VABF Symposium on Art Publishing
July 28th, 2024
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Emily Carr University of Art & Design
Rennie Hall, Level 2
520 East 1st Ave
Vancouver, BC
View the full agenda and register here!
Fillip, Libby Leshgold Gallery, and Emily Carr University Press are pleased to present a day of presentations and conversations on contemporary art publishing practices in conjunction with the Vancouver Art Book Fair.
10:00 a.m.
Coffee & Check-In
10:30 a.m.
Welcome & Keynote
Opening remarks: Bopha Chhay, Jonathan Middleton
Keynote: Emmy Catedral
11:25 a.m.
Panel: Learning from Collections
Anthea Black, Dallas Fellini, Christine Walde
Moderated by Bopha Chhay
Libraries, collections, and archives offer important repositories of publications and publishing histories. These collections typically have overt pedagogical roles, housed within academic institutions, or serving as research resources within art museums and public institutions. But if libraries and archives are intended to reinvigorate contemporary practice, what can be said about the obvious gaps in most collections? How can we imagine a bidirectional or more complicated relationship between archives and the “classroom,” workshop, or gallery space?
1:30 p.m.
Panel: Magazines, Criticism, and Art Writing
Hallie Ayres, Brian Kuhn Wood, Joni Low/André-Louis Paré, Mandeeq Mohamed, Anton Vidokle
Moderated by Maxine Proctor
Art magazines and journals play integral roles in the cultural landscape, not least of which is their support for critical writing that sits apart from the (often) laudatory writing of catalogue essays and other institutionally commissioned texts. The demands of running a periodical are high, and we’ve seen numerous publications wrap up or substantially change direction over the past few years. This panel features representatives of three periodicals who will speak to their current editorial and artistic directions, and what strategies they employ to sustain their important roles.
2:50 p.m.
Panel: Distribution, Collaboration, and Funding
Adetola Adedipe, Blair Swann
Moderated by Louis Rastelli
Distribution is often cited as a major barrier for publishing artists and art book presses, but it remains a fraught territory, with low funding, high amounts of labour, narrow margins, and retail partners that are, at times, overly cautious. How can we better support a network of small distributors geared towards artists and small publishers? What other distribution models might we consider? Are there ways that artists and publishers can engage in collaborative models that facilitate both the production of art books and their journey into the hands of interested audiences?
4:30–7:00 p.m.
Reception
Please join us after the Symposium for food and drink at Steamworks Mount Pleasant (2275 Main St). Steamworks is an approximately 15-minute walk from the Emily Carr campus. We will be in the private lounge area.
Event History
2024
- VABF Symposium on Art Publishing
- Vancouver Art Book Fair 2024
- San Francisco Art Book Fair 2024
- Offprint London 2024
- Seattle Art Book Fair 2024
- Ghent Art Book Fair 2024
- New York Art Book Fair 2024
- Multiple Formats Art Book Fair & Symposium 2024
- Reading Group: A Pragmatic Response to Real Circumstances with Anne Focke and Rhiannon Vogl
- Means of Production: Indigenous Patterns, Forms, and Letters with Kathleen and Christopher Sleboda
2023
- Tokyo Art Book Fair 2023
- Offprint Paris Art Book Fair 2023
- Volume 6 Montréal Art Book Fair
- LA Art Book Fair 2023
- San Francisco Art Book Fair 2023
- Post-Capitalist Architecture TV
- Otis MFA Graphic Design Art Book Fair
- Acid-Free LA Art Book Market
- Joar Nango & David Thomas in Dialogue: Supplement 7 at the Venice Biennale of Architecture
- Offprint London Art Book Fair 2023
- Seattle Art Book Fair
- Multiple Formats: Contemporary Art Book Symposium & Fair
- Print Pomona Art Book Fair
- Reading Group: Can one move along a number line? With Brynn McNab
2022
- Offprint Paris
- Tokyo Art Book Fair
- ACID-FREE Video Catalogue
- Two Hot Horses at the New York Art Book Fair
- Andrea Fraser and Helmut Draxler: In Dialogue
- Performance by Guillermo Galindo and Raven Chacon
- Volume Montréal
- Anthrozoology: Cats & Dogs
- Prairie Art Book Fair
- LIT LIT (The Little Literary Fair)
- San Francisco Art Book Fair
- Otis MFA Graphic Design Arts Book Fair
- The Unarius Academy of Science
- The Age of Unarius
- In Dialogue: Andrea Fraser and Pope.L
- Launch — S T R A Y . W O R L D
- E.S.P. — Parallel Transmissions
- Now Available: Services Working Group
2021
- Now Available: Institutions by Artists: Volume Two
- Conversation — On Gaslight
- Vancouver Art Book Fair
- E.S.P. — Anthrozoology
- Means of Production: The Employee with Joshua Schwebel
- Makeready: What Makes a Book a Book?
