The Piracy ProjectAintroduction * open call * blog * lectures* collection
Introduction
Andrea Francke & AND Publishing would like to invite you to contribute to The Piracy Project,
an international publishing and exhibition project exploring the philosophical, legal and
practical implications of book piracy and creative modes of reproduction.
With a series of talks from guest speakers, workshops and an open call for pirated book projects
to add to a Piracy Collection we aim to develop a critical and creative platform for issues raised
by acts of cultural piracy. After a period of research and production at Byam Shaw Reading Room
in London this unique collection of books will travel to international venues in 2011.
The Piracy Project is not about stealing or forgery. It is about creating a platform to innovatively
explore the spectrum of copying / re-editing / translating / paraphrasing / imitating / re-organising
/ manipulating of already existing works. Here creativity and originality sit not in the borrowed
material itself, but in the way it is handled.
A pirated Vargas Llosa novel bought in Lima, Peru in 2010, that went on sale
a week before the official version arrived in bookshops.