Paper Cuts
By Paper Cuts
Zines are truly dynamic publications that have built and supported engaged communities around ideals, experiences, genres, music, politics, poetry…anything that can be printed, shared, and/or mailed. Listen to voices that would normally live in your hands and demand your eyeballs.
Paper CutsSep 07, 2020
Athena Naylor
Guest: Athena Naylor
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis
Recorded on December 02, 2023
Athena Naylor
Athena Naylor grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and now lives and works in Washington, D.C. She specializes in autobiographical comics and illustration. Her work has been featured in Nat. Brut and The Washington Post, and in 2021 she received an Honorable Mention for the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) Cupcake Award. In 2023, she was a recipient of the Wherewithal Research Grant from the Washington Project for the Arts.
Girls, on Film
Guest: Stephanie McDevitt and Janene Scelza
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on October 18, 2023
Girls, on Film
Girls, on Film was founded in December 2017 by long-time friends Stephanie McDevitt and Janene Scelza (pronounced Skell-za). Girls, on Film is a quarterly zine about 80s films. For each issue, we discuss eight 80s movies related to a particular theme.
We are currently a group of four regular writers including Dr. Rhonda Baughman and Janene’s brother, Matt, who co-writes with her on essays. We have also had many guest writers over the years. We recently published our 21st issue, about adventure films of the 1980s, and will publish our next issue, on 80s movies about aliens, around Halloween.
Digital issues are free on our website. We sell full-color print copies on our website, in select bookstores, and at zine festivals and art book fairs. Learn more at girlsonfilmzine.com, or find us on Instagram at @girlson80sfilms.com.
Stephanie McDevitt, Co-Founder/Editor
Stephanie's one big disappointment in life is that she wasn’t old enough to fully appreciate popular clothing styles in the 1980s, as she was mostly attired in paisley sweatsuits. A full-time editor and occasional freelancer, Stephanie looks nostalgically back on '80s films such as Ernest Goes to Camp, Adventures in Babysitting, and Can’t Buy Me Love and wishes she could pull off the hairdos of Cindy Mancini and her friends.
Janene Scelza, Co-Founder/Editor
Janene spent a hefty part of her teens combing musty video stores and public libraries for all the '80s movies she could find. There were lists! Janene's got plenty of favorites from the decade, but it’s stylish indie films like Desperately Seeking Susan, Repo Man, and The Terminator that she loves best.
We’re based in the DC metro area.
Pittsburgh Art Book Fair Panel Discussion
Guests: Erin Mallea and Paper Buck of Tree News, Bekezela Mguni of the Black Unicorn Library and Archive Project, and Adriana Monsalve of Homie House Press.
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on September 9, 2023 at the Carnegie Museum of Art
Erin Mallea is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the past and present of particular microcosms as entry points into larger environmental, social, and political conditions. Often public and collaborative in nature, her work manifests in a range of media including installation, film, photography, and writing. She sent vibrations from a giant fungus throughout the atmosphere and currently publishes Tree News, a newsletter about trees, people and places. Erin holds a MFA from Carnegie Mellon University (2019) and is an Assistant Professor of Art at the Pennsylvania State University School of Visual Arts.
Paper Buck is an interdisciplinary visual artist, printmaker, and writer. His recent work is focused on place-centered research that critically explores white settler constructions of conservation, ecology, and the "American Landscape."
Paper received his MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2020 and earned a Bachelor's degree in Studio Art from Macalester College in 2008. His practice is informed by a background in community organizing that centers anti-racist education, decolonial movements, and transgender justice. He was formerly a leadership team member at the Transgender, Gender-Variant and Intersex Justice Project, Unsettling Minnesota and the Catalyst Project. He publishes a collaborative artist newsletter, Tree News, with artist Erin Mallea.
Bekezela Mguni is a queer Trinidadian artist, radical librarian, and educator. She has over 15 years of community organizing experience in the Reproductive Justice movement and holds an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh. She completed her first micro-residency at the Pittsburgh creative hub Boom Concepts and was featured in the 2015 Open Engagement Conference. She launched the Black Unicorn Library and Archive Project. The Black Unicorn cultivates libraries as sites of learning, possibility, and freedom celebrating the literary and artistic contributions of Black women, queer, Trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people. Honoring the far-reaching influence their storytelling has had on the lives of generations worldwide. She was a featured artist of the 2017 Activist Print Project, a partnership between, Artist Image Resource, BOOM concepts, and the Andy Warhol Museum. Bekezela is a Boom Concepts studio member, a community space and gallery dedicated to the development of artists and creative entrepreneurs. She is currently the Artistic Director at Dreams of Hope which affirms the voices and leadership of LGBTQ youth through the arts.
Adriana Monsalve is an artist, cultural worker and collaborative publisher working in the photobook medium. Along with Caterina Ragg, Monsalve is co-founder of Homie House Press, a radical cooperative platform that challenges the ever-changing forms of storytelling with image and text.
Within her photographic practice, Monsalve is an archivist and visual communicator who produces in-depth stories on identity through the nuances in between race, gender, and immigrant adjacent experiences.
Within her cultural work as a collaborative publisher, she holds space for and with underrepresented communities through the multidisciplinary platform of Homie House Press (HHP); a cooperative playground where fotos become books, a safe space for secret stories and an open house for honest content that meets at the intersection of personal, political, and poetic. She is rigorously pushing towards finding ways for photographers and publishers to cultivate the capacity for care and tenderness within structures that actively work against their manifestations. She defines intimacy as the experience of being genuinely seen, heard, and held by another person or group of people.
Zach Clark
Guest: Zach Clark
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on June 13, 2023
(background friends: Paul Shortt and Louis M. Schmidt)
Zach Clark is an Oakland based artist and educator. Since 2016 he has published as National Monument Press, a publishing project focused on supporting uniquely American stories through small edition artist books, zines, printed ephemera, and curatorial projects, completed largely through collaboration with other artists. He is one half of Chute Studio, an East Oakland based Risograph publishing studio, and is a lecturer at California State University East Bay. His work and collaborative publications have been shown and collected across North America, Europe, & Japan.
@zachclarkis
Scott Russell Morris
Guest: Scott Russell Morris
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis
Recorded on June 13, 2023
Scott Russell Morris is a writer and enthusiast. He lives in South Korea where he teaches writing and makes art. He is the creator of Magpie Zines, zines about tarot, magpies, and found meaning. He often digs through the trash. His first essay collection, Points of Tangency, is forthcoming 2024 from Cornerstone Press. You can find him online at www.skoticus.com or on Instagram: @MagpieZines
Capital Art Book Fair Panel with Late Comeback Press, The Mirror Society Quartet, and The Print Party
Guests: Rachna Soun, Sam Fedorova (StrangeLens), Kate Fitzpatrick, and Chas Wagner
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on April 1st at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop
Late Comeback Press
Late Comeback Press is a micropress based out of Northern Virginia and is run by three Asian-American women. Late Comeback primarily focuses on mental health and representing Asian-American culture in its most subtle, authentic light and detracts from the palatable or exotic, as depicted in Western media. We build our zines intricately and by hand to represent the connection between our art, our identities, and our community, as pieces of us to you.
