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in collaboration with
BAM
Showpaper
Printed Matter, Inc.
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Launching at BAM on Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
6-8pm
30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY
(more info here)
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As part of its 150th Anniversary celebration, the Brooklyn Academy of Music has commissioned Showpaper to build a series of newsboxes to surround their perimeter. The project is called Brooklyn Shelf Life.
In a playful exploration of print as a method of artistic expression and mode of communication in the era of the Internet, we are creating five sculptures that will double as repositories for a series of free, independent print publications.
Five publications a month, totalling at over sixty publications over the course of a year, will be curated by Jesse Hlebo, of Swill Children, Printed Matter, Inc. and Showpaper.
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Is something truly ‘independent’ if other organizations aid its creation? Can there be freedom within a structure whose purpose is to allow freedom while still remaining a structural presence?
The publications we have commissioned for Brooklyn Shelf Life take these questions as a starting point. Artists and publishers are given a fee and a printing budget; the content they create is up to their own discretion.
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Selected Publication Participants Include:
_ Quarterly
IIIII Columns
Asher Penn
Common Name
Erik Van Der Weijde
Félicia Atkinson
NOWORK
Other Means
Peter Sutherland / Maia Ruth Lee
Pia Howell
Tan Lin
Showpaper
Sumi Ink Club
W/— Projects
Four new publications a month — Find out when and who by following:
@swillchildren / @showpaper / @printed_matter
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