PrintRoom

talk  // taste // create // ferment

3 – 5 pm at SNV community gardens, Roel Langerakweg 33, Rotterdam

We have space for 20 people.
Please email us if you’d like to participate: info@printroom.org
and we’ll send you a reply with more details.

LET’S MAKE IT LAST!
In an anti-bacterial age, fermentation is quickly becoming a lost art. We are here to reclaim it as an energy efficient food-preservation technique which is rooted in our cultural histories. We are captivated and inspired by the way fermented foods engage our senses and enhance whole food eating.

Enjoy having tasty treats in your belly, and a head full of knowledge.

The workshop will be lead by the bubbly Alexis Goertz & Natalie Lieske, bacteria baristas from Edible Alchemy CoLaboratory.

https://ediblealchemy.co/

Join us for an evening with performances, talks drinks and snacks to celebrate the harvest of this year!

Friday 14 October, 7 – 10 pm

doors open at 7 pm, program starts at 7.30 pm

Special guests:

**supersupersuperSUPER

**Zoe Beloff

**Freek Lomme / Onomatopee

**Werkplaats Typografie (NL) : Presentation by Sabo Day, Eloise Harris and Robert Milne, among others

*sneak sonic preview at 9.30 pm!!*

PrintRoom joined the NY Art Book Fair organised by Printed Matter and hosted by MoMA Ps1, from September 11 – 18 2016. It  featured 370 booksellers, antiquarians, artists, institutions, and independent publishers from 28 countries—and was attended by more than 35,000 people.

Our Post Internet service was there to run an internal mail system among publishers. We attended the weekend long series of events, talks, lectures and met up with publishing friends. We looked carefully at the presented books and made a selection for PrintRoom.

François Girard-Meunier  / supersupersupersuper

supersupersupersuper is a label, a distributor, a showcaser, a selector, an enabler… or briefly a tool for (their member’s own) public visibility, present sporadically at public events such as book fairs. François Girard-Meunier, associate at supersupersupersuper, will offer an insight on the permeability of professional and amateur practices within book publishing and its resulting economic implications with its participation at the NYABF in mind. No ISBN (yet) but still a business.

Zoe Beloff

A World Redrawn is an exploration by the artist Zoe Beloff of Sergei Eisenstein and Bertolt Brecht’s experiences in Hollywood in the 1930s and ‘40s, what their time in Hollywood meant to them then and what it might mean to us now. Beloff focuses on two unrealized films written during this time: “Glass House” by Eisenstein and “A Model Family” by Brecht.

The book reproduces many important and little-known documents from the period, including a large selection of previously unpublished drawings by Eisenstein discovered by Beloff in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art in Moscow and facsimile reproductions of the writings of Eisenstein and Brecht as they contemplate the politics and culture of Hollywood.

Published by Christine Burgin

Freek Lomme

A performative book launch, a loungy reading on tactility in the framework of the book ’Can you feel it? – Effectuating tactility and print in the contemporary’, by Freek Lomme, curator/editor of the project as well as poet and founding director of the Eindhoven (NL) gallery and publisher Onomatopee. Presenting artists in the practice of making and thinkers in the development of thought here and now, the project connects to tactile characteristics, guided by a specific focus on graphic, printed matter. During the specifically tuned vocal reading by Lomme, the audience gets to wear a particularly designed sleeping mask.

EXTRA! EXTRA! Werkplaats Typografie Dutch launch of a paper company that produces and distributes a personified and self-described coated(er) paper that reveals different degrees of its previous life. WT Pap(i)er is now available for reading, feeling, turning, discussing, and (over)printing.
Presentation by Sabo Day, Eloise Harris and Robert Milne, among others.

The Werkplaats Typografie (WT) is a paper company and multifaceted anomaly (previously known and occasionally operating as a two-year graduate program in graphic design, as well as a (summer) school, studio, meeting place, (facsimile) library, bar, living room, cinema, publisher, distributor, buchmesse, perambulating bookshop, art institution, printer/copy-shop/bindery, nightclub, workshop, archive, office, garden, brewery, restaurant, gift shop, (phantom) radio station, secret society, band, qigong club, basketball team, and website) based in Arnhem, The Netherlands.

