cabin:codex showcased over 100 Artists’ Books and multiples selected from the collection of Centre for Artists’ Books’ at Visual Research Centre, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. The exhibition considered two inter-related but opposing ‘landscape’ themes; the Urban and the Feral. The books were presented as an open display and were available for handling by gallery visitors; this refreshingly immediate experience celebrated the artists’ intentions in adopting the non-hierarchical visual and tactile format of the Artists’ Books.

Selected works from the CAB collection by artists included:
Christian Boltanski, Ulises Carrion, Alec Finlay, Hamish Foulton, Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Hamilton, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Sol Le Witt, Richard Long, Hans Waanders, Bruce McLean, Toby Paterson, David Shrigley, Lawrence Weiner, Weproductions and more.

We were commissioned as part of a programme of live works responding to the notions of book and reading which included new works by Nina Chua, Dave Fyans, Zoe Irvine + Pernille Spence and Catherine Street

We performed a submissions call out at the opening of the exhibition, which led to a live selection during a curators tour and subsequent distributing of the special edition at a final live event curated as part of the exhibition. You can view the special edition here: Cabin:Codex issue