- Shannon Ebner: Stray World
- Project Series: Ian Wilson
- The Services Working Group
2020
- Moyra Davey: Two Hot Horses
- Kathleen Ritter: Gaslight
- Penny Slinger: Exorcisms
- E.S.P.: New Mineral Collective
- Means of Production: Sound, Silence, and Process with Guillermo Galindo & Raven Chacon
- Online Screening: Postmodern Times
- Means of Production: Community and the Work of Unworking with Am Johal
2019
- Means of Production: (In)consequential Thinking with Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross
- E.S.P.: BeDevil
- Launch: Supplement 5: Mr. Peanut Summit
- E.S.P.: Ecologies
- Reading Group: Rebecca La Marre in Conversation with Tiziana La Melia
- Reading Group: The Culture Game with Patrick Cruz
- David Reinfurt: A *New* Program for Graphic Design
- E.S.P.: Visible Language Workshop
- Means of Production: Value Systems with Sarah Williams
- Stagelessness with Grupa o.k.
- E.S.P.: Visual Fields
2018
- Means of Production: On the Difficult with Jaclyn Bruneau
- Means of Production: Living as an Artist with Eli Bornowsky
- Means of Production: W.A.G.E. with Andrea Fraser
- Kandis WIlliams: Reproduction is Not a Metaphor
- Andrea Fraser: Museums, Money and Politics
- Means of Production: How to Make a Book with Steidl
- Means of Production: Photography as Tool with Winfried Heininger
- Listening Group: VWAM
- Means of Production: Research with Mercedes Eng
- Means of Production: Criticism with Steffanie Ling
- Reading Group: A History of Resistance with Grace Ndiritu
- Means of Production: Printing with Brick Press
- Reading Group: On Kathy Acker
- Chris Kraus on Kathy Acker
2017
- Reading Group: Nathan Crompton on Utopias
- Reading Group: Antonia Pinter
- Listening Group: The Red Krayola
- Supplement Launch: Berlin
- V-Girls: The Question of Manet's Olympia
- Hotel Theory Reader: Vancouver Launch
2016
- Reading Group: Zanna Gilbert
- Mr. Peanut Summit
- Reading Group: Grant Arnold
- Reading Group: Martine Syms
2015
- John C. Welchman: Joseph Kosuth's The Second Investigation in Vancouver
- SWARM XVI: Fillip, Punk 'til You Punk
- Eternal Network
2014
- Christopher Régimbal on Institutions by Artists
- Fillip Office Open House!
- Fillip 19 Launch and Screening
- Screening: The Hart of London
- Triple Canopy
2013
- Slide Shows at X Marks the Bökship
- Institutions by Arists Launch at Et al.
- Intangible Economies at Artists Space
2012
- Institutions by Artists
- Institutions by Artists: Print Centre
- Intangible Economies at Art Berlin Contemporary
- Sumi Ink Club
- Grouper: Sleep
- Robert Ashley Speaking Thru Will Holder
- Fillip 16: Berlin Launch
- Fillip 16: Toronto Launch
- Pa/per View Art Book Fair
- It's a Book, It's a Stage, It's a Public Place
- Destroy All Monsters Screening
- Fillip at ARCO Experts Forum
2011
- Intangible Economies
- Quiz Night
- David Horvitz: Room 129
- Recent Publications
- Of Times Recent and Distant
- Secondary Information: The Persistence and Absence of Criticism
2010
- The AAAARG Library
- Everything is Dangerous
- Fillip 12 Now Available
- Unter dem Motto
- International Chilliwack Biennial
- Motto Storefront: Ooga Booga
- Motto Storefront: Working Format
- Motto Storefront: Metahaven
- Motto Storefront: Oscar Tuazon
- Motto Storefront: Andjeas Ejiksson
- Motto Storefront: Avalanche Launch and Screening
- Motto Storefront: Rob Giampietro
- Motto Storefront: Stuart Bailey
- Motto Storefront
- John C. Welchman on Paul McCarthy’s Pirate Project
- David Horvitz Artist Talk
- Ryan Trecartin: Screening and Artist Talk
- Mark Manders: Window with Fake Newspapers and Traducing Ruddle
- Getting Something Into One's Head
- Fillip Review Panel: Vancouver Art Gallery’s Offsite, Anne Truitt, and Expanded Literary Practices
2009
- Autogestion Book Launch
- Antonia Hirsch at Space, London
- Silvia Kolbowski at Whitechapel Gallery
- Fillip Library and Reading Room Launch
- Fillip Summer Sale
- Corinn Gerber of Passenger Books
- Stockholm and Berlin Launches
- David Horvitz of ASDF
- Montréal Launch and Collaboration
- Issue Nine Vancouver Launch
- Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism
- Fillip Review Panel: February 2009
2008
- Vancouver Launch of Two Artist Multiples
- The Apartment Inhabits the Fillip Studio
- Nick Thurston of Information as Material
- Rotterdam Dialogues: The Critics
- Fillip Review Panel: October 2008
- Stuart Bailey of Dexter Sinister
- Next: Documentary Perspectives in Contemporary Art
- Paul Chan Screening
- Issue Seven Vancouver Launch & Talk
- 22nd KIOSK Exhibition in Rennes
2007
- Fillip at castillo/corrales, Paris
- Fillip at the New York Art Book Fair
- LA Launch and Talk
- A History of Tokyo Art Speak
- Issue Five Vancouver Launch