Books by:

Soberscove Press, Rafaël Rozendaal, 4478ZINE, Library of the Printed Web, antoine lefebvre editions, Diagonal Press, Printed Matter, The Ice Plant, Lugemik, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Onomatopee, Fukt Magazine, Aaron Krach, Elisabeth Tonnard, DIABP, Book Works, Hato Press, Misaki Kawai, Mark Pawson, RE/Search / Search and Destroy, Roma Publications, Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E, Knust / Extrapool, The White Review, Anouk Kruithof, Zoe Beloff, Temporary Services / Half Letter Press, Guerilla Girls, Primary Information, Stefan Marx, Hakuin Verlag, Martha Wilson, Research and Destroy New York City, Gato Negro, A.R.T. Press, David Horvitz, Paper Monuments, New Documents, Martha Helion, Gloria Glitzer, supersupersuper, Christine Burgin, New Directions, ao

The Post Internet project is a collaboration between Eleanor Vonne Brown / X Marks the Bökship and Karin de Jong/PrintRoom

To conclude the Post Internet Cafe at PrintRoom there will be a day of presentations, discussions and performance on Mailing Lists, D.I.Y Networks and Mail Art.

–> 4pm  (note change of time) Book Club  – ‘email me: Writings on Email in Contemporary Art and Experimental Literature’ by Molly Richards

–> 7pm Post Internet Cafe project overview with Eleanor Vonne Brown and Karin de Jong

–>7.15pm introduction to “Greetings from the invisible borderlands” by Amy Wu

–>7.30 pm ‘Invites and Mail Outs’ Fraser Muggeridge, talk

–>8.30pm The Post People Performance

Throughout the day there will be a presentation of the mail we have received during the summer and examples of interesting mail projects we have encountered on the walls of PrintRoom.

Contributions by: Riitta Oittinen, Rosalie Schweicker, Arnaud Desjardin, Mark Pawson, Wil van Iersel, Amy Wu, Jan Voss, Aymeric Mansoux & Volker Zander, among others

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More info:

Molly Richards will be joining us for a discussion on her book ’email me’, a printed collection of writing examining email as a material, medium and tool in the visual arts and experimental literature from the late eighties to present day. Composing, sending and receiving become essential components to listserv experimentation, curatorial email projects, spam poetry, collaborative writing or the dreaded break-up email. ’email me’ shines a light on materiality, interactivity, constraints, moderation, identity and some of the implicit hierarchies that prevail within this medium.

Molly Richards recently graduated from the Royal College of Art’s MA in Critical Writing in Art and Design. She has researched a number of different areas including sound art, new media art, net art, digital ephemera and meme culture. She is interested in using the written word as part of an expanded curatorial practice.

Pick up a copy from PrintRoom

A limited amount of reading copies of the book are available for free at PrintRoom. This is the 2nd print edition and has been printed in-house using the Risograph especially for The Post Internet Cafe at PrintRoom.

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Amy Wu:

Conceptually, “Greetings from the invisible borderlands” explores alternative and untraceable forms of communication, attempting to locate and manoeuvre within the ‘invisible borderlands’, the unchartered cracks between online and offline communication infrastructures. As such the work borrows and fuses mail art with net.art as an contemporary steganography tactic.

Practically, it is an exercise in repurposing a technique called the Cardan grille, an analog method of writing secret messages using a grid, for contemporary surveilled mediascapes. Using the medium of a postcard sent through the postal system, it functions as the key that unlocks a hidden message that can only be found online through Google Maps. The message is decoded, when the two pieces of information, that have circulated in separate networks (post and internet), are matched together again by the receiver to reveal the message.

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Fraser Muggeridge
London based graphic designer Fraser Muggeridge will present a selection of special mail projects and invitations that he has produced for artists, galleries and institutions.

www.pleasedonotbend.co.uk/category/Invitation/

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The Post People are a three entity print performance ensemble of two tables and one floor based typewriter. Known for combining live improvised song-writing with sculptural grunge. Rotterdam based but euro conscious, boundary collapsing and formed in the primordial soup of the new Millennium. The Postpeople may still be emerging.

The Post Internet Café is a social space for the consumption and digestion of our communication systems. On the menu at PrintRoom, Rotterdam have been: Mailing Lists, Contacts, D.I.Y Networks and Mail Art, handpicked from the Hypermarket and washed down with an continuous refill of filter coffee.

Follow us on Twitter @CafePost

Saturday 1st October 2016, 4 – 5 pm at PrintRoom

Book Club

’email me’: Writings on Email in Contemporary Art and Experimental Literature by Molly Richards

email us if you want to participate!

For this book club we will be discussing ’email me’, a printed collection of writing examining email as a material, medium and tool in the visual arts and experimental literature from the late eighties to present day. Composing, sending and receiving become essential components to listserv experimentation, curatorial email projects, spam poetry, collaborative writing or the dreaded break-up email. ’email me’ shines a light on materiality, interactivity, constraints, moderation, identity and some of the implicit hierarchies that prevail within this medium.

