Egidija Ciricaite

 

 

NEWS:

BRISTOL ARTIST BOOK EVENT atat Bower Ashton, Bristol, UK. June 29-30, 2024

MALMÖ ARTIST BOOK BIENNIAL at Victoria Theater, Malmö, Sweden May 24-25 (26), 2024

dangus/dew (everything is pure) launch at Bergen Library with BERGEN ART BOOK FAIR. Bergen Bibliotek, Bergen, Norway, 18.00 | April 12-14, 2024

BERGEN ART BOOK FAIR at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, April 12-14, 2024

OPEN M ART BOOK FAIR with ART BOOK IN CHINA + artist talk at MEWS, LuxLake, Chengdu, China, March 28 - 31, 2024

LOVATIESĖ works shown with ART BOOK IN CHINA at MEWS, LuxLake, Chengdu, China, March 28 - May 26, 2024

Speaking Volumes – Women in the Artists’ Book Collection. A special event for Dundee Women's Festival. Organised by the University of Dundee. I will be presenting my work along Helen Douglas, Imi Maufe and Heather H Yeung. The event will be chaired by Professor Maria Fusco, DJCAD. Booking via Eventbrite. March 5, 2024.

lovatiesė series featured in ASWIRL poetry zine, celebrating short, minimal and concrete poetry. 2024 winter edition.

SMALL PUBLISHERS FAIR at Conway Hall, London WC1R 4RL, October 27-28, 2023

VIENNA ART BOOK FAIR at dieAngewandte - University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, October 20-22, 2023.

ATHENS ART BOOK FAIR, at The Athens Concervatoire, Athens, October 6-8, 2023.

Talking about my work, language, visual poetry, patterns and textiles at ATHENS ART BOOK FAIR, The Athens Concervatoire, Athens, 2.15pm, October 7, 2023.

New visual poetry from Lovatiesė series at ELEMENTS exhibtion online and onsite. Arch 182, London, W12 8DF, September 21-30, 2023.

WEAVING PATTERNS FOR POETRY published by PSW gallery, No. 18 of the TYPEWRITTEN series. This book contains 6 typewritten visual poems inspired by Lithuanian textile patterns. Printed on an old Gestetner 320 mimeograph. Hand-bound edition of 60 copies, 62 pages, 28x21cm landscape size. Available PSW webshop from September 15, 2023

RAUDA (a weaving pattern) and SOFT SNoW are part of ABC ART BOOK FAIR in Beijing special exhibition A book? Is a book. Is a book! .abC Art Book Fair·Beijing will be held at Quanyechang Cultural Arts Center, Beijing, China, June 15th-18th.

Performing at the EUROPEAN POETRY FESTIVAL 2023 at the opening event Versopolis Poetry Celebration at Iklectik Artlab, London SE1 7LG. Free entry. Doors at 7pm. April 19, 2023. More information to follow soon.

COLOUR & POETRY 2023 One of my favorite annual interdisciplinary happenings! A three-day event held by the Slade in celebration of International Colour Day, World Poetry Day and World Pigment Day. I am talking on March 21 @ 16.00 the colour of ripe strawberries, fresh tomatoes, and the glow of a warm fire about colour and mental images. Free. Online. Booking via Eventbrite. March 21, 2023.

THE WIELS ART BOOK FAIR. Showing new typewriter poetry books, including rauda* (a weaving pattern). @ WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels, Belgium. March 18-19, 2023.

new works with whnicPRESS at PAGES: Reset — Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair, at Parkinson Court at the University of Leeds, UK on March 17-18, 2023

ABOUT STONES is part of The Mountains Are Calling… exhibition hosted by Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK. This exhibition accompanies a UWE / LAND2 symposium in Bristol discussing environmental themes including water quality, land degradation, pollution and damage to the landscape, interventions and ideas. At Bower Ashton Library, UWE, Bristol, UK. March 3– April 17, 2023

COLOUR & POETRY 2023. (on-site) I am talking at 3.25pm the colour of ripe strawberries, fresh tomatoes, and the glow of a warm fire about colour and mental images as part of A Day of Colour & Poetry, hosted by Colart, London, W12 7RH on Saturday February 25, 2023.

See HERE the video of SJ Fowler and myself reading visual poetry from SHOW ME THE ORIGINAL: nine thoughts on poetic language at Small Publishers Fair, 2022.

