Visual Arts

www.likink.com is a Hong Kong based e-commerce website that distributes and produces artist’s books and editions focusing on works produced in and around Asia. For the exhibition, Likink has invited four of the artists listed on www.likink.com to excerpt examples from their work in the form of photographs or, in some cases, to exhibit the actual editions in the form of posters or pages from books.

“Artist’s books” specifically refers to an offshoot of conceptual art that, in the 1970s, attempted to create a mode and form of production that by-passed the traditional and occasionally elitist distribution points for art, such as museums and commercial galleries, while also creating a mass-produced and less expensive format for art.

Likink focuses on book or print edition as a unique format for art, it also desires to operate as an online archive of the “artist’s book”. In this regard, a selection of artist’s books and editions from the collection of the exhibition’s curator and director of likink.com Andrew Guthrie will be on display investigating the history and conceptual praxis of artist’s book.

100 ft. PARK will become a pop-up store during the exhibition opening. All materials available at www.likink.com will be on sales. 20% discount will be given to any cash transactions. You can also barter for books with other items. Details will be announced on Facebook.

Andrew Guthrie is an artist, writer and curator. He is also a part-time lecturer at the Hong Kong Art School and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His works have been exhibited in the US and Hong Kong. In 2003, he was awarded the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Photography. In 2012, he established www.likink.com.