{"id":43099,"date":"2016-10-10T10:13:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T09:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=43099"},"modified":"2016-10-10T10:16:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T09:16:27","slug":"everything-is-about-to-happen-porto-artists-books-and-editions-serralves-porto-14-10-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=43099","title":{"rendered":"Everything is About to Happen (Porto): artists’ books and editions. Serralves. Porto. 14.10.2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Everything is About to Happen (Porto): artists’ books and editions @ Funda\u00e7\u00e3o de Serralves, Porto<\/strong>
\nOpening Friday 14 October
\nExhibition from October 15 2016 to February 12 2017.<\/p>\n

Works by Patr\u00edcia Almeida and David-Alexandre Gu\u00e9niot, Karl Holmqvist, Janice Kerbel, Sara McKillop, Kristen Mueller, Lu\u00eds Mu\u00f1oz-Santini, Preston is My Paris, Simon Popper, Erik Steinbrecher, Fritz Welch, Nicole Wermers.<\/p>\n

\u2018Everything is About to Happen (Porto): Artists\u2019 Books and Editions\u2019 is dedicated to the most recent developments in the field of artists\u2019 books as a medium and context for contemporary art. The exhibition presents more than 200 works ? many of them published in small, hard to find editions ? to give an overview of the most recent developments in the field of artists\u2019 books. Through them it looks at burlesque reversals, authorship fluidity, sub-activism, unproductive labour, nonsensical and non-linear languages as tools to reaffirm and question our collective desire for collectivity. It suggests that artists\u2019 books should be seen both as individual artistic expressions and as participants in a forum whose culture and freedom are essential to our future.<\/p>\n

For the duration of the exhibition, the Serralves bookstore will become an integral part of the show and present recent artists\u2019 books that respond to the concerns it articulates. The bookstore selection is curated by Gregorio Magnani in collaboration with Motto, Berlin.<\/p>\n

Artists\u2019 books ? works of art that adopt the format and particular modes of distribution of the book ? first came to prominence in the mid-1960s. They offered artists a cheap and easily distributed art form that responded to the widespread desire to bring art out of the gallery context. After almost disappearing from view in the 1980s, artists\u2019 books found new energy as a form of artistic expression in the mid-1990s. Then, the wide availability of increasingly affordable digital editing and printing technologies paired with the ease of communication afforded by the internet made it relatively easy to publish or self-publish a book or fanzine. Artists could adopt the book as their chosen medium and become publishers of themselves or choose to rely on a vast network of artist lead, small, adventurous, and often short lived, publishing houses. It was a media that allowed them to be in full control of their own work ? from the first glimpse of an idea, through its development in editing and publishing, to its final marketing. This was liberating: it allowed free experimentation that bypassed the need for institutional support and validation and relied instead on an alternative peer-to-peer network. It also responded perfectly to the 1990s dream of self-empowerment embodying its promise to make each of us a one-man-act on a constant path of self-reinvention. Today the hope of a non-exploitative relation between capital and independent cultural producers seems as unrealistic as the 1960s notion of liberation through commerce. In the creative arts, self-expression reads more and more as labour performed as entertainment for somebody else\u2019s gain. But the productive power of the shared language that constituted the community around artists\u2019 books remains. It relies on low costs, high affective investments, peer-to-peer exchanges and on the focus on the ability of the book to create social exchanges. Threatened by capital\u2019s capacity to survive its crisis through the consumption and production of social spaces, it reaffirms its communal energy by acknowledging the dangers it faces.<\/p>\n

\u2018Everything is About to Happen (Porto): Artists\u2019 Books and Editions\u2019 is organized by the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, and is curated by Gregorio Magnani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everything is About to Happen (Porto): artists’ books and editions @ Funda\u00e7\u00e3o de Serralves, Porto Opening Friday 14 October Exhibition from October 15 2016 to February 12 2017. Works by Patr\u00edcia Almeida and David-Alexandre Gu\u00e9niot, Karl Holmqvist, Janice Kerbel, Sara McKillop, Kristen Mueller, Lu\u00eds Mu\u00f1oz-Santini, Preston is My Paris, Simon Popper, Erik Steinbrecher, Fritz Welch, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8],"tags":[5510,4222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43099"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43106,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43099\/revisions\/43106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}