Offsite Programs
Blurb and the Artists’ Book
Culture Lab. 5-25 46th Avenue, Long Island City.
Join us for an informative session that explores how artists can utilize print-on-demand programs and tools to express, preserve, and share their work in ways that move beyond traditional print methods. We'll dive into what Blurb can do and how its range of formats and easy-to-use software support everything from photo books, zines and catalogs to monographs and single edition artist books. Through a short film on book artist Vince Koloski, we’ll challenge conventional definitions of what a book can be. We'll also look at how print fits into an artist’s practice today, with real-world case studies and a candid interview with artist and Cinematographer, Alex Palumbo, on how he uses print to bridge the physical and digital worlds. Whether you’re creating solo or collaborating, this session will open new possibilities for your art in print.
This offsite program will take place walking distance from the NY Art Book Fair at Culture Lab, located at 5-25 46th Avenue, Long Island City.
Afuera! Publishing Queer Liberation — From the Collection of Archivos Desviados
Printed Matter, 231 11th Avenue, Manhattan, NY 10001
Printed Matter presents Afuera! Publishing Queer Liberation — From the Collection of Archivos Desviados, an exhibition of historical publications and print ephemera published by members of three activist coalitions: the Gay Liberation Front of New York (GLF) and the Third World Gay Revolution (TWGR), two groups that emerged in post-Stonewall New York, as well as the Frente de Liberación Homosexual of Argentina (FLH), Latin America’s first political action group for gays and lesbians, founded in Buenos Aires in 1971. Across a survey of rare magazines, newsletters, posters, flyers, mockups, and original documents, the exhibition traces underrecognized influences and connections between the groups as they energetically published their messages of queer liberation. Works on view are drawn from Archivos Desviados, an ongoing queer archive project led by Juan Queiroz, and marks the first US presentation of materials from the Buenos Aires-originated collection.
Yours 2ly: a year of correspondence and co-authorship
Printed Matter, 231 11th Avenue, Manhattan, NY 10001
The window of Printed Matter’s Chelsea store features a new installation of 2ly, a one-year-long epistolary correspondence between artist duos SM Studio (London) and Florian∞Emden (Leipzig). Initiated in February 2024, each month, one pair wrote and designed a letter that was riso-printed and distributed by Colorama (Berlin), then sent to the other duo and their cohort of mail-art subscribers. Publishing, here, is understood as a shared authorship in every sense. The letters explore a mutual love of writing, drawing, folding and borrowing. They began with this quote: “Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy.” The installation by the creators of 2ly presents the shared visual language that developed over their correspondence.