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As part of the Crosscut exhibition, on Friday, August 14 at 6 pm, Novi Sad-based writer and artist Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić will present her artist’s book series Instruction Readings at BIBLIOTHEKET, a specialised artist’s book library at the Konstepidemin Cultural Centre in Gothenburg.

Instruction Readings by Ljiljana Maletin Vojvodić is a series of conceptual artist’s books that the author began during her residency at TYPA (Printing and Paper Arts Centre) in Tartu, Estonia, in 2021. Combining discarded book covers, handmade paper made from recycled pulp, and traditional bookbinding techniques, the works explore the relationship between writing and reading, narrative and meaning, as well as the ways in which books are created and experienced.

Drawing on the tradition of experimental and conceptual artist’s books, particularly the legacy of the New Art Practice in Novi Sad in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as Fluxus and the work of Yoko Ono, including her book Grapefruit, Maletin Vojvodić approaches the book simultaneously as a work of art, an object, a medium, and a conceptual platform.

Discarded book covers by Russian, Persian, and Estonian authors are combined with blank pages made from handmade recycled paper. The titles are embossed using a Gutenberg press, while the absence of narrative content transforms the book into a space for interpretation, alternative forms of reading, and reconceptualisation.

By leaving the pages blank, Maletin Vojvodić deliberately gives the reader a role in the creative process. The blank page becomes an invitation to project, interpret, and create meaning.

The works also address the contemporary crisis of reading in a culture increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence and algorithmic content production.

The reuse of discarded book covers and recycled paper raises questions of environmental responsibility, material memory, transformation, and slowing down.

https://konstepidemin.se/kalender/instruction-readings/