Focal Point Art Book Fair, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, November 14-16, 2019
The second edition of FOCAL POINT art book fair will present printed matter by artists and publishers from the region and across the world. As part of the broader presentation, this year’s content will include a special focus on zines and comics.
Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual art book fair, FOCAL POINT, returns for its second edition with a wide range of printed matter and a larger representation of independent publishers. The platform caters to the interdisciplinary nature of art publishing and aims to present a focus on independent and alternative publishing practices presented alongside a select number of larger, more established publishing houses.
The three-day fair will feature regional and international artists and publishers who will present their content individually or within curated sections. As part of the broader presentation, this year’s content will include a special focus on zines and comics.
FOCAL POINT 2019 will take place from 14 to 16 November 2019 and will be returning to the heritage building of Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, in the Sharjah Arts Area. Originally built in 1845 as a residential house, the space was renovated in the late 1990s, and then again in 2017, to be used for artist studios and exhibition spaces. The location has often served as a venue for past Sharjah Biennials and SAF exhibitions.
Educational workshops for adults and children will run alongside the book fair, details of which will be published on the website closer to the event. Workshop participation is free, but registration is mandatory.
The Chicago Art Book Fair, Chicago Athletic Association, Chicago, IL, November 15-17, 2019
The Chicago Art Book Fair is an experiment in showcasing emerging directions and diverse legacies within small press arts publishing. The fair features an international group of over 125 arts publishers, small presses, book artists, comics artists, zinemakers and printmakers, with satellite programming and after parties. Beginning in 2017, we drew over 6,000 guests, and each year we look forward to bringing even more of Chicago’s people together with another fantastic roster of artist vendors. In 2019, the Chicago Art Book Fair will once again convene at the historic Chicago Athletic Association, at 12 S. Michigan Avenue.
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, Nov. 15: 5–9p
FAIR HOURS
Saturday, Nov. 16: 11a–7p
Sunday, Nov. 17: 12–6p
Pedro Bell, F.I.P. (Funk in Peace)
It is such sad news to learn that Pedro Bell has left us to travel up and into the cosmic slop, or whatever happens to us when all of the maggots leave our brain.
Back in 2007 when we were a group of three, Temporary Services interviewed Pedro Bell for our book Group Work, published by Printed Matter. We got Pedro’s phone number somewhere and we spoke for about three hours. Toward the end of the conversation, we asked about formally interviewing him and Pedro said, “I thought that WAS the interview!” It wound up being the first of many conversations, but the one that went into the book was an epic group discussion at Thai Snail in Hyde Park where the photo (at the top of the page) was taken.
Even back then Pedro was in very fragile health. His eyesight was rapidly deteriorating, and he was going in for kidney dialysis treatments several days a week. At one point he told us about the needle they used and said, “When I saw that thing I thought I was gonna be the newest member of Nine Inch Nails!” Even as his eyes went, his brain never stopped churning out all manner of fantastic wordplay. His liner notes for Funkadelic were not just how he wrote, but often how he spoke. After transcribing our interview with him, we went down to his little room in Hyde Park and read the whole thing back to him because it would have been too hard for him to read a printed transcript. Always attentive to detail, he would stop us and make sure we were writing things accurately based on how he said them. At one point we got to his utterance of the word “hungry” and Pedro asked, “How did you spell that?” one of us said, “The usual way. h-u-n-g-r-y.” Pedro corrected us. “No, no, no. It’s HONGRY. With an ‘o’!”
He had many questions about the book we were making and how it would be printed and designed. He wanted to know how large the type would be and when we told him probably 9 or 10 point, he insisted it could be made smaller. As with his album cover art, the details should be crammed in, whether he could still read them or not. He grilled us on the margins too. If you’ve held a Temporary Services book or booklet, you know we are not generous with our margins to begin with, but Pedro was so much worse. If you check out Garrick Gott’s design of that book, you’ll see that the margins are up to Pedro’s exacting standards. There’s no holding the book without covering the text with your thumbs.
Pedro had all kinds of surprising opinions. One was that an album cover tons of people hate was one of his favorites. He loved the art for Technical Ecstasy by Black Sabbath. And of course he did. It was two robots about to fuck each other while riding on adjacent escalators.
