New York Art Book Fair - Printed Matter

THE NY ART BOOK FAIR
September 16-18, 2016
Preview: Thursday, September 15, 6-9pm
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Avenue on 46th Avenue,
Long Island City, Queens
NY, USA

Printed Matter presents the eleventh annual NY Art Book Fair, from September 16 to 18, 2016, at MoMa PS1.

This year’s NY Art Book Fair will once again include an ever-growing variety of exhibitors – from the zinesters in (XE)ROX & PAPER + SCISSORS and the Small Press Dome representing publishing at its most innovative and affordable, to rare and antiquarian dealers offering out-of-print books and ephemera from art and artist book history, plus the NYABF-classic Friendly Fire, focused on the intersections of art and activism.
 
NYABF16 will also host an array of programming and special events, including: The Classroom, a curated engagement of informal conversations, workshops, readings, and other artist-led interventions, for the eighth year running, as well as The Contemporary Artists’ Book Conference (CABC), in its ninth year, featuring two full days on emerging practices and issues within art-book culture.

This session Furthering the Critical Dialogue on Saturday 3.30pm will focus on the state of criticism in relation to artists’ books and independent publishing. Exemplifying diverse approaches to the practice of criticism, rather than speculate on the state of criticism per se. The panelists will discuss and evaluate two books by Ed Ruscha: Twenty Six Gasoline Stations and Every Building on the Sunset Strip. Chaired by Tony White, participants include: Russet Lederman, Ian McDermott, and Anne Thurman-Jajes.

Anne Thurmann-Jajes is director of the Centre for Artists´ Publications at the Weserburg and teaches at the Institute for Science of Art and Art Education at the University of Bremen. She has curated numerous exhibitions as well as authored and edited many catalogues and books, including ‘Manual for Artists’ Publications. Cataloging Rules, Definitions, and Descriptions’ (2010). Her recent curated exhibitions are ‘Ian Hamilton Finlay. Poet and Publisher’, and ‘Marcel Broodthaers. Musée à vendre’.

Ian McDermott is an Instruction Librarian at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, in Queens. Previous to this, he was Collection Development Manager at Artstor, and an art librarian at the Yale Arts Library and Yale Center for British Art. He has presented on Ruscha’s artist’s books and has a passion for Digital Humanities in the arts.

Russet Lederman is a writer, media artist and photobook collector who lives in New York City. She teaches art writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York and writes on photobooks for Foam, The Eyes, IMA, Aperture and the International Center of Photography’s library. She is a co-founder of the 10×10 Photobooks project, lectures internationally on photobooks, and has received awards and grants from Prix Ars Electronica and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.