Bookies is a seminar on artist- and designer -led publishing as a vehicle for artistic expression and mode of distribution of contemporary art today. By two month-long exhibitions and a weekend seminar of talks and discussions by key figures in the field, Bookies will consider the current shifts in independent art publishing and its design that are shaping the ways we experience contemporary art. The two exhibitions will set the discussed ideas into visual context in the practice of the participating artists.

Aimed at professionals, students and enthusiasts alike, both the two-day seminar and the two month-long exhibitions are free for all to attend. With Bookies we hope to help build bridges between art and its audience, the work and its representation through design.

Bookies seminar 14.-15.4.2012 at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art
Talks and discussions on the changing role of independent publishing in contemporary art.
Saturady 14.4. 1-5pm guests: Urs Lehni Säde (CH), Terhi Ekebom (FI), Indrek Sirkel (EE), Michael Swanye (CA) and Stephen Smith (UK)
Sunday 15.5. 11-3pm guests: Jenni Rope (FI), Alexis Zavialoff (D/CH), Linus Bill (CH), Erik van der Weijde (NL), Aurélien Arbet (F), Jérémie Egry (F), Joseph Allen Shea (AU), Kristoffer Albrecht (FI) and Tuomas Jääskeläinen (FI)

Temporary bookshop 14.-15.4. Kiasma lobby
Sat-Sun 11-5pm: Motto Distribution offers for sale a selection of publications related to the talks in the seminar and the artists in the exhibitions. Napa Books will have for sale a selection of books and zines from the publishers’ catalogue.

Bookies exhibition at Myymälä2 4.4-28.4.2012
Private view Sat 14.4. 6-8pm. Rollo Press launches Erik van der Weijde’s “This Is Not My Wife”; Arbet and Egry will launch their latest book.
Artists: Erik van der Weijde, Linus Bill, Jérémie Egry and Aurélien Arbet
The exhibiting artists approach the question of photography taking on different meanings along with varying contexts.
Myymälä2 Gallery, Uudenmaankatu 23 , 00100 Helsinki
Wed-Sat 12-18, Sun 12-17

www.myymala2.com

Bookies exhibition at Napa Gallery 3.-28.4.2012
Private view Fri 13.3. 6-8pm. Napa Books launches new book by Jenni Rope; Nieves launches a new zine by Michael Swaney.
Artists: Michael Swaney and Stephen Smith (Scrollster); Benjamin Sommerhalder (Nieves)
On display the Nieves Zine Library – a collection of some 150 zines published by the imprint during its years of operation. Swaney and Smith exhibit a selection of new works realized in long distance collaboration while the two artists have lived in different countries.
Napa Gallery, Eerikinkatu 18, 00100 Helsinki
Tue-Fri 12-18, Sat-Sun 12-16
www.napagalleria.com

Bookies is part of the official WDC Helsinki 2012 and Helsinki Photography Biennial2012 programs.
We thank for support: Arts Council of Helsinki Metropolitan Region, Estonian Institute, FRAME, Goethe-Institut, Helsinki Photography Biennial, Kiasma, The Arts Council of Finland, The National Council for Photographic Art of Finland, The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and WDC Helsinki 2012.

www.bookies.fi

Tobias Zielony: Manitoba
Buchvorstellung mit Andrea Hiott und Tobias Zielony, moderiert von Astrid Mania

12. April 2012, ab 20.00 Uhr
MOTTO Berlin, Skalitzer Str. 68 HH

In Winnipeg, der Provinzhauptstadt des kanadischen Bundesstaates Manitoba, hat Tobias Zielony das Leben von jugendlichen Gangmitgliedern indigener Herkunft fotografisch festhalten. Die amerikanische Autorin Andrea Hiott fuhr ein Jahr nach dem Fotografen nach Winnipeg und traf einige der Jugendlichen wieder. Sie sind die Nachkommen mehrerer Generationen kanadischer Ureinwohner, die in staatliche und kirchliche Assimilierungsprogramme gezwungen und von ihrer indigenen Herkunft abgeschnitten wurden. Heute orientieren sich die »First Nations« wieder an alten, aber auch an neuen Mythen von Stammeskultur, Heldentum und indigenem Widerstand. Wiedergefundenes Familienwissen, Hollywoodfilme und die modernen Gangkulturen der amerikanischen Global Cities liefern dafür Stilvorlagen. Sie greifen nach Versatzstücken neuer Erzählungen über sich selbst, in denen sich Realität und Fiktion kaum unterscheiden lassen. Unsicher, zärtlich und auch stolz suchen sie vor der Kamera des Fotografen ihr eigenes Bild.

