A/FFAIR OF PUBLISHING
23 - 24 July
GALERIE8
Arthaus Building | 195-205 Richmond Road | London E8 3NJ
Paying homage to essayistic forms bound through art, and to coincide with the launch of GALERIE8’s webzine, this event plays host to some of the most innovative publishing and print collectives, with a special focus on the dynamic work taking place in London.
Saturday 23, 2011 // 20:00 – 24:00
Screening of essay films by artists Chris Marker, David Oscar Harvey, Doug Fishbone,
John Smith and An Endless Supply – plus the launch of the fair.
Sunday 24, 2011 // 11:00 – 17:00
Presentation of Artist Books, Editions, and Independent Publishing Projects by: ...ment, Art Licks, Dent De Leone, Marcin Dudek, Kilimanjaro, L_A_N, Landfill Editions, LE GUN, Mute, Nyx Nocturnal, Other Asias, Transition Editions, Turps Banana, YH485 Press and more.
Interactive media workshops by An Endless Supply and Flee Immediately!.
...ment will be sharing a table with Nyx. Come and say hello!
For more information, please visit GALERIE8
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Welfare State...ment
Wednesday 29th June from 6pm
Büro BDP
Emserstrasse 43 in Neukölln, Berlin
(nearest Ubahn is Hermannstrasse)
Wednesday 29th June from 6pm
Büro BDP
Emserstrasse 43 in Neukölln, Berlin
(nearest Ubahn is Hermannstrasse)
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| Image Cortesy Elmgreen&Dragset |
To further discuss and investigate the complexity of Welfare State …ment will expand its usual editorial format to take the form of a public discussion. The event invites artists, curators and cultural practitioners to answer the following question:
How does society produce artists?
The Statement will give the opportunity to articulate further reflections on the role of educational, cultural and social institutions in current cultural and artistic production. The same question has been previously answered by artist and theorist Liam Gillick in a 5m 26s audio piece included in the audio-collection Liam Gillick. An Idea Just Out of Reach. Gillick’s audio piece reflects and problematizes the role of art institutions and centres of power in the formation of individual and collective artist’s subjectivity. In a following text the artist pointed out:
'The challenge is the supposition that artists today—whether they like it or not—have fallen into a trap that is pre-determined by their existence within a regime that is centred on a rampant capitalization of the mind.
The accusation inherent in the question is that artists are at best the ultimate freelance knowledge workers and at worst barely capable of distinguishing themselves from the consuming desire to work at all times, neurotic people who deploy a series of practices that coincide quite neatly with the requirements of the neoliberal, predatory, continually mutating capitalism of the every moment. Artists are people who behave, communicate, and innovate in the same manner as those who spend their days trying to capitalize every moment and exchange of daily life. They offer no alternative to this. (Excerpt from Liam Gillick, The Good of Work, edited by Brian Kuan Wood and published online by e-flux journal, NY, 2010)'.
We want to propose again the same question with the aim to start a fruitful debate on this and other relevant issues in the form of public statements.
The statement is generally required when an artist or cultural worker wants to apply for schools, residences, jobs, awards and other forms of institutional support. However, the statement resembles and derives in part from avant-garde manifestos, where it was an expression of criticism and dissensus.
The event is realised in collaboration with Broken Dimanche Press, an independent publishing initiative founded and directed by John Holten and Line Madsen Simenstad and It is accompanied by a sound piece by Liam Gillick and a spatial intervention by Riccardo Benassi.
Broken Dimanche Press is a shapeshifting publishing press interested in what is going on in today’s Europe, who is challenging conventions and investigating our shared contemporary environment. BDP works across borders and facilitates and introduces writers, artists, thinkers and audiences into other European languages/arenas than those they are normally used to.
