Exhibitions

Why do you publish.

Name: Why do you publish.
Start: 2012-02-02T11:00:00+00:00
End: 2012-02-05T18:00:00+00:00
Location: 98 Weeks Project Space

From Feb 2 to Feb 5, 2012
11:00am -> 6:00pm
98 Weeks Project Space

WDYP is an art book fair that focuses on arts and culture publishing in the Middle East and beyond. Over a period of 4 days, publishing houses, artists and writers will meet in Beirut to present their current production and to probe ideas and ways of working with printed matter through a series of panels and events.

In line with 98weeks’s approach to artistic research, “Why do you publish” is more than a commercial book fair. It looks at historical and contemporary examples of printed matter as vehicles for political, social and artistic experimentation. Invited participants include publishing houses (Al Furat; Amers Editions; Ugly Duckling Presse), artists’ collectives working with publishing (Samadal; PrintRoom; LemonMelon), and historical and contemporary collections of artists and poetry books (98weeks; Abboudi Abou Jawdeh, Omar Berrada). These different forms of engagements with the book – professional publishing, artistic work, archives and collecting- will guide the fair’s presentations and discussions.