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Award: The Most Beau­ti­ful Swiss Books 2010

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The Detroit Diary by Jimini Hignett, designed by Anna Haas, 2010

Nominated for the Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2010

The artist book ‘The Detroit Diary’ by Jimini Hignett, designed by Anna Haas and edited by Delphine Bedel was one of the 19 books nominated for the award. ‘The Most Beau­ti­ful Swiss Books‘ com­pe­ti­tion was es­tab­lished to pro­mote and re­ward top-qual­ity book de­sign in Switzer­land. It was es­tab­lished at the be­hest of the fa­mous ty­pog­ra­pher and de­signer Jan Tschi­chold in 1943. The com­pe­ti­tion is open to graphic de­sign­ers, pub­lish­ers and print­ers. An­nu­ally, the Fed­eral Of­fice of Cul­ture re­ceives around 400 sub­mis­sions. A five-mem­ber, in­ter­na­tion­ally staffed jury, cur­rently chaired by Cor­nel Windlin, se­lects the most beau­ti­ful Swiss books each year.

What qual­i­fies as a Swiss book?: A book is con­sid­ered a Swiss book when it ful­fils at least one of the fol­low­ing three cri­te­ria: the book was de­signed by a Swiss de­signer, the pub­lisher has its head­quar­ters in Switzer­land, or the printer has its head­quar­ters in Switzer­land. The jury’s cri­te­ria: In judg­ing the sub­mis­sions to the com­pe­ti­tion, the jury takes into ac­count each book’s over­all con­cept, graphic de­sign and ty­pog­ra­phy, and pays par­tic­u­lar at­ten­tion to in­no­va­tion and orig­i­nal­ity.

The Most Beau­ti­ful Swiss Books Jury includes:
Cornel Windlin, Küssnacht am Rigi [Chair of the Jury]
Christoph Schifferli, Ascona
Lars Müller, Oslo (NO)
Will Holder, Hatfield (UK)

The Most Beau­ti­ful Swiss Books

Book Launch: ‘Performing Reality’

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Lectures by Seth Siegelaub and Daniel McClean
Talk with Seth Siegelaub, Daniel McClean, Delphine Bedel, James Goggin, Aernoud Bourdrez [Use-IP], and Yannick Bouillis [Shashin].
12 Artist’s books, performance

The Publications Project is a collection of artist’s books issued by the Master Programmes the Dutch Art Institute and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie. International in its scope, this collection is a unique blend of printed matter. It began as an experimental and innovative research and publishing platform aiming to address the specific process of artist books production, it is now an acclaimed editorial project.

The 2010 edition consists of 12 publications edited by artist and curator Delphine Bedel. In close collaboration with one or more guest authors, artists and designers teamed up to produce an artwork in the form of printed matter. From very diverse perspectives the artists and designers reflect on publishing as a versatile medium. The publications vary from artist books, essays, poster series, performance artefacts and documentary investigations, to autofiction and collages.

Seth Siegelaub will speak about copyright and economic issues concerning independent radical publishing, including art books, based on his publishing experience with the Chilean book ‘How to Read Donald Duck’, the so-called ‘Xeroxbook’ and the ‘Artist’s Contract’. He will specifically address free access to information and the practical problems of distribution in a world of dominated by capitalist property values.

Daniel McClean will discuss copying in art, copyright law, and his role as both a curator and a lawyer, focusing on the tension between practices of copying in art and the constraints imposed upon these practices by copyright law. The recent project ‘Free Sol LeWitt’, which McClean co-curated with Superflex at the Van Abbemuseum questions models of authorship in art. He will also discuss important trials involving artists, including Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons.

Delphine Bedel is curator, artist and writer based in Amsterdam. She is Associated Professor at Th Dutch Art Institute.James Goggin is graphic designer, and Course Director of Werkplaats Typograpfie.

Saturday 03.07.2010, 16:00
De Ateliers, Amsterdam

Further Information:

The Publications Project 2010
Collection editor: Delphine Bedel
Design editor: James Goggin

Artist books by: Lado Darakhvelidze, Taf Hassam, Jimini Hignett, Amanda Koelman, Izabela Oldak, Sevgi Ortaç, Julio Pastor, Viki Semou, Eva Schippers, Ruben van Klaveren, Renaldi Zefi, Veridiana Zurita.

