AA/BF 2011 – PUBLISHERS – 1/2
1/2 – Laure Boer, Anne-Pauline Mabire, Lucie Pindat & Chloé Thomas
Manystuff: Could you please present yourself and your activities?
1/2: We are 1/2, a group of 4 girls graphic designers/illustrators. We live in four different european cities: Berlin, Amsterdam, Vienna and Rennes. We started 1/2 in 2007 in order to keep on delopping together our personnal research besides our professional work. 1/2 is now both a blog where we share our work and a hand-made zine, self-published in a limited edition of 200. For each publication, we all produce new original work and one of us curates the whole magazine; which means she has total freedom to create a new piece of art out of the material that has been sent. In this way, the zine is not a portfolio of work but a real collaborative creation based on an appropriationist practice.
Manystuff: What do you think is the role of an independent publishing house? Do you feel having responsibilities and a duty? Is the act of publishing a kind of activism and what for? What about your environment you are part of, how do you identify it?
1/2: 1/2 is not really a publishing house now (yet). 1/2 is more an artist book project. We never thought of 1/2 as being an act of activism. But now you ask the question, maybe it has a certain form of activism in the sense that it’s a completely independent and free project that enables us to have a creation space where the rules, the values and the priorities are different from the one of our professional practices. It’s both a recreation and a resistance project, where intuition and sensualism are taking over the reason and the conceptualization…
Manystuff: Some says that “Print is dead”. What resources and new kind of artistic relationships are in contradiction with that point of view? Is the increased complicity between “curator/author/graphic designer/printer/publisher/distributor” the proof of the contrary?
Ok that’s very polemical. We don’t think that print is dead. Things are changing and every printed mean (posters, books, magazines, newspapers, all communication means…) is getting a new meaning and function. Everything is getting redefined. And it has always been so. So I would say no worries, just go on doing your stuff…
Manystuff: Could you mention one book/publication, or publishing actor, or artist, or graphic designer, or printer, or exhibition, etc… that made you work in the field of independent publishing area? What inspired you?
Starting a self-published project was not really connected to a special inspiration source. Nevertheless, each of us is strongly inspired by artists coming from any kind of field. They challenge us to keep on doing what we believe in. Here are a few of them: Wolfang Tillmans, René Char, Jack Kerouac, El Lissitsky, Michelangelo Antonioni, Mathilde Monier, Marguerite Duras, Hans Peter Feldmann, Cosmic Wonder Free Press, John Baldessari, Fred Frith etc.
Manystuff: Could you please introduce one of your upcoming project you are now working on?
1/2: We’re going to work on the sixth issue of 1/2 which is going to be launched in fall 2011 in Amsterdam.
NIEVES LIBRARY AT OMMU
Nieves is an independent publishing house based in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 2001, Nieves’ focus is on publishing Artists’ Books and Zines.
OMMU presents the Nieves Library, shown for the first time in Greece. Rare and out-of-print titles,
a full archive of 120 Nieves Zines that have been released since 2004, will be exhibited and available to browse through. The 2010 Zine Box, including all Zines published in 2010 will be released on the occasion of the exhibition.
February 4th – 26th, 2011
OMMU Bookshop, Athens
Voici un dessin suisse – 1990-2010
Voici un dessin suisse
1990-2010
The exhibition Voici un dessin suisse presents a cross section of Swiss draughtsmanship and contemporary art practices. Including works by over 40 artists from all parts of Switzerland who, since the 1990s, have left their mark on the art of drawing, it encourages viewers to discover the various and surprising trends of contemporary drawing which, taking the paper support as its point of departure, link up with other forms of artistic expression such as installation, animation, printing or mural art.
picture: Voici un dessin suisse, Swiss Drawings 1990—2010, catalogue
January 29 – April 25, 2011
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
WildBookMarket – Het Wilde Weten: open call
Artist run space Het Wilde Weten would like to invite artists and small, independent publishers to present their publications at the WildBookMarket (WBM). After a successful first edition, this year WBM will take place during Art Rotterdam in 2011. This year WBM will be focussing on the phenomenon of the monograph.
Deadline: 1 February 2011
WildBookMarket : February 12-13, 2011
Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam
The Last Zürich Zine Sezession
“The Last Zine Sezession will be a commemoration of the “book-fair age”;
it was great while it lasted, but we feel the end is nigh.”
With an exhibition by Harsh Patel and publishers Automatic Books, Duke Press, Edition Taube, For Further Information, Larry’s, The Kingsboro Press, The Meta Press, Westphalie, and more…
Presented by Corner College and Motto Zürich.
