KRISTEN MUELLER | DATE 9/10/2019

Join Artbook Bookstore Event Space for signings and launch events at the NYABF 2019!

Join the Artbook Bookstore Event Space at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair (opening Thursday, September 19 from 6–9 PM, and running through Sunday, September 22 at 7 PM) for signings and events with Micah Lexier, Cliff Baldwin, Ron Weis & Colin Robinson, Theo Deutinger, Paul Zelevansky, Nicholas Muellner & Jennifer Soong, Lakshmi Luthra, Noel W Anderson, Troy Michie, Mary Helena Clark & Abigail DeVille of Effects magazine. In addition to these events, Artbook has ordered thousands of new, rare and surprising art books and periodicals for the Magazine Store in the MoMA PS1 lobby and our permanent Bookstore and Book Space on the first floor of the museum. All events and signings will take place in Artbook Bookstore Event Space, First Floor of MoMA PS1.

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EVENTS & BOOK SIGNINGS

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
4–5 PM: Call Ampersand Response with Micah Lexier
Call Ampersand Response is 392-page collaborative image exchange bookwork by Michael Dumontier and Micah Lexier. Lexier will discuss the six-year-long, rule-driven project, augmenting his talk with source images, favorite passages and stories. A signing will follow the talk. Presented by Lars Müller Publishers.

5:30–6:30 PM: AQUI, Word and Image: NYC Streets as Gallery Space 1984-1986 with Cliff Baldwin
In the mid-80s, Davi Det Hompson, Julie Bradrick and Cliff Baldwin published 10 issues of AQUI, a folded silkscreen print (45”x 69”) as magazine featuring work by Barbara Kruger, Les Levine, Steve Gianakos, General Idea, Gilbert & George, Davi Det Hompson, Julie Bradrick and Cliff Baldwin. An exhibition of AQUI and talk by Cliff Baldwin. Presented by AQUI Editions. More info here.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
5:30–6:30 PM: Million Dots with Ron Weis and Colin Robinson
Artist Ron Weis discusses his extraordinary new book, Million Dots, with O/R Books co-founder Colin Robinson. How can we conceptualize the enormous numbers we are presented with each day? Million Dots is both a helpful tool and an intriguing work of art. Presented by Ron Weis.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
6:30–7:30 PM: Ultimate Atlas: Logbook of Spaceship Earth with Theo Deutinger
Ultimate Atlas: Logbook of Spaceship Earth by Theo Deutinger expands on the visions of Buckminster Fuller’s Spaceship Earth. Ultimate Atlas maps the planet with a clarity that is particular to the book form. Talk followed by signing. Presented by Lars Müller Publishers.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
2–3 PM: Whose Square Is This? Whose Sample Is This? with Paul Zelevansky
A mix-talk by Paul Zelevansky that combines text and image from his book, Whose Square Is This?, with sound fragments from J Dilla’s famed hip-hop CD, Donuts. The linking of past and present culture, quotation and imagination. The magnetic power and mutability of the graphic symbol and musical sample. Presented by Paul Zelevansky.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
3–4 PM: Lacuna Park: Essays and Other Adventures in Photography with Nicholas Muellner
Nicholas Muellner presents Making Doubles, a scripted slide reading based on the opening essay of Lacuna Park: Essays and Other Adventures in Photography. The essay traces links between our own appearances in images and our ongoing submission to the seductions of coercive ideology. Intertwining memoir, reportage, fiction and theory. Presented by SPBH Editions.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
4–5 PM: Effects Number 2 launch with Jennifer Soong, Lakshmi Luthra, Noel W Anderson, Troy Michie, Mary Helena Clark and Abigail DeVille
Readings, performances and screenings for Effects, an artist-run journal devoted to aesthetic effects and their social and political lives. The issue’s theme, “Opacity and Radiance,” was inspired by an Édouard Glissant essay. Inside the journal, explore invisible labor that allows contemporary art to shine, cultural representations of black radiance and more. Presented by Effects.

FAIR HOURS
Opening:
Thursday, September 19, 6–9 PM (Ticketed)

Preview:
Friday, September 20, 11 AM–1 PM (For students, press and NYC cultural institution members. Register here.)

Public Hours:
Friday, September 20, 1–7 PM
Saturday, September 21, 11 AM–8 PM
Sunday, September 22, 11 AM–7 PM
(Free)

ADDRESS
First floor, MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave (at 46th Ave.)
Long Island City, NY 11101
(718) 433-1088
Email: booksmomaps1@artbook.com

DIRECTIONS
From the E/V/M train:
Get off at the 23rd St/Ely Ave stop. While still in the station, follow signs to the 7 train to exit onto Jackson Avenue. Walk right one block to 46th Avenue.

From the 7 train:
Get off at 45th Rd/Courthouse Square. Exit onto Jackson Avenue and walk right one block to 46th Avenue.

From the G train:
Get off at the 21st St/Van Alst stop. MoMA PS1 is the large brick building across the street.

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