Spector Books verlegt mit »Manitoba« die Publikation zu Zielonys bislang umfangreistem Projekt. Dessen 50 Fotografien ergänzen ein Film sowie ein Hörspiel, das auf dem Reisebericht Andrea Hiotts basiert.

»Manitoba« ist noch bis zum 15. April bei KOW in der Brunnenstraße 9, Berlin, zu sehen.

http://www.spectorbooks.com/

The Independent Photography Festival’s Photo Book & Zine Fair aims to bring together the enormous and diverse spectrum of photo publications for two days of appreciation of photography’s application to printed matter and publication.

Co-presented by Hard Workers Shop and Parts & Crafts Auto Zine, the IPF Photo Book & Zine Fair will showcase independently published, special and limited edition, and out-of-print titles from photographers and creatives around the world, with titles and/or representation from publishers and distros, such as:

HAMBURGER EYES / IZROCK PRESSINGS / SMALLTIME BOOKS / SERPS PRESS / RAYNER BOOKS / WELCOME STRANGER / POGO BOOKS / SMALLHOUSE BOOKS / MOTTO DISTRIBUTION / HOLY GHOST ZINE / BLOOD OF THE YOUNG ZINE / HARD WORKERS SHOP / CAFE ROYAL BOOKS / NO THOUGHTS / WE ARE LUCKY / HARD WORKERS PRESS / PERIMETER BOOKS / NO FUN PRESS / THE VELVET CELL

www.independentphotographyfestival.com

Watching Humans Watching. Inka Lindergård & Niclas Holmström. Kehrer Verlag.

Photographs by Inka Lindergård & Niclas Holmström.

Texts by: Alexxa Gotthardt, Camilla Årlin, Dr Matthias Harder, Jonas Larsen.
Design: H-T Nilsson & Rasmus Svensson.

80 fullcolour image pages, 24 bw textpages.
55 color photographs, 1 bw photograph.
Hardbound with linen cover.

D 30€

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Bike and Bolex. Mai Hofstad Gunnes. WIELS.

This book is published as a part of Mai Hofstad Gunnes’ solo exhibition at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels from 18 February to 11 March 2012.

D 10€

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Isle of Ziggy. Yue-Shin Lin.

1st Edition.

D 7€

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Mizu No Oto – Sound Of Water.

Asako Narahashi
Rinko Kawauchi
Lieko Shiga
Yumiku Utsu
Mayumi Hosokura

Published by 3/3 and ACC & Partners

D 25€

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Jason Dodge, SMC/CAC

Published by the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (CAC).

Edition of 400.

D 10 €

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Wolves and Peasants 38% Notes 38% No Title 19% Dreamers 4%. Fondazione Antonio Ratti. Mousse Publishing.

Published for the 17th Advanced Course in Visual Arts of Fondazione Antonio Ratti, the catalogue “Wolves and Peasants 38% Notes 38% No Title 19% Dreamers 4%” contains contributions by the visiting professor to the course in 2011 – Susan Hiller – president of the Foundation, Annie Ratti, the curators of the course Andrea Lissoni and Cesare Pietroiusti, Angela Maderna and all the participating artists.

Based on four weeks spent in Como in July, the publication is like a notebook – the same one distributed by Susan Hiller to all the people involved in the course, a place in which to systematically record their dreams – where the collective nature of the choices and dialogue that have given form to the catalogue coexists with the individual expression and autonomy of each participating artist.

Pages: 104
Language: English
20 x 16 cm
ISBN 9788896501894

D 12€

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May Magazine #8

Conceived as a collective space in which to develop thoughts and confront positions on artistic production, May magazine examines, quaterly, contemporary art practice and theory in direct engagement with the issues, contexts and strategies that construct these two fields. An approach that could be summed up as critique at work – or as critique actively performed in text and art forms alike.

Featuring essays, interviews, art works and reviews by artists, writers and diverse practitioners of the arts, the magazine also intends to address the economy of the production of knowledge – the starting point of this reflection being the space of indistinction between information and advertisment typical of our time. This implies a dialogue with forms of critique produced in other fields.

D 12€

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