THE CLASSROOM
The Classroom, is a long-running program that provides space for artists, writers, designers, and publishers to highlight new releases at NYABF and fosters dialogue around important themes in artists’ book publishing. The NYABF 2022 Classroom is organized in collaboration with David Senior, Director of Library & Archives at SFMOMA, and is hosted by Dia Art Foundation.
All programs were recorded and archived on our Youtube Channel. See below!
12:00—1:00 pm
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1:00-2:00pm
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2:00-3:00pm
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We Been Here, with William Camargo, Genesis Báez, and Lindsay Buchman
This conversation brings together photographers William Camargo and Genesis Báez, moderated by Lindsay Buchman, to discuss Camargo's recent publication, We Been Here. The publication depicts Anaheim, California, as a contested site, examining gentrification, colonized land, and Mexican, Chicanx, and Latinx histories. We Been Here enacts counterstories to challenge the erasure and mischaracterization of Latinx communities, revealing buried histories of oppression and disempowerment in the region contrasted by community activism. Together, Báez and Camargo will discuss their lens-based practices and the importance of photographic narratives to empower and rewrite dominant canons of photography while exploring the relationship between place, land, and community within visual representation. Presented by Seaton Street Press.︎︎︎ Watch here
1:00-2:00pm
Publications in the Tropics
Taking their collaborative book, Manual for Exhibition Making in the Tropics=Manual para realizar exposiciones en el trópico, as a starting point, author Pablo León de la Barra, the publishers and a few friends, will discuss the complex and unique scenarios Latin American editors face while maintaining a publishing practice. This essential discussion is for bookmakers, artists, curators and everybody who understands the tropics not only as geography but as a state of mind. The conversation will take the form of a guide to surviving art from the global south. Presented by Terminal Ediciones and Gato Negro Ediciones.︎︎︎ Watch here
2:00-3:00pm
The Artists’ Magazine: A Parallel Practice, with Ho Tam (HO TAM), Mira Schor and Susan Bee (M/E/A/N/I/N/G), Sreshta Rit Premnath (Shifter Magazine) and Tammy Nguyen (Martha’s Quarterly)
The founding editors of four artists' magazines will reflect on the richness, promise, and challenge of the medium. They will discuss how artmaking and publication making—particularly the artist magazine as a form—function as parallel communal and discursive spaces. The panelists will expand on Gwen Allen’s observation that artists' magazines are “not merely secondary or supplementary to other kinds of alternative spaces.” Rather, publishing is another mode of making art public. Presented by Shifter Magazine.︎︎︎ Watch here
3:00-4:00pm
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4:00-5:00pm
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5:00-6:00pm
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On Latin American Expanded Photography, with Oscar B. Castillo, Diana López, Luis Cobelo, and Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo
This conversation centers the photography practices of two Venezuelan artists, Oscar B. Castillo and & Diana López, who use the medium to reflect on human and political tensions by using a mix of techniques and visual narratives. Esos que saben by Oscar B. Castillo is a photobook about life in prison, change, dreams, the Free Convict Hip Hop Collective and their journey from incarceration to freedom in Venezuela. Diana López ‘s photobook The Eye Of… shows collaboration as a central part of her practice as a long history of organizing participatory art projects in public and institutional spaces. López and Castillo will discuss their respective artistic approaches and the political dimensions of their work, facilitated by the publishers. Presented by Raya Editorial + La Chancleta Voladora.︎︎︎ Watch here
4:00-5:00pm
Thought Pieces
This program is a live recording of MACK’s critically acclaimed podcast Thought Pieces, in which they sit down with writers and artists for readings and conversations around collaboration and interdisciplinary practice. Join photographer Collier Schorr and writer Moyra Davey for an expansive conversation about collaboration and interdisciplinary practice, with a poetry reading by D’Angelo Lovell Williams. Presented by MACK.︎︎︎ Watch here
5:00-6:00pm
Messages from the Future, 20 years of Futurepoem
This discussion centers the legacy of this award-winning press on the occasion of its 20th anniversary, with founding editor Dan Machlin, board members Mónica de la Torre and Jay Sanders, designer Tom Griffiths of Everything Studio, author Mirene Arsanios, and recent guest editor Farnoosh Fathi. Together they will explore Futurepoem’s unique collective publishing model, seminal press projects and publications, and what it means to be an experimental publisher in this particular moment. Presented by Futurepoem.︎︎︎ Watch here