PrintRoom

 The Future of Artist Books is a series of talks, workshops and events aiming to present the most innovative publishing projects by artists and designer’s working with photography, text, printed matter and e-publishing. The artist book is a medium central to contemporary artistic practice. The artists / publishers will present their recent editions, and discuss new modes of production, collaborative practices and distribution, from print on demand, serial editions to education projects, as well as their economical models.

Taking the occasion of the first retrospective exhibition of ‘The Dutch Photobook’ currently on view at the Fotomuseum in Rotterdam, this evening will focus on emerging practices in photo books in the Netherlands and internationally. The guest’s editions will be presented at PrintRoom for a month.

Delphine Bedel (FR/NL) is a photographer, curator and publisher. Visiting Professor at the M.F.A. HEAD – Geneva University of Art and Design. Her artistic and research-based practice involves documentary photography, writing, curating, publishing and lectures, and her work is shown internationally. She is the founding director of the Amsterdam Art/Book Fair, Hard Copy and Monospace Press. Bedel curated over forty international exhibitions, events and screenings. Her awarded editorial work (about 70 books) explores the relation between emerging art practices and graphic design. (www.delphinebedel.com, www.hard-copy.tumblr.com)

Erica Overmeer (NL/DE) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.She is a photographer and founder of O Book; a publisher of photo books in small editions with texts and photographs of the artist. Erica Overmeer is self-publishing since 2001. She lives and works in Amsterdam, Paris and Munich. www.obookpublisher.com

 Elisabeth Tonnard (NL) is a poet and visual artist from The Netherlands. She works in the fields of artists’ books, photography and conceptual literature. Since 2003 she has published twenty-two books, which are included in numerous public and private collections. She holds an MA in Literature from the Radboud University in The Netherlands and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. She exhibits internationally and is a member of ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative. (www.elisabethtonnard.com, abcoop.wordpress.com)

 Mariken Wessels (NL) is a visual artist, photographer and actress. Her work combines installations, sculptures, photography and video. Her first self-published artist book ‘Elisabeth – I want to eat -‘ (2009) was awarded the Silver Medal at the ‘Fotografia di Roma’ Book Festival. Her second artist book, ‘Queen Ann P.S. Belly Cut Off”, was published by Alauda Publications and selected as one of the Best Photo Books of 2010 by LeMonde.fr . Her work has been acquired as a part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art library in New York (MoMA) and International Center of Photography library New York.(www.marikenwessels.com, abcoop.wordpress.com)

Ou Ning

Come join us on Thursday, 12 April 2012, 7-9 pm at Witte de With for a talk by Ou Ning, one of China’s leading independent thinkers, as he expands on the mercurial possibilities in the art world, cross-disciplinary explorations between art, architecture, and literature, and having multiple hats as artist, editor, writer, activist, and curator.  Respondent: Delphine Bedel

This evening is organized by Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, and presented in collaboration with PrintRoom.

– Gagarin, the Artists in their Own Words
by Wilfried Huet (editor),
Gagarin is an artist’s magazine (°2000), entirely dedicated to the publication of especially written and unpublished texts by contemporary artists from all over the world.
Also the Dutch launch of Gagarin # 24, with a presentation of work by contributor Bart Lodewijks (The Flanders Peninsula).
The magazine appears twice a year. In this issue, specially commisioned texts by  Lara Almarcegui , Ahmet Ögüt, Wilfredo Prieto, Tómas, Bart Lodewijks, Jeff  Gabel, Santu Mofokeng and Jeppe Hein.

 –The Eriskay Connection
New publishing house by Rob van Hoesel and Christel van Steenhoven
Screendump #1 by Karin Krijgsman and Suzan Geldhoff
On Virtual Strolls: photography and virtual strolls through Google Street View.
Following a number of texts and a collection of works, the outlines of a new genre occur in a new photography era: the age of virtual photography.

–Rong-Wrong
by Scott Joseph (editor)
SJ:  “Rong—Wrong is lamp(ed) by language. It communicates and distils itself (through time and form) the doctrine that there isn’t anything, anywhere anymore, and thus, seeks to correspond and confront the dangers of self-deception and the ultimate impossibility of existence in a world of absolutes—the hands are a-washed with spirits, he said.

The object (itself, but without a name) is produced (edited, printed, published and dispersed) via a multi-fold of invisible correspondences that cannot be wholly transcribed. The gestalt forever remains incomplete. Our residues are continually and terminally unresolved.”

