Pa/per View
dal 30/3/2011 al 2/4/2011
Segnalato da
30/3/2011
Pa/per View
Wiels - Contemporary Art Center, Bruxelles
The art book fair brings together 32 leading artist book publishers. It includes also Re/Com/Pense: A Childrens workshop with artists/authors, The Public School: Communism Afterlives, a series of polemic dialogues with intellectuals from the former East and West of Europe, and The Fernand Baudin Award.
PA/PER VIEW art book fair brings together 32 leading artist book publishers. Leave your laptop behind and come and browse amongst the finest titles of these consistent players of the printed word and image.
With :
2nd Cannons (US)
A Prior (BE)
AKV Berlin (DE)
Archive Books (IT)
Art Paper Editions (BE)
Bartleby & Co (BE)
Book Works (UK)
CNEAI (FR)
Culturgest (PT)
Daviet-Thery (FR)
Edition Fink (CH)
Gagarin (BE)
Gevaert Editions (BE)
Incertain Sens (FR)
Jan Van Eyck Academie (NL)
Kaugummi Books (FR)
La Bibliothèque fantastique (FR)
Lubok Verlag (DE)
Making Do (UK)
Manifesta Journal (NL)
Mer-Paper Kunsthalle (BE)
More Publishers (BE)
Mousse (IT)
Onomatopée (NL)
Pork Salad Press (DK)
Post Editions (NL)
Raina Lupa (ES)
Ridinghouse (UK)
Roma Publications (NL)
Torpedo Press (NO)
Tulips & Roses (BE)
Witte de With (NL)
Zabludowicz Collection (UK)
Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E (SI)
&... More From Motto (CH/DE)
Friday April 1st 18-20:00
Assembly by Agency
Agency is the generic name of a Brussels-based agency that was established in 1992 by Kobe Matthys. Agency constitutes a growing “list of things” that resist the binary division between culture and nature, expressions and ideas and consequently between creations and facts, subjects and objects, humans and non-humans, originality and banality, individuals and collectives, etc... These things are derived from juridical processes, lawsuits, cases, controversies, affairs and so forth around intellectual property (copyrights, patents, trade marks, etc...). The concept of property relies upon the assumption of the division between culture and nature. Each thing on the list invokes the moment of hesitation in terms of this division.
Agency calls things forth from it’s list via varying “assemblies” inside exhibitions, performances, publications, etc... Each assembly explores in a topological way a different aspect of the performative consequences of the apparatus of intellectual property for an ecology of art practices.
For Assembly (PA/PER VIEW), Agency will call things forth, speculating on the question: How to include book making in art practices? How are typeface designers, book binders, lay-outers, etc... taken into consideration by copyright law? Thing 001452 (Orion) and Thing 001535 (Introductory Language Work) will convene an assembly at PA/PER VIEW in order to bear witness. On April 1, 2011 Agency will invite a diverse group of concerned guests to “translate” on these things: Thorsten Baensch (publisher Bartleby), Sari Depreeuw (legal scholar VUB), Manuel Raeder (graphic designer), OSP (Open Source Publishing: Ivan Monroy Lopez/Seb Sanfilippo/Femke Snelting/etc..), Ziga Testen (graphic designer), etc...
Thing 001452 (Orion) concerns a controversy between Eltra and the copyright registration office. Eltra deposited the typeface Orion at the copyright registration office, but the office refused to recognize typefaces. During a court case of 1978 the judge had to decide if a typeface can be protected by copyrights.
Thing 001535 (Introductory Language Work) concerns a controversy between the publisher Maynard Merrill and the second hand paper dealer Harrison. Harrison obtained from a damaged paper stock pages of Introductory Language Work, and bound these together into a book. Maynard Merrill attempted to forbid this, cause he considered the
bookbinding a derivative work. During a court case of 1894 the judge had to decide if bookbinding can be protected by copyrights.
Saturday April 2nd, 11 - 18:00 RE/COM/PENSE : A Childrens workshop with artists/authors
From 11am until 6pm
Length : 1h/workshop - 10EUR
Special children's workshop during PA/PER VIEW to reinvent the artists books with artists and critics such as Michel Francois, Kendell Geers, Katerina Gregos, Gabriel Kuri, Els Opsomer...
02.04 The Public School: Communism Afterlives
2 - 7pm
Through a series of polemic dialogues, this seminar traces different generations of intellectuals from the former East and West of Europe that deal with "shades of red", the afterlives of Communism and its (un)expected turning points in its most recent philosophical and artistic reception.
The Fernand Baudin Award is awarded to books produced in the Brussels region and Wallonia which demonstrate an outstanding quality both in their conception (editorial and graphic), and in their production (printing and binding). The award ceremony will take place at Wiels on the 31st of March from 6 until 9 pm, in the context of Pa/per View art book fair. From the 1st until the 3rd of April, the selected books will be available for sale at the book fair.
www.paperviewartbookfair.org
Opening Wednesday March 31 18 - 21:00
Wiels - Contemporary Art Center
Avenue Van volxem, 354 Brussels
11 - 18:00
Free entrance