As a small publisher and as artists, we take on a wide range of roles. We have the privilege and responsibility to be everything — admin, personal caretaker, physical laborer, artist. While this can often feel like an endless juggling of tasks and responsibilities, the dance in and of itself informs the process. The tangible-intangible aspects, links and networks that build our practices seemingly live in discrete realms (dimensions) but in reality they are inseparable. They mix, overlap and weave a complex, dynamic network.

This exercise explores the individual experiences of a variety of artists’ practices within the independent publishing field with the intention of identifying the interacting facets of our collective work. How do independent publishers and artists spend their hours and days? What are the connections, resources, research, reflection, and administrative labor that shape and form the body of work? Through conversation and interviews with others in the field, “Dimensions” aims to make these invisible aspects of our practice visible; the relationships between the internal and external world, the personal and mental space, the processes, the growth, the priorities and daily life.

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Join us December 7th, 6-8PM, for an opening reception at Printed Matter Chelsea!

Explore the Online Programming Page and learn more.

Participating Publishers:

George Wietor of Issue Press
Grand Rapids, MI
@issuepress

Rada Nastai of Bruise Studio
Berlin, Germany
@bruisestudio

Jaime Sebastián and Rubén Montesinos of Handshake Studio
Valencia, Spain
@handshake.fun/

Zoë Pulley
New York, NY
@zpulley

Darío Marroche of Microutopías
Montevideo, Uruguay
@microutopiaspress

Hannah Yukiko Pierce of Small Editions
Brooklyn, NY
@smalleditionsnyc

Holly Meadows-Smith and Mollie Underwood of Irrelevant Press
Brooklyn, NY and Oakland, CA
@irrelevantpress

Be Oakley of GenderFail
Brooklyn, NY
@genderfail

Amanda Chung and Chris Lucero of Lucky Risograph
Brooklyn, NY
luckyrisograph

Kiko Tiu, Pau Tiu & Felize Camille of Future Fellow / Bad Student
New York & Philippines
_badstudent
futurefellow

This exhibition is supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts.