VOLUMES 2016 25- 26/11/2016 Gessnerallee Zürich, CH

Big room with publishers and visitors
Publisher behind his book stand
Close-up picture of 2 men and a woman
Woman with a microphone
People looking at books
People looking at books
Girl holding a book in her hands
People with books in their hands
Installation view
People talking to each other
Man at the workshop table
Guy sitting on the floor with a book
Girl looking at the book exhibition
Book exhibition
Reading performance
Reading performance with audience
Big room with publishers
Drawing peformance
Portrait of a girl during her performance
Girl and her laptop during a performance
A couple looking at a book
Visitors of the fair
Two girls talking to each other
Big room with many visitors
Big room with many visitors
Workshop table
Drawing performance
Visitors of the fair
Visitors of the fair
Workshop table
Workshop table
Workshop table
Close-up of a book
Drawing performance
Drawing
A publisher behind his stand
Close-up of a guy
The big room with publishers and visitors
Close-up of a publisher
Book exhibition
Big room with all the publishers
Drawing performance
Publisher behind his stand
Close-up of a publisher
Drawing
Big room with all the publishers
Man behind his book stand
Woman with a microphone
Woman with a microphone during her reading
Visitors of the fair
Publisher talking to visitors
Visitors of the fair
Visitors of the fair
Workshop table
Zines
Fair with visitors
Girl with a book in her hands
Couple looking at an installation
Book exhibition
Paper installation
Room from above
DJ at the turntables
Room with visitors
Visitors of the fair
People looking at the book exhibition
Band on the stage
Musicians on the stage
Singer on the stage
Band on the stage
Singer on the stage
Wall with posters
Picture of an open book
Page of an open book
Zine
Tote bag at a stand
Boko exhibition
Screen during the symposium
Book exhibition
Close-up of books
Workshop table
People looking at books
Publishers behind their stand
Visitors of the fair
One of the speakers of the symposium
Book exhibition
Woman with a poster
One of the speakers during the symposium
Woman smiling

Description

The 2016 edition took place at Gessnerallee Zürich, a venue for the production and presentation of works in the performing arts in the heart of the city. The „Nordflügel“ of Gessnerallee hosted the stands of the publishers and a big workshop table, while in "Stall 6“ a programme of performances co-curated by Anke Hoffmann took place. Furthermore on Friday night austropop musician Voodoo Jürgens gave a free concert.

For the first time this year, there was an informal one day symposium: "Publishing as Resistance“, curated by special guest Damian Christinger. This symposium showcased lectures, presentations and performances by invited specialists and players of the independent publishing scene. Covering different aspects of the historical and current examples of publication as a form of resistance, the event ended with a round table, where the fair's exhibitors and the general public will be invited to take part.

The book exhibition presented two different VOLUMES collections. The first one is the classic "International Open Call", for which zinesters and artists from all around the world send one publication to VOLUMES. The result acts as a snapshot of the current international scene. The second exhibition, the "Zürich Archive" was a new compilation of publications, art books and zines which are connected to the city and offer an insight into different relations and experiences within the location.

 
Free entrance.
 
Opening hours of the book fair:
Friday, 6pm - 10pm
Saturday, 2pm - 8pm

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Program

Friday, 25.11.16
Nordflügel
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6pm - 8pm Collage & Zine Workshop by VOLUMES

Make your own zine!

Collage & Zine Workshop by VOLUMES / Pasquale Pollastro

A person is making a collage on a table
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6pm - 9pm "Karoline Schreiber drawing the audience", performative installation

Schreiber will be installed like a street painter at Nordflügel and visitors are welcome to let themselves being drawn tête-à-tête with Karoline Schreiber and keep the portrait for a modest amount of money. The audience can watch the portray-sessions projected on a wall.

 

 

 

Artist lying on the floor drawing
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Ongoing "STELLA' s Body Shop", itinerant performance

"You may buy things from my Body or for your Body"

picture of STELLA
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8pm - 9.30pm "You feel me?" – A drawing workshop by Laurie Rollitt and Tobias Gutmann

Drawing workshop by Laurie Rollitt and Tobias Gutmann

Black and white illustrations
Stall 6
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6pm [f: la répète], performative reading by Le Foyer with Petra Koehle /Nicolas Vermot-Petit-Outhenin, Riikka Tauriainen, Georg Rutishauser, Anna Francke, Gioia Dal Molin

[f: la répète] is a performative reading based on a two-part research project at Le Foyer. The title [f: la répète] refers to the expression «la répète» (also «la répèt’»), which is used for theatre or dance rehearsals in colloquial French. As an abbreviated form of «répétion» the concept includes, in contrast to rehearsal, the element of reiteration. [f: la répète] is based on the interests of the involved persons and gathers artistic, publishing and curatorial methods. [f: la répète] discusses ways of visualizing archive or lecture based research and questions the meaning of gender in a capitalistic system or Switzerland’s involvement in a colonial world order.

With Petra Koehle /Nicolas Vermot-Petit-Outhenin, Riikka Tauriainen, Georg Rutishauser, Anna Francke, Gioia Dal Molin

Display of texts on wall
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7pm "Quelque part en Suisse", performance by Maria-Cecilia Quadri and Lea Schaffner
A performance of Maria-Cecilia Quadri and Lea Schaffner where they contemplate a mostly unknown part of European history and remember the activists „Mujeres Libres“. They assemble different materials on a time axis between the past, the present and the future. Dealing with the emancipatory and resisting power of writing and publishing they activate utopian fantasies. 
 
