First, there was Tianshu or The Book from the Sky (1986-2012).
From a Visit to “Art for the People”, Xu Bing (Centro del Carme, Valencia, Spain, 2019)
Then, there was The Book from the Ground (2014).
From Xu Bing, Book from the Ground: From Point to Point (MIT Press, 2014)
And then, Tianshu Rocket (2019).
From “Xu Bing: Art Satellite—The First Animated Film Shot in Space” is on view at Santa Veneranda in Venice. (Central Academy of Fine Arts). © Xu Bing Studio.
Now comes Lake on a Satellite (2024), the first freeze-frame animated film shot in space being shown in the Cappella di Santa Veneranda at the Chiesa dei Santi Geremia e Lucia (Venice)
From “Xu Bing: Art Satellite—The First Animated Film Shot in Space” is on view at Santa Veneranda in Venice. © Xu Bing Studio.
With the launch of the “Xu Bing Art Satellite Creative Residency Project” (2024-27) inviting artists to create works using the art satellite SCA-1, a new opportunity for book art is here.
From “Xu Bing: Art Satellite—The First Animated Film Shot in Space” is on view at Santa Veneranda in Venice. © Xu Bing Studio.
Xu Bing, think of those “To/From” tags that we in the West affix to gifts.
Gift tags
CODEX, invite your prospective attending book artists to submit bookmarks to Xu’s SCR Project in the form of “To/From” tag to be projected to and received from the SCA-1 satellite for the 2026 Book Fair and Symposium.
2024 CODEX Book Fair at Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland, California.
Bind the physical submissions in a codex format and
Books On Books 