Future Fantasteek! on show in Russia 1st August - 30th September 2014

The RUKSSIAN Artists’ Books exhibition is about to move to a new location.
The Pavel Kuznetsov Museum, Saratov, Russia.
1st August - 30th September 2014

I am showing Future Fantasteek! Nos. 12, 14 and 15

Curators: Sarah Bodman, Mikhail Pogarsky, Vasily Vlasov, Viktor Lukin. Artists’ books speak the international language of art. These books can be understood in almost any corner of the world. Artists, who work in the genre of the artist’s book professionally form a large international community. However, the artist’s book like any other artform has its own regional and national peculiarities.

Apart from the language in which the text is presented, there are various historical roots from which the artist’s book has emerged and on which the contemporary tree of this artform grows. In every country and in every city young artists learn many things from prominent artists and as such, new formal and informal schools of thought around the artist’s book are formed.

The international project "RUKSSIAN Artists' Books' aims to demonstrate the unique and common features of the artist's book, presenting works by artists from the UK and Russia united by national artistic traditions.

British artists: Alice Potter, Andy Parsons & Glenn Holman, Angie Butler, Anwyl Cooper-Willis, Barrie Tullett, Caseroom Press/Scottish Poetry Library, Charlotte Hall, Christopher Robinson, Craig Atkinson, Duncan Bullen & Jamie Crofts, Elizabeth Willow & David Armes, Guy Begbie, Hazel Grainger, Helen Douglas & Thomas Evans, Iain Biggs & Josh Biggs, Jackie Batey, Jeremy Dixon, Joan Ainley, John Bently, John McDowall, J P Willis, Julie Johnstone, Les Bicknell, Liz Jackson, Nancy Campbell, Otto, Pauline Lamont-Fisher, Philippa Wood & Tamar MacLellan, Sarah Bodman, seekers of lice, Simon Goode, Simon Le Ruez, Sophie Loss, Stephen Fowler, Susan Johanknecht, Theresa Easton, Tom Sowden.

Russian artists: Nikita Alekseev, Tatiana Antoshina, Vasily Vlasov, Sergei Vorobyov, Viktor Goppe, Emil Guzairov, Aleksander Dzhikiya, Mikhail Dronov, Igor Zadera, Mikhail Karasik, Valery Korchagin, Nikolai Krastchin, Viktor Lukin, Kira Matissen, Valery Orlov, Peter Perevezentsev, Mikhail Pogarsky, Sergei Romashko, Aleksander Savelyev, Dmitry Saenko, Aleksander Svirsky, Vera Khlebnikova, Evelina Schatz, Sergei Shutov, Gunel Yuran, Sergei Yakunin.

Pavel Kuznetsov Museum, Radischev str., 39, Saratov 410000, Russia

http://www.russianmuseums.info/M1381
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The information at the start of the Exhibition in 13th March 2014.

I am delighted to have been invited to exhibit three issues of Future Fantasteek! Nos. 12, 14 and 15 as part of the following international exhibition.

RU^KSSIAN Artist’s Book

Artist’s Book in the UK and Russia

International Project

(Following text from Sarah Bodman - curator).

Organisers: 
State Historical, Architectural, Art and Landscape Museum-Reserve «Tsaritsyno», Moscow
International Association «Kniga Khudozhnika», Moscow

Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol, UK.

Curators: Sarah Bodman, Mikhail Pogarsky, Vasily Vlasov, Viktor Lukin, 

Place: Tsaritsyno State Historical, Architectural, Art and Landscape Museum-Reserve, Moscow

Date: 13th March – 18th May 2014

Concept: Artists’ books speak the international language of art. These books can be understood in almost any corner of the world. All artists, who work in the genre of the artist’s book professionally form a large international community. However, the artist’s book like any other artform has its own regional and national peculiarities. Apart from the language in which the text is presented, there are various historical roots from which the artist's book has emerged and on which the contemporary tree of this artform grows. In every country and in every city young artists learn many things from prominent artists and as such, new formal and informal schools of thought around the artist’s book are formed.