Bilingual poetry performance with Jules Sparke at Iklectik Artlab, London SE1 7LG Doors at 7pm. November 23, 2022.

Poetry reading with SJ Fowler from Show me the Original: nine thoughts on poetic language at SMALL PUBLISHERS FAIR at 4.30pm on October 29, 2022.

New visual poetry, including Show me the Original: nine thoughts on poetic language (in collaboration with SJ Fowler) at SMALL PUBLISHERS FAIR, Conway Hall, London WC1R 4RL on October 28-29, 2022.

Performing at the EUROPEAN POETRY FESTIVAL 2022 with Jules Sparke. An evening celebrating Lithuanian poetic voice. @ Rich Mix in Shoredich, London E1 6LA, 7.30pm (Free) on June 25, 2022.

IMAGE/TEXT - WHAT/NEXT? An interdisciplinary conference about art, literature, and how we think about the visual-verbal divide. Presenting a paper on relevance theoretic view into artist books. @ University of York, Humanities Research Centre, June 24, 2022.

I NEVER READ, ART BOOK FAIR BASEL 2022. An art book fair parallel to Art Basel.  I Never Read, Art Book Fair Basel is dedicated to connecting text, contemporary art production, art presentation and the book. Entry is free and open to everyone. @ Kaserne Basel, CH–4057 Basel, Switzerland. June 15 — 18, 2022.

Speaking at Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden. Part of MABB programme of artists' talks. 14.00, May 8, 2022.

MABB – Malmö Artist’s Book Biennial, @ Victoriateatern, Malmö, Sweden. May 6–8, 2022.New

MISS READ – Berlin Art Book Festival 2022 @ Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. April 29 – May 1, 2022.

BABE 2022. In collaboration with George Cullen as Egidija & George. Bristol Artists' Book Event @ Bower Ashton Studios, UWE Bristol, BS3 2JT. April 23-24, 2022. I will be delivering a talk on Saturday Writing Water | Reading Rain : book as visual poetry. Full programme can be found HERE.

COLOUR & POETRY: A SYMPOSIUM IV. One of my favorite annual interdisciplinary happenings. A three-day event held by the Slade in celebration of International Colour Day, World Poetry Day and World Pigment Day. I am talking on March 21 @ 16.00 Blue. I mean green. Blue, green. The title is borrowed from a poem by Richard Price. Considering the spectrum of hues that the word blue covers, considering the immense range of connotations that it implies -- why are we not perpetually perplexed and confused whenever we hear the word blue? Using Relevance theory I look at ambiguities that colour terms hold and the effects that they evoke -- especially in language arts, which thrive on vagueness and indeterminacy. Free. Online. Booking via Eventbrite. March 21, 2022.

SMALL PUBLISHERS FAIR. Digital programme from November 12, 2021 to December 17, 2021. Books available for purchase.

BLESS/BLAST @ Octagon Gallery, UCL as part of celebratory events for 150th aniversary of the Slade. A three dimensional visual poetry display (on show until August, 2022) and an immaterial online writing/publishing project are inspired by Wyndham Lewis’s first edition of the Blast magazine; it contained the Vorticist manifesto with a list of things, people and ideas which were, according to Lewis, either ‘bless’ or ‘blast’. What is the threshold between "blast" and "bless"? Marked by the difference in only two letters, the words elicit a polarised judgment, obscuring an opaque network of connections and overlaps between the concepts. The online BLESS/BLAST might be supplemented sporadically by a new publicationbefore August, 2022. Exhibition opening on November 22, 2021.

Slade 150 Symposium Series: SPINELESS WONDERS. Session 1: 10.05a.m.-12.00p.m.: Small Press Artists' Books. Curated by Leila Kassir and Tansy Barton, Modern and Special Collections, Senate House Library and Clare Lees, SAS; chaired by Gustavo Grandal Montero . Speakers: Sarah Bodman, Karen Sandhu, Gill Partington, Egidija Ciricaite. Free. Online. Register on Eventbrite. November 11, 2021.

SOMETHING TO DO WITH ART – Egidija Čiricaitė. Podcast by the very eloquent Robert Good. How books function as cultural objects? How our preconceptions inform our expectations of what the contents might be? What is the relationship between academic research and artistic practice – what, if any, is the link between the two? When does one become a poet? How can Relevance theory (cogntitive pragmatics) help us understand how art works? Available on SoundCloud.

