Art Publishing Fair. Emerging practices in art trough traditional frames and new medias (print on demand strategies, websites, blogs, social networks). The future of concepts such as artist, artwork, art world and amateur in a post-internet world.
Offprint Paris is an Art Publishing fair for emerging practices in Art. During 4 days, it gathers institutional and independent publishers from all over the world, featuring the publications of contemporary artists, graphic designers, photographers, publishers, bookdealers, museums, art schools, curators and antiquarians. Offprint Paris is organized by Offprint projects, a research platform investigating:
– the future of Art mediations: traditional medias (books, museums or schools) are affected by a new dominant form of mediation (internet), how do traditional frames react and what shape or form would it take? What will be the digital art frames?
– the future of Art activities such as publishing, curating and teaching.
– the future of concepts such as ‘artist’, ‘artwork’, ‘art world’, ‘amateurs’ while considering a (possible) dissolving aspect of the internet on usual concepts used to perceive the art world.
Live
Publishing project by ENSBA Arts graphiques. Curated by
Aurélie Pagès et Wernher Bouwens, teachers at the ENSBA.
More than 30 young ENSBA artists invite you to edit your-
self an artist book based on their own works. This event is
organized in collaboration with Offprint and will be hold in
the Atelier de Lithographie (ENSBA) during 4 days.
Photography exhibition
Group show by young artists from the Beaux-arts de Paris.
Curators: Victoire Thierrée et François-Noé Fabre
Works based on the photographer Duchenne de Boulogne
from the Beaux-arts de Paris photographs collection. With:
Amandine Joannes, Claudio Campo Garcia, Gabriel Haber-
land, Clara Chichin, Mathieu Zürcher, Maya Touam, Mé-
lissa Boucher, Pierre Seiter, Stephano Marchionini, Vincent
Ballard, Loup Sarion, Jehane Mahmoud, Natasha Lacroix.
Lectures, Friday 15th
2pm
“Lucas”, artist talk by Eric Stephanian. Stephanian is an art-
ist and publisher of Friday Morning Coffee.
3pm
“L’art brutal de Jean Louis Costes”, lecture by Leo Guy-
Denarcy (Dir). Guy-Denarcy is a curator and writes for
Art 21 and 2.0.1 magazines, and is published by “L’expo-
sition radicale”. The book was awarded as “France Culture
Mauvais Genre 2013”.
4pm
“ELSE”, magazine launch / artist talks by Luciano Rigolini
and Nicolas Descotte. Launched in 2011, the magazine
is inspired by obsessions. Collectors, artists, discoverers
share photography from artistic to vernacular, historical
to contemporary. Contributors: Yannick Bouillis, Florent
Brayard, Clément Chéroux, Joan Fontcuberta, Erik Kessels,
Christophe Schifferli, Joachim Schmid, Sam Stourdzé,
Véronique Terrier-Hermann and more. Published by Musée
de l’Elysée.
5pm
“Hotel Oracle”, artist talk by Jason Fulford and Lorenzo de
Rita. Fulford is a photographer / publisher, de Rita is a poet
and director of The Soon Institute.
Published by The Soon Institute
6pm
CO/OPÉRATEURS , ‘Writing & Photography’. This research
book is based on experiments driven by the Ecole normale
supérieure (ENS) in Lyon and the National School of Pho-
tography (ENSP) in Arles.
With contributions by: Rémy Fenzy, director, ENSP Arles;
David Gauthier, manager of the Cultural Affairs depart-
ment, ENS Lyon; Paul Pouvreau, artist and teacher, ENSP
Arles Performances and screenings: Julie Aybes, graduate
ENSP / Pierre Martinerie, graduate ENS; Cyrille Karam, grad-
uate ENSP; Vincent Zonca, graduate ENS
7pm
MAAD (Master Art direction, ECAL/Ecole Cantonale d’Art
de Lausanne), presentation by Philippe Egger.
The two-year programme focuses on contemporary edito-
rial practices. It encourages students to engage in editorial
strategies, creating and producing stories with a strong
visual and conceptual impact: experimenting with photo-
graphy and typography, creating sequences, editing and
laying out content, via printed and/or virtual matter.
ECAL stand by Florine Bonaventure & Prune Simon Vermot.
Lectures, Saturday 16th
“Poetry, A Short History Of Contemporary Art”
2pm
Lecture by Jan Herman, editor, publisher, author and
journalist, founded Nova Broadcast Press as well as the
little magazine San Francisco Earthquake. He published
Beat, post-Beat and Fluxus writers and artists, including
William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
Michael McClure, Ed Sanders, Dick Higgins, Wolf Vostell,
Norman O. Mustill, Carl Weissner, Richard Kostelanetz,
Ed Ruscha, Ferdinand Kriwet, Alison Knowles, and Nanos
Valaoritis, among many others. He worked with Higgins at
Something Else Press, becoming the editor in chief. As an
author, he co-wrote Cut Up or Shut Up with Carl Weissner
and Jürgen Ploog, and he has published other experimental
fiction. He is also the author of A Talent for Trouble, the
biography of the Hollywood director William Wyler. As a
journalist, he was a reporter and columnist at the Chicago
Sun-Times, the New York Daily News, and the Los Angeles
Times, a fellow at Columbia University in the National
Arts Journalism Program, and a senior editor at MSNBC.
com. The agenda of his blog “Straight Up”, posted online
at ArtsJournal, is “news of arts, media & culture delivered
with attitude.” Or as Rock Hudson once said: “Man is
the only animal clever enough to build the Empire State
Building and stupid enough to jump off it.”
4pm
Concrete Poetry from France: Alain Arias Misson
Lectures, Sunday 17th
An invitation to la Dérive (Chapter I), curated by Charlotte Cheetham
This sunday takes the form of a Dérive (in English Drift) -
inspired by Guy Debord - through the territory of independ-
ent publishing and artist’s book, inviting Offprint visitors
to take various paths within this large and rich landscape.
A Dérive in the sense that it is, concurrently with the book
fair, to discover some of the projects and their authors, in-
vited for their ideas, creations and experiences in this very
active field of independent publishing in art and design.
As advocated by Guy Debord, the program is built around
several specific ambiances, highlighted: the main idea be-
ing to let go of expectations and habits and to just wander
among pleasant encounters.
The Dérive is also, in french, the digression between the
path and the direction, and this is precisely what the public
is invited to do, on overhangs, margins and horizons of the
book format, wandering through these intentions, these ges-
tures and emotions.
This route, to be continued, is not devoid of subjectivity in
the investigation and references of its observer. It is to dis-
cover different areas but especially their intersections, invit-
ing to discuss these projects in their multidisciplinary, differ-
ences and similarities.
With contributions by Ramaya Tegegne (CH), Erik van der
Weijde (NL), Jan Wenzel (DE), Postdocument (FR),
De Stihl (FR), Etienne Robial (FR)
Ecole des Beaux Arts
14 Rue Bonaparte, Paris
Open hours: Tuesday and Friday 13-20.30, Sat and Sun 13-19.30
Free admission