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CBAA Book Arts Series | Hinda Mandell | Saturday, December 10

  • 14 Nov 2022
  • 1:00 PM (EST)
  • 11 Dec 2022
  • (EST)
  • Zoom


CBAA Invites you to the Book Arts Series presentation on Saturday, December 10! From parking lot to the pretty page: Transforming activism IRL to a visual book

Date: Saturday, December 10 at 1PM EST

Registration Link: https://bit.ly/basmandell

Presenter: Hinda Mandell
Moderator: Kerry McAleer-Keeler

Mandell will discuss why an artist book fittingly serves as a physical legacy to preserve less-tangible activist work. The artist book at the center of this talk, “The Yarn Must Live: A Polemic on a Pandemic and Public Art,” acknowledges historic erasure of the 19th-century social-reform group, The Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Sewing Society, and the progressive work they engaged in at Corinthian Hall, which first fell victim to a fire and then urban renewal. Today, the former site of Corinthian Hall exists as a parking lot to a Holiday Inn located in the heart of the city’s financial and legal district. Starting in 1862, and until the American Civil War, the “Rochester Ladies” hosted annual fundraising bazaars at Corinthian Hall during the winter holiday season to showcase the handcraft of international abolitionists in support of the famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who was the primary recipient of the Rochester Ladies’ social-reform commitments. This book chronicles a large-scale yarn installation I oversaw at the former location of Corinthian Hall – a reformist gathering and lecture space. “The Yarn Must Live” was published in April 2020 through a virtual artist residency at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. By showcasing an artist book not only as a beautiful object but also as a physical platform and a visual catalogue for activist work that is easily disseminated in In Real Life social networks, we can better understand – and reconfigure – this medium in service to activist efforts.





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