PrintRoom participated in Why do you publish? Independent Art Book Fair
98 WEEKS, Beirut

WDYP is an art book fair with a focus on arts and culture publishing in the Middle East and beyond. Over a period of 4 days, publishing houses, artists and writers will met in Beirut to present their current production and to probe ideas and ways of working with printed matter through a series of panels and events.

In line with 98weeks’s approach to artistic research ‘Why do you publish’ is more than a commercial book fair. It looks at historical and contemporary examples of printed matter as vehicle for political, social and artistic experimentation.

Presentations by: 98-weeks, Abboudi Abou Jawdeh, Amers Editions, PrintRoom, Samandal, Lemon Melon, Batroun Projects, Lokman Slim and others..

Opening Friday February 10th, 7 – 10 pm at PrintRoom

Lubok Verlag: books, posters 

work by Christoph Rückhaberle, Gabriela Jolowicz, Sebastian Gögel

Book presentation: ‘Nomade’ by Wouter Venema

Music by Vakantie and Elkin,  Samling Recordings

PrintRoom presents Lubok verlag, publisher of artists books located in the well-known Spinnerei complex in Leipzig and Wouter Venema, artist and musician based in Rotterdam.

Lubok’s focus is largely on the graphic arts and in their publishing they use graphic means of production. For the outstanding Lubok series, artist and publisher Christoph Ruckhäberle invites artists to make linocuts that are printed on a mechanical letterpress, which allows large editions. More than 140 artists participated in the Lubok series so far. Recently the 10th edition was presented and Lubok and PrintRoom are currently cooperating in producing the 11th edition.

Next to their activities in publishing Lubok is also important in putting contemporary printmaking on the map through the organisation of international exhibitions.

During Art Rotterdam Lubok will partly transform PrintRoom into a zany coloured printed wonderland, using patterned wallpapers as a background for graphic work by artists Christoph Rückhaberle, Gabriela Jolowicz and Sebastian Gögel.

In the books, work of Adam Dant, Tal R, Katharina Immekus, Volker Pfüller, Tobias Jacob, Julie Verhoeven, Mark Titchner, Matthias Weischer, Karl-Georg Hirsch, Simone Waßermann amongst many others.

Wouter Venema is a Rotterdam based visual artist and musician. He has recently produced an artist book, titled ‘Nomade’ at the stencil workshop of Knust in Nijmegen. It contains an atmospheric series of drawings, suggestive of a loose storyline. As a recurrent theme, black holes dictate their logic (or lack thereof) throughout the ‘narrative’.

For the occasion Wouter invites members from the bands Vakantie and Elkin, that are affiliated to his record label Samling Recordings, to do two short sets.

Opening January 27th,  8 – 11 pm

A presentation of flipbooks by over 50 artists, designers, photographers and filmmakers as a collaborative side programme of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).

In addition to showcasing these specially selected flipbooks for this year’s edition of IFFR, PrintRoom co-produced three flipbooks that share an historical slant either in subject matter, source material, or from personal experience. The evening’s presentation will also include a screening of corresponding films by the three makers.

Featuring flipbooks and films by:

Sarah Vanagt (BE) and Katrien Vermeire (BE): The Wave
In “The Wave” the archaeological gaze of the viewer is set in motion: a mass grave from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) opens and closes itself.

Sarah Vanagt is a documentary filmmaker and video artist living and working in Brussels. In her work she combines her interest for history with her interest for (the origins) of cinema.
Katrien Vermeire is a photographer and filmmaker living and working in Brussels. Foam Magazine selected her series “Godspeed” for Foam Talent 2011.

Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva (NL/RU): Twins
“Близнецы” or “The Twins” depicts two different characters merging into one, each influencing the other in a violent way. Possibly a metaphor for constrictive family ties, and the authoritarian school system in the former USSR: each social constellation bent to ignore and even kill individuality.

Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva is a Russian born artist, living and working in Rotterdam. The tone of her beautiful, imaginative drawings is poetic and dark at the same time.

Esther Urlus (NL): Konrad & Kurfurst
Found footage highlighting a forgotten, dramatic event during a steeplechase at the 1936 Olympics sets the stage to examine the temporary national hero status within history’s moral assessment of an anti-hero.

Esther Urlus is a filmmaker specialized in handmade 16 mm films. Her latest film, ‘Deep Red’ will have it’s premiere at the IFFR 2012 and will be screened on January 28 and 29 at Lantaren Venster.