Words dropped onto the page and splattered into image. Creative writing workshop [online]. at BABE2021: Bristol Artists Book Event, @ Arnolfini, Bristol BS1 4QA, 17-- 19 April, 2021.

video (book) Duet on Rain (with George Cullen) at BABE2021: Bristol Artists Book Event, @ Arnolfini, Bristol BS1 4QA, 17-- 19 April, 2021

BABE2021: Bristol Artists Book Event, @ Arnolfini, Bristol BS1 4QA, 17-- 19 April, 2021

IMPACT11. International Printmaking Conference. Conference paper: Between Seeing and Reading: what Relevance Theory can reveal us about artists' books? @ Hong Kong Open Printshop, Hong Kong, September 22-26, 2020 (moved online to April 20-25, 2021)

LONDON ART BOOK FAIR 2020. In collaboration with George Cullen as Egidija&George @ Whitechapel Gallery, London, September 9-12, 2020 (cancelled)

INSIDE WRITING : a digital poetry festival in lieu of the annual Newcastle Poetry Festival. Curtain (part of the Slade Poetry Shed) @ online, July 16–30, 2020 .

Curtain @ HOME : a multilingual visual poetry exhibition by Mellom Press  Curtain @ online, July 16 – August 9, 2020.

THE MATERIAL BODY OF THE BOOK: BETWEEN TRADITION AND INNOVATION. Conference paper: In the Space of Time : Book Space as a Metaphor for Time @ Vilnius Arts Academy, Lithuania, May 7-9, 2020 (moved online)

BOOK ARTS DAY fair, The Society of Bookbinders @ NW1 8PH, London,10:30 am - 4:00 pm, April 25, 2020 (cancelled)

ARTISTS' BOOKS NOW: FUTURES. Part of British Library's events series. Participants include Anne Welsh (UCL), Guy Bigland, Richard Carter (University of Roehampton), Helen Douglas, Jan Hopkins. Anne is also in discussion with academic and book artist Tom Sowden.  @ The British Library, London, NW1 2DB. February 3, 2020 6.30-8.30 (doors open at 6.00).

Čiricaitė, E. ON PHOTOGRAPHING ARTISTS' BOOKS. J Med Humanit (2019) doi:10.1007/s10912-019-09593-7

DUBLIN ART BOOK FAIR: Art and Architecture: Learning from the Bauhaus @ Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin 2, Ireland, November 21- December 1, 2019.

new works @ Small Publishers Fair with George Cullen as Egidija&George. Conway Hall, London WC1R 4RL, UK, November 15-16, 2019

London Art Book Fair @ Whitechapel Gallery, London, September 5 to 8, 2018. With George Cullen as Egidija&George

Podcast chat with Gill Partington, Cambridge University Munby Fellow. Listen here for us talking about my MUG CUP KNIFE LADLE.

STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS. 15 artists explore structural elements of the book. Curated by Erin K. Schmidt and Laura Beyer. @ Hatch Art Gallery, Detroit, MI, United States, August 4-24, 2019.

The British Academy Summer Showcase 2019 with Artists' Books and Medical Humanities Project (Uni of Kent). @ the British Academy, London SW1Y 5AH, 21-22 June 2019.

Bookmaking kits for The British Academy Summer Showcase 2019 with Artists' Books and Medical Humanities Project (Uni of Kent). @ the British Academy, London SW1Y 5AH, 21-22 June 2019.

BABE 2019: Bristol Artists Book Event, @ Arnolfini, Bristol BS1 4QA, 29- 31 March 2019, 11:00 to 18:00

UCL Special Collections Lates: Protest! Voices of dissent in art and text, The Small Press Project: In Conversation with Egidija Čiricaitė and Liz Lawes, UCL Haldane Room, WC1E 6B, March 26, 6.15-8.00pm

Small Press Project 2019: Visions of Protest and Solidarity. The Slade Research Centre, UCL, London WC1E 6BT, March 4-9, 2019

SHARING BORDERS symposium and exhibition @ UCL. Common Ground, Institute of Advanced Study, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT February 21-22, 2019.

ARTISTS' BOOKS NOW: LATINA AMERICANA. Part of new British Library's events series. Participants include Michael Wellen (Tate), Elizabeth Cooper (the British Library), Connie Bloomfield (Kings), Lucy Bell (University of Surrey), Francisca Prieto and Rafael Morales (UAL). @ The British Library, London, NW1 2DB. February 4, 2019 6.30-8.30 (doors open at 6.00).