Pedro Bell was one of those people we never could have guessed we would have had the opportunity to spend so much time with. He gave us all so much wonderful art and writing. If you don’t own Funkadelic records with his work, they are some of the very best art you can live with and will provide you with many hours of visual satisfaction before you even take a moment to listen to all of that incredible music.
Printed Matter generously agreed to let us distribute the PDF of Group Work for free. This book has been out of print for years and we are thrilled to be able to share it again—particularly with those who are thinking about or already working in groups and might value its focus on collaboration, generated from the voices of practitioners rather than outside observers.
This publication provides a multitude of perspectives on the theme of Group Work by practitioners of artistic group practice from the 1960s to the present. It presents interviews with Canadian collective General Idea, Chicago collective Haha, the Dutch band The Ex, the Vienna-based WochenKlausur, the Croatian artist group What, How & for Whom (WHW), Funkadelic album designer Pedro Bell, and Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D), along with essays on The Abortion Counseling Service of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union (better known as Jane) and the anarchist guerrilla street theater group The Diggers. A list of words used to describe group practices and a working list of hundreds of collectives from the last four decades rounds out the publication.
Please download and share it widely, and if you teach, consider using it with your students.
Artist Publisher — Forum for Artist Book Publishing
We created an online discussion forum for artist book publishing called Artist Publisher. People have been joining and posting and we are excited to launch it publicly. Please visit the site, spread the word, and join us in multiple discussions around artist book making, zine publishing, printing, distribution, archiving and more.
One of our first collective efforts has been to track and chronologically organize every art book fair and zine fest that is taking place in 2019. Have a look at that section of the forum and let us know which fairs we are missing, or what publications you are excited about.
If you screen print, have a Risograph, or access to cheap photocopies, help us spread the word about the forum by downloading the fliers, printing them, and posting them around your town.
Temporary Services & Half Letter Press publications & posters — Self-made: zines and artist books, multiple locations throughout Australia, March 8, 2018 – November 24, 2019
This bold exhibition delves into the evolution of do-it-yourself culture, from limited-run artist books to cut-and-paste photocopy fanzines.
Discover science fiction fanzines from the 1940s, ground-breaking 1970s punk zines, Australian underground press publications, and artist books designed to defy tradition and buck the commercial gallery system.
Supported by Visions of Australia and Creative Victoria.
Reviews of the exhibition:
Never mind the bloggers: zines bring a DIY punk ethic to the internet age
About the curator
Monica Syrette attended the Canberra Institute of the Arts in the late 1980s, when the city was a major centre for artists books in Australia. In the 1990s she worked at Sydney independent music retailer Waterfront Records, ordering zines from local and international makers and distributors. Monica was archivist at Arts Project Australia and assistant curator at the Grainger Museum, founded by composer and pianist Percy Grainger. Most recently she curated the exhibition Wharfies support! Social justice activism from the Melbourne Docks at Library at the Dock.
Exhibition locations and dates
The Self-made exhibition is touring regional galleries in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland from March 2018 to November 2019.
Victoria
- Bunjil Place Gallery in Narre Warren from 8 March to 29 April 2018.
- Mildura Arts Centre at 199 Cureton Avenue, Mildura, from 21 June to 1 September 2018.
South Australia
- Murray Bridge Regional Gallery at 27 Sixth Street, Murray Bridge, from 14 September to 21 October 2018.
New South Wales
- New England Regional Art Museum at 106-114 Kentucky Street, South Hill, from 9 November 2018 to 3 February 2019.
- Tweed Regional Gallery at Mistral Road, South Murwillumbah, from 1 March to 19 May 2019.
Queensland
- Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery at 531 Ruthen Street, Toowoomba, from 1 June to 1 August 2019.
Victoria
- Latrobe Regional Gallery at 138 Commercial Road, Morwell, from 14 September to 24 November 2019.
Detroit Art Book Fair, Trinosophes, Detroit, MI, October 12-13, 2019
The Detroit Art Book Fair is an annual event that takes place in Detroit’s Eastern Market neighborhood. Each year, the fair brings together dozens of independent publishers, artists, writers, and collectors to present their books, zines, and prints to the public.
