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TIFF OPEN 2020: SHIFTERS BY MAGDA BOGDAŃSKA
SHIFTERS is the latest project of the photographer and philosopher Marta Bogdańska. Being interested in espionage and its heritage, she began to collect the articles describing the cases of (spying animals) that were mentioned in the media. Her collection includes newspaper cuttings that state about the suspicious squirrels, pigeons accused of taking photographs and nuclear lizards. All animals faced serious accusations of espionage, moreover, they were treated in the same way as human agents.
Inspired by the research of one of the most important contemporary scholars of animal studies - French historian Eric Baratay, the artist takes up the challenge of telling the stories from the animals’ perspective - as opposed to describing their lives in the context of humans. By calling animal agents, she gives them agentship, and emphasizes, that they have their features - including character traits.
The most important part of this project is an extensive 750-page art book consisting of hundreds of archival photos combined with the artist's research, divided into 14 chapters - each with a different visual narrative. By using this scale, the author makes the viewers and the readers feel (literally and figuratively) the importance of the proposed problem. Through an avalanche of (often cruel) images, she forces the viewer to face the history of agent animals, to look them straight into their eyes.
Curator: Agata Połeć
2-26.09.2020
organiser: TIFF Festival / TIFF Center
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TIFF OPEN 2020: SUNNY HILL BY BARBARA GRYKA
Multilevel system of the squered tarasses
With the banches situated on it, is a place, where several
more poetically-oriented inhabitants of the estate
wil be able to sit while listening and observing.
The estate of J. Słowackiego in Lublin is an important place. Designed in the 1960s by eminent architects - Zofia and Oskar Hansen, it was analyzed in many ways, being an inspiration for a lot of artists. The theory of Open Form was manifested in it in terms of the urban and architectural layout of the estate. As Hansen described it – this space opened one's eyes to the versatile possibilities of the community, which - as history has shown - turned out to be a utopian dream. This utopian approach became the starting point for the new project of Barbara Gryka, who - this time - decided to create the Open Form Theater. The place that is at the same time a theme and bearer of the meaning.
Łysa Góra, Łysak, Amphitheater or simply Słoneczne Wzgórze (Sunny Hill) was supposed to be a place for meetings, neighbourhood conversations and a platform for the building community. It was also supposed to be a space for those who needed art in their surroundings – as the creators and as the viewers. After all, the idea of a community is based on Hansen’s theory that [...] the architectural space can live only thanks to human beings. They are its indispensable components, the inseparable actors filling the interior: they are its co-creator. This assumption - like many others - did not work out and after a few years from its inception, the Theater began to deteriorate - both naturally and as a result of various major or minor devastations. It has become a dead spot and was not needed any longer by the local society. It became an empty shell of concrete, that did not possess any meaning.
In this project, Barbara Gryka explores different threads than those raised in the award-winning and widely presented Architecture from the Inside. Moving away from the direct imaging and leaving behind for a while the work of a researcher-sociologist, she follows the concept of absent art (created by Jerzy Ludwiński) and refers to the idea of community, stated by Open Form. She tries to show the impossible and de facto invisible.
The artist uses the theme of the forgotten Lublin Theater, which awakes our imagination and provokes us to focus on the passing moment. She tries to catch something that later became only a recollection or a story. Gryka forces us, with the help of the designed form - very similar to the shape of the Sunny Hill, to establish a temporary micro-relationship with a fellow viewer of this utopian, small community. This community like the Lublin one or the one dreamed by Hansen is not entirely justified and ... have to pass.
* Sunny Hill is a continuation of a larger research project by Barbara Gryka, as part of which the artist will visit other modernist housing estates in Poland.
Curator: Kama Wróbel
2-26.09.2020
organiser: TIFF Festival / TIFF Center
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exhibition photos: Jerzy Wypych
TIFF OPEN 2020: HAYTARMA BY JUSTYNA GÓRNIAK
Crimea was annexed by Russia in March 2014. It was followed by the referendum that was not accepted by the authorities of most of the countries. The majority of the Crimean Tatars, indigenous inhabitants of the peninsula, boycotted the vote. Thousands of them were forced to leave the Crimea because of the fear of reprisals.
