{"id":3201,"date":"2015-11-01T15:23:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T15:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2016-02-21T15:30:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T15:30:01","slug":"reading-room-leaves-threads-and-traces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/2015\/11\/01\/reading-room-leaves-threads-and-traces\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Room: Leaves, Threads and Traces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Reading Room: Leaves, Threads and Traces<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Winchester School of Art Gallery<\/div>\n<div>Tuesday, 2\u00a0November \u2013 Saturday, 7 November 2015,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>The exhibition brings book art, originally shown at the Colombo Art Biennale (Sri Lanka) and Kochi-Muziris Biennale (India), into dialogue with a selection from the Artists\u2019 Book Collection held at \u00a0the Winchester School of Art Library, which comprises book art from the 1960s to the present day.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>In placing items from the School\u2019s own collection alongside the visiting collection of book art from South Asia, the themes of leaves, threads and traces are explored. It brings to the fore both the <em>physicality<\/em> of books \u2013 their material properties and\u00a0relationship to material culture \u2013 and an <em>imagination<\/em> of books. This edition of Reading Room opens up how we interleave, draw together and re-trace thoughts, beliefs and emotions within the boundaries of a book and the cultures in which they circulate.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>The exhibition has been made possible through the support of Blueprint 12 and Winchester School of Art.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/2015\/11\/20\/re-making-and-exhibition\/\">Re-Making an Exhibition<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Room: Leaves, Threads and Traces Winchester School of Art Gallery Tuesday, 2\u00a0November \u2013 Saturday, 7 November 2015, The exhibition brings book art, originally shown at the Colombo Art Biennale (Sri Lanka) and Kochi-Muziris Biennale (India), into dialogue with a selection from the Artists\u2019 Book Collection held at \u00a0the Winchester School of Art Library, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/2015\/11\/01\/reading-room-leaves-threads-and-traces\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading Room: Leaves, Threads and Traces&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93777,"featured_media":3027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3206,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions\/3206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}