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And it begins! The Vancouver Art Book Fair is off to a great start. Come see us and all the other amazing tables between now and Sunday! 12-6pm both days. I speak at 3pm on Saturday. See you soon! #vabf2015 @kirstenmccrea #papirmass
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Vancouver, I'm in you! If you're here, come and see me talk about Paper Pusher as an experimental publishing lab! I'll talk all about Paper Pusher's origins and some of the most exciting projects from the past five years. In addition, I'll demystify this rhetoric of "experiments" and "laboratories", and will ask all sorts of questions to get your publishing brain dancing. Happening this Saturday, 3pm, Vancouver Art Gallery (in the Library). #vabf2015
polishing off a lil zine for #vabf2015 .. See ya there! 📖
No-Shoes Reading Room @ 2015 Vancouver Art/Book Fair
Curated by Christian Vistan, with projects and publications by:
The Office of Culture and Design and Hardworking Goodlooking (Manila) Temporary Services (Chicago) Other Sights (Vancouver) Sinelismo (Vancouver) Antena (Los Angeles) Regional Relationships (US) The Migrant Bodies Project and Alexa Solveig Mardon (Vancouver) Public Recordings (Toronto) The Centre of Urban Pedagogy (NY) Apogee Journal (NY)
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Elevator Dances, text and performance by Robert Azevedo (Oct 17, Saturday, in the annex elevators, every hour from 12-5PM)
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Eventually Capitalism Wins: Slowing Monopoly, an extra curricular activity by The School of Eventual Vacancy (Oct 18, Sunday 3-5PM)
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A banig, a woven mat used for sitting and sleeping in the Philippines and other parts of Southeast Asia, houses the books and publications in this year’s presentation of the VA/BF Library and Archive project as the No Shoes Reading Room. With an invitation to visitors to take off their shoes, the banig and reading room function as a communal space for to sit and read at this year’s fair.
Banig weaving has a very long history in the Philippines, handed down as a practice, trade and tradition for generations. Today there are several banig festivals across the country that celebrate the object as well as the different cultures and activities around it. Based around these ideas of the banig as a communal space, an object and a site of cultural production, the books, artists and publications in the No Shoes Reading Room take up or document different forms of cultural productions: community-oriented projects and discussions; work and practices that address space, surroundings and peripheries; or the making of books themselves.