An estimated twenty thousand of the Crimean Tatars live as an internally displaced expatriate in mainland Ukraine. About twenty, mostly religious, families from Crimea live in Drohobych in the west part of the country. From “strangers” they have become neighbors, and the everyday life in Drohobych is intertwined with the cultivation of Crimean Tatar traditions and customs.
The identity of Crimean Tatars is strongly associated with the Crimea. In 1944, by the decision of the Soviet authorities, about two hundred thousand Crimean Tatars were forcibly displaced from their home to Central Asia. Only recently, they were able to return to their lost homeland at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s.
Those who are now living in exile as a result of Russia's annexation of Crimea feel that they have once again been deprived of their historic homeland. However, the experience of previous generations allows them to be patient and stay sure that one day they will return home. The powerlessness in the face of geopolitics has not weakened the strength of the community.
Haytarma is a traditional Crimean Tatar dance, the name of which can be translated as "return".
Curator: Kama Wróbel
2-26.09.2020
organiser: TIFF Festival / TIFF Center
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exhibition photos: Jerzy Wypych
TIFF OPEN 2020: GRANFATHER’S TREES by DANIEL_A WEISS
Daniel_a’s Grandpa was a modest person, with an acute mind and a sensitive soul. He built a house for his family, moreover, he organized some competitions and meetings in his summer house. He fathered two sons and planted loads of trees. He immortalized special significant moments and close people by blessing trees to their memory. This simple and sincere gesture makes a part of important events and exceptional people stay with us. Long after his passing, it still gives shelter to future generations.
The exhibition Grandfather’s trees is dedicated to the memory of such a dear and close person of the author. It consists of the documentation of two years before Grandpa's death, his archival photography, family photos, and images of the era ...
As part of the exhibition presented in the Open Section, the curator and the artist decided to make a gesture inspired by Grandpa's practice. They will plant our trees together with the Festival audience on September 3, at 9 p.m. Participants of the event will receive seedlings, which they will use to celebrate their chosen intentions.
Daniel_a will dedicate the first tree to people who committed suicide or may do this in Poland as a result of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Contrary to the oppressive worldview narrative present in the public discourse, we express the hope that future generations will no longer have to face the persecution of the LGBTQ + community. Changing social conditions requires perseverance, patience, and often painful persistence.
We are here. We will always be here.
We will never surrender.
Curator: Casper Grey
2-26.09.2020
organiser: TIFF Festival / TIFF Center
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exhibition photos: Jerzy Wypych
PROJECT: POLAND IS A TOLERANT COUNTRY, AFTER ALL by PAWEŁ BARAŃSKI
After a long period of government in Poland, not only supporting but also preaching harmful and misleading propaganda about the LGBT community, manifestations of hate of LGBT people reached their climax when the Polish president stated that "LGBT people are not people, but ideology," and few of the politicians of the leading political party, Law and Justice, stated that LGBT people are less than "normal" human beings. The concept of the project and the descriptions are not a product of my imagination - they reflect the true, real views that are held and proclaimed by many right-wing activists, including many politicians from the leading party of the polish government.
Paweł Barański - born in 88, taking pictures since around 5 years. Moved from fashion into more conceptual work, and now would like to merge the two into one, creating fashion photography that's socially engaged. Plans to apply on Itf in Opava next year.
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PROJECT: LET’S BUILD THIS VIRUS by KAROLINA ĆWIK
This diary represents my memories of the lock-down times. It is a visualization of chats with the children, phone conversations with my mother, my dreams, and the cosmic space of our family. Putting it together gradually turned into personal emotional therapy.
Karolina Ćwik - Student of the Institute of Creative Photography at the University of Silesia in Opava. She graduated from the Art High School, then the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Wrocław. She studied photography at the Creative Attitudes Center in Wrocław. Winner of the PDN Emerging Photographer photo competition, two-time finalist of Athen Photo Festival. In 2019, she was shortlisted in the Tiff Open competition. Her works were published in the PDN quarterly, in The Hidden Photo magazine et al.
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SEE HOW OUR PAPERLUST PHOTOBOOK FESTIVAl LOOKED LIKE! :)))
THE FIRST EDITION OF PAPERLUST PHOTOBOOKS FEST IS OVER!