And accompanied with specially selected flipbooks by:

Gloria Glitzer (DE), Scott Blake (US), Ricardo Leal Gomes (PT), Guilia Garbin (IT/UK), Roger Bygott (UK), Alice Rice (US), Jenny Suhonen (FI), Loes Verstappen (NL), Ernesto Morales (MX), Terhi Ekebom (FI), Andre Pielage (NL), Jenni Rope (FI), Han Hoogerbrugge (NL), Mariana Zanetti (BR), Kati Rapia (FI), Samuli Otto-Henrik Saarinen (FI), Anne Roecklein (US), Marieke Verbiesen (NL/SE), Derek Parker (US), Lise Duclaux (BE), Quinten Swagerman (NL), Jan Voss (NL), Com Amoras (PT), Maurizio Montalti (IT), Tomas Schats (NL), Michael Leigh (UK) and many others.

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Presentation dates: 26.01.12 – 05.02.12

wed –  sun   12 -6 pm (during the IFFR we have extended opening hours)

— Subjective Atlas of Mexico
With presentations by Moniek Driesse, Diego Gutierrez and Annelys de Vet  (2.30 pm)

— PrintRoom presentation on CUARTA EDICIÓN
Contemporary Publications Forum in Mexico City, with the books we selected for you at the fair (2.00 pm)

— NEWSPAPER / FACTORY LIVING CHINA
and other work by Petra Valdimarsdóttir (3.30 pm)

On the occasion of the launch of the ‘Subjective Atlas of Mexico’ and PrintRooms recent participation to Cuarta Edición, a special afternoon is organized at Pr.
There will be presentations by Annelys de Vet (designer, initiator and editor Subjective Atlases), Moniek Driesse (initiator and co-designer ‘Subjective Atlas of Mexico’), Diego Gutierrez (El Despacho, guidance video-masterclass MX) and Karin de Jong (director PrintRoom).
In addition there’s the launch of ‘Factory Living’ by Petra Valdimarsóttir (designer).

Mexican restaurant Popocatepetl provides us with snacks and we serve Corona with lime.

More info:
— Subjective Atlas of Mexico
The contradictory traits of an identity that is in continuous growth is reflected in this subjective atlas. It is a catalogue of the likenesses and differences for Mexicans, questioning the collective values that they share, and the cultural image that they build around them.

Carried out by designers Moniek Driesse and Annelys de Vet, along with Analía Solomonoff, a varied group of artists, designers, photographers and other sensitive souls living in Mexico were invited to choose personal topics as a starting point to map their cultural identity. In this context everyday practices suddenly take on new meanings. Through its pages the scope of Mexico as a country limited by its borders and its latitudes, vanishes to make senses and perspectives burst. You can find Mexico reflected in the world, and the world reflected in Mexico.

Since several years designer Annelys de Vet is working on a growing series of “subjective atlases”. These books are attempts to make a disarming contribution to the discourse around cultural image formation. In a creative, disarming and sensitive yet critical way, the books are ‘mapping’ a country, region or political entity on personal means. The series serve as a humanist response to the increasing simplification of the political debate and the complacency of power. In contrast to the often propagandist tenor of the mass media, the atlases show, above all, a complex reality that lies beyond one dimensional blinding media images.

The atlas will be sold for the special launch-price of € 17,50 (incl. DVD)

— Petra Valdimarsdóttir
Petra Valdimarsdóttir (1987) is an Icelandic-born designer based in Berlin and New York, who works in the field of printed and interactive media. Her recent projects are inspired by scavenging on the internet whereby finding large amount of data and transforming dissecting these into personal analysations. The end products are usually a combination of installation work and artists books.

— NEWSPAPER / FACTORY LIVING CHINA
“In the summer of 2011 I had the chance to document several fish factories in China. I was consumed by the colors I came across in these enormous spaces. Some of them were located underground which made the experience quite surreal. The workers wore hygienic suits with spontaneous pastel colored details here and there, the workers blended easily into these factories as if the color scheme wasn’t complete with out there being humanly colors involved. Such photogenic spaces and coordinated images they were with out even knowing this and with no artistic function whatsoever, until someone picks up a camera.”
FACTORY LIVING  will be available in the shop for 10 euro.

— The books COME & GO 1982-NOW and DATA SCAVENGING will be printed in the near future, preview copies will be presented at PrintRoom.

Venue: Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City.

