Residency, public programme, publication.
Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK.
August – September 2012.
Contributors: David Berridge / Chloe Brown / Rachel Lois Clapham / Ami Clarke / Emma Cocker / Coracle Press / Patrick Coyle / Jamie Crewe / Daniel Fogarty / Kit Hammonds / Lynn Harris / Jennifer Hodgson / Simon Lewandowski / Louisa Martin / Francis McKee / Fay Nicolson and Oliver Smith / Tamarin Norwood / David Osbaldeston / Alun Rowlands / Nick Thurston
Through a month-long programme of public discussions and activities the production and commissioning of new work, the COPY residency formed a dialogue with the broad range of writing, publishing and print practices featured in print it.
print it featured a pop-up artist bookshop featuring publications produced by artists, writers and poets from the world, COPY in Residence and an exhibition of works by Coracle Press.
Papers, Fictions, Script & Circles
Exploring forms, processes, structures and concerns within contemporary art writing and publishing, Papers, Fictions, Scripts & Circles comprises a series of discussions, print editions and ‘notes’, brought together in a publication.
New Work
Joanna Jowett (nee Loveday) and Charlotte A Morgan produced new work in the gallery and remotely; Joanna’s work focused on exploring points of tension between text, diagram and performance or durational act, while Charlotte’s work performed an insertion into the space, exploring spatial or unbound potentials in reading and publishing through sculpture and projection, through which a scene is set and a structure is described.
Visit the print it: COPY in residence notebook blog which documents the artists’ research, thoughts and ideas in development throughout the residency.
The work was brought together with the new Papers, Fictions, Scripts & Circles publication at a launch event on 6th September 2012.
Re-imagined Libraries talk Thursday 30 August 2012.
Charlotte A Morgan hosted an open discussion into the future of the library, continuing an ongoing research project which reflects widely on the nature of the archive and the language of storage and display, with reference to the status of Sheffield’s libraries. With Nick Thurston at Site Gallery.
The print it COPY residency was funded by The National Lottery through Arts Council England and supported by APG Works, Dust and Site Gallery.