IT COULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED WITHOUT OUR PARTNERS, GUESTS, ARTISTS, VOLUNTEERS AND GUESTS. THANK YOU ALL!
by Fresh From Poland & Paper Beats Rock, funded by International Visegrad Fund
24.05 – 14.06.2019, Kraków
Paperlust Photobook Fest is a new biennial on the map of photographic events in Europe, stemmed from love to paper. Fest focuses on regional collaboration and aims to present the local self-publishing scene to the wider audience. The motivation behind the festival is to allow discovery while encouraging artistic exchange and explore the power of self-publishing as an offline medium, co-existing in the era of the Internet. PAPERLUST programme is formed of exhibitions, talks, book signings, panel discussion, workshop, photobook fair, reading room (chill zone and library) and dummy review. We invite small publishers, makers and established artists to present their practices, ranging from self-made publications and zines to book objects, albums, and photobooks published by the established institutions. As a reoccurring event, the festival aspires to become a photobook hub in Central and East Europe.
First edition – PAPERLUST Photobook Fest 2019. Art and self-publishing as a tool for social change is focused on the Visegrad region and has been created in close collaboration with the festival’s partners from Slovakia, Czech, and Hungary. It intends to gather local institutions, publishers, non-profit organizations and makers together to increase the visibility and exposure of the artists using photobooks to tell their stories, as well as strengthen, connect and empower the local art scene.
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PAPERLUST PHOTOBOOK FEST OPENING & PHOTOBOOK. ASSET EXHIBTION OPENING GALERIA I!, KRAKÓW, 24.05.2019
PHOTOBOOK. ASSET EXHIBTION GALERIA I!, KRAKÓW, 24.05.2019
Exhibition Asset focuses on the economic and prestige aspects of art publications. An artistic book has become a tool for the emancipation of artist-maker. Having printed publication allows in an almost automatic way to get into the field of the world of art, or rather the history of art. It is often made with the purpose of creating a unique object, that might become a cultural asset.
Except for the context criterion, we do not have any other criteria for evaluation, what is a work of art and what is not. In any case, however, we need legitimacy – perhaps as time passes, distribution of power and who has the legitimacy to evaluate and give the status to a work of art will change. However, traditional, institutional bodies are still holding a strong position. Even though artists, as well as publishers, say that books are overproduced, that there is no environment, not enough audiences or market, publishing an art book still seems to be amongst the best ways to build up one’s position in the art world.
The exhibition presents the selection of books made with a purpose to become an asset, a self-standing piece of art, to bring an income or to became a valuable, collectable object.
Artists: Petr Fabo, Ivars Gravlejs, Agata Grzybowska, Blanka Győri and Máté Labu, Hubert Humka, Dominika Jackuliakova, Libuse Jarcovjakova, Martin Kochan, Wawrzek Kolbusz, Peter Kollanyi, Martin Kollar, Wojtek Mazan, Peter Puklus, Łukasz Rusznica, Michał Siarek, Jakub Stanek, Krystyna Jędrzejewska-Szmek & Łukasz Gniadek, Beatrix Szörényi, Milan Tittel, Tereza Zelenkova
PHOTOBOOK. STORYTELLING EXHIBTION
ZNACZY SIĘ, KRAKÓW, 24.05 – 14.06.19
The show is a part of the series that focuses on various aspects of the photobook. A carefully designed exhibition presents the most interesting samples of the photobooks from the Visegrad region, that have been made out of the need to convey, usually a personal, story. Most of the presented works are either self-published or published in small editions, including hand-made or low-cost printed zine publications.
A book, as depicted in the show, becomes the means for communicating one’s personal experience, a cultural experience and the same time becomes an instrument protecting such experience from oblivion. The leitmotiv of a narration underlines the role of the recipient as an active participant/interpreter of the work of art.
Low-cost self-publishing is here a starting point for a polemic about the nature of the medium. The dissemination using the most economic and least demanding means gives it the power of an independent statement. The questions asked by the authors are an attempt to reflect on the phenomena of this type of publications on the Central European market, their role, ways of production and presentation, as well as expectations of the recipient.