This week and next week PrintRoom and the Post Internet Cafe are only open on Friday.

New York-based graphic designer, aritst, teacher and publisher Paul Soulellis will present the Library of the Printed Web and we’ll launch the latest issue of PW4, featuring Wolfgang Ploeger, Lorna Mills, Molly Soda, Travess Smalley, Angela Genusa, Eva and Franco Mattes, Anouk Kruithof, Elisabeth Tonnard, Christopher Clary and Michael Connorand.

Cover: Angela Genusa (l) / Eva and Franco Mattes (r)

Next to The Library of the Printed Web, Paul presents the outcome of the Open Set workshop Web-to-print-to-street.*

Paul Soulellis is the founder of Library of the Printed Web, a physical archive devoted to web-to-print artists’ books, zines and other printout matter. The Printed Web project “embraces the fluid movement between material and digital realms that characterizes our age.” He curates, designs and publishes print-on-demand publications that have featured the work of over 180 contemporary artists. According to Soulellis, Printed Web artists “‘perform publishing’ by investigating multiple materialities and design possibilities as their works travel through the network.”
He is a contributing editor and curator at Rhizome and an Assistant Professor of graphic design at Rhode Island School of Design.

This event is hosted by Eleanor Vonne Brown, founder of X Marks the Bökship, a bookshop and project space for independent publishers in London and our collaborator at the Post Internet Cafe.

*Paul Soulellis is one of the the tutors of the Open Set Dutch Graphic Design Summer School 2016 in Rotterdam.

Elisabeth Tonnard (l) / Anouk Kruithof (r)

The Post Internet Café is a social space for the consumption and digestion of our communication systems. On the menu for the next month will be: Mailing Lists, Contacts, D.I.Y Networks and Mail Art, handpicked from the Hypermarket and washed down with an continuous refill of filter coffee. Cafés have always been places for information exchange, places to read the paper, send postcards home, chat to friends and find out local information. Internet cafés were an evolution of the traditional café, providing public devices to access the internet and digital communication services.  Often people use them when traveling to access webmail, to stay in touch with family and friends, although in poorer communities they are the primary form of Internet access. As technology evolves the number of Internet cafés is decreasing since more and more regular cafés offer the same services. These cafés provide us with a place to recharge – and to work in a traditionally social space. Fueled by our love of coffee culture and personal wireless devices, we assemble in these spaces to communicate with our growing collection of ‘contacts’, often drinking our coffee alone.

The Post Internet Café is a social space designed to be shared with its users and other online and offline networks, to create a space for conversation and criticism on whatever is on the Menu. The first location is in PrintRoom where the Kiosk will open its hatch from Friday 15 July. To be added to the mailing list please send a postcard or email to: info@printroom.org

The Post Internet Cafe is a project by Eleanor Vonne Brown (X Marks the Bökship and Karin de Jong (PrintRoom).

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Coming up:

Saturday 16 July, 2 – 5pm
Postcard workshop with Eleanor Vonne Brown

Thursday 4 August, 7pm
Paul Soulellis Talk

Date TBC
Reading Group
Reading: The Internet Does Not Exist, Published by Sternberg Press, 2015.
P162 ‘What is the Social in Social Media?’ By Geert Lovink.
‘Create a soup of ideas and taste it frequently. Connect everyone that’s important to you, as fast as you can, as automatically as possible, and put the pedal to the metal and take your foot of the brake.’

PrintRoom welcomes Hato Press (UK) and Wobby (NL) for presentations and a publication workshop in Rotterdam, the second weekend of events in our summer program.

8 July, 8 – 10 pm (doors open at 7.30)

** HATO PRESS, presentation by Justin Bailey and Margherita Huntley

** WOBBY presentation by Marjolein Schalk and Jeroen de Leijer

** After the break you can learn how to draw a masterpiece during a master class by Jeroen de Leijer

9 July, 11 am – 4 pm

**Riso workshop with Hato Press

Join us to see the work of our fellow risograph printers, artists designers, illustrators and publishers from London and Tilburg; and to contribute to a new book with them!

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Hato Press is an independent printing and publishing house based in London, well-known for their inventive Risograph printing. Hato was established in 2009 to act as a support structure to help sustain its members’ practices and offer an affordable means of production for others. Hato now comprises of three parts: Hato Press, a printing and publishing house; Studio Hato, a design studio specialising in publications, exhibitions, education and workshops and its newest member Hato Labo, an interactive design studio.

