eShelf
A collection of artists’ online publishing activities and a series
of events curated by Rahel Zoller and X Marks the Bökship
A-M Talks May 2nd, 2012
N-Z Talks May 9th, 2012
Exhibition May 18-25, 2012
Please join us on May 2nd, as we discuss contemporary forms of digital publishing
practice. Lynn Harris will talk about AND Public. Including Fillip, if:book, Nieves,
How to Sleep Faster, Dracula V, The Metapress, Or-bits, Self Publish Be Happy,
Very Small Kitchen, Preston is my Paris, Triple Canopy, Publication Studio
www.bokship.wordpress.com
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The Impermanent Book essay on Rhizome
April, 19 2012
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XXFor more information
AND Public Self Publishing Surgeries, April 18 - May 23, X Marks the Bokship"
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The Piracy Project at SALT Istanbul
March 06 - March 31
image Joseph Redwood-Martinez
Throughout the month of March, Eva Weinmayr will be in residence and bring
The Piracy Project to İstanbul in the form of a temporary reading room at SALT
Research. Through the residency, parallel events, and reading room, Weinmayr
will develop a platform to discuss unauthorized approaches to the recontextuali-
zation of cultural works—focusing not only on artists and writers, but also on
publishers, programmers, academics, and business people who are challenging
existing structures and authorities as well as ways of producing and redistributing
cultural products and values.
www.salstonline.org
The Piracy Project blog
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Publish and Be Damned Fair at the ICA
Saturday 17 March, 12-8pm
Please join AND Publishing as we participate in panel discussion:
3 pm, Cinema 1
I Don't Want to Make a Book
Lynn Harris (AND Publishing, London)
Marc Herbst (The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Los Angeles)
Nick Thurston (Information as Material, York)
Chaired by Kit Hammonds (Publish and be Damned, London)
And we share our latest AND Public titles:
Three Letter Words - OMG / Publish And Be Damned
Collapse / Cullinan Richards
New Society of Dilettanti / The Black Merkin
kuboaa Issue 2 / Rob Carter
Community Without Propinquity / Inheritance Projects & Milton Keynes Gallery
Grey Plover / compiled and edited by Larry Time
Kafka and I and I / Rahel Zoller
Skeleton Book / Rahel Zoller
A Faithful Image / Sonya Derman, Jill Gardner, Mary Hallam,
Daphne Marr, Jean Stanford - published by the Royal College of Art
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
www.ica.org.uk
www.publishandbedamned.org
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SALT Beyoğlu
Please join us at “One day, everything will be free...” as part of
series of talks: FUTURES AND OPTIONS
March 15
18.00 Eva Weinmayr, The Piracy Project
19.15 Laurel Ptak, Publishing In Process: Ownership In Question
March 16
16.30 Özgür Uçkan, Wikileaks: Welcome to the New World Order
17.45 Coffee break
18.00 Caleb Waldorf, Interface and Labor
19.15 Matteo Pasquinelli, Surplus and the Common
Photo: Joseph Redwood-Martinez, 2012
Situated throughout SALTonline.org, SALT Galata, and SALT Beyoğlu,
“One day, everything will be free...” consists of a series of projects
that engage with the promises of free economies, contemporary finance,
and the cultural institution. This much is known: the task at hand is to
implicate the relationship between SALT and the funding institution. But in
order to do this, the project begins with a detour, a direct detour, directly
into that which is made to disappear from view: associative histories and
certain technical aspects of the job; knowledge economies, cultural piracy,
class relations, and structural contradictions.
Matteo Pasquinelli, Laurel Ptak, Özgür Uçkan, Caleb Waldorf, and Eva Weinmayr
have been invited to give lectures and research presentations for a program
titled FUTURES AND OPTIONS, scheduled for March 15th and 16th at SALT
Beyoğlu. This series of talks will allow us to hear from a range of protagonists
who have variously engaged with the topics under consideration in the long-
term research project, “One day, everything will be free…” This program will
also provide a setting to invite the range of responses that will carry this
project forward, or perhaps derail it entirely.
curated by Joseph Redwood-Martinez
SALT Beyoğlu, Bankalar Caddesi 11, Karaköy 34420 İstanbul Türkiye
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JANUARY 18TH, 2012
TODAY, WE ARE STRIKING AGAINST CENSORSHIP
CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE STRIKE!