Artists: Tabori Andras, Ewa Behrens, Eva Benkova, Stanislav Briza, Radek Brousil, Jan Brykczynski, Magda Buczek, Kateřina Držková, Peter Fabo, Viola Fátyol, Lucia Gamanová, Aurélia Garová, Agnieszka Gotowała, Anna Hornik , Tomoya Imamura, Zuzana Ivašková, Tereza Kabůrková, Ines Karčáková, Joanna Margarethe Kischka, Deana Kolencikova, Jan Kolský, Viktor Kopasz, Paulina Korobkiewicz, Andrea Kurjakova, Katarzyna Ewa Legendź, Tomasz Liboska, Michał Loba, Alicja Łabądź, Maciej Moskwa, Boris Németh, Anna Orłowska, Krzysiek Orłowski, Ivana Paleckova, Igor Pisuk, Marcin Płonka, Piotr Pytel, Krzysztof Racoń, Kaja Rejczel Rata, Anka Sielska, Jakub Stanek, Juraj Starovecký, Dorota Stolarska, Eva Szombat, Budha Tamás, Jiri Thyn, Balázs Varju Tóth, Ondrej Urban, Imrich Veber, Dorotteya Veykony, Ján Viazanička, Lukasz Wierzbowski, Karolina Wojtas, Adrian Wykrota, Ficsór Zsolt, Kasia Zolich, KWAS (Karolina Wojtas, Agnieszka Sejud)
PHOTOBOOK. PROCESS EXHIBTION
NOŚNA GALLERY, KRAKÓW, 24.05 – 14.06.19
In this exhibition, we treat objects of art as a consequence and as an event. We explore the medium of a book as a work in progress submerged in group work, culture, and its own particularities. The exhibition investigates photobooks as a constantly evolving medium in relation to its potentiality. It includes drafts, dummies, sketches, and excerpts from different stages of the work that cannot be completed.
Referring directly to the activities related to the book in a political context, here also the core idea is an artistic prosumer activity, or more precisely its aspect pertaining to work with an art object, that is done by a particular group/ collective. The work created in this way is a result of the vision and ideas of all those involved in the creation process. We want to open a dialogue on the role of a photo editor in photographic publications. We want to define the route which the author- photo editor relation is going through and tension it generates through the choice of photographs, arrangement, strategy – a cycle of events related to the photographic book.
Process exhibition emphasizes a special presence and interactive lecture by Viktor Kopasz and his lifelong process of creating Diaries.
Kopasz’s works become a starting point to think about a book in terms of a multidimensional process. The process can be considered from the perspective of an artist, as a work that can be presented synchronously – from idea to implementation – or asynchronously, as a kind of spiral, which concentrically returns to the centre, and can be looked at from different positions. By disrupting the order of the beginning and the end, the book appears as a final product of the process, enters into a new cycle – that varies depending on the adapted presentation and distribution strategy.
It is a more specific kind of self-publishing, in the context of the previous examples, as it functions as a work of art on the border of the avant-garde, ready-made and niche, crafted publications. Kopasz consciously plays with the medium, its content, and formal potential.
Artists: Jakub Bors, Kuba Dabrowski, Tomoya Imamura, Viktor Kopasz, Tomasz Laczny, Konstancja Nowina Konopka Książki twórców indywidualnych: Anna Ádám, Milan Adamčak, Hynek Alt, Aleksandra Vajd, Ján Ballax, Jakub Chromiński, Krystian Daszkowski, Peter Fabo (Petr Black FaBox), Lukas Hofmann, Nat Marcus, Alek Janicki, Karolina Jonderko, Ines Karčáková, Barbora Klímová, Paulina Korobkiewicz, Markéta Magidová, Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss, Lucia Nimcova, Lucia Papčová, Monika Pascoe Mikyskova, Tomas Pospech, Peter Puklus, Maciek Przemyk (Maciek P Myk), Catarina Simão, Anna Małgorzata Stankiewicz, Marta Szymanowska, Paweł Szypulski, Martina Šárovcová aka Kosmo Nauty – stories, Jan Sipocz, Bartłomiej Talaga, Konrad Trzeszczkowski, Imrich Veber, Karolina Zajaczkowska Książki grup twórczych: Časopis X o súčasnej kresbe, Hurrikan Press, If I saw that in a gallery I would say, this is art, Paper Beats Rock workshop dummies
VIKTOR KOPASZ. PROCESS. PROLONGED IDENTITY. OPEN STUDIO
APTEKA GALLERY, KRAKÓW, 25.05 – 27.05.19
Our ambition is to involve the artist in the process of creating. Therefore, for a limited time, we want to change the gallery’s window into an artist’s studio. Artist, being present, will allow the viewers to look at a photographic book as part of a broader phenomenon. The artist is working for 3 days in the window of the gallery. The temporary display changes every day. It might be a radical move or a subtle shift of meaning that we can follow alongside the process.