Soft Snow (2018) is included into Artists’ Books 2018: 10 of the best, from irreverent fun to brutal heartbreak

DUBLIN ART BOOK FAIR: Art and Architecture / Uncovering Libraries and Collections @ Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin 2, Ireland, November 22- 29, 2018.

new works @ Small Publishers Fair as Egidija&George. Conway Hall, London WC1R 4RL, UK, November 8-9, 2018

TRANSLATION. The show features artists books, sculptures and prints by 15 different artists all using language and translation as their inspiration.@ Milton Gallery, London, SW13 9JT, November 7 - December 7, 2018.

ARTISTS' BOOKS NOW: PLACE. Part of new British Library's events series. Speakers include Clive Philpot, Edmund Clarke, Nancy Campbell. @ The British Library, London, NW1 2DB. November 5, 2018 6.30-8.30 (doors open at 6.00).

ARTISTS' BOOKS NOW: PLACE a special programme publication for the event @ The British Library, London, NW1 2DB. April 23, 2018 6.30-8.30

London Art Book Fair @ Whitechapel Gallery, London, September 6 to 9, 2018. In collaboration with George Cullen as Egidija&George

ARTISTS' BOOKS NOW: HERE AND NOW the first of a new series of events curated by Richard Price, Jeremy Jenkins, Sophie Loss and Egidija Čiricaitė  @ The British Library, London, NW1 2DB. April 23, 2018 6.30-8.30 (doors open at 6.00).

ARTISTS' BOOKS NOW: HERE AND NOW (Volume I.) a special programme publication for the event by Egidija Čiricaitė and George Cullen available @ The British Library, London, NW1 2DB. April 23, 2018 6.30-8.30 (doors open at 6.00).

presenting Behind Prescriptions Project: Book as a Metaphor at Portsmouth Artist's Book Event 2018 (PABE): Substance @ Aspex Gallery,Portsmouth, PO1 3BF, 18 March 2018

new works with whnicPRESS @ PAGES Leeds | International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair, The Tetley, Leeds, 4th-5th March 2017 (snowed in)

new works @ Small Publishers Fair, Conway Hall, London WC1R 4RL, UK, November 10-11, 2017

presenting In the Space of Time (notes on book space as "time" metaphor in artists' books from Prescriptions collection) at All Inked Up symposium @ The Crag Lecturer Theatre UCA Canterbury, 13 October 2017

Prescriptions. The Book. (artist's books on medicine and wellbeing) Edited by Egidija Ciricaite and Stella Bolaki. Published by Natrix Natrix Press. It will be available though Artists' Books and the Medical Humanities Project from October 2017.

New York Art Book Fair with AMBruno @ MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens, NY, September 22 to 24, 2017.

In the Space of Time (notes on book space as "time" metaphor in artists' books from Prescriptions collection) in Artist’s Book Yearbook 2018-2019 available from Impact Press

Prescriptions - artist's books curated by Egidija Ciricaite, Stella Bolaki and Elspeth Millar @ Templeman Gallery, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NU August 01- November 17, 2017

Alignment works for BABE 2017: Bristol Artists Book Event, @ Arnolfini, Bristol BS1 4QA, 01- 02 April 2017, 11:00 to 18:00

Alignment spring residency with George Cullen (part of Collective Investigations) @ Arnolfini, Bristol BS1 4QA, 1March – 2 April, 2017

new works @BABE 2017: Bristol Artists Book Event with whnicPRESS and AMBruno. @Arnolfini, Bristol BS1 4QA, 01- 02 April 2017

presenting Metaphors of Healing in Artist's Books at "Prescriptions" Exhibtion (presentation) at Booknesses: Taking Stock of the Book Arts in South Africa @ Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, Bunting Road Campus, University of Johannesburg, 24- 26 March 2017

people plously revere the memory is part of a new AM Bruno [sic] project @ PAGES Leeds | International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair, The Tetley, Leeds, 4th-5th March 2017

MUG CUP KNIFE LADLE (part of WORDS) is included into Artists’ Books 2016: 10 of the year’s best, from performative publishing to fascinating flies

0Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot by whnicPRESS is now available @ Small Publishers Fair Conway Hall, London WC1R 4RL, UK, November 4-5, 2016

new works @ Small Publishers Fair with whnicPRESS and AMBruno. Conway Hall, London WC1R 4RL, UK, November 4-5, 2016

part of Saison Poetry Library Open Day display, @ Southbank Center, London, October 15, 2016.