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MISS READ, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin
Friday, 25 – 27 Nov 2011
We will show recent publications and selected projects from the Piracy Collection.
Please come along, if you are in Berlin or send your friends.
I am a pirate, are you?
an Open Mic debate on
Sat 26 Nov 5–6 pm
We are interested in the methodology of piracy and its significance for contemporary
culture. The word piracy is applied to very different activities ranging from file sharing
to attacking freight ships, from the production of counterfeit goods to mixing culture
and – to political parties. We, The Piracy Project, are not only interested in your
bit-torrent or fake goods, but whether you use the works of others to build your own?
Have you been pirated yourself and feel robbed of your intellectual property?
Where are the limits in our engagement with culture?
We would like to hear from you! Your input can be a lengthy declaration
or as short as one sentence.
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststr. 69, D-10117 Berlin
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Spike Island Artists' Book and Zine Fair
Saturday 8 October, 12-5pm
Please join AND Publishing/The Piracy Project as we take part in Miniature Essay/
Happy Hypocrite readings hosted by Maria Fusco and Spike Associates.
Andrea Francke and Lynn Harris read excerpts from:
The New Guide of The Conversation, In Portuguese and English, In Two Parts
Republished by Atlas Projectos, Berlin, August 2010. The first edition was originally
published in Paris in 1855. The present book is a verbatim re-print, made available
by the University of California through Google Books.
You can also find other versions of the book re-published here:
Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Harvard College Library, Cambridge MA, USA
This edition has been donated to The Piracy Project collection by Alexis Zavialoff, Motto.
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AND Public is a print-on-demand platform, where you can create,
display and sell your publishing projects online.
Please join us for an introductory discussion and workshop.
7 July from 3-5pm
Byam Shaw Library
2 Elthorne Road
London
N 19 4AG
How it works
1. You develop your book - we give you tips.
2. You decide which print-on-demand service is right.
3. You upload your pdf to the printer’s online server.
4. The printer will process, print, bind and ship to you.
5. We’ll display and sell online and at X Marks the Bokship.
To reserve a place, please get in contact.
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The Piracy Lectures
As part of The Piracy Project we would like to invite you to join a series of lectures
around book piracy, the concept of authorship and politics of copyright.
5 May – The New Pierre Menard: digitisation and everything after, James Bridle
12 May – Copy and Paste: re-reading uncreative writing, Eleanor Vonne Brown
19 May – Authorship & Originality in Art, Daniel McClean
26 May – The Incunablum and the Plastic Bag, Maria Fusco
2 June – The Copy Continuum: cultural perceptions of piracy, and the future of ideas, Bobbie Johnson
9 June – Of Pirates and Archivists: the boundaries of copyright limitations and exceptions
and the underground archiving movement, Prodromos Tsiavos
We will also run a Pirate Lab prior to the lectures.
Please come in for conceptual or practical support for your book project.
When: Lectures start at 6.30 pm, Pirate Lab runs from 3 – 6 pm
Where: Byam Shaw Library, 2 Elthorne Road, London N19 4AG
Please see our open Call for Contributions for piracy book projects.
Speakers:
James Bridle is a publisher, writer and artist based in London, UK.
He makes things with words, books and the internet; sometimes the results look like
businesses, and sometimes they don't. He speaks at conferences worldwide and writes
about what he does at booktwo.org.
Eleanor Vonne Brown set up X Marks the Bökship, a London based project space for
independent publishers. Specialising in publishing works and projects by artists and designers,
books by independent publishers, journals and discourse. The Bök in Bokship refers to Christian
Bök, an experimental poet of the North American Conceptual Writing movement.
Daniel McClean is an independent curator, writer, and art-legal adviser. McClean is a solicitor at
Finers Stephens Innocent LLP where he specializes in art, media and intellectual property law.
McClean writes regularly on art legal matters. He was the editor of The Trials of Art, (2007) and
Dear Images: Art, Copyright and Culture, (2002)
Maria Fusco is a Belfast-born writer based in London. Her first collection of short stories
The Mechanical Copula has just be published by Sternberg Press. She is founder/editor of
The Happy Hypocrite a semi-annual journal for and about experimental art writing, and
Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Bobbie Johnson is a journalist, writer and trouble-maker based in Brighton who specialises
in covering the intersection of technology and society. He has written for a range of outlets
from the BBC to Wired, and acts as European editor for technology blog GigaOM.
