Printer Fault Press
High Expectations is Emma Bombail’s first publication. In this issue, the reader will immerse in an object that, taking the form of a script, compiles a selection of Bombail’s writing. The style is akin to uttered writing, working both as a prop to be worn –moved around and potentially damaged– as well as the artist’s score: a collection of reports to be performed and spoken aloud. These texts go from quotes and poems to one-liner observations of daily life, all the way to deeply intimate diaristic confessions, featuring cold and cruel replies of her lovers, dream reports, reflections of an art student, anecdotes and observations from friends, and what can bound Chantal Akerman and Rainer Werner Fassbinder movies, among many other things.
Book designed by Shelim Alvarado and published by Printer Fault Press in Frankfurt am Main, 2023.
Our first photo-book by Alice Peach (Bari, 1996) compiles a series of photographs taken between 2017 and 2022 in Berlin, London, Milan, Torre a Mare, Amsterdam and Antwerp. Following a play between children’s drawing books to connect the dots and numbers, it invites the viewer to follow the same exercise to navigate these imaginary shapes through different visual moments. These construct the narrative of a diary mixing the intimacy of objects, food, interiors and people with frozen instants of urban and rural landscapes from Peach's trips over the last years.
The book of 76 pages is an edition of 150 copies and a transparent dust jacket covers it with a silk-screen drawing from the artist.
This publication is the first artist book by francisco m.v. (Santiago de Chile, 1990). It is the compilation of a selection of drawings, collages, empty pages, notes and textual interventions from different notebooks done in 2021 and 2022. The first edition is a run of 40 copies, each with hand drawings, writings and numbered by the artist.
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This book is a practical guide to collecting contemporary art using the tools available online and on any smartphone or tablet, with a special focus on digital art and the particular advantages and challenges it presents to collectors. The guide is intended for anyone who would like to collect art, regardless of their knowledge of the art market—or their budget.
The volume is divided into three parts: two separate (but related) manuals and a troubleshooting guide for collectors of digital art.
With contributions by Bogdan Ablozhnyy, John Flindt, Graham Hamilton, Karl Holmqvist, Lin Jing, David Moser, Dudu Quintanilha, Ian Waelder and Vera Varlamova.
Published on the occasion of the workshop #THEREISNOAUDIENCE... held by Karl Holmqvist on Friday November 15th, 2019 at Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main.
Participants in the workshop #THEREISNOAUDIENCE... started with some basic voice exercises chanting out all vowels together as a group (including the Sweedish Å Ä Ö). They were then asked to write down two random sentences each that were compiled to a list and then read out loud before finally being used in the nine poems by each individual participant. In the meantime there were some discussing around what it takes exactly to be performing in front of others, differences between the spoken and the writen and the role of language and writing in visual arts.