Designed by: Goda Budvytytė, Ines Cox, Gregory Dapra, Anna Haas, Annett Höland, Simone Koller, Lu Liang, Joris van Aken, Boris van den Eynden, Isabelle Vaverka, Lidia Wilkosz.

Guests author and contributors: Emily E. Auger, Mounira Al Solh, Maria Barnas, James Beckett, Delphine Bedel, Lady Equitone, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Funda Bütüner, Jeremy Gilbert, Rob Hornstra & Arnold van Bruggen, Haejun Jo & Donghwan Jo, Annette Krauss & Petra Bauer, Aylin Kuryel, Pierre Leroux, Giorgi Maisuradze, Carlos Motta, Serazer Pekerman, Marco Pasi, Marko Peljhan, Spinvis (Erik de jong), Pelin Tan, Ad van Denderen, Lidwien van de Ven, Rob van Kranenburg, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Loïc Wacquant, Marta Zarzycka.

Book distribution: Shashin Art Bookshop, Monospace Press, Amsterdam

Location: Exhibition Werkplaats Typografie, De Ateliers, Stadhouderskade 86, Amsterdam

Teaching & Publishing: The Publications Project

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The publications project is a one year course on publishing and a collection of artists publications issued by the DAI/Dutch Art Institute and designed in collaboration with the designers from Werkplaats Typografie. The 2009-10 edition is directed by artist/curator Delphine Bedel. The Publications Project is an experimental research and production platform that aims to address the specific process of artist books production, from concept and design to distribution. Designers and artists are invited to team up in couples to develop one project, in close collaboration with an author. The format of this diverse collection can varies from magazine, essays, books, and artist editions to performance artefacts. Through very diverse perspectives the artists and designers reflect on publishing as a versatile medium. The limited editions are distributed through artist’s performances, bookshops and artist book fairs. Delphine Bedel is Associated Professor at the DAI.

The book ‘The Detroit Diary’ by Jimini Hignett and design by Anna Haas as been nominated for the Most Beautiful Swiss Book Award 2010.

The Publications Project 2010
Collection editor: Delphine Bedel
Design editor: James Goggin

Artist books by: Lado Darakhvelidze, Taf Hassam, Jimini Hignett, Amanda Koelman, Izabela Oldak, Sevgi Ortaç, Julio Pastor, Viki Semou, Eva Schippers, Ruben van Klaveren, Renaldi Zefi, Veridiana Zurita.

Designed by: Goda Budvytytė, Ines Cox, Gregory Dapra, Anna Haas, Annett Höland, Simone Koller, Lu Liang, Joris van Aken, Boris van den Eynden, Isabelle Vaverka, Lidia Wilkosz.

Guests author and contributors: Emily E. Auger, Mounira Al Solh, Maria Barnas, James Beckett, Delphine Bedel, Lady Equitone, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Funda Bütüner, Jeremy Gilbert, Rob Hornstra & Arnold van Bruggen, Haejun Jo & Donghwan Jo, Annette Krauss & Petra Bauer, Aylin Kuryel, Pierre Leroux, Giorgi Maisuradze, Carlos Motta, Serazer Pekerman, Marco Pasi, Marko Peljhan, Spinvis (Erik de jong), Pelin Tan, Ad van Denderen, Lidwien van de Ven, Rob van Kranenburg, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Loïc Wacquant, Marta Zarzycka.

Book distribution: Shashin Art Bookshop, Monospace Press, Amsterdam

Book Launch: ’6 Years: The Collection’

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27 June – 25 July 2009
Shashin Art bookshop, Amsterdam

6 YEARS: THE COLLECTION. This exhibition, curated by the artist Emily Williams, will bring the Publications Project released over the last six years together for the first time.

The Publications Project is a collection of artists publications issued by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie (both master programmes of the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts). It is a platform that aims to address the specific process of artist books production, from concept and design to distribution. Since 2003, designers from the Werkplaats Typografie and artists from DAI are invited to team up in couples and develop one project, in close collaboration with an author. The collection was directed by various editors over the last years (Joke Robaard 2006, Maureen Mooren 2007, Emily Pethick 2008). The 2009 edition consists of sixteen publications edited by artist and curator Delphine Bedel. The format of this diverse collection varies from magazine, essays, books, playing cards & artist editions to performance artefacts. Through very diverse perspectives and practices the artists and designers reflect on publishing as a versatile medium.

Expanding on the reflection upon modes of distribution of artist books, the exhibition 6 YEARS: THE COLLECTION at Shashin Art bookshop places the collection directly in the context of other possible circulation for a publication.
The basement of Shashin’s Art bookshop will function as a transitory space where the trajectory of the publications can be intersected, viewed and interacted with. Visitors to the exhibition are invited to send publications to the address of their choice. A chosen publication can be left in a provided envelope and addressed (as a gift) to a receiver. All the envelopes compiled during the one month exhibition will be sent to the addresses written on the envelopes. The artists of the publications projects were asked by Emily Williams, on whose or which bookshelf they would like their publications to arrive. An example of their answers were: on top of the first space shuttle to land on the moon: Apollo 8” and “to the little boy one of the authors once was 20 years ago”. By considering a publication through the imagined destination given to it by its author, a new perspective is opened on the content of the publication. This approach was inspired by reconsidering conventional categorization and
ordering of libraries.

Shashin Art Bookshop
1ste C. Huygenstraat 19, NL-1054 BP Amsterdam. +31 (0)6 20592744

The Goethe Institute, Amsterdam as well as the Stokroos Foundation, Utrecht have each kindly supported one of the 2009 publication. Editor of the Publications Project 2009: Delphine Bedel. Photo credit: Emily Williams & Nikos Doulos, taken from an original Ex-libris Paulo José Pires Brandão. Design: Joris van Aken

* The Dutch Art Institute (DAI) is an MFA program that provides emerging artists with an international platform for exchange, collaboration and dialogue with peers as well as with established practitioners and theoreticians.
www.dutchartinstitute.nl

Book Launch: ‘Publishing as Performance’

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Sunday 21st of June 2009, 14.00-18.00
Casco, Utrecht

Book Launch  ’PUBLISHING AS PERFORMANCE’
Curated by Delphine Bedel and David Weber-Krebs.

The Publications Project: Since 4 years the Dutch Art Institute Masters Program offers its graduating students to produce a small publication, in collaboration with Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem. This project is mediated by the artist/curator Delphine Bedel. Each publication is edited in 250 copies. The publication varies from printed matter, book, and artist edition to performance artefact. For each project, the artist teamed up with a graphic designer from Werkplaats Typografie, and invited a guest author to contribute to it. During one year various aspect of publishing – concept, editing and design, production and distribution- have been addressed.

Publications by: Kevin Drager, Rana Hamadeh, Yota Ioannidou, Sasha Miljevic,  Suzanne van Rest, Buba Cvoric Marina Tomic, Seda Manavoglu,  Barbara Philipp,  Teresa Diaz Nerio, Tvika Gutter,  Yen Yitzu/Itz, Hidenori Mitsue,  Raymond Huizinga, Manami Yoshimoto.

Designers: Marc Hollenstein, Dries Wiewouters, Julie van Severen, Stephen Serrato,  Hyo Kwon, Joris van Aken, jeremy Jannsen, Julie Peeters

Contributions by: Grzegorz Dmochowski, Michael Uwemedimo, David Morrow, Sandra Alvarado Bordas, Jovana Stokic, Vesna Madzoski, Yannis Eustathopoulos, Sands Murray Wassink, Marko Stamenkovic, Francesco Bernardelli, Sabina Pasic, Philip Jenks, Samira Borovik Brandao, Carole Counihan, Alena Alexandrova, Hala Elkoussy and others

6 Years: The Collection
Exhibition: Opening Saturday 27 June, 15.00- 19.00
Curated by Emily Williams. An overview over the publications and printed matter published by the DAI over the last 5 years, in the frame of the Publications Projects, will be exhibited at the art bookshop Shashin in Amsterdam.

