Visitors to the Vancouver Art Gallery Annex on Oct. 5 and 6 can dive into artist publishing in all of its various forms at the second annual Vancouver Art/Book Fair the only international art book fair in Canada.
Programs include a performance by award-winning Vancouver writer Amber Dawn, a talk by graphic designers and zine publishers Jon Hannan and Sarah Stapleton of OWT Creative (Manchester), a photobook workshop by Deniz Merdano of +90 (Montreal/Istanbul), a panel discussion led by Andrew Bernardini of The Art Book Review (Los Angeles), an artist talk by Jesse Hlebo of Swill Children (Brooklyn), an introduction to Colombian artist publishing by Juan Pablo Fajardos of la silueta ediciones (Bogotá), a discussion of Publication Studio by Antonia Pinter and Patricia No (Portland) and more.
Visitors will also view a projection installation byAsli Serbest and Mona Mahall of artist magazineJunk Jet(Berlin)and three rooms of exhibiting publishersfrom such places as Vancouver, Victoria, Mayne Island, Calgary, Saskatoon, Toronto, Montreal, Portland, San Francisco, Boston, Mexico City, Düsseldorf and Stockholm. Local artist-run centres, publishers, curators and institutions will also be hosting their own events as part of the parallel event, Artists' Books Weekend, taking place from Oct. 3 to 6.
