Ginsberg / Kentridge Conversation

An edited video of the Conversation between Jack Ginsberg and William Kentridge; the final event at Booknesses, Sunday 26 February 2017, held at UJ Theatre and moderated by Professor Jane Taylor.

The closing event at the Booknesses colloquium and exhibition at the University of Johannesburg in March 2017 was a public conversation with Jack Ginsberg and William Kentridge with Professor Jane Taylor as moderator.

The subject of the conversation was artists' books and practise in general and William Kentridge's books in particular. As an introduction, a PowerPoint presentation was shown depicting a selection of books which included a video showing 'the flip' on the flipbooks. The synopsis (chronologically but not sequentially) was:

1. Artist's Books

Plis Selon Plis	1990
Portage	2000
Receiver	2006
Sheets of Evidence	2009
Lulu Plays	2015

2. Folded books or Map-prints: an aspect of Bookness

Learning the Flute	2003
Remembering the Treason Trial	2013
Libretto	2016
Pocket Drawings	2016
Lulu PlaMarcus Aurelius (Triumphs and Laments)	2017
Garibaldi (Triumphs and Laments)	2017

3. Luxury and limited editions

Flute	2008
Everyone Their Own Projector	2008
Firewalker	2011
The Refusal of Time	2012
No It Is	2012
2nd Hand Reading	2014

4. Flipbooks

Macba Flipbook	1999
Cyclopaedia of Drawing	2004
Breathe	2008
Hurdle	2009
Return	2009
Lexicon - with CD (Graecum Lexicon)	2011
De Como Não Fui Ministro d'Estado	2012

The video on flip books includes several Virtual Books, or flip-book films. Kentridge often uses the pages of books as a substrate over which to depict a moving image. They appear to be flip books or "paged books" but do not exist in reality:

The Anatomy of Melancholy	2012
Workshop Receipts	2012
Sonnets. Sight Reading	2013
2nd Hand Reading. Cyclopaedia of Mechanics	2013
Soft Dictionary	2016

5. Art monographs informed by artist's books

Trace	2010
Stop Here	2013
Notes Towards a Model Opera	2015
Accounts and Drawings from Underground	2015
More Sweetly Play the Dance	2015
Thick Time	2017

There are over a hundred art monographs on Kentridge and a full bibliography may be obtained on application. Those included above include aspects of artists' books such as translucent interleaving; wrap-around jacket unfolding to become a poster; triple and quadruple gatefolds; multiple linked covers, etc.

Putting Books to Work

Conversation images

Jane Taylor, Jack Ginsberg and William Kentridge in Conversation. Sunday 26 March	Jack Ginsberg and William Kentridge in Conversation. Sunday 26 March
William Kentridge in Conversation. Sunday 26 March	Jack Ginsberg in Conversation. Sunday 26 March
Jane Taylor in Conversation. Sunday 26 March	Jane Taylor, Jack Ginsberg and William Kentridge in Conversation. Sunday 26 March
Jack Ginsberg and William Kentridge in Conversation. Sunday 26 March