Wobby.club is a collaboration of visual artists Jeroen de Leijer and Marjolein Schalk (Studio De Leijer) and Steppie Lloyd Trumpstein.
Four times a year they publish and print on riso the humorous, quirky zine Wobby, with contributions by various guest artists: a.o. Daan Botlek! Gees Voorhees! Paul Faassen! JipPiet! and Bobbi Oskam!
The new issue has work by Danielle Lemaire, Maia Matches, Nick J. Swarth, Roos Vlogman en Berend Vonk.

Saturday 9 July,  11am – 4 pm

Riso workshop with Hato Press, to compile, edit,  lay out and print a small series of booklets. These publications will bring together the documentation and related material compiled from the foraging walk and fermentation workshop with Zsófia Sonja Illés (Collective Plant, HU) and Anne-Lise Vredenbregt (Cuisine Vagabonde, NL) which took place on 26 June.

These new publications serve as the pilot of our series NET Books, a collection of instruction books (cook books, DIY books, manuals) in which we’ll collaborate with like minded publication initiatives, including X Marks the Bökship (UK), Temporary Services (US), Collective Plant (HU), Hato Press (UK) and more. The digital files for NET Books will be distributed between these organisations and each of them will print their version on their own stencil machine and distribute the collection via their network.

We’re celebrating the start of summer with book presentations,  performances, a foraging walk and (wild!) snacks and drinks

You’re invited!!

25 June, 7 -9 pm

* Collective Plant
by Zsófia Sonja Illés

 *My Wavy Sarong,
book presentation by Jasper Griepink
with sound performance in collaboration with Maia Lyon Daw

Sunday 26 June, 11 am – 4 pm:

Foraging walk and wild food preparation

email us if you’d like to participate! info(at)printroom(dot)org

Collective Plant zines and calendar – foraging trip and meal

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My Wavy Sarong by Jasper Griepink

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For the presentation of My Wavy Sarong at PrintRoom, Jasper Griepink will be collaborating with Maia Lyon Daw to conjure an interactive and exploratory sound and narrative landscape. Free-style slam reading, field recordings and traditional Indonesian Gamelan music enter into in the mystical journey of My Wavy Sarong.

My Wavy Sarong (2016) is an animistic and sensual short novel in which the reality of a white western youngster with shamanic aspirations meets up with the current reality of Indonesia. In the story line, a tension is created between the free appropriation of exotic cultural elements as a means to make the world more magical and free, and the awareness that this doesn’t always work out. During the travel, the protagonist discovers that the spiritual ‘self-development’ of the West is in fact deeply rooted in an early-colonial esoteric philosophy. Via dialogues with granite temple-complexes, cute boys, snake-spirits and various traditional rituals, the spirituality and sexuality of the author are reflected against his experience of the South East Asian country.

Collective Plant is a community foraging project based in Budapest, founded by the artist and photographer Zsófia Sonja Illés. Collective Plant organises community activities, such as workshops and foraging trips which encourage urban dwellers to come closer to nature and natural sources of nutrition that grow wild in our cities.

Collective Plant publishes community cookbooks and risograph foraging fanzines with Budapest-based artists.

Zsófia Sonja Illés participated in the 2015 Istanbul Biennale with a cookbook project and organised a Foraging city walk for Urban Series Festival Istanbul in April 2015. She has been artist in residence in both Lisbon and the Azores islands on arts and sustainability projects.

Sunday 26 June, 11 am – 5 pm:

Foraging walk and wild food preparation

PrintRoom welcomes Collective Plant and Cuisine Vagabonde for a day-long workshop and invites a small group to explore Rotterdam on foot to forage for edible plants growing wild in our city.
The walk will lead us to the kitchen of Het lachende varken, where Anne-Lise and Zsofia instruct us in preparing the seasonal, wild ingredients found along the way. We’ll use these to make tea, lemonade, pesto, shrubs/sodas and salads.

Our findings, texts, photos and drawings will make their way into a new publication by PrintRoom on the wild edible foods we can find here in our city, together with instructions and our experiments in preserving food.

It will be the pilot of our series NET Books, a collection of instruction books (cook books, DIY books, manuals) in which we’ll collaborate with like minded publication initiatives, including X Marks the Bökship (UK), Temporary Services (US), Collective Plant (HU), Hato Press (UK) and more. The digital files for NET Books will be distributed between these organisations and each of them will print their version on their own stencil machine and distribute the collection via their network.

Cuisine Vagabonde is run by Anne-Lise Vredenbregt. Working always with organically grown seasonal vegetables and organic products, Anne-Lise Vredenbregt runs cooking workshops in Rotterdam and is a chef at the local vegetarian restaurant Het lachende varken (The Smiling Pig.)