StrangeLens is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores themes of dreams, the subconscious, and the Internet pop culture in the digital dark ages. She graduated from George Mason University in 2021 with a Master's degree in Arts and Visual Technology.
Kate Fitzpatrick is an artist and educator based in Alexandria, VA. Fitzpatrick received a BFA in Painting from Clarion University of Pennsylvania (1997), an MA in art education from University of New Mexico, and an MFA in Visual Arts from George Mason University (2020). She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship (2016) where she spent a semester in India working on an art curriculum with local arts teachers. Fitzpatrick is also an art educator who was honored by the Northern Virginia Magazine as a "Northern Virginian of the Year" (2014) for her creation and implementation of an art and yoga program for youth in the Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention center. In addition, Fitzpatrick received the Agnes Meyer Teacher of the Year award by the Washington Post (2013). Fitzpatrick exhibits her work throughout the US and teaches for Arlington Public Schools.
Chas Wagner is a curator and organizer of The Print Party, specializing in independent magazines. Based in Pittsburgh, his work focuses on social activations of the print periodical; via retail pop-ups, bookshop lecture series' and the launching of a sport book festival (Bleed and Score) in Brooklyn. He thought about biking here on the 330 mile+ Great Allegheny Passage Trail, but the rainy forecast and heftiness of the books dampened the prospects of this dreamy ride.
Cap ABF
The first edition of East City Art’s Capital Art Book Fair took place at Eastern Market’s North Hall on April 1 & 2, 2023. Over 30 exhibitors from across the DMV, the US and Canada presented books as works of art, editions about art or artists, limited run books, prints as well as DIY zines and graphic novels. Exhibitors include artists, independent publishers, small presses, illustrators and photographers. East City Art partnered with Capitol Hill Arts Workshop and Hill Center to co-locate offsite programming during the fair. DC-based, award-winning artist Carolina Mayorga created an ephemeral, site-specific work using hand-cut vinyl pieces in Eastern Market’s North Hall titled "Capital Splash".
More about the Capital Art Book Fair
Capital Art Book Fair with Phil Hutinet
Guest: Phil Hutinet
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis
Recorded on March 22 and April 6, 2023
Phil Hutinet, a third generation Capitol Hill resident, is the publisher of East City Art, DC's Visual Arts publication of record, which he began in 2010. In 2012-2013, his work east of the river at ARCH Development led to the founding of the Anacostia Playhouse and the Anacostia Arts Center, the relocation of Craig Kraft's studios and the production of the 2012-2013 LUMEN8ANACOSTIA festival. From 2015-2019 he helped coordinate the annual Gateway Open Studio Tour in Prince George's County. From 2013-2018, he also produced EMULSION, East City Art's annual regional juried show. Currently, he produces the Capital Art Book Fair, an East City Art project held at Eastern Market's North Hall. Hutinet has curated or produced over 150 group and solo exhibitions in his career. Hutinet’s reviews, profiles and features are published regularly in both East City Art and Hill Rag. A sought-after speaker and moderator, Hutinet makes regular appearances at regional panel discussions and artist talks. He is often interviewed by national and international media such as the BBC, Capital Community News, Euronews, Washingtonian Magazine, Washington City Paper, The Washington Post, WAMU, WJLA ABC News Channel 7/Channel 8, WTTG Fox 5 DC and WTOP.
Capital ABF
The first edition of East City Art’s Capital Art Book Fair took place at Eastern Market’s North Hall on April 1 & 2, 2023. Over 30 exhibitors from across the DMV, the US and Canada presented books as works of art, editions about art or artists, limited run books, prints as well as DIY zines and graphic novels. Exhibitors include artists, independent publishers, small presses, illustrators and photographers. East City Art partnered with Capitol Hill Arts Workshop and Hill Center to co-locate offsite programming during the fair. DC-based, award-winning artist Carolina Mayorga created an ephemeral, site-specific work using hand-cut vinyl pieces in Eastern Market’s North Hall titled "Capital Splash".
Lindsay Buchman
Guest: Lindsay Buchman
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis
Recorded on March 02, 2023
Lindsay Buchman is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and publisher living and working in Philadelphia, PA, and Saratoga Springs, NY. Her work explores image-making and writing through print and lens-based media, artist books, and installation. Buchman holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from California State University Long Beach. Exhibitions of her work include the LA Art Book Fair at The Geffen Contemporary, MOCA; Tokyo Art Book Fair, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1; SPRINT Milano, Spazio Maiocchi; TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image; and Torrance Art Museum. She has participated in artist talks and panels at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), and The Print Center. Her work is included in the Rare Book Manuscript & Library at the University of Pennsylvania, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the New York Public Library, and SFMOMA. She is a recipient of the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, and her work has been featured in Hyperallergic and The Hopper Prize Journal. As an extension of her practice, she runs an independent artists' books and publications project, Seaton Street Press, to collaborate with artists through publishing and distribution.
Seaton St. Press is an artist-run, independent artists' books and publications project. Committed to exploring temporality, its name is a dedication to a former studio in Los Angeles, now based in Philadelphia. Seaton St. publishes and distributes titles that examine the intersections of site, language, and memory, including archival histories, social identities, and geographies.
Julia Arredondo
Guest: Julia Arredondo
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis
Recorded on September 15, 2021.
Julia Arredondo is an artist-entrepreneur who is currently a Resident Fellow at the Lunder Institute for American Art. Originally from Corpus Christi, TX; Julia is heavily influenced by the small, family-based businesses she grew up around. Formally trained in printmaking and specializing in artistic forms of independent publishing, Julia founded Vice Versa Press and Curandera Press as her entrepreneurial debuts. Having launched QTVC Live!, a DIY home shopping channel, in January 2020 - Julia is now collaborating with moCa Cleveland on six brand new episodes. Stay tuned.
Corina Reynolds
Guest: Corina Reynolds
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on September 1, 2021.
Corina Reynolds is the Executive Director of Center for Book Arts in New York City. At CBA, she has focused on connecting artists across distance and time through a diverse program of exhibitions, panels, conferences, and classes.
Her passion for the art of the book has led her to curate exhibitions, organize conferences and panels, publish books, and teach about the book arts in the US and abroad. She has an MFA in textiles from Cranbrook Academy of Art and, in 2012, she co-founded Small Editions, an artists’ book publisher and curatorial residency program in Brooklyn, NY with the goal to expand the public understanding of artist books. During her time at Small Editions she published over 30 books which are now held in some of the most prestigious public and private collections across the globe, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Over the years she has overseen the production of hundreds of books including books about artist’s books, design, architecture, photography, and contemporary art. In 2021, she and two collaborators founded Book Art Review, a new serial publication that ventures to develop, diversify, and propel critical discourse in the book arts.
