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

This post-conceptual perspective offers a new and revealing insight into the systematics of contemporary art and artisthood, in particular with regard to the relation between conceptual and visual aspects, the meaning of theoretical discourse, and the role of institutions and mediators.

Book presentation During the Exhibition the Gallery Will Be Closed with Bart Verschaffel (Ghent University), Margriet Schavemaker (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam) and Camiel van Winkel.

Kha and Merit. Richard Venlet. Grotto Publications.

Published by bkSM, Strombeek – Mechelen
Text by Francesco Garutti

Artist book / small catalogue of Richard Venlet published on the occasion of Twin Room (bkSM, 10-12/2011).
A small number of copies come with a color dustjacket, published by Grotto Publications.

D 17 €

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Rong-Wrong vol. 1

Content:

Editorial—

WHO HAS BEEN TAMPERING WITH THESE PIANOS

Kenneth Burke—
COUNTER STATEMENT

Avigail Moss—
TWO CENTS

Jerry Mander—
LIVING IN A TAPED REPLAY

Sarah Tripp—
BEFORE SHE SPEAKS

Owen Hatherley—
ANOTHER EFFORT COMRADES IF YOU WOULD BE MODERNISTS

Ohad Ben Shimon—
THE OSCILLATING ESCALATOR

Various Sources—
A LETTER TO AN INVISIBLE RECIPIENT

Kirsty Logan—
LOVE IN CENTRALIA

William H. Gass—
THE TEST OF TIME

A Picture Essay—
ENERGY & MATTER

Kodwo Eshun—
AMATUERS & AUTODIDACTS

Ewan Morrison—
MALL TEXTS ABOUT OBJECTS

Sarah Tripp—
HORSE IN A MIRROR

Julian Baker—
THE POCKET

Mick Peter—
CABBAGE SOUP

Adam De Neige—
003

Sarah Tripp—
OBJECTS OBSERVED BY CANDLELIGHT

Ellie Ga—
THE DECK OF TARA

Lee Rourke—
AMBER & THE GEOMETRY OF SHELLS

Will Ashon—
FUTILITY NAPKIN

Steven Connor—
THE DUST THAT MEASURES ALL OUR TIME

Andy and Peter Holden—
NESTING

Samuel Vriezen—
FAILURE TO FAIL

Ben Street—
THE PAPER CLIP

Dan Visel—
HOPSCOTCH-O-MATIC

Mick Peter—
IMAGIST POEM

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DIK Fagazine “BEFORE ’89” issue launch at Motto Berlin, 05.04.2012 – 19.00.

DIK Fagazine is happy to invite you for the Berlin premiere of our “BEFORE ’89” issue at Motto. Join us for a launch event with editor Karol Radziszewski and Berlin based artist Piotr Nathan who is interviewed in this issue.

The latest issue of DIK Fagazine, “BEFORE ’89,” is the culmination of extensive archive work, as well as travels across Europe. Drawing from a range of contributors, the magazine traces a cultural legacy specific to Poland, while following a trail through Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Serbia, Hungary and the Czech Republic.

Wolfgang Tillmans, who first visited Warsaw in 2011, provides an account of the anniversary of the plane crash in Smolensk, celebrated in the overblown national-religious vein of the Polish right. Bruce LaBruce’s contribution gives the impression that he’s describing a time when communism is alive and well, and not Poland in the year 2000.

The publication explores park cruising areas, train stations, beaches and other casual hook-up spots. Ryszard Kisiel shares the astonishing story of his zine titled “Filo”, Slava Mogutin uncovers the story of homosexuals in the Soviet Gulags, and BEFORE ’89 conducts a search investigation for Michel Foucault’s Polish lover.

