Launch of e-flux Index 3

Please join us at the SPRINT Milano Art Book Fair for the launch of e-flux Index #3, featuring a conversation between Ben Eastham, editor-in-chief of e-flux Criticism, and Barbara Casavecchia, editor-in-chief of Mousse Magazine, moderated by George MacBeth, editor of e-flux Index.

In a talk entitled “Tracking Changes in the Expanded Field of Art Criticism,” they will discuss the changing role of criticism in the “expanded field” of contemporary art. Taking for a starting point Carla Lonzi’s expanded and agonistic understanding of the activity of criticism, as outlined in her enduringly influential Autoritratto (Self-Portrait), the speakers will examine how an increasingly unstable and obscure form might adapt to the changing ways in which art is produced and understood, and what the function of criticism might be today.

e-flux Index is a new print journal surveying the breadth of contemporary culture through e-flux’s publishing on art, theory, architecture, film, criticism, and art education. Featuring e-flux’s commissioned pieces from April–May 2024, the third issue of e-flux Index includes contributions from 76 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and theorists from many parts of the world.

e-flux Index 3 will be available to purchase at SPRINT, and is already available to purchase online and in select bookstores worldwide. It is distributed by Art Metropole (Canada), Asterism Books (USA), Antenne Books (UK, Europe), Les presses du réel (Europe), The Book Society (East Asia), and Walter Koenig Buchandhlung (Germany, Austria). Annual subscriptions to e-flux Index are available for both institutions and individual readers.

Free and open to the public, SPRINT Milano Art Book Fair is a non-profit and artists-run multi-day celebration of independent and artist publishing projects, featuring over 180 local, national, and international publishers, as well as a diverse line-up of artists’ projects, performances, screenings, and public talks. Devoted to investigate and nurture, with a sustainable and inclusive approach, the multiple ways in which contents, supports, and languages emerge in publishing, SPRINT welcomes artists of everything from books, magazines, zines, and printed ephemera to digital, performative, or other experimental forms of publication. The upcoming edition will open its public program from November 22, 6–10pm, while the art book fair and the public program’s continuation will happen on November 23 & 24, 11am–9pm, in Milan at Spazio Maiocchi and Regina Giovanna – Porta Venezia district.

SPRINT’s upcoming edition comes from an idea by O’ non profit association, in collaboration with GALATTICA, in partnership with Slam Jam and has been made possible by the cultural partnerships with Archivio Slam Jam, Istituto Cervantes, and Istituto Svizzero, with support from Ricola, thanks to the collaboration of Deborah Schamoni, Munich and Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin.