The last weekend

Sebastian Borckenhagen, Mini Ngoyi, Isaac Zavale, Mika Conradie, Shannon Ferguson, Talya Lubinksy, Ragoato Hlasane, Georgia Munnik, Ndaxola Nkalashe, Josh and Jared Ginsburg, Jacques du Toit, Francis Burger and Jonah Sack working through the last weekend of the IPP's run at the Goethe-Institut.

More developments at the Goethe

Conversations and installations in progress...

The Independent Publishing Project at the Goethe-Institut Library 15 March - 26 April 2012

A second public iteration of the Independent Publishing Project, produced in partnership with the Goethe-Institut South Africa*, will be running at the Goethe-Institut library on Jan Smuts avenue from the 15th of March until the 26th of April.

Begun in 2011, the IPP is a research initiative aimed at gathering people and objects around the idea of self or small-scale publishing in a South African context.

Focusing on collaboration and conversation among contemporary practitioners the exhibition will feature a select reading room and a working studio. Guest participants to occupy the space include Josh Ginsburg, Rangoato Hlasane, Mark Kannemeyer, CUSS (Ravi Govender, Jamal Nxedlana, Nikki Comninos and Zamani Xolo), and Sebastian Borckenhagen, amongst others.

The project will develop within the space over six weeks, culminating with a combined event showcasing new works, an IPP broadsheet and the screening of CUSS’s Johannesburg focused webisode (see the Durban version here). The event will take place on the 24th of April at 18:30 at the Goethe-Institut.

A small introductory gathering for participants and others interested in the project will be held on the 15th of March at 18:30.

The exhibition run will be dotted with two-day intensive workshops run by the facilitators and artist participants. We'll start publicizing workshop      and other event info from the 26th of March, 2012.

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* Goethe-Institut Johannesburg:

 119 Jan Smuts Ave (entrance on New Port Road), Parkwood 2193,

 +27 11 4423232

Gallery hours**

Monday - Thursdays 09:00-13:00; 14:00-18:00; Fridays 09:00 - 14:30; 

Saturdays by appointment (email independentpublishingproject@gmail.com)

** Restricted viewing times may be imposed on the reading room from the 26th of March and will be announced here so please check back before visiting the space

More friendly press for the IPP

Thanks to the ever industrious James King for his mention of the IPP in 'How to Resolve This', a further (and mammoth) installment in his 'how to...' series and Carla Martins, editor of Probe, the Science Fiction and Fantasy South Africa's fanzine, for her mention of the project in issue #150 (which featured collage illustrations by Stuart Cairns...)

new things...

Some new publications produced during + some just after the IPP run at Blank Projects

Stuart Cairns, 2011, Long Faces vol. 1. 

Stuart Cairns, Long Faces Vol.2. (Doomed and Forgotten and other unfamiliar tales)

Jonah Sack, 2011, Some notes on isometric space

James King, 2011, Part One & Part Two

James King, 2011, Sebastian Borckenhagen (Monograph/Discussion)

Sebastian Borckenhagen, 2011, more comics (untitled anthology)

 

Kyle Morland & Jared Ginsburg, 2011, WC