A–Z
A–Z is a new space that opens in Berlin with the mission of expanding the territory of graphic design, by rethinking its limits and by challenging its traditional views. The storefront located in the heart of the city will be the place where renowned graphic designers are invited to unfold their artistic, conceptual or formally experimental projects.
Bemerkungen
seid am kommenden donnerstag (10.02.) dabei, wenn ich mit dr. christina thomson (@kubi_cat, #kunstbibliothekberlin) und dr. julia meer (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg) über das sammeln und archivieren von #grafikdesign spreche. das ganze findet im rahmen der ausstellung #graphicdesignerscollectors (A-Z presents) statt. ihr könnt euch per zoom ab 19:00 uhr zuschalten:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84426922642 •• #graphicdesign #collectinggraphicdesign #a5 #booklaunch
On Wednesday November 10, the exhibition opening and book presentation of #rijksakademie alum Anita Di Bianco's solo show 'The error is regretted' will take place in A-Z presents in Berlin.
The exhibition and book release marks the 20th anniversary of the artist's ongoing newsprint project 'Corrections and Clarifications': an edited compilation of daily revisions, retractions, re-wordings, distinctions and apologies to print and online news from September 2001 to the present, which she started during her residency at the Rijksakademie.
At the opening of the show, at 19:00 hours, Anita Di Bianco will discuss with Florian Wüst and Anna Bromley the ever-expanding struggle in the media landscape between credibility vs. attention, the renewed legitimacy of mis-information, and the pitfalls of news consumption habits and codes. The talk will also be streamed through A—Z's Instagram account
Check for more information and opening hours:
https://a-z-presents.com/
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TIME IS RUNNING!
Nice photo memories from ⱤɆ฿ɆⱠⱠłØɄ₴ ₱Ø₴₮ɆⱤ₴ ₵ØⱠⱠ₳฿ (Open Call Riso Collab of Poster Rex & Drucken3000 Risografie, supported by Slanted Publishers and A-Z presents)… a year ago!
Artworks from fantastic artists mixed with few of my works! ✴ I am under the stars シ!
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Photos come from
https://a-z-presents.com/ and
https://ruddigkeit.de/news/time-is-out
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#poster #posterart #posterrex #slantedmagazine #drucken3000 #riso #risoprint #grafisk #agnieszkaweglarska
Feminism is on everyone’s lips today and we think that this is a normal state of being. We like to forget the historical background on which we build this feminist self-confidence today. The editorial team of the Feminist Findings zine has analyzed an exciting selection of historical publications that allow us to discover the path of this movement and its significance for our times. This is an important approach to prevent the discussion of sometimes tiresome topics such as gender equality from being forgotten again.
“The power of finding each other.” Coming together through the digital ether over lockdown, Feminist Findings is the product of a collective, extensive research of twenty-six womxn and non-binary people on histories of feminist publishing. The result was the Feminist Findings zine and its accompanying exhibition of the same name, which was on show at Berlin’s A-Z presents gallery until the end of September, showcase nearly forgotten stories of feminist publishing, packed with powerful messages, art, and illustrations.
The Liberation in Print Collective (L.i.P) formed during the recent lock-down period. Across four continents and many time zones, its members came together via their computers to dig through digital archives, searching for the missing histories of feminist journals, magazines, zines, newspapers, and newsletters. Eventually the Collective’s research took the form of a zine and exhibition, shining a long overdue spotlight on the missing histories of the feminist movement’s print publications.
The Feminist Findings zine presents articles and essays on the labor, loves, networks, hierarchies, friendships, fall-outs, struggles, victories, economics, designs, and daily lives of womxn in the past working out what it might mean to organize a feminist praxis. Especially from the late 1960s onwards, publishing became a crucial means for womxn to build community and inspire social change. Feminist Findings chronicles these means and methods, seeking to garner what we can learn today from the movements that came before us.
Feminist Findings also marks the first project of Futuress, an online magazine and community space launching in fall of this year. It’s mentors—Corin Gisel and Nina Paim—are of the design research practice common-interest, which is a non-profit design research practice collaborated with journalist Madeleine Morley. In a remote workshop during lockdown, initiated by le Signe, the National Center for Graphics in Chaumont, Feminist Finding’s authors met remotely every Wednesday during the early months of social distancing. They shared and discussed individual research findings; quickly, the global group of multidisciplinary strangers. This included artists, graphic designers, writers, educators, type designers, publishers, social anthropologists, students, and more—became a tightly-knit research unit. In recent years, through the efforts of many archivist-activists, more and more feminist periodicals are digitized and available online; with libraries and universities shut, the L.i.P. Collective sought to resurface the unknown histories embedded in these online archives, and make them known to a wider readership.
While there aren’t any plans to reprint the first issue of Feminist Findings, which was limited to a run of just 120 copies, or any suggestion that it’ll run for more issues than a one-off, the contents will be shared gradually online on the new Futuress platform.
Designers and Authors: The Liberation in Print Collective
Editors and Publisher: Futuress
Release: August 2020
Volume: 32 pages
Language: English
Production / Finishing: Le Signe (Risograph)
Price: Suggested donation of 20.– Euro
Buy via the Futuress Instagram (while stocks last!):
www.instagram.com/futuress_org
Dass Frauen im Publishing und im Design über lange Zeit nur eine nebensächliche Rolle spielten, ist in der Zwischenzeit wohl den meisten bekannt. Dass sie auch im Jahr 2020 noch systematisch benachteiligt werden, ist allerdings mehr als traurig.
Feminist Findings ist das Ergebnis der Recherchearbeit von 26 Frauen und nichtbinären Menschen zur Geschichte des feministischen Publishings. Das Kollektiv mit dem Titel „Liberation in Print“ hat sich jüngst während der Lockdown-Periode im virtuellen Raum zusammengefunden, um unzählige Archive nach (leider) äußerst seltenen Fundstücken zu durchforsten: feministische Zeitschriften, Magazine und Zines. Die hieraus entstandene Ausstellung und Publikation sind noch bis zum 24. September in Berlin zu sehen. Nichts wie hin da!
A-Z presents
Torstraße, Berlin
mehr Infos unter a-z-presents.com
We will have an open house during art week and you are warmly invited to experience and enjoy our library.
Doors are open Friday, 13 September – Sunday, 15 September from 13:00 - 18:00.
Seid herzlich willkommen zu unserem Open House während der Artweek. Von Freitag, 13. September - Sonntag, 15. September könnt ihr jeweils 13 - 18 Uhr unsere Bücher mit allen Sinnen erleben und genießen.
A-Z presents
#artbooks #design #socialconsciousness #openhouse #Berlin #bookstore #artweek
The wonderful Anja Lutz describing the concepts behind her experimental design space A-Z presents.
Detail of the back side of the current exhibition at A-Z presents
Thanks to Anja Lutz for hosting us and telling us about her new project A-Z presents! Great current exhibition!
Bei A-Z presents, dem neuen Raum für experimentelles Grafikdesign in Berlin, findet in Kürze die zweite Ausstellung statt: New Anthems VI (Berlin) – Eine neue Hymne für Deutschland vom dem australischen Designkollektiv Inkahoots
New Anthems VI (Berlin) ist eine großformatige interaktive typografische Installation, die zur kreativen Teilnahme an einem öffentlichen Dialog über die Kritik und Konstruktion des zeitgenössischen Nationalismus und der nationalen Identität einlädt.
Eröffnung und Präsentation von Jason Grant (Inkahoots):
Freitag 14. Juni 2019, 19 Uhr
Torstr. 93, 10119 Berlin
A–Z widmet sich der Entwicklung, Präsentation und Diskussion von Ideen und Projekten, die herkömmliche Grenzen des Grafikdesigns ausweiten und seine eher unkonventionellen und experimentellen Seiten beleuchten. Renommierte Grafikdesignerinnen und Grafikdesigner werden eingeladen, in diesem Rahmen ihre eigenen künstlerischen, konzeptuellen oder formal experimentellen Projekte vorzustellen. Alle eingeladenen Grafikdesigner verbindet, dass ihre Werke persönliche Statements sind, die jenseits von Auftragsarbeiten entstehen. Ziel von A–Z ist es, einen neuen Blick auf die vielfältigen Facetten des Grafikdesigns zu eröffnen.
THE SPACE IS THE PLACE!