The presentation of the works and performative character of the exhibition by Viktor Kopasz allows placing the contemporary phenomenon of the book boom in a historical context while creating an experience of the process itself in real time.
TOMASZ ŁĄCZNY. PROCESS. C18FE7N18. OPEN STUDIO
APTEKA GALLERY, KRAKÓW, 01.05 – 02.06.19
A live book-making process. The artist creates a hand-made photography artbook using traditional photography techniques with elements of improvisation (taking advantages of technical errors of wet plate photography). It’s the final step of the personal project “It All Is. And Nothing”. The audience has an opportunity to experience work in progress in the experimental stage of the process.
OPEN LIBRARY & CHILL ZONE + KIDS ZONE
MOCAK LIBRARY, KRAKÓW, 24.05 – 14.06.19
If you would like to explore art books in a quiet and peaceful space, Chill Zone is a place to sit down and discover our reading room. It is located in a beautiful and bright MOCAK Library. Presented publications – zines, photobooks, small editions’ publications from Visegrad countries – come from the MOCAK and Paper Beats Rock collections, private collectors, artists and the open call.
We invite kids to spent time in our Kids Zone, space prepared specially for youngest fans of paper.
PHOTOBOOK DUMMY REVIEW
TYTANO, KRAKÓW, 02.06.19
Paperlust Photobook Dummy Review is a project intended for emerging artists working with the medium of photography and art books. Event will allow to connect young talents with professionals, publishers and curators from different countries.
The Tytano space will open for one day for face-to-face discussions over the photobooks in progress. Submissions are open to everyone over 18 years old. Selected artists will be invited to meet four of our international experts. Handmade dummies are in focus, although digital projects and small self-published editions are also taken under consideration. The main aim of the event is to help artists to develop the ideas they are already working on.
On Saturday, 1st June, we invite all of the Participants and Experts of Photobook Dummy Review to join the Portfolio Evening, a special joint event organised by Krakow Photomonth and Paperlust Photobook Fest.
Our Experts: Franek Ammer, Stanislav Briza, Zsolt Ficsor, Zuzana Flaskova, Gábor Arion Kudász, Wiktoria Michałkiewicz, Tereza Rudolf, Olija Triaška Stefanovič
STILL ‘TIS DEVILS MUST PRINT – ARTIST TALKS
MILK, KRAKÓW, 01.06.19
Series of 3 talks focusing on different aspects of the photobook and self-publishing in Visegrad Group countries will take place at Milk Studio. Subjects TBA.
Self-publishing practices in Hungary in the post-digital era/ Beata Istvánkó
The notion of artists’ publishing activities has changed over the past decades, in particular with
the expansion of the art market and the globalization of artistic practices, combined with the advent of the digital era and the introduction of new modes of production and circulation. Print and digital projects employ experimental formats and blur distinctions between art press, curatorial
experiments, and other publishing enterprises. The aim of the presentation is to summarize the history of independent art publishing in Hungary after 2000 through the activity of the Budapest based ISBN books+gallery.
The ISBN is a contemporary art bookstore and a gallery space established in 2017. The name of the gallery was obtained from the 13-digit identification number for publication, the ISBN-number (International Standard Book Number). The most important mission of the ISBN books+gallery is to map, collect, exhibit and distribute the domestic and regional, Hungarian and foreign language, new and second-hand contemporary art publications, exhibition catalogues, zines, art books, photobooks and theoretical publications.