CUARTA EDICIÓN. Contemporary Publications Forum is a space to display, promote and reflect on the publishing world. Organized by the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, LAST and Textofilia Ediciones, the forum ‘s goal is to foster dialogue about contemporary publishing strategies through conferences and workshops. It also encourages the participant projects through a book fair at the Museum, the traditional venue of this outstanding event. The Book Fair, free of charge to the public, hosts more than sixty international publishing houses, artists, writers and editors, in order to offer an exclusive selection of publications. CUARTA EDICIÓN. Contemporary Publications Forum is a festive gathering devoted to conferences, workshops, round tables, book presentations and its book’s sale. Every year, the forum receives a guest country. This time, our special visitor is Holland, represented by four creative, original and highly emblematic projects: PrintRoom, Onomatopee, Werkplaats Typografie and BIS Publishers. On this occasion, our main topic is “The book is dead. Long live the book!” It seems that our reading habits change according to the new formats books assume. Printed books will not disappear, or at least they do not seem to do so: they are just transforming into the new ways and possibilities offered by the contemporary publishing world. Technology, hand in hand with tradition, is forming and opening new paths to explore. In addition to the Forum, this year we launched Exp/Edition. Mobile Bookcase of Contemporary Publications; it is a mobile library that carries books donated in previous forums. For three months, Exp/Edition has been visiting public spaces and cultural institutions in Mexico City. It will conclude its journey at the Museum during the book fair days. Sponsored by the Embassy of The Netherlands in Mexico, Exp/Edition is an “outside the walls” device whose objective is not only to strengthen our Forum and to reach new audiences, but to work as a creative promotional tool. We hope that CUARTA EDICIÓN. Contemporary Publications Forum will become a useful platform, which will serve as a stepping-stone to create networks, links and new projects. Program
Venue: Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City.
Date: December 9th, 10th & 11th 2011.

Program: Book Fair Hours:
Friday 9 December,18:30–22:00 hrs
Saturday 10 December, 12:00–20:00 hrs
Sunday 11 December, 12:00–18:00 hrs Conferences and Round tables: Friday 9 December  
18:30 Opening.
19:30 Presentation of the catalogue “Tiempos violentos / Shattered Glass: reinterpretando la colección del Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil”.
21:30 Cocktail + Sonido Gallo Negro. Saturday 10 December
12:00 Workshop: “On books and imaginary creatures” –Ex libris.
13:30 Round table discussion: The Netherlands, Belgium, USA and Argentina. Four countries and a single occupation: editing.
15:00 Roundtable discussion: New publishing strategies. Sunday 11 December
12:00 Workshop: “On books and imaginary creatures” –Ex libris.
12:00 Roundtable discussion: New forms of reading: the book as an object on the Internet and the Social Networks.
16:00 Roundtable discussion: Publishing Guerrilla. All our cultural programs are open to the public, and take place at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, unless otherwise noted. We are located at 1608 Revolución Avenue at San Ángel in Mexico City. To arrive by public transportation, take the 9 line subway to Barranca del Muerto Station and then the bus to San Ángel/corner with Altavista Avenue.

*Live music by Michiel Klein

Extase
Extase is a publication of an essay by Arnon Grunberg. It is an analysis of different aspects and forms of love, desire, ecstasy and destruction. Graphic designers Eva Moulaert and Salome Schmuki conceived an image montage as a parallel narrative to the text. To achieve a particular sensual experience of text and image, the designers chose to use the risograph printing technique (production in close collaboration with Knust in Nijmegen).

Graphic designer Eva Moulaert (1983, BE) is part of the Brussels based design collective Dear Reader. She studied at Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst, Sint-Lucas, Gent and was a Post-Graduate Design Research participant at Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht (2007/2008). Currently she teaches at the Graphic design department at Sint-Lucas, Gent.
Graphic designer Salome Schmuki (1979, CH) works independently in Brussels and Zürich. She studied at Zurich University of the Arts, the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam and was a Post-Graduate Design Research participant at Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht (2007/2008).

Cactus Inside Frog    Johann Kauth produced his book Cactus Inside Frog in April this year during a residency at the stencil printing workshop KNUST, Nijmegen.  Cactus Inside Frog is an (approximately) A3 sized book of 30 pages; stencil printed, in 22 colours and it comes in 4 differently coloured covers: green, blue, brown or black. The pages are a hotchpotch of cranky collages that take the possibilities of their means of reproduction to its limits in scope of lucid colours and lush pattern: a piece of densely packaged joy of printing.

Johann Kauth graduated in 2010 from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. He spends most of his time making posters and flyers for the concerts he organizes around the city, volunteering at the “Stencilkelder” print workshop and playing music with friends and by himself.

Utilité     Ellen Korth’s book Utilité is about forty persons who love their craft; people who weave, felt, embroider, make lace or, in many cases, knit. The book is a monumental dedication to handicraft. Ellen Korth visited more than forty men and women at their homes. She interviewed them and documented their environments and activities. These interviews and the photographs she took, together with samples of their handy work are captured in the spreads and folded pages of the publication Utilité.

