JAB42: The 5-Alive Issue

Abstract

This research output (JAB 41 & 43) builds on Mosely’s research portfolio “abbe 2017”. Mosely co-selected papers from abbe 2017 with Brad Freeman (founder and editor of the Journal of Artists’ Books /JAB) for volumes 41 & 43 of JAB. This outcome continues to address the call from scholars in the field to advance the critical nature of the field with a developing critical terminology and corresponding discourse.

Leading up to abbe 2017 Mosely published a short article/note in JAB 40 describing the research focus on artists books emerging at Queensland College of Art, “Inflections & ABBE 2017: Texturing GCCAR's Artists' Book Research Focus”. Abbe 2017 coalesced around Gilles Deleuze’s zweifalt, a fold that both identifies difference and at the same time holds those differences within a relationship. Following abbe 2017 Mosely co-ordinated the selection, peer reviewing and editing of academic papers from the event. In total 5 articles addressing the fold and studio practice, critical discourse and philosophical concerns were accepted by peer review for publication across two volumes of JAB. With an international readership and subscription base to hundreds of libraries and artists books collections around the globe these papers extend Australian artist’s & scholar’s contribution to artists book research in the emerging critical discourse.