Welcome to the home page for SUBSTANCE - Portsmouth Artist Book Event 2018
SUBSTANCE is the first full scale artists book event in Portsmouth where there is a long and glittering literary and cultural heritage, counting Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle among its alumni.
The event titled SUBSTANCE will take place in March 2018 and will showcase a diverse and challenging range of artists books, performances and related activities. The context for the show is the balance between form and content. Narrative and structure. Content is the common ground, the landscape, the soil, the substance on which we stand. Form is the manifestation of the diversity of our responses to that content.
Stand holders, independent artists book makers offer works for sale and display. Alongside this exhibition, the intention is to include a strong iteractive performance aspect to the event. Performances not simply restricted to one area, tied to a microphone and PA, but involving artists, poets moving among visitors and exhibitors, directly engaging with audience members, reciting and generating content for presentation before the end of the event in a programme of performance pieces. The aim is to generate an experience of the contrast between documentary artefacts and the ephemerality of performance.
SUBSTANCE offers a powerful sensory experience for the audience, and a great opportunity for visual artists to meet and connect directly with content providers, for authors and writers to see the tremendous possibilities of working with visual artists and creative talents from outside conventional avenues of self publishing, perhaps the foundations of some new and fruitful partnerships.
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