Incongruous Counterparts: On the many lives of Independent Publishing @ Kunstvlaai 2012

Wednesday 28 November, 16:00 – 17:30 / Print Room studio in Sint Nicolaas Lyceum, Amsterdam.
Kunstvlaai 2012, INexactly THIS

Round table about independent publishing in the field of visual arts.
Participants: Karin de Jong (Print Room), Paul Gangloff (artist and graphic designer), Freek Lomme (Onomatopee).

In the realm of artist-designer collaborations, typography and DIY printing, the Dutch arts scene has maintained an innovative position. Publishing is not just a crucial ingredient of several independent arts organisations, it is the very means of circulating artists’ praxis. Through this conversation we invite festival participants to share their approach and methodologies in publishing as dynamic socio-cultural practices.

Some of the issues that have been discussed: how to be independent in publishing; knowledge production in the age of recession; publishing as a kind of activism; lack of concentration and dissemination of information in the internet; oversaturation and how to make the audience active; digital shift in publishing.

You can watch the entire lecture in the following 8 videos.

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