One more year of our lovely collaboration with the Athens Art Book Fair. 

Listen to all the talks of this year's public program categorized in five thematics:

📚 Community, Collaboration, Trans-locality
Centering social transformation beyond and through artistic practice, these three talks reflect on the use of printed matter to imagine, develop and maintain relationships.

📚 Dialogue, Research, Cross-disciplinary practice
From photobooks, to multi-language texts and sound works these three talks reflect on printed matter as a discursive medium across disciplines. 

📚 Identity, Embodiment, Resistance
Emphasising the everyday politics of embodiment, these three talks evince the crucial role that independent publishing plays in artistic discourse, activism, and movements for representation.

📚 Who runs independent art book fairs?
Art book fairing as a creative, political act that supports communities: Meet the work of four independent artist/publishing teams behind large international art book fairs. 

📚 Greek Feminist Periodicals
Three talks centering the historical and contemporary significance of feminist publishing in Greece, both locally and internationally, as critique of power and vector for social change.

The talks were recorded during the three days of the fair on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th of October.

Talks Program : Athens Art Book Fair 2024

Mick Wills started playing his beloved DJ sets about thirty years ago. In the early 90’s DJ Hell took note of his talent and got him aboard as a resident of the legendary days of International Deejay Gigolo.
As the selector of the whole era of dance music his sets might be better described as master classes.
Wills built up his reputation fast throughout the world and locally at places such as Ultraschall, Trouw, Golden Pudel, and Concrete. Mick Wills is also a dedicated producer.
Mick is a freak and an avid record collector playing like every night is his last. Again and again and again...
(Recorded* @ Mutabor / Moscow - 02.01.2022/ *some reconstructed parts due to technical problems)

Mick Wills [12.01.2022]

K.atou... isBurning #101

XDB is Kosta Athanassiadis – German by birth and in residence, with Greek parentage. He started djing in the early 90s and still plays vinyl only. Over the years his music was released on labels like Dolly, Harbour City Sorrow and Sistrum. In 2006 he started the record label Metrolux. There’s a refreshing lack of gimmickry to his approach – keeping it low-key allows him to be judged solely on the basis of talent. Enjoy!

TASCAM DR-05X

ITPS087 XDB

Coated Spirits performing a live experimental audio-textual score titled “RE:IN_THE_THROAT_OF_LAUGHTER” inspired by explorations of spectres in silent films and uses of laughter in feminist comedy studies.

A unique cinematic journey featuring a curated selection of contemporary silent films, with a live performance of sonic landscapes and textual excerpts.

Participating FIlms: TRANSMISSION by Shan Leigh Pomeroy, Unspoken by Milica Denkovic, A fiction right after you wake up by Takahiro Ueno, Fragile Works by Georgia Maria Papoutsi, Negative / Positive Film by Federica Foglia, Sunshine Cake by Kristijonas Dirsė, Another Birth by Rose Ansari, My Coloring Book by Sara Jekely, Burnt Fox by Jaron Kuehmstedt, Kwan Lok Tung, Tse Hiu Yin, Wang Shuxin, Gatita Acústica by John Coulter, This is not a GIF by Jules Ronfard, Intermission by Réka Bucsi, Chamber of Shadows by Seyoung Ok, Lil Sherbet by Xinhe Zhao, MOVE by Bernardo Alevato, Taianne Oliveira

6BCKFS: Coated Spirits

limited 50 Cassettes  
Release Date 15 February 2024

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DJ LOW DEE - NOT ME  (SFH002)

Recording @ TES Club / Tbilisi,Georgia 23.11.2023

DJ Problems @ TES Club 23.11.2023 / Tbilisi

A roof to grow
Ersi Varveri and Gijs Waterschoot/ Pink house press (Syros, Greece)

Pink House Press will present ‘A Roof to Grow’, a project focused on the renovation of their studio on Syros Island. The creation of a green roof using locally-sourced materials, funded by a special marmalade edition made from figs harvested on the island. This talk will explore how building the roof reshaped the press’s character, influencing their publishing approach to focus on growth, collaboration, and resilience. Trading their photocopier for a cooking pot, the press emphasises on a hands-on, regenerative approach. The green roof, which supports native plants and provides natural insulation, embodies Pink House Press’s dedication to sustainability, adaptability, and community engagement. 


