Surveying an abundance of independent publications, Publish and Be Damned demonstrates individual experimental approaches to making and distributing the work of artists, writers and musicians outside of the commercial mainstream through publishing fairs, a touring archive and occasional events.
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PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED
A ONE-DAY SELF-PUBLISHING FAIR
Sunday 3rd August, 12 - 6pm
Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London E2 7ES
www.publishandbedamned.org
Free admission
Publish and Be Damned, the One-Day Self-Publishing Fair is in its 5th year and we are pleased that the fair will again take place at Rochelle School on Sunday 3rd August 2008. The fair provides a network for artists, writers, and musicians to distribute and disseminate material amongst other producers, and the public.
Publish and Be Damned (PaBD) continues to profile individual and experimental approaches to making and distributing publications outside of the commercial mainstream. The fair encompasses cut ‘n’ paste ‘zines, critical journals, glossy periodicals, self-published DVDs, and collaborative publishing projects in a broad selection of formats and interpretations. The fair offers a rare opportunity to discover a wide variety of publications and to meet their producers.
This year, for the first time, PaBD has invited three special projects to participate. Ooga Booga is a shop in Chinatown, Los Angeles run by Wendy Yao that opened in 2004. The focus is on independent culture, mostly selling artist books and multiples, music, and clothing as well as staging performances and events. For this year's Publish And Be Damned, Ooga Booga are focusing on a selection of American artists' publications, particularly those from Los Angeles and the West Coast.
LUX is an arts agency that explores ideas around artists' moving image practice through exhibition, distribution, publishing, education and research. For Publish and Be Damned LUX will offer a rare opportunity to sample the breadth of publishing activity in the field of artists' film and video with a project room gathering together DVDs from an international network of artists, as well LUX’s own publications.
London's radio-arts station Resonance104.4fm will produce Podcast and Be Damned, a special Publish and Be Damned audio literary anthology and make it available for download as a podcast within 24 hours of the fair. Featuring material drawn from, or which responds to Publish And Be Damned, supplemented by an eclectic smattering of prose culled from literary history.
The fair continues to feature regular favourites, such as Starship from Berlin, Slimvolume, Public Works, Guestroom and Centrefold, and publications new to the fair, A Calzone, Flypaper, and FormContent. We are also very pleased to be hosting overseas participants Chimurenga, from South Africa, DIK Fagazine from Warsaw, [diff.] by Andreas Reihse from Berlin, and Copenhagen Free University. We are also pleased to welcome many brand new publications, The Internet in Print, URA!, Bastón Blanco and St. Pierre et Miquelon, amongst many others.
This year, Four Corners Books will be publishing a handbook for Publish and Be Damned - a record of the day's event as well as a snapshot of self-publishing.
http://www.fourcornersbooks.co.uk/PABD.html
Publish and Be Damned has become a key annual event in the summer calendar. It is run by Sarah McCrory, and Joe Scotland. The fair was originally conceived in 2004 by Kit Hammonds and Emily Pethick.
Supported by Arts Council England, London and The Elephant Trust
With kind assistance from The A Foundation and Studio Voltaire