December 12, 2010
Perla-Mode, Zürich
Prix Fernand Baudin – candidatures 2010
Prix Fernand Baudin – candidatures 2010
Le prix Fernand Baudin est une initiative de plusieurs graphistes-enseignants, agissant dans le milieu du livre. Il attribue à l’issue d’un concours une mention aux livres qui témoignent d’une grande qualité tant au point de vue de leur conception (éditoriale et graphique), que de leur réalisation (impression et façonnage).
Cette année, le prix ouvre ses candidatures aux illustrateurs. Tout illustrateur résidant dans les régions de Bruxelles-Capiltale ou de Wallonie peut désormais concourir comme les éditeurs, les graphistes et les imprimeurs, et avoir la possibilité d’être primé pour un livre auquel il a contribué. Les livres d’artiste sont également mis à l’honneur, puisque qu’une catégorie spécifique leur est consacrée. Date limite: 5 janvier 2011
The Fernand Baudin Prize – Applications 2010
The Fernand Baudin Prize has been initiated by several graphic artists-teachers who work in the book world. The prize consists of a special recognition that will be given to those books which demonstrate an outstanding quality both in their conception (editorial and graphic), and in their production (printing and binding).
This year, the prize is open to illustrators. Any illustrator residing in the Brussels-Capital or Wallonia regions can henceforth compete, just like publishers, graphic artists and printers, and has the possibility of receiving an award for a book to which he has contributed. Artists’ books are equally to be honoured, since a specific category has been devoted to them. Deadline: 5 January 2011
Motto Brooklyn
Motto will occupy a storefront in Downtown Brooklyn as a space for presentation and discussion of contemporary publishing practices. The selection will feature a wide range of magazine, books and artists’ publications. As part of the week-long event, an ongoing series of talks, classes, and presentations will be held in the store. Each night’s schedule will be hosted by a different organization, publisher, or individual of interest.
Talks and performances with Till Gathmann (Spector Press) & Erik Steinbrecher (Kodoji Press), Meredith Tenhoor & Common Room, Joe Milutis & Sam Frank, Public School New York, Alexander Provan & Joe Milutis (Triple Canopy).
November 10–16, 2010
200 Schermerhorn, Ground Floor
New York
Zine library of Jessica Williams
“This is the Zine Library of Jessica Williams
I’m not a collector per se but I have a collection
All the items cataloged here were acquired by me over the last decade
Not just zines—but also small artist books, editions, comics, etc.
I have also included a few independently published magazines but on the
whole have omitted anything with a mass-audience (this is probably arbitrary)
I also tended to scan whatever would fit easily on my scanner… “
Salon Light #7 – Dynasty ZINE
Could you please present yourself and your activities?
Dynasty has been publishing zines since 2005, in Athens, Greece.
Each issue presents the work of an individual artist, while at the same time showcasing their influences and references. Material such as photography, text and drawing from the personal archives of the artist stand alongside their work and give a more holistic view of their artistic practice. Dynasty is now printed in 100 copies.
What about the aspects of artistic independence and financial autonomy?
We believe the question is more relevant to an artists’ publication, but it is also an issue that can influence the development of other publications as well, as we are talking about independent publishing. I think that our practice, and maybe of others as well, is better described by the word “efficient“ rather than independent. We function on our own, make our own decisions, utilise them using our own resources, but on the other hand we are influenced in some way from parallel activities that give publishing a sort of “context”, such as fairs, distributors that specialize in the specific publishing activity, conferences, and exhibitions. This creates in our opinion an ideal circumstance for the creation of new publications, because while publications are freely produced, they at the same time belong somewhere, or are able to belong, and this way there is a huge motivation to not only create but also communicate in various ways, places and even different countries.
Financial autonomy for us means that we can fund our next releases!
What about the “author/graphic designer/printer/publisher/distributor complicity” in such editorial projects?
Inevitably we are all of the above! And this is how we like to do it, we are publishers, graphic designers, distributors and the whole process is more compact and monitored. This way we are overlooking all the processes and we try to build personal relationships. On the other hand, we are aware that our needs are changing, and we would like to disperse our roles to other groups as well so that we can focus on the publishing activity more than the other roles.
What about DIY/ Home Made / Tradition and technical aspect in your practice?
We are now printing on a Risograph, which works very well for us on the outcome we wish to achieve. We also like the quality a lot. We are collaborating with printers that specialize in small publications and so they take care of us.
Salon Light #7 – KAUGUMMI
KAUGUMMI
Bartolomé Sanson
Could you please present yourself and your activities.
My name is Bartolomé Sanson and I run since 2005 an independant publishing company called KAUGUMMI. Kaugummi is mostly dedicated to artists books, zines, and records. 99% of the publications I put out are print with a regular XEROX machine, in a run of 50 to 500 copies. I live in Rennes – France.
What about the aspects of artistic independence and financial autonomy?
I published something like 90 titles in the past three years, without any help from a public or private institution. Financial autonomy is absolutely essential for a structure like mine.
What about the “author/graphic designer/printer/publisher/distributor complicity” in such editorial projects?
This relationship is totally in the center of the process. I work with the same printer in my hometown, most of the book i made are based on a “carte blanche” proposition, and everything in the publication is designed by the artist (sometimes with my help). I’m really not int the idea of having a regular collection of publications, with the same design, etc. It’s so boring and formatted… I work with a small selection of bookstore, which are really faithful and regular : Yvon Lambert in Paris, Family in Los Angeles, some japanese artbook stores, and obviously Motto !
What about DIY/ Home Made / Tradition and technical aspect in your practice?
I used to made everything at home (printing / binding), but i can’t work like this anymore… I try to go back to DIY sometimes, but most i the kaugummi publications are printed by my local printer. I just opened a silkscreen studio / store / office with some friends. I think and hope you can expect more handprint traditional kaugummi publications in a near futur…
CODEX exhibition
CODEX EXHIBITION CONTENT:
Inside the White Cube & Cahier Clairefontaine (Yann Serandour), 1:1:1 (Niessen & de Vries), revue 2.0.1, X Book (Glenn Cummings et Adam Michaels), White Smoke (Hexaplex), A wikipedia reader (Mylinh Trieu Nguyen & David Horvitz), Alphabet Truck (Eric Tabuchi), White Night Before a Manifesto (Metahaven), Viewer’s Digest newspaper series (Erol Gemma & Nazareno Crea), Andy de Fiets: Letter to Robin Kinross (Paul Haworth & Sam de Groot), Can I make everybody happy (Dag Brandsaeter & Noa Segal), Veneer (Flint Jamison), Useless, Catalogtree: Implicit None, Logical Done (Jeremy Jansen), Center For Book Technology (CFBT), (Un)Limited Store, Un arbre Un mur Un bassin (Guillaume PInard), Chaumont: fictions (des livres bizarres) (Fanette Mellier), Cholo Writing: latino Gang Graffiti in Los Angeles (François Chastanet), Umool Umool (Na kim), Troubles, ClaraClara, Documentation Céline Duval, Treatting of matters which he who reads will see and he who listens to them when read will hear (RCA students), Trails (For Further Information, Wayne Daly), Faceb, Fade to Black (Philippe Parreno), Tract (Thomas Bernard, Marie Canet & Cédric Vincent), Titles of the show (Julia Born & Laurenz Brunner), Fallen Books (Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson), FAN (BAT éditions), Théâtre de Poche volume 1 (Aurélien Froment), The Crystal Hypothesis (Yoan Gourmel & Elodie Royer), Heavy Metal (news) around the world (Sulki & Min), How I am not myself? (Asher Penn), The complete “A task of poetry” set (Onomatopee), Steal this book (Dora Garcia), I am you (Ellen Tongzhou Zhao), If A then B, Serendipity (Hans Gremmen), Seconde Main (Hypertexte), Kate Moss Rorschach (Asher Penn), KesselsKrammer Publishing, Riley and his story (Monica Haller), Répétition dans l’épilogue (Christophe Lemaître), Komfort Mag, L’art de la chasse (Régis Tosetti), PWR PAPER (Hanna Terese Nilsson & Rasmus Svensson), Plan B (Barbara Hennequin & Kees Bakker), La méthode Bernadette, Laser Magazin (beni Bischof), Pixaçao: Sao paulo Signature (François Chastanet), Permanent Food, Les Arques 88 (Abake & Aurélien Froment), Liner Notes Conversation about making books i.e. Leipzig (Markus Dreben, Lina Grumm, Anno König & Jan Wenzel), Peep-Hole (Vincenzo de Bellis & Bruna Roccasalva), On the Self-Reflexive Page (Louis Luthi), Manuels volume 3 (Yona Friedman), Medium, Nouvelles Ruines chapitre 1 Chiasme (Pierre Vanni), Nazi Knife, Metronome 9 (Clémentine Deliss & Thomas Boutoux), Mosquitos Elephants Mountains & Molehills (Bart de Baets).
CODEX week-end (exhibition,talk,book fair)
CODEX
Two ways of looking at contemporary forms of publishing in art and design, by Hypertexte and Manystuff.
Many artistically independent and financially autonomous editorial structures renew the forms, the formats and the modes of addressing and distributing the printed object. This “scene” develops under the impetuous of passionate artists, graphic designers, authors, publishers and distributors working together on unique projects with the aim of giving substance to ideas and gestures on paper. In a context where the printed paper form is in decline and the “all-digital” world is in effervescence, they invite us to seek out, look at, touch, explore and love these live objects which link spaces, languages and experiences together. Codex is an exhibition project for these printed forms; a nature park for these stories right at the edge of the volcano.
A proposal by Béatrice Méline (Hypertexte) and Charlotte Cheetham (Manystuff) as part of “On n’enchaîne pas les volcans”, a Pavillon Project and Point De Fuite project for the Printemps de Septembre in Toulouse. This exhibition of audacious editorial projects – from Toulouse, France and abroad – is backed up by a programme and meetings with editorial actors from Toulouse addressing the challenges of these new projects in the field of publishing in art and design.
CODEX
Deux regards sur les formes contemporaines de l’édition en art et design.
De nombreuses structures éditoriales indépendantes (artistiquement) et autonomes (financièrement), renouvellent les formes, les formats, les modes d’adresse et de diffusion de l’objet imprimé. Cette “scène” se développe sous l’impulsion d’artistes, de graphistes, d’auteurs, d’éditeurs et diffuseurs passionnés et engagés ensemble dans l’émergence de projets singuliers, dans l’envie de donner corps à des idées et des gestes, sur papier. Dans un contexte de déclin de l’imprimé et d’effervescence du « tout numérique », ils nous invitent à chercher, toucher, explorer, aimer ces objets vivants qui articulent des espaces, des langages et des expériences. Codex est un projet d’exposition pour ces formes imprimées ; un parc naturel pour ces histoires au bord du volcan.
Une proposition de Béatrice Méline (Hypertexte) et Charlotte Cheetham (Manystuff) dans le cadre de “On n’enchaîne pas les volcans”, un projet de Pavillon projects et Point De Fuite pour le Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse. Cette exposition de projets éditoriaux audacieux – toulousains, français et internationaux -, s’accompagne d’une programmation et de rendez-vous avec des acteurs de l’édition toulousaine autour des enjeux de ces nouveaux projets dans le champ de l’édition en art et design.
Upcoming: pictures, print & downloadable catalogue, video of the live show, details…
A suivre: Photos, catalogue à télécharger et catalogue imprimé, video de la création sonore en direct, détails…
CODEX
CODEX
Exposition de projets éditoriaux audacieux / Exhibition of audacious editorial projects
Une proposition d’Hypertexte & Manystuff / A proposal by Hypertexte & Manystuff
A suivre: des photos de l’exposition, le catalogue en ligne, et des vidéos des évènement liés (avec BAT éditions, Officeabc, Phil Baber…)
Upcoming: pictures of the exhibition, online catalogue, and videos of the related events (with BAT editions, Officeabc, Phil Baber…)
Toutes les informations / all informations: c-o-d-e-x.tumblr.com
an ambitious project collapsing – REFERENCE LIBRARY – rosenlof/lucas – STOPPING OFF PLACE
AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT COLLAPSING – REFERENCE LIBRARY – ROSENLOF/LUCAS – STOPPING OFF PLACE
Extraits de la collection du CDLA & Les livres à venir
Extraits de la collection du CDLA
(centre des livres d’artistes)
& Les livres à venir
Avec l’édition contemporaine, de nouvelles formes d’approches de la création artistique sont en œuvre. Le livre d’artiste, reconnu depuis les années 60, est aujourd’hui réinvesti par de nombreux artistes dont les champs de prédilection sont vastes – dessin, photographie, texte, architecture, typographie.
L’événement de la rentrée permet de rendre compte de certaines expériences éditoriales novatrices, parfois radicales. Cette manifestation, préambule à une future rencontre biennale du livre d’artiste à Strasbourg se développera en deux volets :
- Collection du Centre des livres d’artistes avec la présentation d’un choix d’ouvrages historiques.
