<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">OFF THE S{H}ELF: </span>THE SELF AND SUBJECTIVITY IN THE ARTIST’S BOOK<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Off the s{h}elf
exhibition</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">‘Off the shelf: the self and subjectivity in the
artist’s book’ is an exhibition dedicated to various expressions of
subjectivity in artist’s publications. It aims to bring together contributions
from a variety of formats and editions that consider the self in the artist’s
book.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">The exhibition will focus on contemporary publications
and welcomes submissions from a wide range of genres, including: handmade
books, object-books, sculptural books, altered books, installation books, photobooks,
photozines, print-on-demand books, zines, serial editions (artists’ magazines),
multimedia books and ebooks. Potential topics might include, but are not
limited to:</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Archival practices of the self</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Family albums and personal narratives</span></li>





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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Queer identities</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Auto-biography and fictional biographies</span></li>





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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Performance of the self</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-bottom:.1pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Travel book and diasporic strategies</span></li>





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November 2012.</span></p>

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