He was previously an editor and reporter with the Guardian for nearly a decade, based in
London and San Francisco.
Prodromos Tsiavos is the legal project lead for the Creative Commons -England and Wales
(CC-EW) and Greece (CC-Greece) projects, and an associate in Avgerinos Law Firm in Athens.
Among other academic engagements he is a research officer at the London School of Economics
and has worked for the European Commission and Oxford University. He advises the Greek Prime
Minister's e-Government Task Force on legal issues of open data as well as the Special Secretary
for Digital Planning.
The Piracy Project is developed by Andrea Francke, Lynn Harris and Eva Weinmayr.
If you have questions please get in touch with Andrea (contact@andreafrancke.me.uk) or Eva, Lynn (and.publishing@csm.arts.ac.uk)
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AMASS: Towards an Economy of the Commons
Saturday 16 April 2-6pm
Please join us as we participate in AMASS: A platform for discussions
exploring new models and practices for sustaining the commons today.
Including:
Stevphen Shukaitis
Amateurist Network (Eva Weinmayr and Sion Whellens)
Anthony Illes
University for Strategic Optimism
Organised by Doxa, …ment and Amateurist Network, three independent
collectives based in London, this one-day event addresses the question,
‘What is the protocol of the commons?’. Artists, academics and policy-
makers debate culture-led regeneration, precarity in the cultural economy
and open source practices in the digital domain.
Chisenhale Gallery
64 Chisenhale Road
London E3 5QZ
www.chisenhale.org.uk
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Art as Muddiness: Unpacking Where the Art Is Under Advanced Capitalism
a perfomative joint publication by Andrea Francke, Josefine Wikström and AND
Thursday 7 April 6-9pm
Please join our publishing experiment as an editor, binder, printer or collator. Become
a creative labourer to help us publish a dislocated, relocated discussion between two
positions. Andrea and Josefine will read excerpts to fuel the production line.
As part of It's Your Write: A Celebration of the Self-Published!
An event by The Papered Parlour
V&A Museum of Childhood
Cambridge Heath Road
London
E2 9PA
Andrea Francke graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design with an MA in Fine Art, 2010
And Josefine Wikström from the last Aesthetics and Art Theory MA at Middlesex University, 2010
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Pirate Books in Peru – a talk by Andrea Francke
Fri 25 March 7 pm
Book piracy exists in many emerging countries and book pirates in Peru
for example go beyond creating unlicensed reprints – they have even begun
to interfere with the content. An entire genre of “improved” versions is emerging.
In this illustrated talk artist Andrea Francke will present the findings of her
recent research trip to Lima, where she visited book stores, street markets
and traffic lights, where pirated books are for sale. She returned to London
with a heavy suitcase full of versions, which will be on display at the Bökship.
X marks the Bökship
210 / Shop 3 Cambridge Heath Road
London E2 9NQ
March For the Alternative, Sat 26 March 10 am
Please join us for a day on the streets. We will meet at 10 am X Marks the Bökship
for a "one hour poster making workshop" and leave to join the march at 11 am.
See also: Arts Against Cuts, draft of a letter for cultural institutions.
Pirate Book Production Centre, Sun 27 March 1 - 6 pm
A workshop to explore the spectrum of copying, translating, paraphrasing,
imitating, re-organising and manipulating books at X marks the Bökship
(and material we collect at the March for the Alternative on Saturday).
The Piracy Project at X marks the Bökship
210 / Shop 3 Cambridge Heath Road
London E2 9NQ
Bökship blog
AND will be hijacking (or pirating) the Bökship this March for the first of the
Publisher of the Month series.
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What Are We Doing?
A discussion on the implications of different strategies
to fight the cuts from inside an art college.
Wed 16 March 6 – 8 pm at the Byam Shaw Library
Join our ideas mining excercise with John Cussans, Eva Weinmayr,
Neil Chapman, Margot Bannermann, Andrea Francke, Anna Hart,
Lynn Harris, Edgar Schmitz and many more
Free School in a New Dark Age – The Library Project
– Arts Against Cuts – The Precarious Workers Brigade
Thank you to all those who attended.
Byam Shaw Library
2 Elthorne Road
London N19 4AG
nearest tube Archway
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Call for proposals, February 2010
