Time Does Not Pass: Artists’ Book Development Workshop (Fall 2024)
Couse Code: 24FPV001V
This virtual workshop takes place via Zoom across four sessions on Tuesdays, November 19th – December 10th, from 10am–12pm ET.
- Tuesday, November 19th, 10:00AM to 12:00PM ET
- Tuesday, November 26th, 10:00AM to 12:00PM ET
- Tuesday, December 3rd, 10:00AM to 12:00PM ET
- Tuesday, December 10th, 10:00AM to 12:00PM ET
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on November 5th, at 11:59PM ET.
About the Workshop:
In this virtual workshop for all experience levels, Instructor Shirin Salehi will guide participants through the poetic process of creating an artist’s book focusing on the concepts of time, structure, body, the haptic and the visual sense and the spatial display.
The workshop will be driven by group discussions on artist’s book theory through a selection of case studies designed by the instructor. Though conceptual discussion is the basis of the class’s structure, the instructor will work along with each participant on their ideas and intuitions in order to create the initial structure of personal artist’s book project.
The course is open to artists, poets, thinkers, and all creative individuals interested in participating in critique and theoretical discussions related to book arts and to artworks with a specific emphasis on bookness.
Required Materials:
No materials or tools are needed in advance of the course. The Instructor will help each participant identify what they need based on their respective projects.
About the Instructor
Shirin Salehi (she/her) is an Iranian visual artist, art educator, and translator living and working in Madrid. With an interdisciplinary body of work that explores media such as printmaking, drawing, sculpture, and artist’s books, Shirin Salehi’s practice investigates the poetic dimension of language, focusing on ideas such as illegible writing, erased matter, and hiddenness in images. Trained in printmaking, her work delves into the nuances of time and imprint, exploring both within language itself. She has been an artist in residence at the Academy of Spain in Rome (2021), the Academy of France in Madrid (2014), and Fondazione Il Bisonte in Florence (2016). In 2022 she was nominated for The Queen Sonja Print Award in Norway. In her commitment to social issues, she has been combining her artistic practice and teaching with the work of an interpreter and mediator for Iranian and Afghan asylum seekers and refugees since 2020.
All images courtesy of the instructor.