Ellen Korth is a photographer, born in The Hague, the Netherlands. She studied at Hochschule für Gestaltung Basel and lives and works in Germany and the Netherlands. She exhibits internationally.

 The Man in the House   In 2009 Basje Boer and Ruth van Beek stayed in Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag, Friesland. During this residency they made the book The House with the Eagle. The publication is put together in an associative manner, consisting of a series of images and text by Basje Boer. The Man in the House is a sequel to this publication. This time the book consists of an image sequence in the shape of a leporello and a separate text booklet.

Basje Boer studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. In 2006 her collection of short stories Kiestoon was published by De Arbeiderspers. Some of her new stories were recently published in literary magazines such as De Revisor, Hollands Maandblad and Lava. Recent poems were published on the online poetry magazine Krakatau. Recently some of her pictures and drawings were presented at the Amsterdam Centre for Photography.

Ruth Van Beek graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2002. This photographer mainly works in found footage and collage. Her work is exhibited internationally, in The Netherlands a.o. at Van Zoetendaal Gallery, FOAM, Seelevel Gallery and published in various books and magazines.

Eleni Kamma                                                                                                                 Enlever et Entretenir is an artist’s book made in collaboration with designer Salome Schmuki and artist Orla Barry. Enlever et Entretenir develops the idea of an in-between space through the format of a book. It examines how words and images can coexist and create meaning by disrupting it; how they make sense by seemingly letting meaning collapse. The book follows the format of a 1950s photo collection book titled Entre Escaut et Meuse [Between Scheldt and Meuse], in which images and textual descriptions of plants, animals and human activities coexist. In Enlever et Entretenir, the coexistence occurs between gaps, empty spaces and various cultural descriptions and representations of nature, both historical and newly invented.    Enlever et Entretenir is published by the Jan van Eyck Academy

Doris Denekamp
Handboek voor de Stadswildernis (Handbook for the City Wild) is a small pocket guide into the fringes of the urban landscape. Sections like Food, Shelter, Equipment and Dangers give you a wide variety of tips and tricks based on the daily survival techniques of homeless people. These tips give an insight into the resources the city offers for a life of the grid, but show at the same time how precarious and dangerous living without permanent shelter can be. Text contributions by Henry David Thoreau, Bert and Holly Davis and Maria Cecillia Loschiavo dos Santos. Handboek voor de Stadswildernis (Handbook for the City Wild) is published by the Dutch Art Institute/ArtEZ
Graphic design by Noah Venezia (Werkplaats Typografie).

Patrícia Sousa
From The Bottom Of The Chin To The Top Of The Head questions the nature of representation produced by identification systems, such as the passport photo, and its implications when representing the individual through its multiple truthful images. With text contributions by Sophie Nield and Raqs Media Collective and graphic design by Manuel Zenner (Werkplaats Typografie) this project seeks to establish a relation between the subjectivities of the self facing his/her truthful images and the possibilities that arise when representing the character of the impostor, the one who denies to show his/her face while still interpreting the rules that validate its truthful image. From The Bottom Of The Chin To The Top Of The Head is published by the Dutch Art Institute/ArtEZ.

Eva Olthof          I Have Never Seen Volcanoes But When Travellers Tell
Off the coast in the north of the Netherlands, an extinct, prehistoric volcano lies dormant in the layers of the earth and beneath the waters of the Wadden Sea. In the 1970s, while drilling for gas, volcanic specimens were found and that is how this volcano was discovered. In the late 1980s a gas-drilling platform was placed precisely above the apex of this submerged volcano and is still in function. When passing by aboard a local passenger ferry, one has a direct view of the platform. Since I have obtained this knowledge, the platform for me equates to the summit of the volcano. This place became a starting point for the imaginary and the book provides a platform for ideas on the unseen, the photograph and the volcano. Text contributions by Peter Delpeut, Siri Driessen and Roman Signer. I Have Never Seen Volcanoes But When Travellers Tell is published by the Dutch Art Institute/ArtEZ. Graphic design by Stefano Faoro  (Werkplaats Typografie).

Eleni Kamma (Athens, Greece, 1973), current artist in residence at Duende, Rotterdam, Post-Graduate Fine Art Research participant at Jan van Eyck Academie (2008/2009) and artist in residence at Wiels in 2010, Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels.

Artists Doris Denekamp (NL, 1984), Eva Olthof (NL, 1983) and Patrícia Sousa (PT, 1981) obtained an MA degree at the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem, this summer. All three live and work in Rotterdam. Their books are part of DAI publications: a collection of artist’s books issued by Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie

The presentation of Eleni Kamma is realised in collaboration with RAIR (Rotterdam Artists in Residence) www.rair.nl