Contributors of DIK Fagazine 8th issue include Arobal, Wojciech BƒÖkowski, Bruce LaBruce, Boris L. Davidovich, Andrej Dubravsky, Paul Dunca, Christine Fenzl, Nan Goldin, Kamil Julian, Ryszard Kisiel, Slava Mogutin, Jaanus Samma and Wolfgang Tillmans.

http://www.dikfagazine.com/

DIK Fagazine is available at Motto Berlin or online here: http://mottodistribution.com/shop

UNESCO succeeded in the transposition of the “International Convention on the Immunity for the Emigrant Artist” – regarding visa regime issues after the last state member of the UNESCO-General-Conference adapted the law relating to the free movement of artist. The decree was approved by UNESCO-General–Conference in the last meeting in 2011 in Paris.” The decrees’ special concern is to provide emigrant artists with a particular status of immunity. With the Artist Immunity implemented, the decree states that artists (irrespective of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, economic status or birth) will be free to travel across the borders of the Globe, will be provided with the working permits, will be enabled to produce art works and will be facilitated with a right to reside in the country of their choice. The privilege of the Artist Immunity will be granted to everyone (irrespective of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, economic status or birth) who can successfully verify and confirm their artistic status to the states authority of the residency in choice.

Publication details coming soon.

Perfect is my death word. James Lee Byars. CNEAI=Conception Guy Schraenen.

Textes en français de Guy Schraenen et Thomas Deecke.

En novembre 2009, Conny Purtill vient de Philadelphie en résidence sur la Maison Flottante du Cneai afin d’explorer la collection Fmra. Il intervient dans dix publications selon un même processus qui consiste à remplacer la page 11/12 par une page gravée et dessinée par lui. Les pages extraites de ces dix livres sont rassemblées dans un dossier et constituent l’oeuvre “10, 11, and 12”. En parallèle, Conny Purtill réalise des interventions à peine perceptibles au crayon dans une sélection d’ouvrages de la collection Fmra. Les livres sont réinsérés tels quels dans la collection, sans mention particulière. Des aiguilles dans une bottes de foin…

D 16 €

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How To Make It Without IKEA vol.2

Texts & Drawings
Volume 2

A how-to guide to making furniture and objects without IKEA and define new ways of using objects as a form of resistance.

D 8€

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Tales from the Crypt. Städelschule.

Tales from The Crypt – Pure Fiction.
Seminar of Mark Von Schlegell.
Städelschule 2011 – 2012.

Editors: Timothy Furey, Anna Susanna Woof-Dwight
Design: Clémentine Coupau

Mountainislandglacier 

After a game-changing year when Europe, in all its tangible and intangible consequences reached far and wide, BDP are proud to announce one of our most ambitious compilations of art, writing and investigation on our contemporary’s troubled, shape-shifting realities. In a unique dual book publication (English/Spanish editions) edited by the group ‘Correspondence from Eyjafjallajökull’ the book contains the artistic results and research of the group, along with eleven probing and insightful carefully selected ‘collaborations’. These diverse entries take many forms, including fiction, essay, polemnic,
After working together as a research group centering around the event that was Eyjafjallajökull in May 2010, ‘Correspondence from Eyjafjallajökull’ went about re-examining the idea of Europe. With no air traffic possible, Europe found itself connected in a very physical way, a unity that is the opposite in many ways of how ‘Europe’ has been so recently conceived. Through various forms of artistic research and development new, kaleidoscopic perspectives of Europe came about, moving from peripheries such as Turkey and Iceland itself, moving inward to the imaginative world of European identity creation.

With a strong focus on the problematic nature of European discourse as it currently is offered, the recent rise of protests movements in Spain appear in contributions from Maria Ptqk, Emanuele Guidi, Juan Freire and Santiago Eraso: the 15th May Movement in Spain and The Arab Spring pre-dated but also foretold the wider Occupy movement of 2012, an incredible year in which protest and the right to protest swept the world in myriad forms. The playful use of fiction to create stories and identity is evident in contributions from Pavla Ascher, John Holten and Alan Pauls. Re-imagining the line of Europe’s borders opens the anthology with Urzsula Wozniak’s essay on Turkey’s relationship with Europe, while Markus Miesson offers an extension of the realm of what can be thought of as ‘Europe’ with an extract from his East Coast Europe project.

D 10 €

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