By originating artworks in the virtual sphere, the artworks themselves explore the issue of translating an experience from digital to physical, and the fundamental relationship between context and material. The result of Open Books Online is a collection of digital works that challenge the limitations of the folding book and its production through unconventional means. Its structure of both requiring communicating online and creating offline, offered these artist partnerships the opportunity to connect in-depth, to exchange ideas and learn about alternative creative disciplines. Open Books Online prioritised cross-cultural collaboration and relationship building, by pairing Ang Xia Yi, Lim Eu Jin, Pangrok Sulap and Shaman Tearoom with artists from Wales, China and India. The project responded to the shift of encountering art in the virtual sphere, challenging notions of how we can connect, create, and remain open to new opportunities while being physically restricted. The collection of works highlights the importance of process-based making, a practice reiterated through an 8-week long pilot project called Open Books Online, that began in mid-2021.
The project has since travelled internationally, growing through boundaries by participating artists, curators, academics, and other critical thinkers. Open Books began in Wales in 2012, asking artists to express themselves within a Chinese folding book. (Mary Husted, Main curator of Open Books) Sometimes it’s a conversation, sometimes a cacophony of different voices!” “To speak of each work alone would be to take them out of their larger context of the folding book concept and so really, the books exist as a collection, and amongst them are arrays of different personalities.I have always felt that each book is the voice of the artist. As the folding book became more common place, it touched the hands of many, circulating beyond boundaries and into households, contributing to the expansion of the idea of the individual: the individual as artist and maker.īy using the Chinese folding book as a canvas, the commonplace object transforms into a physical connector of people, through encounters of reading or seeing, the folding book becomes a symbol of ritual. Including writing, drawing, documenting and other practices. 618 –908) as a utilitarian object, to its multitude of roles today as canvas, journal, artifact and more, the Chinese folding book presented the world with a more democratic opportunity to dive into any creative process.
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