Founded in 2013, the fair eventually moved to Trinosophes, where it remains today.
Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair, PS1, Queens, NY, September 19-22, 2019
Participating in the NYABF is an annual ritual for us. We will both be there again this year slinging books.
We are grateful to Printed Matter for including us in Friendly Fire for another round!
Vienna Art Book Fair #1, Vienna, Austria, October 4-6, 2019
Over the course of three days the biennial Vienna Art Book Fair #1 provides a platform for artists, collectives, self-publishers, small publishing houses, antiquarian booksellers, art libraries, institutions, printers, collectors and for all those who are dedicated to the medium of the book.
On this weekend the Expositur Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 will be turned into a book lover’s adventure park. The artists’ book as a democratic work of art will be the focus of the VABF. Hence, it is of great importance for us to keep the event free and open to the public.
Temporary Services & Half Letter Press — Chicago Zine Fest, Plumbers Union Hall, Chicago, May 16-18, 2019
We are attending the Chicago Zine Fest this year.
The Chicago Zine Fest is a celebration of small press and independent publishers, with free workshops, events, and an annual festival.
Temporary Services conversation — Art in Chicago: A History From Fire To Now, Edited by Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino
448 pages | 160 color plates, 29 halftones | 9 1/4 x 11 | University of Chicago Press 2018
For decades now, the story of art in America has been dominated by New York. It gets the majority of attention, the stories of its schools and movements and masterpieces the stuff of pop culture legend. Chicago, on the other hand . . . well, people here just get on with the work of making art.
Now that art is getting its due. Art in Chicago is a magisterial account of the long history of Chicago art, from the rupture of the Great Fire in 1871 to the present, Manierre Dawson, László Moholy-Nagy, and Ivan Albright to Chris Ware, Anne Wilson, and Theaster Gates. The first single-volume history of art and artists in Chicago, the book—in recognition of the complexity of the story it tells—doesn’t follow a single continuous trajectory. Rather, it presents an overlapping sequence of interrelated narratives that together tell a full and nuanced, yet wholly accessible history of visual art in the city. From the temptingly blank canvas left by the Fire, we loop back to the 1830s and on up through the 1860s, tracing the beginnings of the city’s institutional and professional art world and community. From there, we travel in chronological order through the decades to the present. Familiar developments—such as the founding of the Art Institute, the Armory Show, and the arrival of the Bauhaus—are given a fresh look, while less well-known aspects of the story, like the contributions of African American artists dating back to the 1860s or the long history of activist art, finally get suitable recognition. The six chapters, each written by an expert in the period, brilliantly mix narrative and image, weaving in oral histories from artists and critics reflecting on their work in the city, and setting new movements and key works in historical context. The final chapter, comprised of interviews and conversations with contemporary artists, brings the story up to the present, offering a look at the vibrant art being created in the city now and addressing ongoing debates about what it means to identify as—or resist identifying as—a Chicago artist today. The result is an unprecedentedly inclusive and rich tapestry, one that reveals Chicago art in all its variety and vigor—and one that will surprise and enlighten even the most dedicated fan of the city’s artistic heritage.
Part of the Terra Foundation for American Art’s year-long Art Design Chicago initiative, which will bring major arts events to venues throughout Chicago in 2018, Art in Chicago is a landmark publication, a book that will be the standard account of Chicago art for decades to come. No art fan—regardless of their city—will want to miss it.
Art In Chicago: A History From Fire To Now
Publishing Zines For Prisoners An Interview With Anthony Rayson — Translated into Portuguese
Our interview with Anthony Rayson was translated into Portuguese by Daniel Lühmann for A Bolha Editora. Many thanks to Rachel Araujo for organizing this.
Publicando Zines Para Presos: Uma Entrevista Com Anthony Rayson
Temporary Services — Collective Action Archive: Redux, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT, February 9 – September 8, 2019
Franklin Street Works, a non-profit contemporary art space in Stamford, Conn., presents“Collective Action Archive: Redux,” an exhibition exploring the intersections between art and activism, featuring materials from dozens of U.S. artist/activist collectives.
