TALK  |  A LONG TABLE PRESENTED by ROMY RüEGGER, MARGIT SäDE, ROSALIE SCHWEIKER, FELICIA VAN ZWEIGBERGK, MARIA GUGGENBICHLER, A FREI 

with contributions from BUTCHER’S TEARS Amsterdam, THE EMELY London, FUNNY WOMEN ART Munich, LOST PROPERTY Amsterdam, SISTER FROM ANOTHER MISTER Amsterdam, SPACKL PRESS Zurich, ROLLO PRESS Zurich, TRIIN TAMM, FELICIA VAN ZWEIGBERGK ∞ Fribourg 

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— A long table, beer, bread, flowers. Publications on a shelf. Conversations with hosts, guests and ghosts. Music and muzak  |  →  30 NOV/01 DEC  1–8pm   |  Pastrengo

 

 

DISPLAY  |  BLADE–BANNER by ALESSANDRA TEMPESTI, DEREK DI FABIO,

ENRICO BOCCIOLETTI, ISAMIT MORALES

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— Through B–B artists are invited to produce an image all-over printed in a 1x1m silk fabric, as a symbolic 'pixel' cut from their world. This series of module is a collection produced by _\|/_ and showed during the salon, fed every year by new collaborations, with the idea of building the content for a future itinerant exhibition that can present a view of the most vibrant italian art scene. The banners exist in two copies, one given to the author while the other is kept in the collection  |  →  29 NOV/01 DEC  1–8pm  |  Isola Libri + MiCamera + Les Mots + Spazio B**K + Folder Bookshop 

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SCREENING  |  SLIDE SHOWS by CHARLOTTE CHEETHAM Paris

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— Slide Shows, a series of self-portraits, offers one possible landscape of a newly emerging scene of independent and contemporary art publishing. Curated by Charlotte Cheetham and produced by Fillip — the initiative began in 2012 in conjunction with Fillip’s Institutions by Artists conference in the fall of 2012 in Vancouver, and took the form of a series of videos hosted on Tumblr. With the sequential rhythm of the pages of a book, the slideshows depict portraits of publishers, artists, designers, booksellers, and other leading figures of contemporary independent and art publishing. Through the familiar [nostalgic] format of consecutive captioned images, these slideshow videos are mobilized in the service of these characters, whose images and texts speak to a still developing horizon of practice, as if they anticipate the transmission of a still moving memory, thus captured for a moment. This partially decontextualized narrative space in which information is displayed in a state of silent diffusion [such as the book] can be freely visited alone, on a computer, or with others as when the videos were first presented. [A wink to the noxious zapping rhythm of information online, but here presented so that its stories may be savoured, its collected archive is unpacked.] After a pocket guide that was printed and inserted into the Fillip #18, the project will culminate in a printed volume that will document each slideshow, available in 2014. Enjoy!  |  →  29 NOV  4–6pm | 30 NOV  3–6pm | 01 DEC  1–3pm   |  Teatro Verdi

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SCREENING  |  BOOK NOTES 1998-2012 video by CHRISTOPH SCHIFFERLI Zurich 

curated by RIO GRANDE

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— I started using a digital camera in the late 90s, mostly in art exhibitions were I took pictures of the artwork together with the small tags on the side stating the name of the artist, etc. I later started using the camera also for books, taking a quick picture of the cover with some spreads and the impressum [and possibly of the price if it was a rare book]. Since the date is automatically registered when you take a digital picture, I still had to take note of the location [these were pre-GPS times]. So I started taking pictures of the gallerist, artist or bookdealer to keep a record of the place or context. Anyway - I still do this all the time. Finally these pictures also became a visual diary - but this happened more coincidentally and as a side effect, and I became aware of the diary effect much later in the process. Anyway, the small MPG-video I sent you is just a small selection of images from the ca. 5,000 book-related notes I showed at Christophe Daviet-Thery’s gallery in Paris. Christoph Schifferli  |  →  29 NOV/01 DEC non-stop   |  Galleria Ostrakon

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PERFORMANCE  |  GIORGIO MAFFEI COLLECTION – DA ~ DA ~ DA

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— A selection of artist’s books from the archive of the collector Giorgio Maffei Turin will be made available through a device that will play with the public and the archive itself, showing some special works by Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Ettore Sottsass, Gordon Matta-Clark, Brad Brace, James Lee Byars, Giulio Paolini, Dieter Roth, Franco Vaccari, Luigi Ontani, Dan Graham, Bruno Munari, General Idea, Alighiero Boetti and many others. Alice Bescapè will perform the action  |  →  30 NOV/01 DEC  5–8pm  |  Pijama