Candor Collective with Matt Austin and Melanie Bohrer
Guests: Matt Austin and Melanie Bohrer
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on August 10, 2021
Matt Austin designs, produces, and publishes projects motivated by systems of care. He is currently a founding member of the Candor Collective, a designer with Em Design Studio, and maintains a consistent newsletter about his work. Formerly he was a co-owner of Candor Arts, part of the founding group of LATITUDE, and taught many courses on artist books and photography at SAIC and other institutions around Chicago.
Melanie Bohrer grew up in Munich, Germany and has been living in the United States (on and off) for the past 12 years. She received her MFA in Studio (Printmedia Department) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and previously her BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. She was a co-owner of Candor Arts, and is a founding member of the Candor Collective, as well as Em Design Studio. As an artist, much of her efforts have centered around creating artist books in the expanded field. She is currently represented by The Liminal a contemporary gallery–producer based out of Valencia, Spain.
Katie Chung: https://www.katiechung.com/
Hannah Batsel: http://www.hannahbatsel.com/
Em Design: http://emdesign.studio
Matt Austin: http://mattislearning.com
Alex Belardo Kostiw
Guest: Alex Belardo Kostiw
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on June 1, 2021.
Alex Belardo Kostiw is a graphic designer, artist, and educator. Her practice deals in poetic and iterative elements, visual structures of comics, and conceptually driven forms. Like dense knots, her publications invite interactive, intuitive reading—even as they resist full unravelling. By exploring ambiguities of language, her work is a liminal space for feeling out complicated realities of identity, human intimacy, and other worlds. Alex received an MFA in Visual Communication Design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in English literature from the University of Chicago. She has participated in such shows as the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, LA Art Book Fair, and Chicago Art Book Fair. Her work is in the special collections of several libraries and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She lives and works in Chicago.
- This conversation was recorded over zoom while Alex Belardo Kostiw was in Chicago and Christopher Kardambikis was in Songdo, South Korea. There are some moments where the internet connection, and the recording, get a little glitchy.
Corners Studio
Guest: Hyojoon Jo
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded at Corners, CC in Seoul, South Korea on March 4, 2021.
Corners Studio is a Seoul based office for graphic design of Daewoong Kim and Hyojoon Jo founded in 2012. Our practice focuses primarily on creative direction and visual communication strategies through typography, conceptual and content-related approaches. Our work includes formats such as prints, posters, publications, exhibitions, signage, marketing materials, websites and visual identities. We have produced works for artists, designers, cultural institutions, and small–big brands.
We have a particular interest in how ideas turn into physical objects. Alongside the graphic design practice Corners Studio run a risograph printing workshop, Corners Printing, for self-learning and self-experiment, and also for collaborating with friends and other people.
Daewoong Kim and Hyojoon Jo graduated at Hongik University (KR) and Central Saint Martins (UK) respectively, and Hyojoon currently teaches at Daejeon University (KR); we have lectured, talked and delivered workshops in Stavanger, Bangkok, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Glasgow, Osaka, Bergen, Gwacheon, Maastricht, Jeju, and Seoul.
Aurora Diaz
Guest: Aurora Diaz
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis
Recorded on February 12th, 2021
Aurora Diaz is an art worker and ceramicist hailing from New Jersey| New York. She founded and was creative director of the Bettys, an experimental art collective that ran from 2014-2020.
@bettycrit.club
Paul Shortt
Guest: Paul Shortt
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on January 31st, 2021
Paul Shortt received his MFA in New Media Art from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute. He has participated in over 80 group and solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally. His works engage the public in physical interactions and conversation that examine everyday experiences and cultural norms often in humorous ways through books, videos, prints, and temporary public art.
He has participated in over 30 national and international art book and zine fairs, such as the Printed Matter Art Book Fairs in New York City, NY and Los Angeles, CA, the Vienna Art Book Fair in Vienna, Austria, and the Editions fair in Toronto, Canada. In 2019 he published How to Art Book Fair, a practical and humorous guide to tabling, selling and participating in an art book fair. His artist books are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, and the Fisher Fine Arts Library at the University of Pennsylvania.
He has created temporary public art projects for Baltimore Office of Promotion for the Arts “Art on the Waterfront” program in Baltimore, MD, neon signs for the Inlight light festival in Richmond, VA, and a sign and print based public art project for the Arlington Art Truck, in Arlington VA. His videos have been shown at the Museum of the Moving Image, The Phillips Collection and Whitespace Gallery. He has participated in residencies at The Luminary, in St. Louis, MO and at Montgomery College in Silver Springs, MD.
Shortt has spoken about his work at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri. He has been written about in Hyperallergic, the Washington Post, Bmore Art and Review Magazine. Shortt works as an arts administrator and educator is currently based in Florida.
Radix Media
Guest: Nicholas Hurd and Sarah Lopez.
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis
Recorded on October 15th, 2020
Radix Media is a worker-owned printer and publisher based in Brooklyn, NY. They publish new ideas and fresh perspectives, prioritizing the voices of typically marginalized communities to get to the root of the human experience. Radix started out as a commercial print shop in 2010, and expanded into literary publishing in 2017. The collective is currently made up of Lantz Arroyo, Nicholas Hurd, Meher Manda, and Sarah Lopez.
Nick Hurd is a California ex-pat with 20 years of printing and design experience. He holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from the California College of the Arts, both in printmaking.
Nick is an expert in letterpress, bookmaking, business card design and all forms of specialty stationery. He is notoriously patient and loves the challenges inherent in using antique printing equFuturipment. Nick relishes tinkering with our Heidelberg Windmill, but he also handles our wide format printing.
Nick is also a tattoo collector, maple syrup enthusiast, soccer fan, and amateur gardener.
Sarah Lopez comes to Radix with a BA in Social and Historical Inquiry from Eugene Lang College and a BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design at The New School. It was there that she fell in love with all things print while working in the printmaking studio.
She has a strong background in graphic design and visual communication, with an inclination toward independent and DIY publishing. Her taste for indie publishing started with her appreciation for zines, and developed as a zinester tabling zine fairs.
Sarah has worn many hats at Radix Media: she started out running our digital press and various bindery equipment, and helped launch our publishing arm with outreach and publicity. She currently manages our social media and does a lot of our graphic design.
Outside of work Sarah enjoys curling up with a good book, spending time outdoors, and taking care of her plants.
E17: Julie Sheah and Evyan Roberts
Guests: Julie Sheah and Evyan Roberts
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis
Recorded on August 12th, 2020 in collaboration with Transformer as part of the E17: Zines program.
Julie Sheah is a graphic artist whose drawings explore the horrors and curiosities of otherwise ordinary subjects. She has a keen interest in the surreal and absurd and is an avid connoisseur of puns. As a first-generation Taiwanese-American, growing up in rural Texas gave her an odd sense of humor that came from grappling with social isolation, Otherness, and dual culture identity. Today she lives in Washington, DC where she continues to draw and create visual puns through her artists’ books.
Evyan Roberts (she/her) is a queer, fat, black, femme who is deeply committed to intersectional feminism and #blackgirlmagic. She lives in MD and is currently pursuing a Masters in Social Work, where she intends to keep working to promoting equity for sex workers and trans folx. Her writing has appeared in the poetry anthology A Garden of Black Joy: Global Poetry from the Edges of Liberation and Living, as well as online literary journals such as Kissing Dynamite where she was the featured poet for August 2019, Ithaca Lit, Not Your Mother's Breast Milk, Rogue Agent, and elsewhere.
E17: Athena Naylor and Late Comeback Press
Guests: Athena Naylor and Late Comeback Press (Rachna Soun and Caroline Kim)
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis
Recorded on August 5th, 2020 in collaboration with Transformer as part of the E17: Zines program.
Athena Naylor is a cartoonist originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, now living in Washington, DC. Through comics, Athena considers what makes the mundane meaningful and how big stories reside within small, everyday events. Alongside her self-published collections of autobiographical comics, Athena has had work featured in The Lily and Nat. Brut. Her comic The Checkout Counter was published through the podcast-publishing venture Paper Cuts.
Her work can be found at athenanaylor.com and on Instagram @athena.naylor.
Late Comeback Press is a Northern Virginia micropress run by Rachna Soun and Caroline Kim, specializing in avant-garde zines. Late Comeback Press’ name derives from the French term l’esprit de l’escalier – thinking of the perfect reply a little too late. As two Asian-American artists, they live within the hyphen, struggling, at times, to convey language that exists in one culture but not in the other. Communication and existentialism are the center of their art, flourishing in the space before choices are made, when the possibilities can seem paralyzingly endless or distinctively finite.
Stephen Grebinski
Guest: Stephen Grebinski
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis
Recorded on April 14th, 2020
Stephen Grebinski’s work concerns itself with reimagining and activating the memories and desires embedded in archival and found photography that is often clouded by camp and nostalgia. His books and works on paper tangle together queer bodies, architecture, and the persistent baroque impulses of desire. From mid-century physique magazines to Liberace’s home decor, the excess and homoeroticism of classicism create a fantasy world cobbled together from leftovers. He is currently starting a riso press with friends in Pittsburgh, PA
stephengrebinski.bigcartel.com
@aparatfoto
@misfeedpress
E17: Ayana Zaire Cotton and Jennifer Lillis
Guests: Ayana Zaire Cotton and Jennifer Lillis
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis and Adriana Monsalve
Recorded on July 29th, 2020 in collaboration with Transformer as part of the E17: Zines program.
Ayana Zaire Cotton is a transdisciplinary artist, designer, technologist, and educator, visualizing and collectively crafting a post-work future. Her practice is rooted in black feminist, pedagogy, mutual aid, open source philosophy, labor, and black aesthetics research. This research has manifested in her work via independent publishing, virtually teaching software engineering to students worldwide, and an experimental clothing line as a platform for researching labor studies and aesthetics. As an artist, designer, and software engineer Ayana feels “educator” is a title that most resonates with the full possibilities of her mediums, goals, and practice.
Jennifer Lillis is a multi-disciplinary artist, teacher, and administrator in Northern Virginia. She received her MFA in Visual Art from George Mason University in 2019, and her BA in Studio Art from Marymount University in 2012. Jennifer’s work explores the theme of transformation in the function and materiality of objects through the ritualization of her creative practice. She is currently the Gallery Manager at the McLean Project for the Arts, on the coordinating committee of MPAartfest, Adjunct Professor in Printmaking at George Mason University, co-producer of Paper Cuts, and founder of the print and book collective ELEMENTS.
Adriana Monsalve is an artist, book maker, and educator, located in the DMV. She is the co-founder of Homie House Press, a skeleton bones crew of femmes creating, publishing, and reclaiming their space and power in the foto book medium. Within her photographic practice, Monsalve is a storyteller & visual communicator producing in-depth stories on identity through the nuances in between race, gender, and immigrant adjacent experiences.
Transformer’s annual spring Exercises for Emerging Artists program is a peer critique and mentorship program created to support a selected group of DC-based emerging artists at critical points or crossroads in their professional growth and creative development. Centered on a different artistic discipline every year, this year’s iteration - E17: Zines - focused on zines and DIY publishing. E17: Zines artists include: Ayana Zaire Cotton, Jennifer Lillis, Athena Naylor, Late Comeback Press (Rachna Soun and Caroline Kim), Evyan Roberts, and Julie Sheah.
Intended to both advance artists' careers and build peer support, Transformer’s Exercises consists of comprehensive bi-weekly peer critique and mentorship sessions spanning several months to stimulate and encourage the participating artists as they create new work. Facilitated by Transformer staff, the participating artists receive mentorship and feedback from a series of mentors comprised of more established artists, curators, and other arts leaders.
In response to COVD-19, all E17: Zines peer critique & mentorship sessions were conducted via Zoom calls this spring. As the traditional, in person, culminating summer exhibition of works created through the program is not feasible this year, this poster highlights the artworks each artist created through E17: Zines. Each artists’ zine artworks are available for purchase through Transformer’s online store: https://flatfile.transformerdc.org/collections/e17-zines
Anna Bugbee
Guest: Anna Bugbee
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis
Recorded on April 6th, 2020
Anna Bugbee is the founder of Goldbrain Press, a collaborative publishing project producing interactive hand-made book and print works using a variety of media. After graduating with a degree in printmaking she worked for three years at a fine-art screenprinting studio in Brooklyn that is now known as Powerhouse Arts. In 2018 she left NYC in search of nature and settled in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her current work draws inspiration from the mountains and botanical world.
@goldbrainpress
ROAD, READ, BLOG, FEST, PROMOTE, DISTRIBUTE
**This episode originally aired on Clocktower Radio in 2016**
ROAD, READ, BLOG, FEST, PROMOTE, DISTRIBUTE
Guest: Sonel Breslav
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded in Brooklyn, NY
Blond Art Books:
Established by Sonel Breslav in 2012, Blonde Art Books is a Brooklyn based organization dedicated to promoting self-published art and poetry books through exhibitions, publications, book fairs, talks, and online exposure. Most recently, Blonde Art Books has organized exhibitions and events at Baxter Street / Camera Club of NY; SIGNAL, Brooklyn; MoMA, PS1, Queens, NY; and Printed Matter, New York. Past venues include ICA, Philadelphia, PA; Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Nudashank, Baltimore, MD; Hyde Part Center, Chicago, IL; Schema Projects, Brooklyn; Present Company, Brooklyn; and Interstate Projects, Brooklyn. The first book published under the Blonde Art Books imprint, Kitsch Encyclopedia by Sara Cwynar, was launched in April 2014. This year will mark the fourth annual Bushwick Art Book and Zine Fair, organized by Blonde Art Books and hosted by SIGNAL. Breslav received her MA from UCL, London in 2010 and her BFA from University of Buffalo - State University of New York in 2005.
Paige Landesberg @ Miriam
Guest: Paige Landesberg
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on March 11th, 2020 in Brooklyn
Paige Landesberg is a Brooklyn based artist who creates interdisciplinary artworks and curates public programming. She is committed to the idea of multiples and making work that is portable, accessible, multi-use and therefore pragmatic. In addition to her object practice, as an art-worker, Paige acts as the Curator of Books and Public Programming at Miriam, a new artist-run gallery and artist bookshop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She is committed to supporting and collaborating with artist publishers through independent projects as well, most recently with Brooklyn Art Book Fair and historically with institutions such as Printed Matter, Hauser & Wirth Publishers and Artbook @ MoMA PS1.
Miriam is a new, artist-run contemporary gallery dedicated to working collaboratively with artists to support their practices and foster inclusive art experiences. Housed in a 1,250 squarefoot former matzah factory in South Williamsburg, the gallery opened its doors in December 2019 with Books at Miriam, an exhibition interrogating art books as a creative medium across a variety of perspectives and practices, with over 50 diverse artist publishers’ works.
Du-Good Press
Guest: Leslie Diuguid
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on March 10th, 2020.
Du-Good Press was established in spring 2017 to offer a collaborative and fresh approach to screen printing across the arts. Focusing on a new wave of rising contemporary artists across multiple platforms, Du-Good Press offers hand screen-printed fine art editions of emerging and mid-career artists. Artists are selected by Du-Good Press’ intimate team of advisors, curators and founder and master-printer, Leslie Diuguid.
Perfectly Acceptable Press + Issue Press + NARC
Guests: Matt Davis and George Wietor
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on November 16th, 2019 at at the Chicago Art Book Fair.
Matt Davis is the founder and director of Perfectly Acceptable Press, a Risograph print studio and publishing house in Chicago. Besides doing contract printing for artists all over North America, Perfectly Acceptable publishes 8-10 titles per year spanning the genres of comics, artist books, and essay with an emphasis on narrative and craft.
Matt is the co-organizer of NARC along with George Wietor.
Perfectly Acceptable Press (Chicago, IL) publishes short-run narrative artist books with an emphasis on synergy between content, craft, and form. Our aim is to create an object that pushes the boundaries of a zine without sacrificing accessibility or content. In addition to our publishing practice, we also offer contract Risograph print services for artists across North America. We also host the North American Risograph Conference alongside Issue Press.
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Issue Press is an independent publisher of artist publications, multiples, and other printed matter based in Grand Rapids, MI and run by George Wietor. All of their work is produced with Risograph digital duplicators. It is run in Wietor's spare time and operates with an elastic publishing mandate, primarily concerned with works that trade in humor, history, and exploration of place.
In addition to Issue Press, George runs stencil.wiki, an open platform for sharing information about Risograph printing and is, along with Matt Davis, the co-organizer of NARC.
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The North American Risograph Conference (NARC)
NARC is a day of talks, panels, and workshops dedicated to strengthening the North American Risograph community.
The event is biennial, held in tandem with Chicago Art Book Fair. It is organized by Issue Press and Perfectly Acceptable Press.
Flatlands Press
Guest: Eric Von Haynes
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on November 16th, 2019 at at the Chicago Art Book Fair.
Eric Von Haynes is conceptual artist and printmaker who founded Flatlands Chicago in 2007, focused on producing publications and other printed ephemera for artists worldwide. Flatlands aims to be a community-minded space for artists to create, inspire and share ideas.
#LAABF2019
Guests: Nicole Killian, Danielle McCoy, Gonzalo Guerrero
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis and Adriana Monsalve
Recorded on April 12th, 2019 at the Los Angeles Art Book Fair and September 21st, 2018 at the New York Art Book Fair
nico fontana is the publishing initiative of Nicole Killian, concerned with a queering of language, objects, bodies, and spaces.
Nicole Killian’s work uses graphic design, publishing, video, objects and installation to investigate how the structures of the internet, mobile messaging, and shared online platforms affect contemporary interaction and shape cultural identity from a queer perspective. They are interested in the repetition, looping, and dissemination of content. They think about catnip and bird toys, scratching and the depths (or voids) of the desktop folder.
Nicole appreciates a good karaoke performance and is co-creator of annual publication ISSUES with Sarah Faith Gottesdiener. They are currently co-director of the Design, Visual Communications MFA and Assistant Professor in the Department of Graphic Design at Virginia Commonwealth University. They recently served as guest editor for the Walker Art Center's Soundboard and organized How Will We Queer Design Education without Compromise?
Danielle McCoy is one part of WORK/PLAY, an interdisciplinary design duo based in St. Louis, MO. Kevin received a BFA in Graphic Communication from the University of Missouri St. Louis and recently graduated from Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis earning his MFA. Danielle is a conceptual artist, writer, and educator. Together, they combine illustration, minimal contemporary design along with experimental printmaking techniques into their art practice. With their use of design and printmaking, the collaborative duo has expanded their practice to textile arts, site-specific installation, publications and bookmaking to deliver an acerbic dose of revelation to inspire audiences and trigger experiences. They continuously experiment with new techniques, seeking to push beyond the perceived boundaries of art, design and printmaking.
Secret Riso Club Is A Graphic Design And Risograph Studio Based In Ridgewood, NYC. At the studio, they work on their own projects, and also offer graphic design services, risograph printing, and photo printing services. They print zines, small publications, posters, cards, assorted material for local arts and community organizations, and flyers for bands, among other projects.
Adriana Monsalve is the co-founder of Homie House Press. Homie House Press is a skeleton bones crew of femmes creating + publishing in the foto book medium. They are photographers + book makers + educators holding space for and with underrepresented communities. They are a playground where fotos become books, a safe space for secret stories and an open house for honest content. Find HHP migrating through the in-betweenness of all that we are, and al otro lado del charco.
LA Art Book Friends with Mary Tremonte and Darin Klein
Guests: Mary Tremonte of Justseeds // Darin Klein & Friends
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Produced by Jake Nussbaum and Clocktower Radio
Recorded on February 12th, 2016 at the Los Angeles Art Book Fair // Originally presented by Clocktower.org
Darin Klein & Friends: With an ever-expanding network of friends and collaborators, Darin Klein curates and organizes dynamic and engaging exhibitions and arts programs, simultaneously creating, collecting and promoting artists' publications and independent media. Klein is a 2010 recipient of Printed Matter's Awards for Artists for exemplary work with books and printed media and has lectured and taught workshops on the art of ‘zine-making at universities and arts organizations. darinkleinandfriends.blogspot.com
Mary Tremonte is an artist, educator, and DJ based in Pittsburgh. A founding member of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, she works with "printmaking in the expanded field," including printstallation, interactive silkscreen printing in public space, and wearable artist multiples such as queer scout badges. As DJ Mary Mack she strives to make safe(r) spaces on dance floors for embodying a body politic with pleasure. With Justseeds and independently Mary has exhibited, presented lectures and workshops, and performed in Toronto, Pittsburgh, throughout the United States, and internationally. Formerly the youth programs coordinator at The Andy Warhol Museum, she values art education as a means of youth empowerment and social change. Through her work she aims to create temporary utopias and sustainable commons through pedagogy, collaboration, visual pleasure and serious fun. justseeds.org/artist/marytremonte
Justseeds
With members working from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Justseeds operates both as a unified collaboration of similarly minded printmakers and as a loose collection of creative individuals with unique viewpoints and working methods. We believe in the transformative power of personal expression in concert with collective action. To this end, we produce collective portfolios, contribute graphics to grassroots struggles for justice, work collaboratively both in- and outside the co-op, build large sculptural installations in galleries, and wheat-paste on the streets—all while offering each other daily support as allies and friends.
