EXHIBITION: Reclamation: Artists’ Books on the Environment, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA

San Francisco Center for the Book and San Francisco Public Library host Reclamation: Artists' Books on the Environment, a juried exhibition of artists' books exploring our relationship to the environment at this moment on the planet.

Environmental concerns demand increasing attention, from rising temperatures and dangerous weather events, to crises in water quality, to multiplying fires...the list goes on, echoed around the globe. Book artists create works that involve, educate, and inspire action. Book art takes many forms. Reclamation: Artists' Books on the Environment seeks to inspire and educate viewers to reflect on climate change and its impacts locally, nationally, and internationally. At the same time, the exhibition endeavors to avoid dualistic arguments common to today’s divisive political scene.

This exhibition takes place under the umbrella of The Codex Foundation's EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss call to action.

PUBLICATIONS: Monthly Photo Magazine, Seoul, South Korea, May issue, 2021

EXHIBITION: Place and Beyond, Seoul, South Korea

Exhibition: ‘Place and beyond’

Book exhibition ‘Place and beyond’ composed of recent Datz’s publications is held at the D’Ark Room in Guui-dong, Seoul. Along the process of contemplating life and weaving it into a single book, there are poems derived from the boundaries of the inside and the outside, the reality and the ideal. We invite you to the time and space of the artists who may stand here but imagine the beyond.

Artists and Books:
Katherine Yungmee Kim ‘Longitude’
Jane Baldwin ‘Only the River Remains’
Linda Connor ‘Constellations’
Bryant Austin ‘sun, water, being’
Phyllis Galembo ‘SODO’
Mary Daniel Hobson ‘Offerings’
Barbara Bosworth ‘Sea of Clouds’
Yoonsuk Kim ‘Here to Stay’ Min Kyung ‘Her and My Parabola’

* Date: 2021.4.30 - 8.31 *
Place: D’Ark Room / D’Front Space, Seoul, South Korea

CATALOG: Extraction: the Megazine: Catalog and Exhibition Guide: See Part 5, p. 482-483

EXTRACTION: THE MEGAZINE

The “Megazine” is the CODEX Foundation’s forthcoming publication for Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, widely available in early 2021. Like the Extraction Project itself, this book is many different things at once. Partly a group catalog of extraction-related artwork, each artist or creator’s individual contribution documents their own personal investigations into the extraction question, addressing a specific issue or set of issues under the broader umbrella of the Extraction Project.

The project is by no means limited to the visual arts—in these pages you will also find poetry, critical writings, philosophical treatises, manifestos, musical scores, conversations, historical or found photographs, and much more. The words and images collected here can thus be seen as discrete stories and aesthetic investigations that nonetheless make up part of a larger ongoing story in which we are all participants (the reader included).

A number of the submissions printed here offer snapshots of research projects that are ongoing, while others provide merely a small window into a larger body of work. For this reason the reader is encouraged to dig deeper, and to regularly check the Extraction website for the latest updates as the project continues to expand and develop after the printing and distribution of this volume. Our goal is to distribute 5,000 total copies of the publication for free to all the participating galleries, museums and exhibition spaces, before the beginning of the main Extraction program. Distribution of the Megazine will bring free publicity for participating venues, not to mention the hundreds of artists who have contributed art work to the publication.

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