posted by: Kristin Adolfson
The Atlas of Vanishing Knowledge is the VABC 2012 Collaborative project. It is the work of 28 member-artists and binders using traditional printing methods in what appears to be part-reference work and in part-commonplace book for a vanishing world–backlit by the prospect of a 2012 apocalypse–a flawed but urgent bulwark against the erosions of time and human memory.
It is a handbound, cloth covered, coptic stitched, collection of 156 printed pages on Rives Lightweight paper. At 4″x6″ in page dimension, and about 1″ thick, it’s a sight both to be held and to behold.
A few will be put up for “reverse auction” at the annual Raucous Auction.
CURRENT TEAMS and THEMES
Atlas of Secret Diseases
Team: Nancy Kober, Michael Swanberg, Lana Lambert, Dean Dass
Imaginary Body Parts
Team: Laura Pharis, Barbara Payne
Signs of the Time
Team: Addeane Caelleigh, Frank Riccio, Diane Ober, Bonnie Bernstein
Terms of Venery
Team: Roger Williams, Lana Lambert, Melanie Lower
Tousled Cliches
Team: Kevin McFadden, Jeff Pike
Strange Adventures in Love
Team: Dean Dass, Amanda Nelsen
Principal heads
Team: Dean Dass, Kristin Adolfson
The Climate
Team: Dean Dass, Amanda Nelsen, Erica Goldfarb
Tragic Performance: The Flower
Team: Josef Beery
Performers: Martha Mendenhall, Sian Richards, Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell, Kara McLane
Early Birds
Team: Rachel Singel, Garrett Queen
Phases of the Moon
Team: Bonnie Bernstein, Lana Lambert
Invasives – Matthew Gibson, Jennifer Billingsly, Caitlin Newman
Etc.
Team: Kristin Adolfson, Lindsey Mears, Bonnie Bernstein
Filed under: Group Projects, Project Gallery on May 21st, 2012
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[...] You can go directly to the page here, or find it on the home page under Group Projects: http://virginiabookarts.org/2012/05/atlas-of-vanishing-knowledge-2012-group-project/ [...]
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-- June 29, 2012 @ 10:52 am[...] Join us for the Raucous Auction as the members of the VABC celebrate the their most daring project to date, an ATLAS OF VANISHING KNOWLEDGE–a collaborative hand-printed, hand-bound, and in every way handy reference book for a disappearing world. The 156 printed pages in this collection make it a work to behold and a world to be held! Sneak peek is HERE!. [...]
-- October 18, 2012 @ 11:15 am[...] The terrible tentacles of the World Wide Web pry into every corner of our lives and steal away those random bits of life that used to brighten our days. In an effort to archive some of these threatened treats before they are devoured by Wikipedia and the recycling center’s book bin, the VABC has just published the Atlas of Vanishing Knowledge. [...]
-- October 19, 2012 @ 2:07 pm[...] In the gallery that night, the VABC will unveil its Atlas of Vanishing Knowledge: 156 pages of hand-printed work from member writers and book artists collected in a limited-edition, Coptic-bound book. The Atlas is part reference work and part commonplace book, cataloging its own imagined and rapidly vanishing world. The collection will be made available that night in a “reverse auction” format where the price drops for every additional bidder. Take a sneak peek at The Atlas here. [...]
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