[Reader-list] [Announcements] Far Far Away - Book-launch and gifting

[aarti]

Dear All,

This Friday we will be hosting the book release and gifting by a young 
artist from New Zealand, Marnie Slater. She runs a non-profit artist-run 
gallery and performance space and has been travelling in India for the 
last few months. She has brought out a set of sketches which she will be 
releasing this Friday.

Along with the launch, Marnie wishes to begin a discussion on the 
possibilities of independent and self-publishing, along with gifting a 
copy of her book in exchange for a copy of your own publication/s. It 
would be great if some of us who are in fact thinking through the 
possibilities and spaces for self-publishing in our own work could be 
there and contribute to the discussion. I'm enclosing below her concept 
note/blurb for the evening. Do pass this on to friends - those working 
with small books, catalogues, zines and broadsheets, designers etc - 
anyone whom you think would be interested.

Do try and make the time to come.
Hoping to see you there!
Warmly

Aarti

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Book-reading and discussion @ Sarai: "Far Far and Away"
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Far Far and Away: Book Reading and Discussion
Marnie Slater
6:00 P.M., Friday 7 July 2006, Interface Zone

What defines independent publishing? What are the conceptual possibilities
provided by the medium of text, image and graphic? What are the practical
avenues available to independent publishers?  Self-publishing, whether it
be in a collective or individually, comes with its own particular
parameters and potential.

Marnie Slater combines the launch of her recent publication FAR, FAR AWAY
with an evening of conversation addressing some of the issues surrounding
independent publishing.  You are invited to bring along your own book,
zine, magazine or catalogue and exchange them for a copy of FAR, FAR AWAY.
All exchanged material will go into the developing library of Enjoy Public
Art Gallery in Wellington, New Zealand.

FAR, FAR AWAY is a collection of drawings made during Marnie's stay in
India.  Concerned with the historic documentation and exchange of the
"exotic", FAR, FAR AWAY engages the book as a site of fiction, capable of
inhabiting multiple locations simultaneously.

(Marnie Slater is an artist, writer and curator based in Wellington, New
Zealand and is a current trust member of the artist run project space
Enjoy Public Art Gallery.  Marnie has been living in Bombay for the last 5
months with the assistance of a Commonwealth Foundation Arts and Crafts
Award.)







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