SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
CODEX VIII
APRIL 10-13, 2022
Vaccination or proof of negative test and masks required.
PUBLIC BOOK FAIR HOURS
Craneway Pavilion
1414 Harbour Way South
Richmond, CA 94804
Sunday, April 10, 2022:
12:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Monday, April 11, 2022:
12:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 12, 2022:
12:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 13, 2022:
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM
Berkeley City Club
2315 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
Check-In: 8:30 a.m.
Talks begin: 9:00 a.m.
Monday, April 11, 2022:
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Tuesday, April 12, 2022:
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
BUS SCHEDULE
Sunday, April 10, 2022:
Pick Up at Graduate Hotel: 9:15 a.m.
Pick Up at Craneway Pavilion: 7:00 p.m.
Monday, April 11, 2022:
Pick Up at Graduate Hotel: 11:40 a.m.
Pick Up at Craneway Pavilion: 6:20 p.m.
Tuesday, April 12, 2022:
Pick Up at Graduate Hotel: 11:40 a.m.
Pick Up at Craneway Pavilion: 6:20 p.m.
Wednesday, April 13, 2022:
Pick Up at Graduate Hotel: 9:15 a.m.
Pick Up at Craneway Pavilion: beginning at 3:30 p.m.
All buses will depart by 5:00 p.m.
BOOK FAIR ADMISSION TICKETS
SOLD AT THE DOOR
Multi-day: $40
Single-day: $15
Student (with ID): $10
Sunday, April 10, 2022
Opening Day!
9:15 a.m. Bus to Book Fair from Graduate Hotel (must have purchased a bus ticket)
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Set up for Fair Exhibitors - Exhibitors: Please do not arrive before 10:00 a.m.
12:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Book Fair Open to the Public - tickets sold at the door
Symposium attendees may get badges from Fair Manager
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Cocktail Party for CODEX registrants only (wear your CODEX badge)
5:30 p.m. One bus Returns to Graduate Hotel from Book Fair (must have purchased a bus ticket)
7:20 p.m. Remaining bus Returns to Graduate Hotel from Book Fair (must have purchased a bus ticket)
Monday, April 11, 2022
Symposium Day One & Book Fair
8:30 a.m. Symposium Registrants Pick up Badges at Berkeley City Club
8:50 a.m. Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. Artist Speaker: Inge Bruggeman
9:20 a.m. - 9:25 a.m. 5 minutes for Questions
9:25 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Writer, Poet, Scholar: Bill Fox
9:45 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. 5 minutes for Questions
9:50 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. 10 minute Break
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Keynote Speaker: Robert Bringhurst
11:40 a.m. Bus to Book Fair from Graduate Hotel (must have purchased a bus ticket)
12:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Book Fair Open to the Public - tickets sold at the door
6:20 p.m. Bus Returns to Graduate Hotel from Book Fair (must have purchased a bus ticket)
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Symposium Day Two & Book Fair
8:30 a.m. Check-In at Berkeley City Club
8:50 a.m. Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. Artist Speaker: Patricia Lagarde
9:20 a.m. - 9:25 a.m. 5 minutes for Questions
9:25 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Artist Speaker: Richard Wagener
9:45 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. 5 minutes for Questions
9:50 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. 10 minute Break
10:00 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. Artist Speaker: Jamie Murphy
10:20 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. The Codex Foundation: a brief retrospective and a long future
11:40 a.m. Bus to Book Fair from Graduate Hotel (must have purchased a bus ticket)
12:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Book Fair Open to the Public - tickets sold at the door
6:20 p.m. Bus Returns to Graduate Hotel from Book Fair (must have purchased a bus ticket)
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Book Fair: Extended Morning Hours
9:15 a.m. Bus to Book Fair from the Graduate Hotel (must have purchased a bus ticket)
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Book Fair Open to the Public - tickets sold at the door
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Exhibitors Pack Up
After 3:45 p.m. Buses will begin to return to Graduate Hotel when they are full (must have purchased a bus ticket)
5:00 p.m. UPS pick up (must have pre-printed and pre-paid labels for ALL packages being shipped)
5:15 p.m. Last Bus returns to Graduate Hotel (must have purchased a bus ticket)
7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Gala Dinner at the Berkeley City Club (bring dinner ticket & wear badge)
Additional Events
February 11–May 1, 2022
Possibilities: When Artists’ Books Were Young :: Kathleen Walkup, curator
Exhibition dates: February 11 - May 1, 2022
Possibilities: When Artists’ Books Were Young focuses on the genesis of artists’ books as examined through the lenses of gender and inclusion. By highlighting the critical role that women, including women of color, played in the definition, development and curation of artists’ books and exploring the challenges of inclusion and diversity, Possibilities works to re-focus our understanding of the time when artists’ books were coming into their own. Exhibited items include rarely seen exhibition catalogues and posters from early artists’ books shows as well as trailblazing works by creators from the 1970s through the 1990s.
ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION: Adrian Piper, Agnes Denes, Alison Knowles, Bisa Washington, Bonnie Gordon, Carolee Schneemann, Clarissa Sligh, Cynthia Marsh, Dorothy Ianonne, Erica Van Horn, Hanne Darboven, Janet Zweig, Joan Lyons, Kumi Korf and Emoretta Yang, Linn Underhill, Madeline Gins, Martha Wilson, Mimi Smith, Miriam Schapiro, Paula Hocks, Rachel Youdelman, Sas Colby, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Sonia Sheridan, Susan E. King, Suzanne Lacy, Tatana Kellner, Terry Braunstein, Tomie Arai, Warja Lavater
San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island Street
San Francisco, CA. 94103
Saturday, April 9, 2022
Adaptation: Artist's Books for a Changing Environment
Opening Reception, Saturday April 9th 3:00-6:00 pm
Exhibition open: March 14–May 14, 2022
An Invitational Exhibition curated by Julie Chen
Featuring the work of Islam Aly, Alisa Banks, Ben Blount, e bond, Macy Chadwick, Irene Chan, Julie Chen, Sandra C. Fernandez, Colette Fu, Eleonora Gómez Bas, Becca Josephson, Aimee Lee, Clifton Meador, Allison Leialoha Milham, Radha Pandey, Heather Peters, Steph Rue, Luz Marina Ruiz, Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, Clarissa Sligh, Barbara Tetenbaum, Shu-Ju Wang & Philip Zimmermann
Environmental Design Library
210 Bauer Wurster Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Saturday, April 9, 2022
CODEX Meet and Greet at San Francisco Center for the Book
Saturday, April 9th, 6:00–9:00 pm
Meet and mingle with other CODEX attendees at the San Francisco Center for the Book! Kicking off CODEX VIII, this informal get-together is the perfect opportunity to socialize with other CODEX artists and attendees. Light refreshments and drinks will be served.
San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island Street
San Francisco, CA. 94103
Monday, April 11, 2022
Arion Press Tour & Exhibition Walkthrough
Monday, April 11th from 7:00-8:30 pm
Arion Press is pleased to host a special tour of its historic printing facility along with a guided walkthrough of its current gallery exhibition. Arion’s Curator-in-Residence will lead a curator walkthrough of Arion's gallery show “Shadow & Light” collecting a display of broadsides and prints from a loose coalition of artists created to commemorate the 2007 bombing of al-Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad’s famed literary corridor. Drinks and light refreshments will be served after the tour.
Arion Press
1802 Hays Street, The Presidio
San Francisco, CA 94129
Register for the event here: https://www.eventbrite.
Monday, April 11, 2022
Memorial for John Martin and Cuba (AKA Clarence Robbs)
Monday, April 11, 7:30-10:30 pm
The Mission, ATA and Booklyn communities come together to celebrate the incandescent creativity of these two exceptional artists and human beings. The event is open to the public and work by both John Martin and Cuba will be shown, including a very special exhibition of the monumental artists’ book “Slaughter of the Trees” by Cuba and Weber (courtesy of the San Francisco Letterform Archive) and a screening of Martin’s grim yet hilarious video “Prison DJ”. A second line will be performed by local urban/folk/noise band National Disgrace, long associated with ATA.
Please join us and share your stories of John and Cuba at ATA in the crucible of Es Ef alternative art and media culture. Bring food and drink and what you will.
And please share this invite with any interested parties. Many thanks to the ATA staff for making this event possible. Free to all, though donations for ATA are encouraged when possible.
For more info please email mweber@booklyn.org
ATA (Artists Television Access)
992 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Thursday, April 14, 2022
How Is It A Book? Book Art Review and A New Model for Criticism
Thursday, April 14th, 6:00–8:00 pm; presentation begins at 6:30 pm
Books have long been recognized as a key medium for artists. In today’s climate the book form is leveraged to share ideas, perspectives, outrage, protest, humor, and beauty. At this in person event, Book Art Review editor Megan N. Liberty will introduce the theme of the first issue, "A New Manifesto for Book Art Criticism," and discuss some of the successes and challenges of encouraging new writers—new to criticism or new to book art—to answer the question, how is it a book?, one of the founding principles of BAR's approach to artists' book criticism.
Registration is required. Please click here to register.
San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island Street
San Francisco, CA. 94103
Thursday, April 14, 2022
Online Salon with Islam Aly
Series 31: Using Arabic Letterforms in Contemporary Book Art with Islam Aly
Thursday, April 14, 2022 from 12:00pm–1:30pm PT
We will be exploring examples of contemporary book art that utilizes different Arabic letterforms and their relationship to historical calligraphy and layout in old manuscripts. Islam Aly will discuss his own works and related content from Letterform Archive's collection. Registration is required.
Islam Aly is currently a lecturer of Design in the College of Art Education at Helwan University. He graduated from the University of Iowa, with an MFA in Book Arts and a Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning with a concentration in Art Education. At Helwan University, Egypt he received a BA and an MA in Art Education. His artists’ books explore the possibilities of historical bindings in contemporary book art practice. He has combined book traditions with digital technologies. His work is created at the junction between culture, technology, and aesthetics.
April 1–24, 2022
What is the essential nature of a book? Is it the words printed on a sheet of paper, is it the story told within its pages, is it the comfort of leather binding and parchment end papers, or is it…something else entirely?
Some say the book is an endangered species in this modern era of the internet and digital natives, others swear the allure of the printed page will never be extinguished. We believe that beyond both these statements, a book is both art and artifact: a multi-sensory treasure to be consumed not just with the mind, but also with the hands and the heart.
ACCI Gallery
1652 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94709