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FOCUS  |  F ~ R ~ E ~ E   P ~ R ~ E ~ S ~ S  =  DOWNLOAD AS YOU CAN !

with NERO Rome, SUBBACULTCHA! Amsterdam/Gent, SUPPORT YOUR LOCALS Milano,  ZERODEUX Nantes

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— Free printed matter, working through more or less official distribution strategies, is an important resource for contents mainly focused on specific territories. _\|/_ has made a selection of some of the most interesting european publications – some of which presented in Italy for the first time – that will be distributed in all the _\|/_ venues. The entire archive of each publication will be available to download in .pdf in a dedicated area set up in Guerra’s studio. Recommended: Bring Your USB Key!  |  →  29 NOV/01 DEC  2–8pm  |  Studio Matias Guerra

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DISPLAY–TALK  |  LIBROS MUTANTES — MADRID ART BOOK FAIR

with Silvia Bianchi and Ricardo Juarez;

works by Alfredo Rodríguez, Andres Gallardo, BFlecha, Coke Bartrina, Elena Gallén, LLiure Briz, Nano4814, Irene Alvarez, Carlos Arroyo Galaxia, SuTurno

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— Now at its fourth edition, LM represents an important moment of encounter between the Spanish and international artistic scenes. Taking place at the cultural center La Casa Encendida [Madrid], each year LM welcomes more than 4000 visitors and 50 exhibitors from around the world. An exhibition will take place at spazio Agalma, with books that retrace the project’s steps through the work of some of its most interesting artists. During the opening LM’s curators will share rituals, anecdotes and formulas that have characterized their journey, leading up to their recent collaboration with Printed Matter in NY  |  →  29 NOV  6–11pm  |  Talk 8pm  |  Agalma

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TALK  |  LA SCHERZOSA ABITUDINE DI PARLARE IN RAMA with ZOE DE LUCA

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— Ramblings and instructions on Light, the latest issue of Diorama Magazine  |  →  30 NOV  4–5pm  |  Galleria Ostrakon

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TALK–SCREENING  |  PARLAMI DI TE with ILARIA TURBA, TIZIANO DORIA, CLAUDE MARZOTTO, GIULIA TICOZZI, curated by CAROLE SIMONETTI & DILETTA ZANELL I 

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— The videos document the work produced during PARLAMI DI TE, a series of eight workshops led by four young artists. The participants worked together to create a series of self-produced books in a single copy. Interpersonal relationships and dialogue between generations are the basis of the issues addressed by the project, which will be examined Sunday, December 1st in a conversation with the artists and curators. A project of the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Cinisello Balsamo in collaboration with the Cultural Center Il Pertini  |  →  29 NOV/01 DIC  4–8pm  |  Talk 01 DIC  2–3pm  |  c-r-u-d

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TALK  |  WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE PRIMITIVE HUT? 

with SAN ROCCO Editors, Matilde Cassani, Andrea Branzi and Giovanni La Varra

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— They will discuss together about the next issue ready for printing: What's wrong with the primitive hut?  |  →  30 NOV  5–7pm  |  Agalma

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TALK  |  SELECTION  #1, 2010–2013 with Patrice Joly Paris

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— Katinka Bock, Aurélien Froment, Klara Lidén, Benoît Maire, Michael Riedel, Sterling Ruby and Elodie Seguin, Morgane Tschiember, are few of the artists included in the book which brings together a selection of material published in the last three years on ZéroDeux, a French free magazine about criticism and analysis of the international art scene. We will talk about it with the founder Patrice Joly  |  →  01 DEC  3–4pm  |  Galleria Ostrakon

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TALK  |  SUPPORT YOUR LOCALS with LORENZO TRICOLI & GIULIA ZORZI

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— Founded in 2012 in the Milan neighborhood called Isola [Island], Support Your Locals is a free photo-publication aimed to explore people and their trajectories in an urban area dense with history and humanity. Together with Lorenzo Tricoli, we’ll discover the main steps in the development of the SYL project, which is now at its fourth issue  |  →   01 DEC  6–7pm  |  Galleria Ostrakon

 

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POSTER–CATALOGUE  |  DAFNE BOGGERI

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— Dancing on a frame digital collage, poster 56x84 cm, paper 250 gr., edition of 600, free to the public – The poster image was born by combining a series of illustrations and logos taken from fruits and vegetables packaging found walking through the street market of Isola district, the SPRINT neighborhood  |  →  29 NOV/01 DEC  1–8pm  |  O'