The 2024 Contemporary Artists Books Conference (CABC) focusses on “Artists’ Books as Expanded Literacy.” The CABC planning committee asks: How can the artists’ book expand upon ideas of information and visual literacy, conceptions of language, data visualization, methods of presenting research, and beyond?
Illegibility and the Artists’ Book
Charlotte Youkilis and Raffaella della Olga
How might artists and writers manipulate language and bookmaking in order to transcend the semantic realm, moving towards the sphere of the unspeakable or illegible? Using a modified typewriter to impress ink as striations and dashes onto materials like carbon paper and sandpaper, Raffaella della Olga approaches the painterly abstraction of language. The artist will discuss her practice in conversation with Charlotte Youkilis, considering histories of the book format, asemic writing, and alternative forms of literacy.
The 2024 CABC is supported by Center for Book Arts, with additional support from Deirdre Lawrence and the Grolier Club.
