew Brotherhood -- 31. Michael Raedecker.

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Leeds University Library copy at Artists' Books 301: red paper pages, yellow cover.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Artists' Books 301: Gift from the collection of Richard Sykes and Penny Mason through the Contemporary Art Society, 2023. Purchased by Richard Sykes and Penny Mason in 2005 from the ZOO Art Fair.

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