The exhibition expands on the 2013 show, “Collective Action Archive,” which was curated collaboratively by Franklin Street Works with Purchase College, SUNY and then was accessioned into the college’s library archive. The updated group exhibition features materials from the Library’s archive along with new items from collectives who were not included in or had not yet formed at the time of the 2013 show. In the spirit of a living archive, new contributions will be added throughout the exhibition’s run.
It is view at Franklin Street Works February 9 through September 8, 2019 and launches with a free, public reception on Saturday, February 9, 5-8pm.
Curated by Franklin Street Works creative director Terri C Smith, “Collective Action Archive: Redux” is rooted in two past exhibitions curated by the Stamford art space. The first, “Working Alternatives: Breaking Bread, Art Broadcasting and Collective Action,” included a 2012 call to more than 90 artist/activist collectives. For the show, the materials were presented in archive boxes with only a portion on display. The second, the 2013 “Collective Action Archive,” at Purchase College Passage Gallery, opened the archive boxes to create a vibrant exhibition. Co-curated by Smith and her FSW colleague Sandrine Milet in collaboration with students and faculty from the Media Studies Department at Purchase College, it featured materials gathered from artist/activist collectives. When the exhibition closed, its contents were accessioned into the Purchase College Library archive, becoming a resource for students and scholars. That archive along with new, borrowed materials will form the 2019 exhibition “Collective Action Archive: Redux.”
Photos, videos, artworks, pamphlets and texts by more than 3-dozen artist/activist collectives from across the United States will be on view, including contributions from longtime collectives such as ABC No Rio, the Guerrilla Girls, Paper Tiger TV, subRosa, and Temporary Services. Programming for “Collective Action Archive: Redux” will include: talks by exhibiting collectives, informal presentations by regional activist organizations, and discussion groups about the often contradictory relationship between social activism and the arts.
Exhibiting artist/activist collectives include: ABC No Rio, Artists Against Apartheid, Big Tent, Codify Art, Conflict Kitchen, Critical Making, fierce pussy, Floating Lab Collective, Futurefarmers, Ghana Think Tank, Guerrilla Girls, Guffey Hollow, Howling Mob Society, Illegal Art, Just Seeds, Kitchen Sink, Knifeandfork, Lucky Pierre, M12 Collective, Meme Rider Media Team, National Bitter Melon Council, Okay Mountain Collective, Paper Tiger TV, Philly Stake, Preemptive Media, Publication Studio, RAGGA, Regional Relationships, Second Front, Students of the African Diaspora, subRosa, Temporary Services, The Pinky Show, W.A.G.E., and Work Progress Collective.
Temporary Services & Half Letter Press — At Least Five Difficulties: A Symposium on Artists’ Publishing, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada, July 12-14, 2019
At Least Five Difficulties: A Symposium on Artists’ Publishing is a three-day symposium focused on the real and potential role of artists’ books, zines, and democratic multiples as a social agent in communities at large, and as a force for change within the art world, during an era of rising authoritarian movements internationally. Our title refers to Bertolt Brecht’s essay Fünf Schwierigkeiten beim Schreiben der Wahrheit, or Five Difficulties in Writing the Truth (1934), an essay about the difficulties of using writing to oppose fascism. The problems elucidated by Brecht can be extended to art-making in general, but are particularly relevant to the distribution and selective formation of publics that is characteristic of artists’ publishing. The symposium is intended for artist-publishers, curators, and scholars from Canada and internationally, with special focus on artist-publishers embodying and working with queer, indigenous, disabled, working class, gender equity, and people-of-colour publics and issues within the context of artists’ publishing, but not excluding other types of activist focus.
A keynote presentation will be made by Martha Wilson, founder of Franklin Furnace Archive, and a keynote exhibition by Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press will be presented in the Libby Leshgold Gallery during the symposium.