- Les livres à venir, loin de prétendre radiographier l’actualité du moment dans son intégralité se propose d’en relever certaines intensités, un ensemble de signes représentatifs par une série d’invitations : Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, Boabooks, Leszek Brogowski, le Cabinet du Livre d’Artiste, François Chastanet, Christophe Daviet-Thery, The Everyday Press et les revues Fond Commun et 2.0.1…
7 – 10 octobre 2010
Vernissage le vendredi 8 octobre à 19 h
ESADS, Strasbourg
Colonie de dessins & OFFICEABC/edition RECTO-VERSO #7
Exposition Colonie de dessins
Shoboshobo, Sumi ink Club, Dennis Typhus, Tetsunori Taxaraya, Hendrik Hegray, Officeabc
Pour cette exposition, l’artiste Shoboshobo a constitué une petite équipe de cinq autres artistes pour se joindre à lui: le Japonais Tetsunori Tawaraya dont l’univers graphique inquiétant et organique déborde d’énergie et de tensions ; les américains de Sumi Ink Club (Luke Fishbeck et Sarah Anderson) passés maîtres dans l’art du recouvrement mural de myriades de dessins psychédéliques ; le Français Hendrik Hegray au dessin torturé et à l‘humour noir, et enfin le belge Dennis Typhus, activiste reconnu de la scène noise et trublion graphique adepte du personnage mutant du dessin dans sa forme la plus tonitruante.
Dans le cadre de ces quatre jours de performance dessinée, le studio graphique officeabc est invité à concevoir une édition d‘un genre nouveau qui permet de prolonger le ‘geste’ des dessinateurs avec les publics au delà de lapériode de performance. Ils collaboreront ici avec Jérôme Dupeyrat et deux étudiants de la Rietveld (KillianLoddo) et des beaux-arts de Toulouse (Laura Couto Rosado). Télécharger le communiqué de presse
-
OFFICEABC – edition RECTO-VERSO #7: Les rivages de l’hédonisme
“La «colonie de dessins» proposée par Mehdi Hercberg nous a fait penser à ces moments sur la plage, ces instants au soleil avec les reflets dans les miroirs des lunettes fumées des filles.
Une recherche s’est donc mise en place pour trouver des liens, voire des hyperliens, entre ce que nous évoquait possiblement ce mot de colonie: cette possibilité d’extension progressive dans l’espace et aussi cette idée de s’approprier quelquechose en le transformant.
Notre installation-publication colonise elle-aussi le principe des éditions recto-verso qui sont rappelées ici par la figure du miroir. Mais c’est aussi un miroir-brisé, un miroir qui cache comme ceux sans tain. Il peut être gratter, geste primitif et jouissif de la découverte et de la trace.
Ce miroir-à-gratter peut être compris comme la forme-reflet de ce que proposent Mehdi Hercberg et son groupe de dessinateurs. Les publics pourront ainsi repartir avec leur affiche-édition devenue unique par le grattage au moyen d’objets insolites en plomb.
Un meuble-reposoir (autre mot-valise!) permet d’y ranger les affiches «vierges» comme dans un cabinet de dessin qui ne serait pas là pour conserver mais plutôt pour activer.
Des clins d’oeils aux limites du décalé et de l’esprit poil-à-gratter viennent nourrir une fiction-archipel qui s’incarne dans le texte de Jérôme Dupeyrat forcément verso de notre recto. Un inverse qui éclaire et incite après lecture à peut-être naviguer sur cette surface grattable. À imaginer au-delà du miroir.
Ce projet a été fait en collaboration avec deux étudiants de la Rietveld (Hollande) et des beaux-arts de Toulouse, ainsi qu’avec la participation généreuse de Jérôme Dupeyrat, chercheur en esthétique et éditeur.” Officeabc
“Le meuble s’intitule «crème de baleine», il est une référence directe à la quête de beauté éternelle et à l’hédonisme dont la figure charnière du «miroir» est un clin d’oeil assumé.
Les illustrations de Killian Loddo renvoient au lieu même du CAC avec un sol qui rappelle les perspectives sans fin de SuperStudio (les supersurfaces). Le sans fin c’est l’éternité et l’éternité c’est un peu ce qui ne s’atteint et ne s’éteint jamais. Il est vain de vouloir l’éternité et elle n’est offerte qu’à ceux et celles qui abandonnent ici les biens matériels. Comme dirait Dracula en brisant le miroir de Jonathan Harker: «ne vous laissez pas tromper par ces vanités humaines».
Au jeu des renvois, le principe de Recto Verso nous a évoqué le miroir à deux faces, celui de Colonies l’idée d’un parasitage élaboré. L’ensemble est une installation avec meuble-cabinet-de-dessin, surface grattable, objets en plomb et ombre en poil de loup. C’est donc une histoire de mutation, de reflet, de trace, d’insularité, un projet en strates mais aussi un façon de rendre unique le multiple.” Officeabc
24 septembre – 24 décembre 2010
Session de dessin en live du 23 au 26 septembre inclus
Ouverture publique à 18h le 24 septembre
vernissage dimanche 26 septembre à 13h
Centre d’Art Contemporain de Colomiers, L’Espace des Arts