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Index Art Book Fair × Ca'Buccari
September 12-15, 2024
Opening Thursday 12.09, 4pm
September 12-15, 2024
Opening Thursday 12.09, 4pm
An Art Book Fair of Art Book Fairs
For their inaugural Venice edition, Index Art Book Fair will bring sixteen art book fairs from around the world presenting their personal selection of art and artists publications, accompanied by an exciting public program.
Opening hours:
Thursday 4-8pm
Friday-Saturday, 12-8pm
Sunday, 12-7pm
Index Art Book Fair (MX)
African Art Book Fair (Dakar, SN)
An Independent Book Fair (Tirana, ALI)
Arts of the Working Class (Berlin, DE)
Bergen Art Book Fair (Bergen, NO)
Books are Bridges (Rotterdam, NL)
Borderless (Istanbul, TR)
Cairo Art Book Fair (Cairo, EG)
Fair Enough (Tallín, EE)
I Never Read (Basel, CH)
Libros Mutantes (Madrid, ES)
Miss Read (Berlin, DE)
OAZA Collectiv (Zagreb, HR)
Taipei Art Book Fair (Taipei, TW)
Yogyakarta Art Book Fair (Yogyakarta, ID)
Public Program Index Art Book Fair /
Pedagogies of Resurgence, more....
7pm – Body To Book /
On Physical Interaction with Books
Bernhard Cella
"Body To Book" is an upcycling project that explores the relationship between the human body and books. It features six sculptures made from coat fragments covering a naked body and carrying multiple books. This setup invites us to explore sensuality and intimacy in a direct interaction with the medium. It encourages the examination of the subtle interplays between the body and books, offering numerous starting points for artistic, philosophical, and personal reflections on human experience and the meaning of physical media.
Friday 13.09.24
2pm – Open Mic / Open Mic Fair Affairs
Join us for an open mic and roundtable, where the in IABF participating fairs will share and discuss their insights and experiences. This discussion aims to highlight the importance of fostering environments for community-based learning and collective political thought. We invite everyone to listen, participate, and engage in conversations to enrich our understanding of what an art book fair can represent as a site of cultural exchange, critical reflection, and collective action.
Friday 13.09.24
4pm – Radical Sense /
A Translation Workshop
Radical Sense, a radical feminist reading group based in Tirana since 2018, is hosting a collective translation workshop. Together, participants will translate a short text into all the languages of the fairs as well as into others. At the end of the meeting, we will emerge with drafts, which will later be finished and published as a compilation, premiering at An Independent Book Fair in Tirana, Albania.
Saturday 14.09.24
2pm – To Cast Broadly /
Radio Broadcast
Alberto Ortega Trejo, Andrew Beltran, Chantal Garduño Israde, Christopher Good, Jacob Lindgren, Radio Spugna, Tamra Becerra Valdez, Vida Rucli.
"Broadcast seeding" is a method of planting that involves scattering seeds over a relatively large area, without concern for precise spacing or depth. It is especially useful for cover crops, which contribute to controlling soil erosion and maintaining biodiverse agro-ecosystems. To cast broadly departs from this etymology (broadcast, "dispersed upon the ground by hand") and similarly seeks to cast a broad net(work) of friends, comrades, and collaborators interested in planting ideas, conversations, and
sounds about self-organized spaces for peer-to-peer permaculture learning and modeling ecosystems for grounded knowledge production in opposition to the increasingly monoculture, walled gardens of higher education. The transmission, a follow up to "Radio Ven, Seremos"—a collection of text excerpts, poetry, and conversations charting ways of coming together as "guerrilla welfare"—voices responses to questions like: “Who is learning?” “What does the university have that we want? That we don’t?” “What would a school look like when built from scratch?”
2pm – Cultivating Communal Pedagogies / Conversation
Andrea Ancira - Ginevra Ludovici (Tumba la Casa)
Researchers and curators Andrea Ancira and Ginevra Ludovici will guide us through their explorations into communal and situated pedagogies, where creating spaces for exchange and connection becomes a powerful act. As we delve into their research, the need to transcend and challenge pedagogical systems that serve as tools of discipline and neutralization becomes evident, paving the way for alternative, decolonial approaches that celebrate and nurture both rooted and shared thinking.
Saturday 14.09.24
4pm – The Fall of the Tyrant is not the Fall of Tyranny
Keynote Conversation
Susana Vargas - Noemi Biasetton
“The fall of the tyrant is not the fall of tyranny” takes its title from a phrase by Juana Belén, a very little-known public intellectual from Mexico. She was speaking out against the 30-year dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, just as the Mexican Revolution was gestating. Belén knew that a structural change was needed. Through a reflection on how Juana Belen (Mexico, 1875-1942), Audre Lorde (United States, 1934- 1992), and Silvia Wynter (Cuba, 1928- ) navigated their friendships, political struggles, and pedagogies for social change, this talk focuses on the much-needed nuance to think through our autonomous responsibility in collective struggle.
Sunday 15.09.24
2pm – A Taste of Resistance: A Conversation with ADFD/Alternative Monument for Germany
Maria Inés Plaza Lazo
"Radical Recipes: A Workshop on Periodicity and Volatility in AWC"
Sunday 15.09.24
4pm – Conceptos de arte de Lucio Fontana / Bookpresentation
Angela Sanna (editor) and Susana Echevarría (editorial coordinator at Alias)
"Conceptos de arte" features the work of Lucio Fontana, the founder of spacialism and an essential figure of European 20th century art. We will have a conversation with Angela Sanna (editor) and Susana Echevarría (editorial coordinator at Alias) on this anthology of manifestos, articles, interviews, and letters where Fontana's viewpoints on art and the different fields he explored emerge, highlighting his own contribution to the new artistic practices that developed from the 1950s onwards.