Events
NY ART BOOK FAIR 2012
Preview: Thursday, September 27, 6–9pm
Friday, September 28, 12–7pm
Saturday, September 29, 11am–9pm
Sunday, September 30, 11am–7pm
Printed Matter presents the seventh annual NY Art Book Fair, from September 28 to 30, at MoMA PS1. A preview will be held on the evening of Thursday, September 27.
Free and open to the public, the NY Art Book Fair is the world's premier event for artists’ books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines presented by more than 250 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers from over twenty countries.
Lucy Lippard and Paul Chan are the keynote speakers for this year’s Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference—a dynamic, two-day symposium on emerging practices and debates within art-book culture. The Classroom—a curated series of artist-led workshops, readings, and discussions—will engage visitors in lively conversation all weekend long. The NY Art Book Fair will also include special project rooms, screenings, book signings, and performances throughout the weekend.
EVENT SCHEDULE
FEAT = Featured Programs & Performances
CLAS = The Classroom
CONF = Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference
BOOK = Book Signings
For descriptions on each event visit nyartbookfair.com
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
- 6 PM
- Sun Foot and Malcolm Mooney (FEAT)
- 7 PM
- Matt Wolf, I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard (CLAS)
- AA Bronson (General Idea), Liquid Assets (BOOK)
- 8 PM
- Matthias Herrmann, 69 and 270 West 17th Street #20C NY NY 10011 (BOOK)
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
- 11 AM
- Antoine D'Agata, Noiá (BOOK)
- 11:30 AM
- Sound and Text: Experiments in Transmedia Object Making (CONF)
- 12 PM
- Chrysanne Stathacos, The Wish Machines Travels, second edition (BOOK)
- Susan Silas, EYES WIDE SHUT (BOOK)
- 1 PM
- Creeps Human Binding Machine (CLAS)
- Daniel Everett, Standard Edition (BOOK)
- 2 PM
- Appropriation and Intellectual Property (CONF)
- The Grand Domestic Revolution Catalog (BOOK)
- Michael Dumontier & Micah Lexier, Call Ampersand Response (BOOK)
- 3 PM
- Weekday no. 3 Launch (CLAS)
- Malcolm Mooney, new LP record (BOOK)
- Chris Johanson and Eric Lyle, Streetop (BOOK)
- 4 PM
- Pecha Kucha: Artists' Publications (CONF)
- Karl Martens (CLAS)
- Franck André Jamme, Tantra Song (BOOK)
- 5 PM
- Album issue 7, presented by Eline Mugaas (CLAS)
- Brendan Fernandes, From Hiz Hands (BOOK)
- Enrique Santos, The Mexican Suitcase (BOOK)
- 5:30 PM
- Keynote: Paul Chan,"Publish to Perish" (CONF)
- 6 PM
- Swill Children, Sk Sk (CLAS)
- SculptureCenter celebrates the NY Art Book Fair (FEAT)
- J Carrier, Elementary Calculus (BOOK)
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
- 11 AM
- Joachim Schmid, Bilderbuch (BOOK)
- Travis Shaffer, Sorority Skin Tones - Government Girls (BOOK)
- Paul Soulellis, Weymouths and 273 Relics for John Cage (BOOK)
- Elisabeth Tonnard, We are small and Recounted (BOOK)
- 11:30 AM
- Graphic Notation and Artists' Books (CONF)
- 12 PM
- Why Don't Artbooks Rate Review? (CLAS)
- Yelena Kalinsky, ed., Collective Actions: Audience Recollections from the First Five Years, 1976-1981 (BOOK)
- Scott Burton, Collected Writings on art and Performance,1965–1975 (BOOK)
- André Feliciano, gardener André Feliciano: from Modern to Floraissance (BOOK)
