In September, PrintRoom joined the NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, organised by Printed Matter. We celebrate this year’s harvest with presentations from fair exhibitors and a selection of new books that we brought back for you!
With:
Heide Hinrichs – second shelf. On expanding library holdings of books by non-binary, women and queer artists and artists of color.
Michael Murtaugh – These Are Situationists Times! On behalf of the Scandinavian Institute for Computational Vandalism, a presentation on the digital interface which accompanies the book edited by Ellef Prestsæter.
Warren Neidich – The Glossary of Cognitive Capitalism. A look into the process of creating a dictionary of terms to understand and eventually destabilize the ways a future Neural Capitalism will enable forms of neural subsumption.
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Holiday in the Archive II at Franklin Furnace – Souvenirs
Archive Books project space, talk Warren Neidich (right)
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Heide Hinrichs – second shelf
Heide Hinrich will introduce second shelf, a collaborative book acquisition project she initiated in 2018, a multi-institutional and international effort to increase library holdings of publications by non-binary, women and queer artists and artists of color. The project’s starting point is located in the library of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. Alongside the book collection, the research project includes a number of interventions in-situ in libraries and online. These interventions are gestures of care and attention that creatively highlight the presence of the new books and contextualise the project’s ambitions. For more information visit: www.second-shelf.org
Heide Hinrichs is an artist living and working in Brussels. She currently teaches at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. She was awarded the Villa Romana Fellowship for 2013 following the solo exhibitions: Borrowed Tails at the Seattle Art Museum in 2010, and Echoes at the Heidelberger Kunstverein in 2012. During her fellowship at the MMCA Seoul International Residency Program, she continued work on her long-term project Silent Sisters / Stille Schwestern, an unauthorized translation in text and art works in conversation with Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s book, DICTEE, brought to completion in 2018. Hinrichs studied at the HfBK Dresden and is a graduate of the HISK, Belgium.
Michael Murtaugh – These Are Situationists Times!
The Situationist Times (1962-1967) was a magazine edited and published by the Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong. In its multilingual, transdisciplinary, and cross-cultural exuberance, it became one of the most exciting and playful magazines of the 1960s. Throughout its six remarkably diverse issues, The Situationist Times challenges the notion of what it means to be a situationist, as well as traditional understandings of culture in the broader sense and of how culture is created, formatted, and shared. These Are Situationist Times!, published by Torpedo Press Oslo, provides an in-depth history of the magazine while probing its contemporary relevance.
Lavishly illustrated and brimming with previously unseen archival material, These Are Situationist Times! presents new and compelling perspectives on situationism, experimental publishing, and artist-run magazines. A selection of commissioned contributions includes: Ruth Baumeister, Christophe Bourseiller, Eric C. H. de Bruyn, Matthew Fuller, Rodolphe Gasché, Institute for Computational Vandalism. And select historical texts by: Roland Barthes, Hans Brinkman, Jacqueline de Jong, Asger Jorn, Gianni-Emilio Simonetti and Paolo Virno.
Warren Neidich – The Glossary of Cognitive Activism
This glossary is meant to accompany the three-volume publication The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Part 1, 2 and 3. It marks the beginning of a long-term process of creating a dictionary of terms with which to understand and eventually destabilize the complex ways through which a future Neural Capitalism will work in creating contemporary forms of neural subsumption. Neural subsumption is a future condition brought about by an assemblage of networked neural technologies that will link our brainwaves to the Internet of Everything (IoE) and then encode them to use in advanced data analysis. No thought conscious or unconscious will be left unrecorded, encoded or surveyed.
Warren Neidich is an interdisciplinary artist and theorist working between Berlin and New York. He studied photography, art, neuroscience, medicine, ophthalmology and architecture. Recently, his practice has focused on performance, sculpture, video and film to investigate the contested milieus of the social brain. He is founder and director of the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, New York and Berlin, 2015–2019. Its curriculum focuses upon the emerging conditions of cognitive capitalism in which the brain and the mind are the new factories of the 21st century.
Torpedo press project space installation with Michael Murtaugh
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Holiday in the Archive II
For our second Holiday in the Archive we spend two days in the archive of Franklin Furnace at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, in the good company of FF director Martha Wilson. Julia Klein from Soberscove Press joined us. We presented the results at the fair – produced with the help of the Endless Editions crew, who had installed there Riso printer there for workshops.
Pick up your own copy at PrintRoom, or send us an email with your postal address if you want to receive a post-holiday souvenir.
