The Red Room: Re-designed.
September 26, 2012
Book artist Nancy Campbell is running an altered books workshop at UCL on Saturday 6 October.
Of interest to artists and writers, the event details from the website are:
We’re delighted that writer and book artist Nancy Campbell will be running a workshop in the Red Room on Saturday 6 October, applying her ‘altered books’ techniques to the Norvik Press edition of Strindberg’s Red Room, translated by Peter Graves. Nancy Campbell is a writer and book artist. Her recent publications include How to Say ‘I Love You’ in Greenlandic and The Night Hunter.
This iconoclastic workshop offers an opportunity to look closely at, and intervene in, The Red Room. During the session we will use cut-up, collage and mark-making techniques to adapt The Red Room, creating a completely new structure and text. For inspiration, we’ll examine a selection of altered books made by artists and writers including Tom Philips’ Humument and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes. There will be an opportunity to discuss literature beyond text including visual elements, invisible elements and the role of chance in writing. A selection of the finished altered books will be displayed in the North Lodge after the workshop.
Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring along your own favourite coloured pens and pencils, or any illustrative material that you would like to combine with this text to create a collage.
Numbers are restricted to 12, so if you are interested, do sign up soon. Full details (and link to booking site) here.
Very sad to report that the workshop has been cancelled. It’s a real pity as it would have been grand.