Art Book Access Television
Curatorial project
Ongoing since June 2021
Art Book Access Television is a public livestream and video archive for artists' books, zines, and other creative publications. Each week, I curate a selection of pieces from my personal collection to share on Instagram live, and later archive on YouTube; episodes range in tone, subject matter, and conceptual complexity.
The program is a response to models of distribution that relegate artists’ books to the realm of the elite, and an exploration of the overlap between printed ephemera and digital circulation. Its livestream format is also an opportunity to consider remote digital consumption as a haptic art experience. ABAT uses atmospheric music to reinforce this shared sense of space and time with a custom soundtrack by composer Luke Williams.