Pink House Press, founded by visual artists and researchers Ersi Varveri and Gijs Waterschoot, is an independent publisher with roots in Antwerp and a current base on Syros Island, Greece. The press produces a wide range of printed matter, including zines, books, posters, and marmalade editions. Committed to fostering collaboration and community, Pink House Press embraces a site-specific approach to publishing, creating works that engage with local contexts while transcending geographical boundaries. Their work often involves collective processes, where the act of making books becomes a shared experience.

https://pinkhousepress.org/

Pink House Press: A roof to grow

Oaza Books by Oaza Collective
Nina Bačun and Roberta Bratović / OAZA BOOKS (Zagreb, Croatia)

An introduction to the horizontal collaborative practice of OAZA COLLECTIVE, with a spotlight on the OAZA BOOKS project, initiated in 2016 by its members.

OAZA, an all-female collective, was founded in 2013 by six artists and designers: Nina Bačun, Ivana Borovnjak, Roberta Bratović, Tina Ivezić, Maja Kolar, and Maša Poljanec. Since then, OAZA has been continuously involved in art and design research-based projects within the independent cultural sector.

OAZA BOOKS is an independent publishing venture focusing on art, artistic research, design, poetry, and illustration. The books are designed, edited, and published by OAZA in Zagreb.

https://www.oazabooks.com/

Oaza Books: Oaza Books by Oaza Collective

Community Over Everything
Caterina Ragg / Homie House Press (Milano, Italy / Baltimore, USA)

Caterina Ragg will discuss publishing as a community building practice, the urgency of funding our own spaces to dismantle elite art, and how photography intersects with personal and political.

Caterina Ragg is a photographer, photo editor, designer and along with Adriana Monsalve is the co-founder of Homie House Press.

https://www.adrianastories.com/

Homie House Press: Community Over Everything

The Personal is Political
Kaamna Patel / Editions JOJO (Mumbai, India)

Editions JOJO is a Mumbai-based publishing house, photobook library & platform for photography that has published experimental photobooks ranging from deeply personal to satirical. Kaamna Patel will talk about the journey of Editions JOJO & its various projects, including a podcast & a travelling exhibition, reflecting upon independent publishing as a playground for experimentation and a channel for resistance in South Asia.

Kaamna Patel is a visual artist, publisher & founder of Editions JOJO, currently based in Mumbai, her home city. Editions JOJO is an independent publisher, photobook library & platform for photography based out of Mumbai in India. Editions JOJO has spearheaded & executed a wide range of projects and currently operates under multiple rubrics, including a podcast on photography called Glass Eye, an exhibition of publishing as resistance from South Asia & a YouTube channel dedicated to independently published books from the global south. As a publisher, Editions JOJO prioritises, process, play, humour & sustainability.

Portrait by Srinivas Kuruganti

https://www.editionsjojo.com/

Editions JOJO: The Personal is Political

Community against our own ghosts
Rogelio Vazquez & Mario Morales / crater invertido/taller xd (Mexico city, Mexico)

This talk will discuss how Cráter invertido has survived for more than 12 years as an independent political art collective in Mexico City, with trans-local alliances around the world. We will talk about a process of self-critical reflection and permanent recomposition that involves care around issues of gender, mental health, collective economy, cleaning of the common space, etc. We propose not to romanticize the idea of the collectivity, but to know that to be in a collective is to assume a form of daily struggle against our own ghosts and those of others.

Rogelio Vazquez is a Mexican independent graphic artist and designer, publisher, printer and bookseller. Promoter of a small publishing house and a fair. Member of Cráter Invertido and Taller XD. His work explores the possibilities of self-publishing, collaboration and experimentation as tools for creating community against structural problems.

Mario Morales is a research professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. He teaches in the Department of Design and links all his academic work with the struggles and social problems of his context. With the collective Cráter invertido he has been collaborating since 2017 and has found with them a group of people with whom to face reality.

https://craterinvertido.org/

Crater Invertido / Taller XD: Community against our own ghosts

A show for the end of the year that comes to a close only to start again like a spiral, a snake eating its tail, with circular compositions, music for spheres and choral exaltations for sonic ascension.

Irregular Frequencies 042: Circles & Spheres w/ Storm Stereo (14.12.24)

Fade Radio is an independent platform that experiments with diverse music approaches expressed through DJ sets, live performances, podcasts, and art-related projects. Aiming to build a community-oriented network, it operates as a core that aspires to support independent artists and creatives.

Editions JOJO: The Personal is Political

Fade Radio

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