Young scene of photobook makers in Slovakia/ Olja Triaška Stefanović
Five years ago students from the Department of Photography and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia showed great interest in making photobooks within their visual researches. Olja Triaška Stefanović, together with her colleague Juraj Blaško from Visual Communication department, realized that it is necessary to open new and interdisciplinary course, that will link two departments and prepare students to make more professional photobooks. They created and started together to teach, PHO BO – Creation of Photobook where the main part of the course is focused on teaching a wide range of technological processes together with visual dramaturgy and storytelling. The author will be focused on the presentation of youngest generations of authors from Slovakia, their production of photobook and how they can improve the self-publishing market in Slovakia. Triaška Stefanović will present their books, zines and introduce to the audience how they work within the PHO BO, what is the course methodology and how they prepare students for professional work after graduation.
I shout „That’s Me!” Stories of Czech fanzines from the ’80s till now // Miloš Hroch & Pavel Turek // presentation of the book
The book ‘I shout “That‘s me!” Stories of Czech fanzines from the 80s till now’, published by PageFive, for the first time takes its readers through uncharted waters of the Czech fanzine scene, that is of unofficial amateur magazines. It brings to light stories of those who fell for computer games or wrote sci-fi stories, who obsessively compiled their own metal music charts, who were driven to street demonstrations by hardcore punk music or who wanted to change the standing of women in society. And about those who then wrote about it freely in their magazines. „This type of publication has the advantage that you can wave it around and shout ‚That’s me!’” – a photographer, a protagonist of the youngest fanzine trend of photozines, explains the essence of fanzines in one of the chapters of the book. And while there is the talk of the decline of printed media, the microcosm of independent printing is constantly expanding.
LET’S TALK ABOUT SELF-PUBLISHING – PANEL DISCUSSION
MOCAK, KRAKÓW, 31.05.19
Panel discussion at MOCAK with invited experts from the Visegrad group countries is orientated toward various aspects of the photobooks and self-publishing. The event has an informative and educational character, but also intends to encourage local collaboration.
The debate is focusing on the current situation of self-publishing the Eastern and Central Europe, its role and potential. Guests will discuss the phenomenon in the current socio-political context, its recent trends and how the role of self-publishing evolved in the era of the Internet.
The discussion at MOCAK Musem will be moderated by Michał Sita (Pix.House), and the speakers are Olja Triaška Stefanovič (Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava), Stanislav Briza (Bflmpsvz publishing) and Beáta Istvánkó (ISBN books+gallery, Budapest).
COLLABORATION NOW! SELF-PUBLISHING WORKSHOP
MOCAK, KRAKÓW, 30.05 – 02.06.19
Workshop …. Collaboration Now! International self-publishing workshop.. . is a unique formula designed for PAPERLUST Photobook Festival. As a participant you will gain basic knowledge about photobook creation from the scratch, including craft, design, editing and its function in the wider perspective of the art market. You will have a unique opportunity to work with internationally recognized artists from V4 region. Prepare for an intense experience where you will work in a group as well as directly with workshop leaders and other participating artists. You will progress by presenting your work, participating in round-table discussions and one-to-one sessions.
As a result every participant will create a dummy. This workshop will allow us to develop knowledge and consciousness about the medium of photography, photobooks, editing and narration and the use of visual language and self-expression through art. We believe visual is political and we intend to put it into the process. We will encourage emerging artists and amateurs (participants) to create visual stories, develop real skills and preserve the craft of producing a printed body of art, especially photobook.
Workshop leaders:
Katarzyna Ewa Legendź PBR| PL
Katarzyna Zolich PBR|PL
Leader from Hungary – Gábor Arion Kudász
Leader from Slovakia – Jan Sipocz
Leader from Czech Republic – Teresa Zelenkova
COLLABORATION NOW! SELF-PUBLISHING WORKSHOP
MOCAK, KRAKÓW, 30.05 – 02.06.19
Workshop …. Collaboration Now! International self-publishing workshop.. . is a unique formula designed for PAPERLUST Photobook Festival. As a participant you will gain basic knowledge about photobook creation from the scratch, including craft, design, editing and its function in the wider perspective of the art market. You will have a unique opportunity to work with internationally recognized artists from V4 region. Prepare for an intense experience where you will work in a group as well as directly with workshop leaders and other participating artists. You will progress by presenting your work, participating in round-table discussions and one-to-one sessions.