Dutch Art Institute
Werkplaats Typografie

Teaching and publishing: The Publications Project 2009

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The Publications Project is a one year course on publishing and a collection of artists publications issued by the DAI/Dutch Art Institute and designed in collaboration with the designers from Werkplaats Typografie. The 2009-10 edition is directed by artist/curator Delphine Bedel, who is Associated Professor at the DAI.

The Publications Project is an experimental research and production platform that aims to address the specific process of artist books production, from concept and design to distribution. Designers and artists are invited to team up in couples to develop one project, in close collaboration with an author. The format of this diverse collection can varies from magazine, essays, books, and artist editions to performance artefacts. Through very diverse perspectives the artists and designers reflect on publishing as a versatile medium. The limited editions are distributed through artist’s performances, bookshops and artist book fairs.

The Publications Project 2009
Collection editor: Delphine Bedel

Artist books by: Kevin Drager, Rana Hamadeh, Yota Ioannidou, Sasha Miljevic, Suzanne van Rest, Buba Cvoric Marina Tomic, Seda Manavoglu, Barbara Philipp, Teresa Diaz Nerio, Tvika Gutter, Yen Yitzu/Itz, Hidenori Mitsue, Raymond Huizinga, Manami Yoshimoto.

Designed by: Marc Hollenstein, Dries Wiewouters, Julie van Severen, Stephen Serrato, Hyo Kwon, Joris van Aken, jeremy Jannsen, Julie Peeters

Contributions by: Grzegorz Dmochowski, Michael Uwemedimo, David Morrow, Sandra Alvarado Bordas, Jovana Stokic, Vesna Madzoski, Yannis Eustathopoulos, Sands Murray Wassink, Marko Stamenkovic, Francesco Bernardelli, Sabina Pasic, Philip Jenks, Samira Borovik Brandao, Carole Counihan, Alena Alexandrova, Hala Elkoussy and others

Book distribution: Shashin Art Bookshop, Monospace Press, Amsterdam

Be[coming] Dutch – Eindhoven Caucus

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From 9 November until 6 December 2007 , Eindhoven Caucus at the Van Abbemuseum.

The Eindhoven Caucus started from the principle that art proceeds from a discursive and critical culture. It seeked, in the context of art educational practices, to stimulate and transform. Thinkers and artists from all over the world came to Eindhoven to inspire the future, and acted as interlocutors for a group of local people and international students. Contributors included a broad range of critical theorists such as Rosi Braidotti, Homi K. Bhabha, Galit Eilat, Boris Groys, Chantal Mouffe, Nikos Papastergiadis, Paul Scheffer, Shepherd Steiner, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Gerald Raunig and inspiring artists writers and cultural producers such as Yael Bartana, Abdelkader Benali, Igor Dobričić, Tone Olaf Neilsen, Sarah Pierce, Bik Van der Pol, Renee Ridgway, Artur Žmijewski, Phil Collins, Agung Kurniawan and many others.

Be[com]ing Dutch aims to open up an exploratory debate which puts our ideas of national identity at risk and examines and challenges the processes of inclusion and exclusion today. As questions of cultural identity and normative ‘national’ values become ever more of an issue in political and cultural debate, the concept behind Be[com]ing Dutch is to move the agenda on from notions of toleration and difference towards building a shared but agonistic democracy on the cultural level through the use of one of the few remaining public sphere institutions left to us – the museum. The Eindhoven Caucus attempted to look at the meaning of and context for a global visual culture right here (Eindhoven) and right now (2006-8). The four week intensive meeting offered a programme comprising of a lecture series, publications, screenings, performances, collective production, radio programmes, workshops and other activities.

Central paradoxes of the CAUCUS included:

  • The revival of nationalism versus the reality of globalisation and migration. How can art imagine a way out of this dichotomy?
  • The re-emergence of religion as the dominant cultural identifier versus the secular globalisation of capital.
  • How can art imagine identity differently today?
  • The autonomy of art versus its use (critically, economically and socially)
  • How can a museum effect change in a provincial city (Eindhoven).
  • Can art change politics, does politics determine art?

    • Be[com]ing Dutch
    PO Box 235
    NL-5600 AE Eindhoven
    tel. +31 (0)40 238 10 36