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This year VOLUMES 2016, the independent art publishing fair takes place on the 25th and 26th of November at Gessnerallee Zürich. Would you fancy taking part in one of the two exhibitions showcased this year at the fair?

Here is what you can choose from:
- The International Open Call
This Exhibition acts as a snapshot of the current international production. It is especially designed for all the publishers who cannot come to VOLUMES 2016 in Zürich but still want to showcase their production to the very keen audience we have here.
- The Zürich Archive
A collection of zines and artist books connected to Zürich! The publications can be directly or indirectly related to the city. We want to showcase different layers of experiences that share this same location. We are interested in documentary depictions of the place and snapshots of experiences with the city as a background. It can be photography, short stories, illustrations, collages…

If you are interested in contributing to the International Open Call or/and the Zürich Archive, send one copy of an original independent publication to: VOLUMES c/o Franchette & Veser, Gessnerallee Zürich, Gessnerallee 8, Ch-8001 Zürich, Switzerland. Important: state your name, the title, the year of completion, the printing technique and “Open Call” or “Zürich Archive” at the back of the envelope (all in capital letters please). ALL publications sent to us will be exhibited at the fair. They will then join our archive, which will be showcased in a Zürich art space as well as being available online.

The fourth edition of VOLUMES – Independent Art Publishing Fair – returns on Friday 25th and Saturday 26th of November 2016 at Gessnerallee in Zürich. The fair will present a fine selection of local and international art books, zines and magazines. The fair will also feature a symposium, a range of performances, exhibitions and workshops.

After a successful third edition in November 2015 at the off-space Kunstraum Walcheturm, VOLUMES will take place at Gessnerallee, a central venue for performing arts that will open its doors to the only fair of its kind in the city.

VOLUMES 2016 will feature a unique symposium, curated by this year’s special guest Damian Christinger, who will introduce speakers exploring different aspects of the independent publishing scene. The visitors will also get a chance to discover publishers and artists from Switzerland and Europe, who will be showcasing their production in person. A performance programme curated in collaboration with Anke Hoffmann will explore further the creative practices around self publishing. The International Open Call exhibition will act as a sort of snapshot of an even more global production while the Zürich Archive will present a selection of artist books connected to the city.

You have the option of booking a full table (approx. 0.6 x 2m) for 100 CHF or half a table (approx. 0.6 x 1m) for 50 CHF. You can also take part in the international Open Call Exhibition or the Zürich Archive by donating one publication. If you would like to do a workshop, a performance, a reading or have a book launch at the fair, please let us know.

To apply, please follow the link HERE.
(Applications are open until Sunday the 21st of August).

We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you at VOLUMES 2016!

Best wishes,
VOLUMES Zürich

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VOLUMES is compiling a collection of artist books connected to Zürich. The publications can be directly or indirectly related to the city. We are equally interested in documentary depictions of the place and snapshots of experiences with the city as a background. The archive will first be exhibited at Gessnerallee during our annual event VOLUMES 2016, Independent Art publishing Fair on the 25th and 26th of November.

If you are interested in contributing to it with one of your own publications, suscribe HERE. We look forward to hearing from you and showcasing your publications within our exhibition!

Esther Eppstein, Message Salon , Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess

Milenko Lazic, Zürich Syndrom, Amsel Verlag

Ingo Giezendanner, GRR8: Zürich, Edition patrick Frey

To all those who kindly donated publications to #VOLUMES:

Fear not, our website and online archive will be online in a few months!

We have a lot of publications to go through so please be patient ;)

Torrent magazine focuses on source materials by artists. The source materials include diverse types of documents constitutive of the artistic processes, and comprise preparatory materials such as project sketches, screenshots, newspaper articles, storyboards, photographs or diagrams, and many more. Torrent magazine examines how these documents come to represent the circumferential sphere around conceiving and realizing works. The source materials hint at procedures, subtexts, informational noise, or potential extra-narratives of artistic practice. The magazine features previously unpublished material only.

Torrent is published by The Office; and the aim of editors Daniel Kurjakovic and Linda Jensen is to provide a focused analysis of artistic practices thereby touching upon the institutional, cultural as well as ideological contexts influencing their production and reception. Issue 3 features source material by artists Berni Doessegger, Sam Durant, Mariah Lookman, Adam Vačkář and Peter Voss-Knude. 

https://torrentmagazine.org

Hello Johan,

I’m sorry it has taken me so long. This is not the first time I sit down to write to you, but every time something has interrupted me and it has almost been a relief. I am still quite shaken from the night when we met almost a year ago. I want you to know that this is something I had to do and is in no way a sensation-driven idea. Although the material comes from you or your Facebook page, it really has very little or nothing at all to do with you. I think deep down you know that I would never do anything to hurt you.