Schedule (all locations are at Emily Carr University, 520 East 1st Avenue, Vancouver)
Friday, July 12, 6:00 pm: Fiona Banner in conversation with Kathy Slade (Rennie Hall)
Followed by a reception for the exhibition Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Pressn (Libby Leshgold Gallery)
Saturday, July 13 1:00 pm: Welcome, followed by “Revisiting Brecht’s Five Difficulties”, a talk by Kay Higgins (Rennie Hall) 2:30 pm: “Publication as a Transformative Strategy”, a talk by Laura Daviña of Publication Studio São Paulo (Rennie Hall) 4:00 pm: a talk by Sebastién Aubin (Rennie Hall) 6:30 pm: Keynote presentation by Martha Wilson (Reliance Theatre) followed by a reception
Sunday, July 14, 2:00 pm: “Can Artist Publishers Be Useful?” A group discussion moderated by Marc Fischer of Temporary Services/Half-Letter Press, followed by a publication exchange and barbeque
Libby Leshgold Gallery acknowledges that it is located on unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Public Presentation — Berliner Hefte meets … Brett Bloom, Books People Places, Berlin, Germany, June 15, 2019
Books People Places
Crellestr. 26
10827 Berlin
In 2015, we invited Temporary Services to participate in Drucken Heften Laden. Reflections on Theory and Practice of Independent Publishing at nGbK, where group member, Brett Bloom, gave a public lecture on Publishing in the Realm of Plant Fibres and Electrons. Brett’s current visit to Berlin provides us with the wonderful occasion to continue the conversation and talk with him about Temporary Services’ recent activities and projects.
Temporary Services was co-founded by Brett Bloom and Marc Fischer, and five others, in Chicago in 1998. Over more than 20 years they have been producing exhibitions, events, and, above all, books, booklets and other publications. Temporary Services seeks to create non-competitive relationships and strives towards aesthetic experiences built upon mutual trust and unlimited experimentation.
Temporary Services & Half Letter Press — Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair (LAABF), The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, California, April 12–April 14, 2019 (Opening Night April 11)
The LAABF returns this year after a brief hiatus. We are really happy to be attending this year!
Temporary Services & Half Letter Press — Copie Machine, PrintRoom, Rotterdam, Netherlands, March 2 – April 13, 2019
From 2 March until 13 April PrintRoom transforms into a free-for-all, free of charge, fully operating copy shop. Take any of the contributed works by over sixty participants, place it on the glass screen, hit that big green button. All stationary is provided to duplicate and create self-copied constellations bound together in book form. Copie Machine is a project by antoine lefebvre editions (FR) and Laura Morsch-Kihn (FR) with contributions by over sixty Rotterdam-based and international artists, designers, writers and theoreticians.
Sara MacKillop (UK) presents her new artist book Publications 2008-2018, published by Bierke Verlag, alongside a display of her self-published material produced during this ten-year period. We can also expect an intervention by Sara in our temporary copy shop.
Copie Machine kicks off with a performative presentation of Copy This Book by Eric Schrijver.
16.00 -18.00 Presentations by Sara MacKillop, Antoine Lefebvre and Eric Schrijver
20.00 – 1.00 Copie Machine – hit that green button!
Part of the Museumnacht010 programme.
Copie Machine, Temporary Photocopy Zone runs from 2 March – 13 April 2019.
More information:
With Copie Machine, antoine lefebvre editions and Laura Morsch-Kihn call for a copy-left paper jam. In this Temporary Autonomous Zone exclusive ownership is replaced by freedom of use, transformation and distribution under the Free Art License. The photocopier functions as a subversive tool inviting the viewer to become user, author and publisher; its formal office esthetics is just a cover-up. During the time of the exhibition we’ll create a publication with antoine lefebvre editions, Laura Morsch-Kihn and contributors to the project.
In tandem with Copie Machine Sara MacKillop will show playful and minimalistic works in which office equipment features as key component. Ballpoint pens, envelopes and Post-its form elements within her practice that can be arranged and rearranged into prints, publications and minimalist interventions such as Pencil Fence. By using mundane imagery and appropriating corporate identities she seamlessly blends art and the everyday, for example in her better known bootleg IKEA-catalogues.
Self-publishing is a key element within MacKillop’s practice, therefore a number of her publications will be on display besides some minimalist interventions.
Furthermore Eric Schrijver will do a performative lecture introducing the topic of copyright. His Copy This Book – An artist’s guide to copyright was recently published at Onomatopee, Eindhoven; critical as well as practical, Copy This Book invites its readers to take part in its redistribution.
