PA/PER VIEW
ART BOOK FAIR
Av. Van Volxemlaan 354, B-1190 Brussels
1–3 April, 2011, 11–6pm
Preview
31 March, 2011, 6–9pm
www.paperviewartbookfair.org
www.merpaperkunsthalle.org
www.wiels.org
Now in its third year, PA/PER VIEW Art book fair will present 33 of the globe’s leading artist book publishers. This convergence of reputable and exciting initiatives will take place in the mezzanine of Wiels from 6pm Thursday 31st March until 6pm Sunday 3rd April 2011. Leave your laptop behind and come and browse amongst the finest titles of these consistent players of the printed word and image.
Alongside the fair, on the evening of Friday April 1 at 6–8pm, Agency (the generic name of a Brussels-based agency that was established in 1992 by Kobe Matthys) proposes to assemble around a specific selection of things from it’s list. During Assembly (PA/PER VIEW) Thing 001452 (Orion) and Thing 001535 (Introductory Language Work) will bear witness. A diverse group of summoned concerned guests will “translate” for these things: Thorsten Baensch (publisher Bartleby), Sari Depreeuw (legal scholar VUB), Manuel Raeder (graphic designer), OSP (Open Source Publishing: Ivan Monroy Lopez/Seb Sanfilippo/Femke Snelting/etc..), Ziga Testen (graphic designer), etc…
Thing 001452 (Orion) concerns a controversy between Eltra and the copyright registration office. Eltra deposited the typeface Orion at the copyright registration office, but the office refused to recognize typefaces. During a court case of 1978 the judge had to decide if a typeface can be protected by copyrights. Thing 001535 (Introductory Language Work) concerns a controversy between the publisher Maynard Merrill and the second hand paper dealer Harrison. Harrison obtained from a damaged paper stock pages of Introductory Language Work, and bound these together into a book. Maynard Merrill attempted to forbid this, cause he considered the bookbinding a derivative work. During a court case of 1894 the judge had to decide if bookbinding can be protected by copyrights.
Also included in the PA/PER VIEW programme is a children’s workshop with artists/authors: Michel Francois, Kendell Geers, Katerina Gregos, Gabriel Kuri, Ives Maes, Sophie Nys, Els Opsomer, Wouter Van Riesen, Bernard Villers, and Zin Taylor. This workshop is given in collaboration with Making Do and Wiels and takes place on Saturday 2nd April from 11–6pm. For more information go to www.paperviewartbookfair.org or www.Wiels.org
The basic idea is that ten given artists/writers/individuals who have made a book will take one of their existing books as a starting point for the recreation of another. The bookmakers/authors will decide how to engage with 4-5 children aged 6-10 years of age, in order to transform and rethink a publication into one of their own. This process might involve tearing it apart, painting or writing over it, mixing it with another publication, shuffling the order of pages, etc. It is entirely up to the author to reflect upon the modus to follow in order to recreate his/her publication. The children will then take this remade book home as a “reward.”
On April 2nd, 2–7 pm, WIELS hosts the fifth edition of the conference “Communisms’ Afterlives”, organized by Elena Sorokina and Natasa Petresin-Bachelez for The Public School Brussels, produced by Komplot. Assisted by Agata Jastrzabek.
With contributions by Dessislava Dimova, Keti Chukhrov, Charles Esche, Suman Gupta, Nicoline van Harskamp, Vivian Rehberg, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor
Through a series of polemic dialogues, the conference traces different generations of intellectuals (artists, curators, philosophers, art historians) from the former East and West of Europe that deal with “shades of red”, the afterlives of communism and its (un)expected turning points in its most recent philosophical and artistic reception. Perceived from a greater distance today, communism has re-emerged as a topic for investigation in artistic and exhibition production that reflects it in diverse ways, addressing the relevance of the term today or inviting provocative comparisons with the present. Please book your seat on www.thepublicschoolbrussels.org
PUBLISHERS LIST
2nd Cannons (US)
A Prior (BE)
AKV Berlin (DE)
Archive Books (IT)
Art Paper Editions (BE)
Bartleby & Co (BE)
Book Works (UK)
CNEAI (FR)
Culturgest (PT)
Daviet-Thery (FR)
Edition Fink (CH)
Gagarin (BE)
Gevaerteditions (BE)
Incertain Sens (FR)
Jan Van Eyck Academie (NL)
Kaugummi Books (FR)
La Bibliothèque fantastique (FR)
Lubok Verlag (DE)
Making Do (UK)
Manifesta Journal (NL)
Mer-Paper Kunsthalle (BE)
More Publishers (BE)
Mousse (IT)
Onomatopée (NL)
Pork Salad Press (DK)
Post Editions (NL)
Ridinghouse (UK)
Roma Publications (NL)
Torpedo Press (NO)
Tulips & Roses (BE)
Witte de With (NL)
Zabludowicz Collection (UK)
Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E (SI)
Motto (CH/DE)