- 1 PM
- On DIY Publishing and Exhibiting (CLAS)
- Buzz Spector, Buzzwords: Interviews with Buzz Spector (BOOK)
- Greg Stimac, Empire/Old Faithful Inversion (BOOK)
- 2 PM
- Focus on East Asia: Artists’ Books in Tokyo, Taipei and Seoul (CONF)
- El Instrumento y Su Obra: Luis Camnitzer in conversation Kristina Lee Podesva (CLAS)
- Masanao Hirayama, 4333 (BOOK)
- Christopher Bonanos, Instant: The Story of Polaroid Presented by Princeton Architectural Press (BOOK)
- Garry Neill Kennedy, The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968–1978 (BOOK)
- Jill Magid, Failed States (BOOK)
- 3 PM
- Diane Borsato, Terrestrial/Celestial (CLAS)
- Travis Edgy (Picture plane) and DJ Dog Dick (FEAT)
- New titles from Peauline Beaudemont, Vianney Fivel, Adrien Guillet, Anne-Sylvie Henchoz, Anne Le Trotter, and Suzanne Perrin (BOOK)
- Heather Benjamin, Sad Sex (BOOK)
- 4 PM
- Furthering the Critical Dialogue (CONF)
- Marco Poloni, Stringer Theory, or: On Waves, Surfers and other Mutants (CLAS)
- Ron Jude, Executive Model (BOOK)
- 5 PM
- Petra Cortright, HELL_TREE: a reading (CLAS)
- Tim Roda, The Butcher's Block Presented by Kodoji Press (BOOK)
- Elijah Burgher, Gayhouse (BOOK)
- Erica Baum, Dog Ear; Catherine Taylor, Apart (BOOK)
- 6 PM
- Keynote: Lucy Lippard, "Artists' Books, Then and Now" (CONF)
- A Cappella: A Program of Readings (CLAS)
- Stefan Ruiz, The Factory of Dreams; Barney Kulok, Building (BOOK)
- 7 PM
- Anouk Kruithof, Enclosed Content Chatting Away in the Colour Invisibility (CLAS)
- Amanda Marsalis, Reproduction (BOOK)
- Landon Metz, Photo Journal (BOOK)
- 7:30 PM
- Closing Reception & Book Signing with Paul Chan and Lucy Lippard (CONF/BOOK)
- 8 PM
- Reuben Lorch-Miller, The Human Dam (CLAS)
- New publications by Peter Sutherland and Jesse Hlebo & Andrew Laumann (BOOK)
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
- 11 AM
- Cara Phillips, Singular Beauty (BOOK)
- 12 PM
- Tom McCarthy and Simon Critchley (CLAS)
- Diana Scherer, Nurture Studies (BOOK)
- Courtney Childress & Aaron Krach, Wanting Everything More (BOOK)
- 1 PM
- Alexis Zavialoff and Erik van der Weijde (CLAS)
- The Electric Information Age LP (FEAT)
- Filip Noterdaeme, Madame Bovary, Lettre à un religieux, and the artist's catalogue raisonné (BOOK)
- Gee Vaucher, Punk: An Aesthetic (BOOK)
- 2 PM
- Commerce by Artists (CLAS)
- Hito Steyerl and Brian Kuan Wood (FEAT)
- Dan Graham, New Jersey (BOOK)
- Ari Macropoulos, Out To Lunch (BOOK)
- 3 PM
- Jeanine Oleson and Johanna Burton, Sometimes you can't be there... (CLAS)
- Doron Sadja (FEAT)
- Conversation with Terry Smith (FEAT)
- A Short Course on Resistance presented by Art Comments
- Amy Stein & Stacy Mehrfar, Tall Poppy Syndrome; Brian Finke, Construction (BOOK)
- Susan Mills, Twentysix Flowers (BOOK)
- 4 PM
- Emma Hedditch and Isla Leaver-Yap, The Obscure Woman (CLAS)
- Mickey Smith, Denudation (BOOK)
- Bernhard Cella, and . learning english has no use (BOOK)
- 5 PM
- Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada, 1965–1980 (FEAT)
- Grace Kim, Foam Magazine #32 (BOOK)
- 6 PM
- Sex Magazine with David Senior and Philip Aarons (CLAS)
- Michalis Pichler, SOME MORE SONNET(S) (BOOK)
- Eric Doeringer, Michael Maranda, Michalis Pichler, and The Yes Men, July, August, September 2012 Presented by "greatest hits" (BOOK)