The international Project “RU^KSSIAN Artists’ Books” aims to demonstrate the unique and common features of the artist's book, presenting works by artists from the UK and Russia united by national artistic traditions.


British artists: Angie Butler, Anwyl Cooper-Willis, Barrie Tullett, Charlotte Hall, Christopher Robinson, Craig Atkinson, Elizabeth Willow & David Armes, Guy Begbie, Hazel Grainger, Helen Douglas & Thomas Evans, Jackie Batey, Jeremy Dixon, John Bently, John McDowall, Julie Johnstone, Les Bicknell, Nancy Campbell, Otto, Pauline Lamont-Fisher, Philippa Wood & Tamar MacLellan, Sarah Bodman, seekers of lice, Simon Goode, Simon Le Ruez, Sophie Loss, Stephen Fowler, Susan Johanknecht, Theresa Easton, Tom Sowden.

Russian artists: Nikita Alekseev, Tatiana Antoshina, Vasily Vlasov, Sergei Vorobyov, Viktor Goppe, Emil Guzairov, Aleksander Dzhikiya, Mikhail Dronov, Igor Zadera, Mikhail Karasik, Valery Korchagin, Nikolai Krastchin, Viktor Lukin, Kira Matissen, Valery Orlov, Peter Perevezentsev, Mikhail Pogarsky, Sergei Romashko, Aleksander Savelyev, Dmitry Saenko, Aleksander Svirsky, Vera Khlebnikova, Evelina Schatz, Sergei Shutov, Gunel Yuran, Sergei Yakunin.

Download the Exhibition Catalogue here...
http://www.pogarsky.ru/cgi-bin/foremanel.pl?mod=books&a=books&id=291

Future Fantasteek! Mini-Tour Catalogue now available free for ipad.

Future Fantasteek! Mini-Tour Catalogue now available free for ipad.

And to read on Issuu.
 

Future Fantasteek! free on ibooks

I've just made Future Fantasteek! Nos. 14 and 15 available to view on ibooks via an ipad.
You can download both issues for free from itunes.

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The Mini-Tour Catalogue celebrating the first 10 issues of Future Fantasteek! is also available to download from itunes.

On itunes (if you search 'Jackie Batey' ) you'll also find an interview I did with Grey Art Lab Gallery in Minneapolis earlier in the year for their 'Secrets' exhibition.

Future Fantasteek! No.15

Softback zine laser printed in black & white on cream and blue (for a boy) paper.
A5 size with 20 printed pages, saddle-stitched.
Manilla cover in laserprint black with hand-pulled yellow sérigraphie screen print.
Brighton, July 2013, edition size of 40.

Issue No.15 Here Comes Another One
What's been happening in the BIG WIDE WORLD... Who cares!
Look at the BABY that'll take your mind off things, the Welfare State can cope with one more...

To read the whole thing scroll below here:

Here's issue no.15 'Here Comes Another One' being printed.

For a change I printed the cover using a 30yr old serigraphie  (French children's mini screen print toy). It prints a bit erratically (or maybe that was me) using cut out paper stencils.

Here's how they came out, I printed yellow on brown wrapping paper, after laser printing the black first.

Future Fantasteek! No.13 and No.14 are being shown as part of Project 2013.

Future Fantasteek! issues No.13 and No.14 are being shown as part of Project 2013.

http://www.caferoyalbooks.com/index.php/project/international-communication-project/

"You are invited to the preview of the 2013 Project.
Books, photographs, and drawings from over 20 countries sharing common themes of communication and dissemination will be displayed at Hanover Project - the University of Central Lancashire. To mark the event I am publishing a series of books: Words, Drawings, Photographs, and Publications. These titles will be launched at the preview event. Words is a collection of essays by leading practitioners and researchers - Sarah Bodman, Jörg Colberg and Lawrence Zeegen. The preview will be preceded by a talk, arranged by Dr Mat Gregory. from Turner Prize winning artist, Martin Creed.