Contributions by:
Kate Briggs, Arnaud Desjardin, El Corruptor, Wil van Iersel, gerlach en koop, Sara Mackillop, Nicole Martens, Stefan Marx, Cengiz Mengüç, Mark Pawson, Just Quist, Temporary Services, Thomas Walkaar, Erik van der Weijde, Ian Whittlesea, AGV, Anonyme, Atelier 17 17, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Pierre Belouin & François Coadou, Natalia Bobadilla, Leszek Brogowski & Aurélie Noury, Camille Carbonaro, Aymeric Chaslerie, Alex Chevalier, Rodolphe Cobetto-Caravanes, Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques, Nicolas Daubanes, Dominique De Beir, Demi Tour De France, Barbara Denis-Morel, Nil Dinç, Damien Dion, Sophia Djitli, Nico Dockx, documentation céline duval, Vanessa Dziuba, Arnaud Elfort, Expo-serPublier, Ryan Foerster, Anne Valérie Gasc, Misha Golebska, Mattias Gunnarson, Charlotte Hubert, Farah Khelil, P. Nicolas Ledoux, Cary Loren, Laurent Marissal, Pat McCarthy, Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Antoine Moreau, Omnivorous Persona, Andrée Ospina, Pierre et Gilles, Océane Ragoucy, Julie Redon, Jean-François Robic, Lucie Rocher, Benjamin Sabatier, SAEIO, Cédric Schonwald, Catherine Schwartz, Seitoung, Marie Sochor, Sun7 (Marie Glasser, Mattéo Tang, Carine Klonowski), Melchior Tersen, Mathieu Tremblin, Dennis Tyfus, Eric Watier, Werker, Nayel Zeaiter, Fabio Zimbres
Copie Machine is a production of the Edith research team from the Esadhar, Rouen.
The copy machine of Copie Machine is generously sponsored by Ophuysen, Rotterdam.
PrintRoom’s program is kindly supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL, the Mondrian Fund and the City of Rotterdam, department of Culture.
Temporary Services & Half Letter Press — Milwaukee Zine Fest, Milwaukee Public Library, Central Branch, Milwaukee, WI, April 6th, 2019
MZF times: 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Temporary Services & Half Letter Press — Foto Mercado, Ace Hotel, Chicago, IL, March 23 – 24, 2019
We are happy to be returning to this year’s Foto Mercado.
Foto Mercado, an all photo zine, book, & print fest, will be March 22-24, 2019 at the Ace Hotel Chicago. Free admission & DJ’s all day.
Temporary Services & Half Letter Press — Rrréplica—04, Mexico City, Mexico, February 2-3, 2019
MEETING / ENCOUNTER / CLASH OF REBELLIOUS / DISOBEDIENT / UNRULY / PUBLISHERS / PRINTERS / EDITORS / DUPLICATORS / TO CONFORM PUBLIC SPACE / TO CULTIVATE THE RIGHT TO DISSENT / TO ATTEND THE URGENCY / TO RESONATE!
Rrréplica is a non-profit, fiercely independent initiative. A gathering for the discussion and dissemination of the publishing practices of those who use the electronic stencil-printing technique, known as risography. It’s about publishing, conforming public space, cultivate the right to dissent, attend the urgency and resonate.
We are excited to once again be present for this fantastic independent fair organized by our friends Gato Negro Ediciones.
Temporary Services & Half Letter Press publications — Extension: Artists’ Books, Prints, and Zines, Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis Art Museum, Memphis, TN, October 14, 2018 – January 13, 2019
Extension, organized by guest curator Corkey Sinks, aims to reveal a spectrum of contemporary approaches to print media with an emphasis on self-publishing. Works in the exhibition range in scale, in edition size, and in material, from repeat-printed yardage to pocket-sized zines. (Zines are
typically small editioned booklets or pamphlets published by individuals or collectives.) These diverse works explore a number of themes visible in the work of El Taller de Grafíca Popular and Jean-Louis Forain including political theory, cultural identity, and social critique.
Featuring works by Abigail Lucien, Ricardo Vicente Ruiz, Daniel Leudtke, Liz Ensz, Emmy Bright, Yumi Sakugawa, Walls Divide Press, Temporary Services, and many others, artists offer urgent and intimate observations of their present conditions, reflections on history, and speculations upon the future.