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The Index Art Book Fair IABF at EXPO CHICAGO

19–22 September 2019, Chicago | Navy Pier

The Index Art Book Fair IABF brings together leading independent art publishers from Europe, Asia and the Americas, with special emphasis on artist books and printed matter resulting from experimental approaches to editing, writing and printing. Established in 2014, Index Art Book Fair supports and promotes the production and distribution of art publications; an area that has become increasingly important in contemporary art in recent years. Art editions include images and/or text in experimental formats such as books, art texts and collectively edited magazines, as well as monographs and photography books.

In this fertile ground, the work of international artists, designers and photographers is made available to the public through affordable editions, creating an alternative space for art appreciation beyond galleries and museums. Each edition of Index is accompanied by a program of events in which different actors from the local and global scene –through lectures, workshops, readings and other activities– create an open and critical space where the most urgent and relevant topics for the independent publishing community can be addressed. Index Art Book Fair, based in Mexico City, is featuring publishers from Canada, China, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.

EXPO CHICAGO

Opening the fall art season each September, EXPO CHICAGO, The International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art features leading international galleries alongside one of the highest quality platforms for contemporary art and culture. Hosted within Navy Pier’s Festival Hall, EXPO CHICAGO’s ninth edition will take place September 24 – 27, 2020.

EXPO CHICAGO presents a diverse program, including /Dialogues (presented in partnership with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago) and Exchange by Northern Trust, an unrivaled talks program for both public and VIP audiences; IN/SITU, dynamic on-site installations highlighting large-scale sculpture, film, and site-specific work; and major public art initiatives, including IN/SITU Outside, public art installed throughout Chicago Park District locations, and OVERRIDE, a curated selection of international artists throughout the city’s digital billboard network.

The program also features an unprecedented commitment to host curatorial initiatives during the exposition, including the Curatorial Forum in partnership with Independent Curators International (ICI), and the Curatorial Exchange, which partners with foreign agencies and consulates to expand the exposition’s global reach. EXPO CHICAGO is the publisher of THE SEEN, Chicago’s only international journal of contemporary and modern art criticism, online and in print.

EXPO CHICAGO is presented by Art Expositions, LLC. Under the leadership of President and Director Tony Karman, EXPO CHICAGO draws upon the city’s rich history as a vibrant international cultural destination, while highlighting the region’s contemporary arts community and inspiring its collector base. For more information on EXPO CHICAGO and EXPO ART WEEK (September 21 – 27, 2020) visit expochicago.com.

Exhibitors at Index Art Book Fair IABF

Accattone, Milan
ARCH+, Berlin
Art Catalogues, Los Angeles
Book Works, London
Canadian Centre For Architecture, Montreal
Casa Bosques, Mexico City
Columbia Books On Architecture, New York
Dent-De-Leone, London
Ediciones Hungría, Mexico City
Ediciones Manivela, Mexico City
König Books, Berlin
Motto, Berlin
Mousse Publishing, Milan
O Book Publisher, Berlin
Onomatopee, Eindhoven
Inga / Platform Editions, Chicago
Sternberg Press, Berlin
Terremoto, Mexico City
The Renaissance Society, Chicago
White Fungus, Taichung

Program

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 21

1:30–2:30pm
Publishing as a Tool for the Dissemination of New Languages of Togetherness
Participants | Yanni Aviles, Adelheid Mers
New vocabularies can be seen as a family of words—key signifiers of a wished-for utopia constructed out of collective desires—that help create realities previously thought impossible. How is publishing disseminating and validating languages that activate new vocabularies? Can these vocabularies mobilize new purposes?

3:00–4:00pm
Book Signing: Walks to the Paradise Garden
Published by Institute 193 Press Preceded by a talk on the /Dialogues Stage from 2:00–3:00pm.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21

1:00–2:00pmPaulo Tavares
Geopoetical Togetherness
Participants | Lou Cornum, Diego del Valle Rios (Terremoto)
What are the artistic and political ideals in the geographies of America? Questioning the idea of nation, this conversation evokes geopoetics to talk about the plurality of contexts we work with when editing for different audiences.

3:00–4:00pm
EXPO CHICAGO Art Critics Forum
Criticism as Modes of Distribution
Participants | Francesco Tenaglia (Mousse), Rebecca Anne Proctor (Harper’s BAZAAR), Louise Benson (Elephant), Alexis Zavialoff (Motto)

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 22

12:30–1:30pm
Maintaining the Commons — Everyday Practices for Togetherness
Participants | Maria Gaspar, Ronak Kapadia, Rodrigo Téllez
What can be learned through the consideration of context-specific opportunities and challenges? This conversation follows everyday practices for togetherness within the Chicago art and publishing scene.

3:00–4:00pm
Reading / Talk
Self-organized learning group Open-End-Ed, based in Chicago, will host a public meeting at the exposition for guided reading discussions surrounding issues of visual culture and the contemporary condition, with a long-term purpose and curriculum decided by its participants.

Further informations can be found here


Collateral to Expo Chicago is the public opening of this year's edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Led by Artistic Director Yesomi Umolu with curators Sepake Angiama and Paulo Tavares, the exhibition titled …and other such stories, will form an expansive and multi-faceted exploration of the field of architecture and the built environment globally. Developed through a research-led approach, the biennial will address the potency of space, architecture, and the natural world as they relate to four areas of inquiry: (1) No Land Beyond, which draws inspiration from indigenous approaches to nature, ecology, and landscape that transcend property ownership; (2) Appearances and Erasures, which explores both shared and contested memories in consideration of monuments, memorials, and social histories; and (3) Rights and Reclamations and (4) Common Ground, which foreground aspects of rights, advocacy, and civic purpose in architectural practice, including affordable and equitable housing.
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