Tuesday April 16th.
Talk: 3.00pm
Foster Building, Lecture Theatre 3, off Kendal Street, University of Central Lancashire, Preston. Spaces are limited and will be available on a first come first served basis.
Preview: 4.30pm - 7.00pm

Install - open for public viewing but partial exhibition 11.04.13 - 08.05.13
Full exhibition 16.04.13 - 03.05.13 10.00am - 5.00pm Monday - Friday

Hanover Project, Hanover Building, off Bhailok Street, University of Central Lancashire, Preston. Refreshments will be available. More details about the 2013 Project, and other Café Royal Projects can be seen here. Both events are funded by the Contemporary Arts Development Group."

Text from Cafe Royal Website.

Gold Room Portsmouth Zine Fair

The Gold Room in Portsmouth are holding their first zine fair on Sat 31st March.
There will be zine swaps, talks and an exhibition. On show are a selection of art-zines loaned from the University of Portsmouth's Zineopolis collection. Future Fantasteek! No.13 is included in this show.

Future Fantasteek! No.14

Softback Zine printed in colour on cream paper. 

A5 size with 20 printed pages, saddle-stitched.
Day-glo cover in either pink, orange or green with day-glo star sticker.
Brighton, Feb 2013, edition size of 40.

Issue No.14 Unexpected Item in Bagging Area
So, why the long face? Have you been eating something suspicious... Damp Flat Products obviously deny everything and unlike Tesco - we're NOT SORRY. BUT, cheer-up! The economy is still circling-the-drain and Americans still like shooting each other (SHOCK), and everyone else wants to blow each other up - from and Xbox. Fancy some Soylent Green?

To read the whole thing scroll below here:

You can now read Future Fantasteek! No.14 at the following locations:

• Artists’ Book Collection, Tate Britain, Millbank, London, UK
• Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago, IL, USA
• Texas A&M University (TAMU), Bryan, TX, USA
• UK non-literary publications, 1914-present, The British Library, London, UK
• Colorado College Special Collections, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
• INIVA - (Institute of International Visual Arts), Rivington Place, London, UK
• Library, London College of Communication, London, UK
• Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Florida Atlantic University Library, Boca Raton, FL, USA
• Bedeteca de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
• Reed College Library, Portland, OR, USA
• Booklyn (zine collection), Brooklyn, NY, USA
• Browne Popular Culture Library, Bowling Green State University, OH , USA
• The Library Hereford College of Arts, Hereford, UK
• Texas A&M University, Bryan, TX, USA
• Paper Cut Zine Library, Cambridge MA, USA
• Eton College Library, Windsor, UK
• Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ, USA
• Book Arts & Special Collections, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA, USA
• National Art Library, Word & Image Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
• Biblioteca Municipal Josep Badia i Moret, Barcelona, SPAIN
• Duke University, Durham NC, USA
• Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, Bristol, UK
• Project 2013, Cafe Royal Zines, University of Central Lancashire, UK
• The Culture Archive, Brighton, UK

Great to see Future Fantasteek! No.14
celebrating zine week at Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Florida Atlantic University Libraries, in July last year.

Future Fantasteek! No.13

Softback Zine printed in colour on cream and white papers.
A5 size with 20 printed pages, saddle-stitched.
Pink card cover with ‘googly-eyes’.
Brighton, July 2012, edition size of 40.
Guest Artist: Margaret Huber

Lucky No.13 - How Super! So, the olympics are ready to GO GO GO, and the Euro is ready to DIVE DIVE DIVE. Care homes are 'failing the vunerable' and the Welfare State is causing trouble AGAIN. Same 'ol, same 'ol

To read the whole thing scroll below here:

Future Fantasteek! No.13 has now been carefully mailed off to various libraries and collections, so this is where you'll find them all...

