SMLXL: Publishing by Artists, Collectives, Institutions, and Networks

Speaker

• Ulises Host

  Ulises is a Philadelphia-based bookshop and project space dedicated to artists’ books and independent art publications that explores the relationship between publics and publications. We provide an inventory of titles not widely distributed in the United States on contemporary art, graphic design, art theory, architecture, criticism, curatorial practice, and adjacent fields. We support people who make books and expand the boundaries of what art publishing can be.
  
  Hosting projects, exhibitions, and residencies, Ulises’s open-ended programming explores publishing as an incubator for new forms of artistic, editorial, curatorial, and pedagogical practice. Ulises sees the democratic potential of publishing as a vehicle for activism, education, assembly, and exchange.

• Yusuf Hassan BlackMass Publishing

  Yusuf Hassan is the founder of BlackMass Publishing. Hassan’s work explores the idea of the book his reductive technique and meditative approach challenge the physical and poetic boundaries of his materials canceling the idea of restrictions within his work allows him to analyze it with no limitations. using printed matter as a physical way of expression Much of Hassan’s success is attributed to his unique ability to express dramatic and emotional content through publications and printmaking. Hassan holds publications in the permanent collection of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Langston Hughes Library, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Houghton Library, and The Whitney Museum Library.

• Manuel Raeder BOM DIA

  Studio Manuel Raeder is a multidisciplinary artistic praxis and design studio based in Berlin and Mexico City, known for its approach to graphic design, editorial projects, research, exhibition design, textile design, and visual communication.
  
  The studio is concerned with the construction of narratives — in the form of books, exhibition design, and communication design. Books can function as carriers of information or as experimental devices to document and conceive narratives. In a similar manner, exhibition design can trigger different sensorial experiences, guiding visitors through a spatial narrative. The studio is interested in the meaning of books and storytelling within space, the archive, and the future of libraries, as well as their role in the context of display, architecture, and product design.
  
  In 2011, Manuel Raeder founded the publishing house BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE to distribute and publish artists with a strong interest in exploring the format of the artist’s book. 
  
  Recent permanent display and exhibition architecture projects include: Nicola L.: I Am The Last Woman Object, Museion, Bolzano; Rose Lowder: Bouquets, Kunsthalle Zürich; CARA (Center for Art, Research and Alliances), New York; and Kurimanzutto, libros, Mexico City. 
  
  Studio Manuel Raeder comprises Eglė Petraškaitė, Cecilia Murgia, Andrew J. Beltran and Manuel Raeder.

• Rachel Valinsky Wendy's Subway

  Rachel Valinsky is a writer, editor, and translator living in New York. She is co-founder and Artistic Director of Wendy's Subway, a nonprofit arts and literary reading room, writing space, and independent publisher, and Director of Publications at the Center for Art, Research, and Alliances in New York. Previously she was an editor at Primary Information. 
  
  Rachel has edited over fifty publications, including artist’s books, reprints and facsimiles, monographs, anthologies and essay collections, and books of poetry and fiction. Her writing and criticism have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, frieze,e-flux criticism, Movement Research Performance Journal, PAJ: Performance Art Journal, TextWork and elsewhere, and been published by the Berlinale International Film Festival, Danspace Project, Sternberg Books, among others. Her translations have appeared from Semiotext(e), Éditions Lutanie, Pluto Press, and Éditions 1989. She has curated exhibitions, performances, and public programs at The Kitchen, The Queens Museum; the Poetry Project, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

• Siddhartha Lokanandi Hopscotch Reading Room

• Laura Coombs Designer of "Cyberfeminism Index" and "A Sexual History of the Internet"

  Laura Coombs is a designer in New York, working on visual identities and editorial projects with museums, artists, and architects. Since 2017, she has been design lead at New Museum at its technology affiliates, Rhizome and New Inc. She teaches graphic design at Cooper Union, RISD, and Princeton University.