Free Verse Farm & Apothecary
Guests: Taylor Mardis Katz and Misha Johnson
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on August 16th, 2019 at Free Verse Farm & Apothecary in Chelsea, VT.
Free Verse Farm is a co-creation of Taylor Mardis Katz and Misha Johnson, two artist/farmers with a passion for growing, eating, and sharing delicious and nourishing food and herbs.
They are a small herb farm and apothecary in Chelsea, Vermont specializing in naturally-grown tisanes (herbal teas), culinary herbs, medicinals, and herbal remedies. Their farm is situated high in the hills of the White River watershed in the Upper Valley region of eastern Vermont. Their herbs and remedies are available at local farmers markets, stores, online, and through their Farmshare Community.
The Free Verse Residency honors the poetry that's a part of the farm's name (and the inspiration for how they plant, tend, and blend the herbs), Taylor and Misha have established a self-directed residency for poets and writers and makers of small artworks. This offering is for those who seek a quiet, secluded place to live and work, residing for a week amidst the herbs, vegetables, and wild fauna of their rural Vermont farm.
This is a residency for those who desire open space, solitude, and the companionship of a landscape that inspires awe, provides calm, and offers its abundance without an expectation of anything in return.
Bill Boichel and Copacetic Comics
Guest: Bill Boichel
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on July 26th, 2019 at Copacetic Comics in Pittsburgh, PA.
Bill Boichel has been a fixture on the Pittsburgh comics scene for over forty years (absent 1982 to 1984, when he served as the director/manager of the exhibitions program at Pittsburgh Filmmakers). Primarily engaged in comics retail, most notably as the owner/operator of BEM: The Store and The Copacetic Comics Company, he has also organized comics-centric events, and created, edited and published numerous micro-press comics under the BEM imprint, mostly between 1985 and 2000.
Catching Up with Jim Rugg
Guest: Jim Rugg
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on July 24th, 2019 in Pittsburgh, PA.
Jim Rugg is an Eisner and Ignatz-award winning comic book artist, book maker, illustrator, designer, and cat dad. Books include Street Angel, the PLAIN Janes, Afrodisiac, Notebook Drawings, Rambo 3.5, and Supermag. His YouTube channel Cartoonist Kayfabe will make you love comics even more!
Instagram and Twitter: @jimruggart
Imin Yeh
Guest: Imin Yeh
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded at Carnegie Mellon University on July 17th, 2019 in Pittsburgh, PA.
Imin Yeh is based in Pittsburgh, PA. She is an interdisciplinary and project-based artist working in sculpture, installation, and participatory events. Recent exhibitions include university galleries at Ithaca College and the College of New Jersey, San Jose Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), and at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco). She has been an Artist in Residency at Montalvo Art Center (Saratoga, CA), Blue Mountain Center (New York), Sandarbh Artist Workshop (Partapur, India), and at Recology San Francisco. She is a recipient of a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation and an Individual Artist Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Imin Yeh holds a MFA from the California College of Arts. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.
On the Road with Mad Mohre
Guest: Mad Mohre
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded in Mad’s VW Beetle on March 14th, 2019 in Michigan.
Mad Mohre is a mechanically-minded visual artist and designer concerned with play, surveillance, privacy and speculative feminism. She is the founder of Millimetre Press, a residency program housed in a restored Victorian studio for artists curious to explore limited editions through Riso + the artist’s book. Mad has most recently been a resident at The Wassaic Project and Paper Cuts. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, and exhibited nationally at Gallery 128 in NYC, River House Arts Gallery in Toledo, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, and other international venues. Her most recent design projects include work for Serial a podcast by the creators of This American Life, Corte by composer Trevor Gureckis of The Goldfinch, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry at BAM, and sculpted paper works for musician Bryce Desssner of The National.
Mad received her BFA from Denison University and MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. She is the co-leader of the College Book Art Association’s Midwest Region and is an Associate Professor of Art at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan.
Can't See Your Own Face
*FROM THE ARCHIVES*
Originally aired on Clocktower Radio in 2016
Guest: Louis Brawley
Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis and Jake Nussbaum
Recorded in Brooklyn, NY
In 2000 Louis Brawley was living, working and showing in New York City. With two solo shows under his belt, he started traveling a lot. Then he left the city in 2005. At that time he opted to conduct an experiment by living without a base. From then on he moved usually monthly, sometimes weekly, or even daily, rarely spending more than a month in any one place. Following the flow of freelance work at art fairs most of the year; he spent the winter months living in India.
Much of the time during the first five years of travel was spent with the Indian-born philosopher and anti-guru U.G. Krishnamurti, until he passed away. After his death Brawley began writing a book about that experience. A regular practice of producing photographs and paintings on paper continued while living on the road. The book called Goner was published in 2011 by Non-Duality Press in the UK and by Penguin in India. The journals from the second half of the travel period are the subject of another book currently in process.
The artist currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
* Goner is now available from New Harbinger in the west and Penguin India in Asia. It was recently translated and published in Russia by Ganga Press.
Tallahassee Zine Fest
Guest: Colleen Itani and Kelly Lorraine Hendrickson of TZF and Alexa Turnbull of Seether Bookstore
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on February 23rd, 2019 at The Bark.
Tallahassee Zine Fest is an all inclusive festival allowing the Tallahassee community to showcase self published books and a variety of other types of printed matter. TZF is a platform for the DIY community and merges locals, academics, and anyone interested in printed media. People also travel into Tallahassee to sell work at a table, purchase zines, or just experience the festival. The atmosphere is casual which gives all attendees a chance to talk with each other face to face, about zines, zine related projects, and art work in general.
TZF was started in 2018 and is set for its second year with over 40 participants, lots of volunteers, and a small board of directors. It is constantly adapting and growing to fit the needs of the Tallahassee and national zine community. Big things are happening.
