BAS/Bent, Istanbul @ MISS READ
MISS READ invited international publishers to show their Artist Books.
September 4 to 6, 2009
Opening: Friday, September 4, 2009, 3 - 7 pm
Saturday, September 5 + Sunday, September 6, 2009, noon - 7 pm
2nd Cannons Publications, Los Angeles | argobooks, Berlin | BAS/Bent, Istanbul and basso magazin, Berlin | Book Works, London | Christoph Keller Editions bei JRP|Ringier, Zurich | Dexter Sinister, New York | documentation céline duval, Houlgate | Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich | GAGARIN, Antwerp | Half Letter Press/Temporary Services, Chicago | information as material, York | MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Ghent | Michalis Pichler, Berlin | onestar press/Three Star Books, Paris | P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, Ljubljana | Passenger Books, Berlin/Montreal | Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen | Printed Matter, Inc., New York | Roma Publications, Amsterdam | Salon Verlag, Cologne | Schlebrügge.Editor/Fama & Fortune Bulletin, Vienna | Spector Books, Leipzig | Sternberg Press, Berlin/New York | Torpedo Press, Oslo | Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne | ZINE'S MATE, Tokyo
Miss Read has invited international publishers to show a selection of their artist books und wants to provide the opportunity to examine this diverse and exquisite assortment, to explore it and to take it home. As a genre of its own, the artist book reflects contemporary ways of artistic production and publishing to a great extent and also addresses issues of presentation and circulation as well as new strategies of distribution. Miss Read is a joint event with the publishers argobooks and Michalis Pichler and wants to draw attention to the diversity of the contemporary scene of publishing for the first time in Berlin.
Lectures, presentations and discussions
Saturday, September 5, 2009
3 pm: Christoph Keller: "Books make Friends, but ..."
4 pm: Temporary Services: "Do It Yourself Motherfuckers: Self-Publishing and Artistic Accountability"
5 pm: Stephan (Pronto) Müller: "print matters"
6 pm: Publisher Talk
Sunday, September 6, 2009
3 pm: Stuart Bailey (Dexter Sinister)
4 pm: Antonia Hirsch: "Letters from the West Coast"
5 pm: Axel John Wieder: "Publishing activism"
6 pm: Jonathan Monk: "Beginning/Middle/End etc."
Imprint Berlin:
Presentation of Berlin-based publishers
b_books | Michael Baers | Anita Di Bianco | DADDY | extra verlag | freier | FUKT | The Green Box | Holzwarth Publications | Martin Schmitz Verlag | Memphis, Times, Courier | Merve Verlag | mono.kultur | Peperoni Books | REPRODUKT | Revolver Publishing | Roman Schramm | Starship | Barbara Wien | Westphalie Verlag | /100
More Program:
On September 3, 2009, at 7 pm the exhibition KIOSK Modes of Multiplication will open in the Art Library Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. KIOSK is a travelling and continually expanding archive on the status of independent publishing in the field of contemporary art since the 1990s. This project was founded by Christoph Keller in 2001 and has been hosted by more than 20 international institutions - including KW in 2005. In 2007 the archive was purchased by the Art Library. www.smb.museum
On September 5, 2009, the magazine store Motto will be staging the event UNTER DEM MOTTO. One Day Self Publishing Fair from noon to midnight. Nieves books, Rollo Press and Motto have brought together 40 independent publishers who will present their publications at Motto and in the neighboring Chert Galerie. www.mottodistribution.com
More Books:
September 3, 2009 | mono.klub #25 | 8 pm | Screening and Launch Party of mono.kultur #21: Tilda Swinton | Tante Käthe | Bernauer Str. 63/64 | 10335 Berlin | www.mono-kultur.com
September 4 - 12, 2009 | Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2008 | Opening: September 4, 2009, 6 pm | do you read me?! | Auguststr. 28 | 10117 Berlin | www.doyoureadme.de
September 5, 2009 | Art Word Lovers | 2 - 6 pm | Anna-Catharina Gebbers | Bibliothekswohnung | Ziegelstr. 2, 6th Floor | 10117 Berlin | www.bibliothekswohnung.com
September 5, 2009 | A Talk by Zak Kyes with Matthew Evans | 8.30 pm | Pro qm | Almstadtstr. 48-50 | 10119 Berlin | www.pro-qm.de
MISS READ is cofinanced by the European Union (European Fund for Regional Development. Investing in Your Future!) and supported by the American Embassy.