As a result every participant will create a dummy. This workshop will allow us to develop knowledge and consciousness about the medium of photography, photobooks, editing and narration and the use of visual language and self-expression through art. We believe visual is political and we intend to put it into the process. We will encourage emerging artists and amateurs (participants) to create visual stories, develop real skills and preserve the craft of producing a printed body of art, especially photobook.
Workshop leaders:
Katarzyna Ewa Legendź PBR| PL
Katarzyna Zolich PBR|PL
Leader from Hungary – Gábor Arion Kudász
Leader from Slovakia – Jan Sipocz
Leader from Czech Republic – Teresa Zelenkova
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Organisers: Fresh From Poland Foundation, Paper Beats Rock Foundation
Strategic partners: FOTOGRAF Magazine (CZ), The Studio of Young Artists’ Association / FKSE (HU), ISBN könyv+galéria (HU), Hardness &Blackness (SK)
Programme curators: Katarzyna Legendź, Katarzyna Zolich
Exhibitions curators: Katarzyna Zolich, Katarzyna Legendź, Gosia Fricze, Grażyna Siedlecka, Katarzyna Roniek, Beata Istvánkó, Markéta Kinterová, Slavomíra Ondrušová
The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
PAPERLUST PHOTOBOOK FEST 2019
Art and self-publishing as a tool for social change
by Fresh From Poland & Paper Beats Rock
24.05 – 16.06.2019
Kraków
www.paperlustphotobookfest.com
PAPERLUST Photobook Fest is a new biennial on the map of photographic events in Europe, stemmed from love to paper. The first edition of Paperlust starts on the 24th of May, in parallel to the Krakow Photomonth Festival. Paperlust is one of the first festivals in Poland dedicated solely to photographic publications.
PAPERLUST is built on the basis of regional collaborations and aims to present the local self-publishing scene to a wider audience. The motivation behind the festival is to allow the discovery of lesser-known European art scenes, encourage mutual artistic exchange, and explore the power of self-publishing as an offline medium, co-existing in the era of the Internet.
The first edition of the festival, Art and self-publishing as a tool for social change, is focused on the Visegrad region and was created in close collaboration with the festival’s partners from Poland (Krakow Photomonth, MOCAK library), Slovakia (Hardness&Blackness), Czech (FOTOGRAF) and Hungary (The Studio of Young Artists’ Association, ISBN).
The PAPERLUST Fest introduces the concept of various approaches towards an art book in its relation to the capital, format, motivation of the author, and the distribution model. Three exhibitions, forming the core of the festival, are designed to express this division. The purpose is to stir a discussion around the photobook’s role in society, and new ways of approaching the medium in the era of the Internet and online communication.
PHOTOBOOK. STORYTELLING (Fundacja Sztuki Nowej Znaczy Się, 24.05 – 14.06.19) is a carefully designed exhibition that presents the most interesting samples of the photobooks from the region that have been made out of the need to convey, usually a personal story, published in the low- budget small editions.
Photobooks produced with more of financial and professional support, either by the artists themselves or by publishing houses, are presented at the PHOTOBOOK. ASSET (Galeria I!, 24.05 – 14.06.19). This exhibition focuses on the economic and prestige aspect of art publications.
The third exhibition, PHOTOBOOK. PROCESS (Nośna and Apteka Gallery, 24.05 – 02.06.19), complements the two shows. The display focuses on the production aspect of publications, describing different ways and phases of creating a book, also emphasising the role of a team working on more advanced productions. To bring the audience closer to the process, we invited two artists to work on their photobooks during the show. Viktor Kopasz and Tomasz Laczny will be making their books directly in the exhibition space.
In addition to the exhibitions, PAPERLUST offers a series of accompanying events; PHOTOBOOK AND ZINE FAIR, WORKSHOP, PHOTOBOOK DUMMY REVIEW and CHILL ZONE / Photobook Library.
The structure of the festival is based on cooperation with local partners and experts in the field. As a recurring event, every edition of PAPERLUST will focus on different parts of Europe and work with regional institutions, aiming to become an important photobook hub on the contemporary art scene.
PAPERLUST Photobook Fest is organized by Fresh From Poland and Paper Beats Rock.
The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
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