Colleen Itani is an interdisciplinary artist currently making work in Tallahassee, Florida. She has exhibited recently in Georgia, Florida, and New York. She teaches at Florida State University, Lafayette Arts Center, and Philly Art Center and she is the Director of Tally Zine Fest, which takes place annually. Itani is pursuing her MFA from Florida State University and received her BFA in Studio Art and BA International and Cultural Studies from University of Tampa. Currently, she's fixated with the duplex housing structure and is making drawings exploring boundaries.
Kelly Lorraine Hendrickson is a media fluid artist living and working in Tallahassee Florida. She has shown work up and down the east coast (+ that one time in Germany). She teaches printmaking at Florida State University, ceramics and drawing at Lafayette Arts Center and does workshops for The Center for Participant Education. She is Assistant Director of Tallahassee Zine Fest (tallyzinefest.com). She received her BFA from George Mason University and is a MFA candidate at Florida State University.
Seether Bookstore exists on the web and as pop-ups to sell used books, zines, artist books, and various other donated printed goods. Proceeds from all goods purchased from Seether Bookstore go to buying and sending books to incarcerated folks. Seether is run by Alexa Turnbull.
Denise Bookwalter and SCAP
Guest: Denise Bookwalter
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on February 22nd, 2019 at the Facility for Arts Research at Florida State University.
Denise Bookwalter works in a range of print media including traditional and digital processes, artist’s books, installations and dimensional prints. Her artists’ books utilize old and new print technologies to create collaborative artists’ books. Her work has been exhibited and collected in a variety of venues across the country and abroad. She received her BA from Northwestern University and her MFA from Indiana University in Printmaking. Denise currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida with her husband and twin girls. She is an Associate Professor of Art at Florida State University where she teaches printmaking and is Area Head of the Printmaking Department. She is the director and founder of Florida State University’s artists’ book press, Small Craft Advisory Press.
Founded in 2009, Small Craft Advisory Press (SCAP) is an artists book press at Florida State University’s Facility for Arts Research (FAR) in Tallahassee, Florida. Our mission is to enable artists and scholars to create artists book editions that push the boundaries and traditions of the book arts.
Boekie Woekie and Jan Voss
Guest: Jan Voss
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on November 22nd, 2018 at Boekie Woekie in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Boekie Woekie, books by artists, began paying rent for a tiny space in downtown Amsterdam on January 1st, 1986. It was then seen by its 6 founders (artists from 3 countries living in Amsterdam) as a shop for their own publications. After the first 5 years and some reshuffling of the group and with 3 of the founders left, Boekie Woekie began its second phase in a quite much bigger shop space around the corner and with a renewed concept resulting from the gained experience: the new shop opened for publications by others. There are now about 7000 titles - almost exclusively self published or small press books. Those who run it – Henriëtte van Egten (Dutch), Rúna Thorkelsdóttir (Icelandic) and Jan Voss (German) have continued their personal artists’ careers and since years count the shop itself as a sculpture in progress they work on concertedly. A small gallery space has belonged to Boekie Woekie from the beginning. There never came a stop to very small scale publishing (3 or 4 titles a year) which has lead to the yearly participation in one or two book fairs (Frankfurt, London, New York). The entirely self financing enterprise is Europe’s, if not the world’s, venue for artists’ books the longest in existence which carries books regardless to their author's fame.
Jo Frenken at Magical Riso
Guest: Jo Frenken
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on November 19th, 2018 at the Magical Riso conference held at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands.
Jo Frenken is an artist, designer, and tutor connected to the Jan van Eyck Academie ever since he started as a participant in 1977. He served numerous print-related roles as well as teaching at the Academy of Architecture for 20 years. In 2011 he became the head of Charles Nypels Lab and in 2014 initiated and organized the successful Magical Riso, a biennial Risograph conference at the Lab.
THE THIRD IN OUR COVERAGE OF THE MAGICAL RISO CONFERENCE HELD AT THE JAN VAN EYCK ACADEMIE IN MAASTRICHT, NETHERLANDS.
Magical Riso Shorts
THE SECOND IN OUR COVERAGE OF THE MAGICAL RISO CONFERENCE HELD AT THE JAN VAN EYCK ACADEMIE IN MAASTRICHT, NETHERLANDS.
Guests: Igor Arume, Stephanie Lane Gage, and Justin Bailey
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on November 18th, 2018 at the Magical Riso conference held at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands.
RISOTRIP / Igor Arume
With more than 4 years of experience, Risotrip are constantly perfecting their printing method to ensure more quality and efficiency. Risotrip believes that the work goes far beyond a print service for clients, their mission is to help people create and produce their ideas. They believe in the power of learning and collaboration between people. They know that a large part of the public is not familiar with the specificities of Risograph. Therefore, promoting activities such as WORKSHOPS and PALESTRAS are fundamental to share theoretical and practical knowledge and enable those interested to obtain the best results in this type of printing.
MARTIAN PRESS / Stephanie Lane Gage
Martian Press is a one-human operation, run by Stephanie Lane Gage and currently located in Los Angeles, CA. It was founded in Milwaukee, WI in October of 2015.
Martian Press is dedicated to creating and publishing original content as well as producing zines and prints created by emerging artists and writers. MP collects the outlandish, the otherworldly, the extraordinary and the ordinary and produces something meaningful from them. Much of what Martian Press publishes evokes themes of science fiction, the mystical, the paranormal. MP strives to publish predominantly queer, non-men, and/or POC artists and writers, as well as provide Risograph printing services.
BRONZE AGE / Justin Bailey
Bronze Age is a publishing endeavor run by Justin Bailey in London.
MAGICAL RISO LIVE
Guests: Jesjit Gil, Moritz Grünke, and Mari Campistron
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded November 18th at Magical Riso held at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands.
Jesjit Gil is the co-founder of Colour Code, established in 2012. Colour Code is an independent print studio and publishing platform based in Toronto, Canada. They specialize in high quality, artist friendly printing for local, US and international customers. Colour Code also publishes and distributes small-run artist books, comics, posters and other printed matter.
Moritz Grünke is the co-founder of We make it, a Risograph printing and design studio, a library and exhibition space based in Berlin dedicated to artists, designers and people who love excellent and handcrafted printed matter. We make it is a project by Franziska Brandt und Moritz Grünke who also founded Gloria Glitzer, a small press for artists books, in 2007. Since then they published lots of artzines, attends at many art(ists’) book fairs all over Europe and curated several exhibitions on self-publishing artists. Moritz Grünke also collects artists’ publications and founded artzines.de a blog dedicated to self-publishing artists in 2010.
MARI CAMPISTRON is a Glasgow based illustrator who currently works as a print technician and studio manager at RISOTTO studio. She is part of the collective Riso Sur Mer along with Élise Rigollet, Inès Gradot, Joséphine Ohl and Margaux Bigou. Between Paris and Glasgow, they collaborate on various projects from zines to posters, calendars or books, all based around the Risograph print technique. Find out more about Mari here.