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Rethinking the Catastrophe (presentation/workshop)
Thane Salon 8
Saturday 4th June, from 7.30pm
The Old Dairy
1-3 Crouch Hill, London, N4 4AP
Thane Salon 8
Saturday 4th June, from 7.30pm
The Old Dairy
1-3 Crouch Hill, London, N4 4AP
What is a catastrophe, and how do we engage with it? Can we imagine the catastrophe as offering possibilities for alternative developments? Ahead of …ment journal’s second issue, editor Benoit Loiseau proposed an excercise to collectively rethink the catastrophe.
Drawing upon the Catastrophe Theory, elaborated by French mathematician René Thom in the 1960s, we discussed and attempted to identify where the catastrophe lies and explore its possible narratives. Using Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner's blackboard drawings as an inspiration, we designed and represented the the catastrophe with coloured chalks.
Thane Salon is an arts and literature event held irregularly in London. ...ment was invited to contribute to the 8th edition of the Salon.
For more information, please contact dan@thanesalon.com
Photographs taken by ...ment, apart from the two first images: Diagram of Catastrophe theory by Christopher Zeeman, 1995; Blackboard drawing by Rudolf Steiner, 1923
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The Book Affair
June 2nd and 3rd
Thursday 14:00 - 23:00 / Friday 11:00 - 23:00
Metricubi Space - Venice
June 2nd and 3rd
Thursday 14:00 - 23:00 / Friday 11:00 - 23:00
Metricubi Space - Venice
On the occasion of the four day opening of 54th edition of the Venice Art Biennale (1—4 June, 2011), Automatic Books, the independent publishing house run by Tankboys, Elena Xausa and Tommaso Speretta,
presents The Book Affair. For two days, independent art publishers fair are invited to show their books, discuss their ways of considering independent publishing today, present their future projects, and enjoy Biennale. Conferences, lectures, talks, book launches and books signing will take place during the fair.
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Alternative Press Fair
Saturday 28th May - Sunday 29th May, 10am - 4pm
Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL
...ment was present at the fair of the International Alternative Press Festival 2011 in London. The event saw artists exhibiting and selling their self-published comics, zines, art books, prints, radical literature and poetry, plus three rooms of workshops and talks including DIY Couture fashion and screen-printing workshops and a reading area with Zine Swap. ...ment was sharing a table with our friends from Nyx and the Paper.
Entry fee: £2 Doors to the Fair open at 10am and close at 4pm.
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AMASS: TOWARDS AN ECONOMY OF THE COMMONS
Saturday, 16 April 2011, 2:00-5:00pm
Chisenhale Gallery, Project Space
64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ, UK
AMASS was an afternoon of discussions on new models and practices to sustain the commons today.
In the face of mass cuts to public services (particularly to arts and education), emerging forms of governance rampantly colonising intellectual resources in the digital domain, the privatisation of public space in urban development, and new narratives of the Big Society in the UK, what does the commons mean for us today? How can we approach a new protocol for the commons under such circumstances?
AMASS invited organisations, collectives and individuals working in the cultural sector to discuss past experiences, present practices, and future ambitions concerning mutual aid, pooled knowledge, networked infrastructures and modes of self-organisation.
With contributions from Stevphen Shukaitis (University of Essex, Autonomadia editorial collective); Eva Weinmayr (AND Publishing); Sion Whellens (Calverts Co-op); Anthony Iles (Mute); The University for Strategic Optimism (activist group, Goldsmiths CCS)
The event was a success, and we are thankful to our collaborators from DOXA and the Amateurist Network, speakers, contributors, the Chisenhale Gallery and Jamie Stevens, and the wonderful people who came down to attend.
Some pictures of the event:
AMASS is an ongoing project and we welcome case studies concerning organisations, projects and initiatives from cooperatives, autonomist groups, gift economies, open source projects, new pedagogical models and others. Those who cannot attend, but would like to contribute interviews, text, or films, can email their submissions, which will be presented and discussed during the event. Please email a brief description of your experiences, along with your location, comments, links, and contact details to:
info@doxacollective.org
info@doxacollective.org