The work, “I would also like to be” - A work on jealousy, is part of a process that began with Liebling/ Darling a work where I collected pictures my former boyfriends and lovers have taken of me during our relationship. I put the pictures together in a chronological order to form an expanded self-portrait. After “Liebling/Darling” I worked on a project called “They left me for someone else” for which I put together farewell letters that I have received over the years. In this series I used one of your letters that you wrote to me in Prague. All three works deal with romantic relationships in different ways. They are basically based on very personal material that I rework so that it takes on a fictional and universal quality. The individuals who appear in the images or texts could all be replaced with someone else. Names or statements that could lead to a specific person aren’t used in either the letters or the picture legends and texts. I got the idea for “I would also like to be” when I first was confronted with Facebook. There was something about the images that annoyed me. Suddenly, I saw all sorts of pictures of people whom I had known and been close to once, quite often pictures that the people themselves would have shown me. But there the images are on their own. The owner of the images – the photographer - has no idea in which mood I am when I look at the pictures. They know nothing about who is looking at the pictures and when, and what emotions the pictures may trigger. They give up their rights to the images and also their responsibility for them and their effect on people at the same time. When I look at the pictures, I automatically start comparing them to myself and my own life. You might log onto Facebook on a dark, grey, dull night and see how much fun everyone else is having, how good-looking, happy and how much in love they are, how they travel and live and so on and so forth. And then you think, what if life had been different, what if it had taken a different path?

At the same time the pictures on the internet a possibility. They live their own life. They portray someone’s imagination, someone’s dream life come true. And that’s what I can build on to make them my own. The image of me can do whatever it wants, it can step in anywhere and be whoever it wants. This is what I’ve done, too. To be close to all possibilities and old loves. In my imagination. In this work. I hope you will understand me.

Jenny

Softcover | 72 pages
41 color and black & white photographs
Sewn pamphlet binding

First edition 2015 by b.frank books

With: A.D. Puchalski,  A.R.C.O,  ATOPOS CONTEMPORARY VISUAL CULTURE,  Alternative Tours of Athens,  Amalia Vekri & Antigone Theodorou,  Amelie Brisson-Darveau,  Amsel Verlag,  Andres Nygaard,  Andy Ducett,  Boneshaker Magazine,  Burrasca,  Büro für Problem,  CEO BOOKS & LFG,  Carolina Frank,  Ceobooks,  Christina Werner,  Circuit-Art & Harald Kubiczak,  Collette Rayner,  Coticoa,  Crater,  Cuistax,  Cuistax & Edith Grandjean,  DUPE,  Delicious Editions,  Devon McFarland & Neil Jackson,  Doppell Edition,  Douile Aleksandraviciute,  Ediciones Armadillo,  Ediciones Artespacio & K13,  Edition Fästing,  Edition Taberna Kritika,  Edition Vite,  Editora Aplicaçao,  Erica van Loon,  Evelise Millet,  FOG Platform & Magazine,  Fabrizio Musu,  Fukt Magazine,  Fundamental Research Lab,  GREYISGOOD,  Graphic Design Festival Breda,  Graphic Workspace RAAF,  Greta Rush,  Guillaume Brisson-Darveau,  Gummbah,  Guy Bigland,  HAMMANN & VON MIER,  Hannah Feigl & Uranus Verlag,  Hazano Press,  Hochparterre,  Hubris,  Ida Meuller,  Inken Zierenberg,  Johann Kuendseth,  Johann Kuendseth,  Justine Figueiredo & Antoine Demacon & 1 Esa-Cambrai,  Jürgen O. Olbrich,  Katerina Karagianni,  Keiken Collective,  Kirsty Harris,  Kunstverein Siegen,  La Fête du Slip,  Leee,  Lluis Lipp,  MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE,  MaMuk,  Marco Cechet & Giovanni Mazza,  Maria Paneta,  Marijke Appelman & Koen Taselaar,  Martin John Callanan,  Martina Mächler,  Modernizm,  Moritz Brunken,  Myung Feyen,  Nele Bröekelmann,  Notice Notice,  Numero Cromatico,  Otto Publishing,  Pam Virada B.,  Pantofle Books,  Philippa Bloomfield,  Platform Platvorm,  Plockare,  Prunella Vulgaris,  Publication Studios Vancouver,  Rebeka Ra'cz,  Robert Ridley-Shackleton,  Rodolfo Jose Mariano,  Roland Sigriest & Jungsook Yoo,Rxxx,  Sarah Fisthole,  Sascha Hughes-Caley,  Seiler Sommer,Selina Zürrer,  Smar,  Sofia Bempeza,  Sofia Estrada-Osmycka & Laura Kudlinksa,  Soybot,  Stefan Hurtig,  Studio Ausser Haus,  Sven Spitzkopf,  Ten Chances,  The Blue Library,  The Editions of Thanos,  University of the Arts London,  Vera Gomes,  Verlach Friedrichrodaer Hefte,  Veronika Burger,  Von Uns,  White Fungus,  ruine München,  the publishing cabin

Thank you to all the contributors!

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