/Edition: Vide Press and Raw Meat Collective
Guest: Quentin Mitchell and Kyle Quinn
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded October 27th and 28th, 2018 @ /edition Art Book Fair, Toronto, Canada
Quentin runs Vide Press, a small Risograph printing and design studio located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that works with independent artists and publishers, non-profit organizations, and other Riso enthusiasts.
Kyle Quinn born in Okinawa, Japan, currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BFA from the Art Institute of Colorado in Graphic Design & Fine Art and later was a participant of the Ace Air Residency, the Ace Hotel’s Artist-In-Residency program in New York. Kyle is the founder and curator of the publishing group, Raw Meat Collective. His personal practice shifts mediums between collage, photography and painting. He has self-published artist books, art publications and zines for over a decade, along with exhibiting annually both nationally and internationally. Raw Meat Collective is a solo and collaborative Queer artist platform for current contemporary artists with the emphasis on the body and object, primarily in print. His writings, photographs and edition objects were presented by AA Bronson for Frieze (London) in 2016. He has been published in ArtForum, BUTT Magazine, NYSAI Literacy Press, Hyperallergic, Posture Magazine, i-D for Vice, Fader, Tank Magazine and more. He has also been archived at The Frances Mulhall Achilles Library at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Thomas J Watson Library at The Met and The Yale Private Library for his artist books, published projects and photographs, along with published titles through Raw Meat Collective.
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/edition Art Book Fair is produced annually in tandem with Art Toronto (Canada’s International Art Fair), and is dedicated to the promotion of art book publishing in all forms and artworks created in editions.
Corkey Sinks of Walls Divide Press
Guest: Corkey Sinks
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded August 5th, 2018 @ Crosstown Arts // Memphis, TN
Corkey Sinks (b. Dallas, TX) is an artist and designer based in Memphis, TN. Sinks received a BA in Media Studies from the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands, CA in 2005 and an MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012. She views her work as a form of secular meditation. Embracing the human tendency to divine meaningful patterns within the noise of collective information, Sinks straddles research-based and intuitive modes of production. Her work generally explores themes of paranoia, obsession, and healing, often referencing utopian philosophies, textile traditions, folklore, political and new religious movements, and the supernatural. Sinks has exhibited work throughout the United States, Mexico, and Austria. In 2015, her book, Demon Baby Project: Events, Coincidences, and Repercussions was published by No Coast.
Corkey Sinks and Jesse Butcher are co-founders and curators of Walls Divide Press, a small press producing zines, artists' books, and multiples. In addition to publishing zines, Walls Divide Press also organizes events, performances, and mini zine fairs out of their Memphis home and studio. Walls Divide Press welcomed it's first Artist-in-Residence in the spring of 2017 with plans to continue the program. Sinks is curating an exhibition titled Extension: Artists' Books, Prints, and Zines that will open at Dixon Gallery and Gardens in the fall of 2018.
Anna Sellheim
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded September 15th, 2018
Anna Sellheim is a cartoonist practicing out of the DC/Baltimore area. Her work tends to focus on mental health and progressive politics. She received her MFA in cartooning from the Center For Cartoon Studies in 2016. She has been in multiple anthologies including Sweaty Palms, Dirty Diamonds Vol 6, and Comics for Choice. Her second volume of her mental health series "Everything's Fine" has been nominated for a Broken Pencil Zine Award, received an honorable mention for a DINKy award in the best zine category, and won a MICE mini grant.
You can find Anna online at annasellheim.com and @annasellheim on Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter.
Kendra and Kat
Adam Griffiths
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded June 29th, 2018
Adam Griffiths is a cartoonist, illustrator and arts organizer. He got his BFA in Video Art at Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore in 2004. In Washington, D.C., Griffiths served as an arts administrator for organizations such as Provisions Learning Project, Dupont Underground, Washington Project for the Arts, and galleries such as Civilian Art Projects. He has exhibited his work in WPA’s Options, with Hillyer Art Space, School 33 in Baltimore, and the International Curatorial and Studio Practice (ISCP) program in Brooklyn NY, and Sala 1 in Rome, Italy. He presented his first solo show at Arlington Art Center.
Griffiths' studio practice is cartooning, comics, and illustration-focused with a politicized, DIY image production ethos that he calls ZAGO.
3-Pack Jack
Guests: Ian MacKinnon, Steven Reigns, and Darin Klein
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on February 15th, 2016 @ Los Feliz, Los Angeles, CA
Originally presented by Clocktower Radio on September 6th, 2016
3-PACK JACK is a titillating three-book set anthologizing a recent queer performance series curated and hosted by Steven Reigns. Delight in performance photos by Matt Baume alongside the monologues, scripts, and transcriptions from each event.
Buy the set here: www.stevenreigns.com/books/3-pack-jack-performance-art-book-set
Jacob Shapiro at Fantom Comics
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on June 21st, 2018 @ Fantom Comics, Washington, D.C.
Jacob Shapiro is the manager and co-owner of Fantom Comics in Washingon, D.C. He has a Shel Silverstein tattoo on his right arm because he’s ten years old.
Fantom Comics is a progressive comic shop in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It aims to be an open, welcoming space to all people and support the local community.
www.fantomcomics.com
HAIR CLUB, HUE, AND ALEX VICE @ THE WPA
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on May 25th, 2018
@ The Washington Project for the Arts
Suzanne Gold, of the collaborative project HAIR CLUB, Alanna Reeves, founder of HUE, and DC-based zinester Alex Vice talk about their publishing practice with host Christopher Kardambikis. The third recording at the Washington Project for the Arts as part of Paper Cuts / Live.
Live at Current Books in Richmond
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on March 31st, 2018
@ Current Books at Studio Two Three in Richmond, VA
Paper Cuts recorded live at Current Books Art Book Fair in Richmond, VA. We sat down with 4 participants of the book fair: 1) Athena Naylor, an autobiographical cartoonist and illustrator currently based in D.C.; 2) Alison Baitz, who publishes the zine "On Flora" and co-founded both the DC Art Book Fair and the Free Feminist Library; 3) Lucy Kirkman Allen, a painter and curator living in Bavon, VA who is the co-founder of Airprint Press; 4) Orvokki Crosby, who founded The Concern Newsstand in Chapel Hill and Raleigh, North Carolina.
PRESS PRESS and DIRT @ the Washington Project for the Arts
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on March 16, 2018
@ The Washington Project for the Arts
Press Press' publishing practice is organized around two key goals; 1, to deepen the understanding of voices, identities, and narratives that have been suppressed or misrepresented by the mainstream, so far focusing on immigration and race in the United States; and 2, to build networks of relationships through publishing practices centered on self-representation and gathering. Press Press operates out of a storefront in Baltimore.
presspress.info
Founded by a collective of writers, art historians, artists, and curators, DIRT hopes to be an answer to the problematic lack of coverage, visibility, criticality, and authenticity within our immediate art community. With a focus on the DMV’s art, culture and history, DIRT uses their platform to advocate for the network of artists, exhibitions, and events.
dirtdmv.co