19/12/2022
📢 New collab between The Showroom, Frame Contemporary Art Finland & The Finnish Institute in the UK + Ireland opens in January!
Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities
Preview: Tuesday 24 January 2023, 6.30–8.30pm
Continues 25 January–18 March 2023
Open Wednesday–Saturday, 12–6pm
'Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities' is an exhibition and public programme bringing together the publishing practices of Ruth Beale, Sezgin Boynik (Rab-Rab Press), Minna Haukka & Kristin Luke (The Mobile Feminist Library), Minna Henriksson, Rose Nordin, and Elham Rahmati & Vidha Saumya (NO NIIN magazine).
'Editorial Tables' celebrates independent, experimental and artist-led publishing, with a focus on intersecting feminist and decolonial perspectives.
This collaboration forms part of The Showroom’s core programme in 2023; ‘Rehearsing Hospitalities’, Frame’s public programme for 2019–2023; and ‘Together Again’, an international festival organised by the Finnish Academic & Cultural Institutes. The exhibition and public programme are co-curated by Lily Hall, Yvonne Billimore & Jussi Koitela.
This is also the first in a series of international collaborations in the final year of Frame’s ‘Rehearsing Hospitalities’ programme; working with us at The Showroom, UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund / Young Artists’ Society), Oslo; Vera List Center for Art & Politics (New York); the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York & the Finnish Institute in the UK + Ireland. Part of the EU-funded project ‘Islands of Kinship: A Collective Manual for Sustainable and Inclusive Art Institutions’.
Image: Minna Henriksson, Lentolehtiset / Leaflets (after Elvi Sinervo, Runo Sörnäisistä, p. 76-77). Linocut on paper. Courtesy of the artist.
ID: drawing from linocut to paper, showing an array of papers, silhouettes of workers, and a factory in the background, white on blue ink.
https://www.theshowroom.org/exhibitions/editorial-tables-reciprocal-hospitalities