New York Art Book Fair with AMBruno @ MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens, NY, September 16 to 18, 2016

Tarp knygos ir meno @ Zypliu dvaras: book art and book history workshop, August 17, 2016

Artist's Books and Medical Humanities Workshop @ Beaney Art Museum, Cantebury June 30th, 2016

PRESCRIPTIONS (curating open-call) @ Beaney Art Museum, Cantebury April 21st - August 15t, 2016

speaking at Artists’ Books and the Medical Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Symposium @ University of Kent ,Canterbury, UK, 21st-22nd April 2016.

MUG CUP KNIFE LADLE (part of WORDS) is purchased by British Library's artist's books collection and Tate's Special Collection. May 20, 2016

MUG CUP KNIFE LADLE is part of WORDS exhibition to accompany IM/MATERIAL: Encounters within the Creative Arts Archive @ Chelsea College of Arts, London, May 13-14, 2016.

It's a Book fair with Ambergris Editions @ Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig, 19th March, 2016

GUTTER curatorial experiment with George Cullen (as Collective Investigations) @ PAGES Leeds | International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair, The Tetley, Leeds, 5th-6th March 2016

WORDS with AM Bruno @ PAGES Leeds | International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair, The Tetley, Leeds, 5th-6th March 2016

Reading Book as an Object at Livres d'Artiste - The Artist's Book in Theory and Practice conference @ Cardiff University, December 4-6, 2015

Fired Books. A creative investigation into the idea of book in the context of Lithuanian post-war history and memory | Book History Research Network workshop @ Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, December 5, 2015

WINNER of International Sheffield Artist's Book Prize 2015

Reading Book as an Object (talk) @ SMALL PUBLISHERS' FAIR 2015 (with Collective Investigations), November 6th, 2015

SMALL PUBLISHERS' FAIR 2015 (with Collective Investigations; also at whnicPRESS stand), London, UK, November 5-6, 2015

mirror echo for ART.LANGUAGE.LOCATION. @ Cambridge University, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick site, CB3 9DA, Oct 15 - Nov 1, 2016 (with Collective Investigations)

Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize Exhibition (shortlisted) @ Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK, Oct 7-31, 2015

SAILING STONES @ Street Road, Pennsylvania, USA, March-September 2015

Simetria. Artist's page in Blue Notebook, Vollume 10, No 1, 2015

Reading Book as an Object in Artist's Book Yearbook 2016-2017. Experimental article with George Cullen and Chris Gibson. Available from Impact Press, UWE

between one hand and another (talk) @ BABE2015, Bristol, UK. On the relationship between the reader, the book and the hand. 3.00 p.m. April 10, 2015

Síður í Siglufjörður / Pages in Siglufjörður (curated by Sarah Bodman and Nancy Campbell) @ Herhúsið, Siglufjörður, Iceland, March 14-28, 2015

ART IN A BOOKSHELL@ Milton Gallery, SW13 9JT London PV: Wed 25 Feb 6.30-8.3, 2015

ARTLACUNA book fair, London December 5-7, 2014

in the reflected sky @ Cambridge University, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick site, CB3 9DA, from October 2014 (with Collective Investigations)

KALEID2014 @ The Art Accademy, London, July 2014 (with Collective Investigations)

Fired Books: Between Chemistry of Paper and Auratic Object (talk), PERVERSIONS IN PAPER @Birkbeck University, June 2014

CODEX: BETWEEN THIS AND THAT (Collective Investigations), London, UK

CCW GRADUATE SCHOOL DIRECTORY 2013-2014

CODEX: BETWEEN THIS AND THAT @ CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN library (with Collective Investigations), London, UK

PECKHAM PLATFORM WORKSHOPS (Collective Investigations), London, UK

PAGES: LEEDS BOOK FAIR, 2014 (whnicPRESS stand), Leeds, UK

A BOOK HISTORY RESEARCH NETWORK study day (paper: Between the Codex and the Artist), V&A, London

VOLUME - Art, Book & Print Fair 2013 (whnicPRESS stand), Birmingham, UK

RESURRECTING THE BOOK conference (paper: Damnatio Memoriae: Books that Burn), Birmingham, UK

SMALL PUBLISHERS' FAIR 2013 (whnicPRESS stand), London, UK