• The British Library, London UK
• Library and Archive, Tate, Millbank, London, UK
• The Culture Archive, Brighton UK
• Centre for Fine Print Research, School of Creative Arts, UWE, Bristol, UK
• Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), Rivington Place, London, UK
• London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London, UK
• National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
• The Library Hereford College of Arts, Hereford,mHerefordshire, UK
• Salford Zine Library, Manchester, UK
• Bookarts Bookshop, London, UK
• {Disarmed}, Bedeteca de Lisboa, Palácio do Contador-Mor, Lisboa, Portugal
• Biblioteca Municipal Josep Badia i Moret, Barcelona, SPAIN
• LA FANZINOTHÈQUE, Poitiers, France
• Duke University, Durham NC, USA
• Aboveground zine library, Kenner, LA, USA
• Colorado College Special collections, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
• Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Florida Atlantic University Library, Boca Raton, FL, USA
• Reed College Library, Portland, OR, USA
• Special Collections Division, Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ, USA
• Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Chicago, IL, USA
• Booklyn Artists Alliance, Brooklyn, NY, USA
• Zine World (review) Portland OR, USA
• SLIS Laboratory Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
• Toronto Zine Library, Toronto, ON, Canada
• Anchor Archive, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Wellington City Libraries, Wellington, New Zealand

Preparation for issue No.13

I'm working on No.13 at the moment so should be ready in late July.
It'll be the Wanna Buy a Feejee Mermaid? issue.

Future Fantasteek! No.3

Softback Zine printed in greyscale on yellow paper, staple bound with central section in colour.
A5 size containing 16 printed pages. Bronze cover with dye cut shape.
Issue three: Brighton 2007, edition size of fifty.

Once again, the Damp Flat Research team share their fantastic inventions, ideas and advice. The evil central colour pull-out has a mirror where you can see your evil twin or simply worry more with the new Damp Worry Doll. There are inventions to help you spot a bad idea; pretend to talk like a grown-up or slow yourself down to avoid having to do anything.
That and so much more... PLUS are you really being watched?

To read the whole thing scroll below:

Future Fantasteek! No.4

Softback Zine printed in greyscale on orange and yellow paper, saddle-stitched.
A5 size with 16 printed pages. Day-Glo orange cover with yellow dots.
Issue Four: Brighton 2008, edition size of fifty.

The 'Damp Flat Research' team are wondering why eveyone's so sick lately. They are also quickly investing, on-the-side, in the pharmaceutical industry. What with Norovirus and advice on how to take a 'sickie' there seems to be no healthy folk left. This issue also includes how to spot whether you have ended-up working for the Departement of Stupidity and the right way to wash your hands.
I would write more, but I'm feeling off-colour and need to lay down...

To read the whole thing scroll below here:

Future Fantasteek! No.5

...Credit Crunch Issue

My computer 'ate' this issue, so it's not on issuu or anywhere else for that matter.
I'll re-scan the original pages sometime and re-construct it, but don't go holding your breath...

You can however, see a surviving version of it here: http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/zines/future5/index.htm#

Softback Zine printed in greyscale on yellow paper, with colour center pages,
includes a tipped-in dubious banknote and rubber stampped flies. saddle-stitched.
A5 size containing 16 printed pages. Bright pink card cover with yellow dots.
Issue Five: Brighton 2008, edition size of fifty.

Okay, okay...it's late - so sue me. The credit crunch issue looks at liars, not using your brain and spotting fakes. There's free money from the bank of Future Fantasteek included as a worthless free gift. The 'Damp Research Facilities' answer these questions: Why are people so nasty to each other ? Is greed really the future? How many of us have eaten from the Tree of Stupidity ? Can genetically enhanced monkeys with clipboards replace office staff? And could octopus DNA enable you to work longer hours? More pointless questions to ponder in a disappointing world...