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Ongoing Book exhibitions: International Open Call & Zürich Archive

The exhibition space shows this year the «International Open Call», a snapshot of the international self-publishing scene, and for the fist time the «Zürich Archive». This new collection compiles publications, artist books and zines connected to Zürich.

Girl standing in front of a wall with exhibited publications
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Ongoing "Membranous", installation by Bettina Diel

Bettina Diel is displaying lucid paper objects. They are not only for the eyes, but also for hands and nose.

Waxed paper
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9pm "Wenn du nicht mehr lachst“, slam performance by Bettina Gugger

Bettina Gugger is presenting her collection of short storys in relation to very useful tricks to succeed in every day life.

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10pm Concert by Voodoo Jürgens

Hyped a little over one year ago as „the next best thing“ from and in Vienna by verbal (and soon also media) viral marketing, Voodoo Jürgens has emancipated himself from the claustrophobic, if not lethal, embrace of the „checkers“ by his finally available debut album, with which he has delivered a substantial, veritable and above all touching testament of his talent. 

Portrait of musician Voodoo Jürgens
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10pm to xx Afterparty

Afterpary with DJs Momo Love & Pat

Saturday, 26.11.16
Nordflügel
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2pm - 5pm "Karoline Schreiber drawing the audience", performative installation

Schreiber will be installed like a street painter at Nordflügel and visitors are welcome to let themselves being drawn tête-à-tête with Karoline Schreiber and keep the portrait for a modest amount of money. The audience can watch the portray-sessions projected on a wall.

Artist lying on floor drawing
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Ongoing "STELLA's Body Shop", itinerant performance

"You may buy things from my Body or for your Body"

Photo of STELLA
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2pm - 3.30pm "mékanik copulaire workshop" with Bill Noir

Make your own zine!

"mékanik copulaire workshop" with Bill Noir

Picture of collage zine
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3.30pm - 5pm Zürich Zine Workshop by VOLUMES

Make your own zine and share your stories about the city!

Zürich Zine Workshop by the VOLUMES team

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5pm - 6pm "Scratch my Skin", workshop by Bettina Diel

Make your own zine!

"Scratch my Skin", a workshop run by Bettina Diel

white paper with wax
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6pm - 8pm Collage & Zine Workshop by VOLUMES

Make your own zine!

Collage & Zine Workshop by VOLUMES / Pasquale Pollastro

Collage zine
Stall 6
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Ongoing Book Exhibitions: International Open Call & Zürich Archive

The exhibition space shows this year the «International Open Call», a snapshot of the international self-publishing scene, and for the fist time the «Zürich Archive». This new collection compiles publications, artist books and zines connected to Zürich.

Girl standing in front of a wall with exhibited publications
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Ongoing "Membranous", installation by Bettina Diel

Bettina Diel is displaying lucid paper objects. They are not only for the eyes, but also for hands and nose.

waxed paper
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2pm - 8pm Symposium: "Publishing as resistance", curated by Damian Christinger

14:15–14:45: Introduction by Damian Christinger (organiser) and "A Tale from 1001 Nights in Hitler’s Berlin" (in English)

15:00–15:30: Basil Rogger: „Discourse der Mahlern“ (in English and German)

15:45–16:15: Stefan Zweifel: "Des Documents" (in German)

16:30–17:00: Fucking Good Art: "Pas de Pub" (in English)

17:15–17:45: Kyle Prooehl & Gabriel Gee: "Edges, Polyphony, Channels" (in English)

18:00–18:30: Delphine Chapuis-Schmitz: "Der totale Widerstand is missing / a few thoughts" (in English/German/French)

18:45–19:15: Susanne Bieri: "Bruno Jakob der Maler und die Bücher" (in German)

19.30–20:00 Eduardo Simantob: "Publishing for Survival" (in English)

From early woodblock printed pamphlets of the Chinese Ming era to the power of Gutenberg’s invention, which helped to spread the ideas of the reformation throughout Europe to the Surrealist manifestos and magazines, from the deadly stand against barbarism by the White Rose to underground newspaper in the Soviet Union, from anarchist publications to Underground Comix in the US or The Hungry Generations Bulletin in Calcutta, the publication of underground newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and manifestos has always been an important form of resisting the powers to be.

This informal one-day symposium aims to re-introduce some of these histories to a new generation of readers and to contextualize them within the neoliberal realities facing publishing today. What roles do blogs and Zines play, what are their possibilities and limitations or to put it into a simple question: Is resistance still possible?

The informal symposium will be structured by 20 minute inputs by contributors who will cover different aspects of the historical and current examples using different formats such as lectures, presentations and performances. Each input will be followed by a 15 minute discussion. The symposium will end with a public round table.

 

 

Production collaborators

Curator Symposium: Damian Christinger, Co-Curator Performances: Anke Hoffmann, Musical Programmation: Moritz Schädler, Photography: Spyros Paloukis, Visual Identity: Badesaison, Website: Attribute

Funding

VOLUMES 2016 is made possible by the support of Kanton Zürich Fachstelle Kultur, Stadt Zürich Kultur, and Cassinelli‑Vogel‑Stiftung, and by the support of ATTRIBUTE (website) and Badesaison (design).

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Location

VOLUMES 2016
Gessnerallee  Zürich
Gesssnerallee 8, CH - 8001

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