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The 2025 Spitting Image Art Book Fair is a community exhibition and tabling event with focus on artists’ books, zines, chapbooks, and print ephemera, led by students of Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts and Parsons School of Design. Spitting Image honors New York City’s DIY print scene, showcasing student work that stand as contemporary testaments to a generations-old book arts practice. Built on creative expression and community building, the print form is undoubtedly interdisciplinary, uniting the humanities focus of Lang and the design focus of Parsons.Â
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Supported in part by Lang College’s Community Events grant and the Provost’s Investment Fund and presented in conjunction by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics's New School New Books event, Spitting Image seeks to make exhibition and public engagement accessible. This year’s fair will feature over 20 student artists, and programming inviting prominent faces of New York’s publishing and contemporary art world to engage with The New School community.
Our opening day, Friday March 21, will feature a roundtable discussion, Ecologies of Study: Publishing as an Act of Gathering, with Rachel Valinsky, Director of Publications at CARA and co-founder of Wendy’s Subway, and kimi malka hanauer, an artist and writer, founding collective member of Press Press, and steward of Center for Liberatory Practice & Poetry. Our second day, Saturday March 22, features a lecture, GenderFail: On a Love of Dissemination and the Working Class Ethos, by Be Oakley, founder of GenderFail, a Ridgwood-based publishing, programming and archiving platform. The lecture is co-presented by The New School Archives and Special Collections.
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Spitting Image Art Book Fair runs from March 21-22, 2025 at 65 W 11th St, New York, NY. The fair is open to the public and free of charge. Follow @spittingimageartbookfair on Instagram for more updates.
Committee:Â Camila Pernisco, Gabriella Acquafredda, Manuela V. do Amaral, Poli Sotnik-Platt
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Our Hours and Location:
Friday, March 21:Â 1pm-5pm EST
Saturday, March 22:Â 11am-5pm EST
Wollman Hall, 65 w 11th st, New York, NY
Presented by Eugene Lang College and the Office of Civic Engagement and Social Justice at Lang, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, and supported by the Provost's Office Culture of Care Award.
How do independent publishers facilitate deeply rooted ecosystems of shared study? How do cooperative approaches to independent publishing enable ungovernable, unruly, and resistant shared practices? And how can we build sustainable autonomous structures within independent, small press, and artist publishing? In this roundtable, editor and publisher Rachel Valinsky and artist and publisher kimi malka hanauer share experiences creating and contributing to collective publishing initiatives and institutions, and present a selection of recent projects for thinking the otherwise.
co-presented by The New School Archives and Special Collections
Be Oakley will present a lecture chronicling 10 years of what they hope to be their life's work with their publishing platform, GenderFail. GenderFail, started in 2015, is a publishing, programming, and archiving platform. GenderFail is not non-profit but profit-for-survival or profit-to-continue-our-work-without-other-means-of-capital and, most importantly, to make money for others I publish, to create profit-for-labor. With GenderFail, publishing is personal; it’s a tool for disseminating imperfect but powerful ideas. This lecture will explore the inner workings of running a small press project, with special emphasis on transparency to help others find ways to sustain and live off their work as fellow working-class artists. Oakley will also share their ongoing work of creating open-source fonts from protest events since the Stonewall riots of 1969 and how it has influenced and sustained the press for over a decade.
Rachel Valinsky is a writer, editor, and translator based in New York. She is co-founder and Artistic Director of Wendy’s Subway, a nonprofit arts and literary reading room, writing space, and independent publisher, and Director of Publications at the Center for Art, Research, and Alliances. She was a Curatorial Fellow at The Kitchen, an Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Queens Museum, Friday Night Reading Series Co-Curator at the Poetry Project, art writer-in-residence at the Banff Centre, and an art critic-in-residence at CUE Art Foundation/Art 21 Magazine. Her writing on performance, dance, and moving image work has appeared in Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, frieze, e-flux criticism, and elsewhere, and her translations have appeared from Semiotext(e), Editions Lutanie, Pluto
kimi malka hanauer is an artist, writer, publisher, and facilitator. kimi is a founding collective member of publishing initiative, Press Press (est. 2014), steward of nomadic political education project, Center for Liberatory Practice & Poetry (est. 2021), and an assistant professor at Pratt Institute.
GenderFail has published work by numerous artists, including E. Jane, Lex Brown, Alok Vaid-Menon, American Artist, Demian Dineyazhi, Paul Paul Soulellis A.L. Steiner, Eileen Myles, Pamela Sneed, and many others. GenderFail has exhibited at MoMA PS1 (Past and Future Fictions, 2018), The International Center of Photography (Queering the Collection, 2018), Center for Book Arts (Imperfect Archiving, Archiving as Practice 2021), Women's Studio Workshop (Seize Control of the FDA 2022), Sprengel Museum Hannover (The Shelf- Artistic Publishing Platform 2022), Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (An Incessant Unknowability: An Archive of Protest Inspired Typography and It’s Open Source Uses 2024-25). GenderFail is the reception of a 2022-2025 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Grant. GenderFail publications can be found in the library collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum Library, and over 100 others.
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