OEI release #86-87 och om publicering och utvidgade böcker

OEI bringing together contributions from circa 130 publishing structures, publishing communities, magazines, small press endeavors, artists, poets, writers, editors, theoreticians, curators, scholars, and art bookstores, OEI # 86–87 reflects upon the challenges, pressures and possibilities of publishing and creating publics in different contexts and places in a time of far-reaching – economical, medial, political, social, technological – transformations.

The potential and the versatility of publishing open it to a diversity of practices and approaches in the arts, but as an eminently social form of art, a collective or micro-collective work with shared responsibilities, it is also a never-ending process of “crafting a variegated approach to how you create, publish, distribute, and build a social ecosystem around your efforts”, of trying to “build up and strengthen the community around these printed forms” (Temporary Services).

NÄR: Onsdag 4 mars

Kl 15–17:
Jonas (J) Magnusson & Cecilia Grönberg presenterar deras pågående konstnärliga projekt:
”The Expanded Book, stratigraphy, materiality, locality (with special reference to Billingen, Borgundaberget, Brunnhemsberget, Dynkullen, Gerumsberget, Gisseberget, Halleberg, Hunneberg, Kinnekulle, Lugnåsberget, Myggeberget, Mösseberg, Plantaberget, Tovaberget, Varvsberget, and Ålleberg.”
I samtal med Nils Olsson


Kl 18–21:
Presentation av OEI # 86-87: publiceringspraktiker, publiceringspoetiker (624 sidor, red. Jonas (J) Magnusson & Cecilia Grönberg)

Medverkande: Bengt Berg, Helena Eriksson, Dan Fröberg, Cecilia Grönberg, Kerstin Hamilton, Jenny Högström, Jonas (J) Magnusson, Nils Olsson, Johan Redin & Elin Wikström

VAR: Glashuset, Akademin Valand, Vasagatan 50 (ingång via Chalmersgatan)


Nästa anhalt för OEI är galleriet Index torsdagen den femte mars och då påannonserar man via mail följande:

Please join us at Index for an evening on publishing practices & publishing poetics at the occasion of the release of the new 640 page issue of OEI, # 86–87.

Bringing together contributions from circa 130 publishing structures, publishing communities, magazines, small press endeavors, artists, poets, writers, editors, theoreticians, curators, scholars, and art bookstores, OEI # 86–87 reflects upon the challenges, pressures and possibilities of publishing and creating publics in different contexts and places in a time of far-reaching – economical, medial, political, social, technological – transformations.

The potential and the versatility of publishing open it to a diversity of practices and approaches in the arts, but as an eminently social form of art, a collective or micro-collective work with shared responsibilities, it is also a never-ending process of “crafting a variegated approach to how you create, publish, distribute, and build a social ecosystem around your efforts”, of trying to “build up and strengthen the community around these printed forms” (Temporary Services).

It is the conviction of OEI #86–87 that print has the power to play an important part in the construction of social spaces, of a social world. As Benjamin Thorel puts it in one of the essays in the issue, “conceiving of the dynamics of publishing as making publics as well as making things public is not a pun – insofar as the artists/publishers encompass, beyond the book itself, its possible ‘lives’, imagining the different spaces, and the different people, amongst whom a publication will circulate.” This is what Michael Warner has called “a public [as] poetic worldmaking”, implying “that all discourse or performance addressed to a public must characterize the world in which it attempts to circulate, projecting for that world a concrete and livable shape, and attempting to realize that world through address.”

This is also, as stressed by Annette Gilbert and others, what can make publishing such an active force, a force co-constituting texts and publications and publics. Indeed, with Michalis Pichler, it is tempting to say that in publishing as practice – perhaps more than in any other art field – “artists have been able to assert the aesthetic value of their own socio-politically informed concerns and to engage, often under precarious conditions, in cultural activities fully aligned with their political values.”

OEI #86–87 also includes sections on and with contemporary poetry from Canada; Fluxus publishing; Krister Brandt/Astrid Gogglesworth; Kalas på BORD (Öyvind Fahlström); Lars Fredrikson; Claude Royet-Journoud’s poetry magazines; Carl Einstein; Gail Scott; Ållebergshändelser; OEI #79: edit/publish/distribute!; “det offentligas försvinnande”

At Index a number of publishing projects, artists and writers – Art Distribution, Dark Mountain (Dougald Hine), Det Grymma Svärdet, Dockhaveri, OEI, Rab-Rab, STYX, and Carla Zaccagnini – will present their publishing practices and discuss their publishing poetics and publishing ecologies. Language: Swedish and English

Subscribers are welcome to pick up their copies.

Thursday March 5
6.30 – 9.30 PM
Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation
Kungsbro Strand 19, Stockholm

Visst utmanande och spännande i det svåra pejla in riktigt vad det är för, till exempel grupperingar det handlar om, "number of publishing projects"!

Därefter drar OEI vidare till Australien:

OEI at Melbourne Art Book Fair, March 13, 14, 15

The Melbourne Art Book Fair 2020 will bring together publishers, artists and designers to showcase some of the world’s best art and design publications for discussions, book launches and workshops. The Melbourne Art Book Fair will take place throughout the NGV International from Friday 13th March – Sunday 15th March, 10am – 5pm.

Efter det är det svårt sia vad som händer med OEI.

Utlagt av Bo Pettersson

Publicerad: 2020-03-03

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