Authors: Ronja Andersen, Danielle Aubert, Joel Colover, Valentina Desideri, Jason Dodge, Olya Domoradova, Paul Elliman, Rosie Eveleigh, Eloise Harris, Sarah Käsmayr, Maxine Kopsa, Raimundas Malasauskas, Robert Milne, Josse Pyl, Nerijus Rimkus, Charlotte Taillet, Maud Vervenne, Caroline Wolewinski.

As part of Speelplaats, a parallel program of Werkplaats Typografie, participants challenged what was being offered in the school’s curriculum by introducing improvements or suggesting alternatives. Reader, aantekeningen exemplaar brings together these contributions made to the Speelplaats program alongside other like-minded initiatives by participants, guests and tutors in the shape of examples as well as reference texts.

Edited and designed by Ronja Andersen and Nerijus Rimkus.

Elizabeth Newman is best known as a visual artist whose practice encompasses a variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation. Writing, too, is central to her art. As indicated by the twenty-five or so texts compiled in this book, all dating from the last fifteen years, Newman’s literary output extends beyond her studio practice. Many of these texts are about artworks and exhibitions—her own as well as those of other local artists: they serve a critical rather than an aesthetic function. As such, these writings offer valuable insight into Newman’s artistic intentions and motivations, and her commentaries on the art of her peers constitute a compelling partial survey of art produced in Melbourne over the last decade and a half.

Edited by David Homewood and designed by Robert Milne.

A Bell is a Cup was first published in 2012 to coincide with the exhibition “Impressionism” by Matt Connors, held at MoMA PS1, New York and in 2013 was awarded in the inaugural Most Beautiful Books—Australia & New Zealand (MBBANZ), nominated for Artist Book of the Year in Rob Pruitt’s Art Awards, and in 2014 received the Förderpreis in the Walter Tiemann Prize presented by Verein zur Förderung von Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig.

The second edition is printed at 90% scale of the first edition, has sixteen new dust jacket/cover combinations and still includes texts by Peter Eleey, Michel Leiris, Gertrude Stein and Jack Spicer, alongside the first comprehensive gathering of Connors’ work to date (as of 2012).

Designed by Sinisa Mackovic & Robert Milne.

A Bell is a Cup was first published in 2012 to coincide with the exhibition “Impressionism” by Matt Connors, held at MoMA PS1, New York and in 2013 was awarded in the inaugural Most Beautiful Books—Australia & New Zealand (MBBANZ), nominated for Artist Book of the Year in Rob Pruitt’s Art Awards, and in 2014 received the Förderpreis in the Walter Tiemann Prize presented by Verein zur Förderung von Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig.

The second edition is printed at 90% scale of the first edition, has sixteen new dust jacket/cover combinations and still includes texts by Peter Eleey, Michel Leiris, Gertrude Stein and Jack Spicer, alongside the first comprehensive gathering of Connors’ work to date (as of 2012).

Designed by Sinisa Mackovic & Robert Milne.

A Bell is a Cup was first published in 2012 to coincide with the exhibition “Impressionism” by Matt Connors, held at MoMA PS1, New York and in 2013 was awarded in the inaugural Most Beautiful Books—Australia & New Zealand (MBBANZ), nominated for Artist Book of the Year in Rob Pruitt’s Art Awards, and in 2014 received the Förderpreis in the Walter Tiemann Prize presented by Verein zur Förderung von Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig.

The second edition is printed at 90% scale of the first edition, has sixteen new dust jacket/cover combinations and still includes texts by Peter Eleey, Michel Leiris, Gertrude Stein and Jack Spicer, alongside the first comprehensive gathering of Connors’ work to date (as of 2012).

Designed by Sinisa Mackovic & Robert Milne.

Produced on the occasion of Onion Walk and News Animation (Rehearsal), 24 January–17 February, 2018 at ReadingRoom, Melbourne.

Simone Forti is a dancer, artist, writer based in Los Angeles. She came of age artistically in the 1960s, a time of rich dialog between poets, musicians, dancers and visual artists. Her early Dance Constructions were influential to the reinventing of dance in New York that happened in the 60s and 70s. Forti has collaborated extensively with musicians Peter Van Riper and Charlemagne Palestine, basing her dancing on studies of animals’ movements and on the dynamics of circling.

Designed by Robert Milne.