IPP at ease... again

The IPP is at ease again after a quiet month at the Parking Gallery. Thanks to Ruth Sacks and Simon Gush + the VANSA people for hosting us. Upcoming events will be listed here as they emerge - for now, we're settling down to reflect on our time in Joburg, consolidate our catalogue, and read some of the things in our slowly growing library. 

IPP showcase Tuesday 24/04/2012 at 18:30

The Independent Publishing Project (IPP) has been in residence at the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg since mid-march and will close with a showcase of new works, prototypes and works in progress.

Join us for the event on Tuesday 24 April at 18:30 at the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg: 119 Jan Smuts Ave (entrance on New Port Road), Parkwood.

Our working studio will be translated into a short-loan book bar for the event that will be open from 18:30 to 20:00.

Johannesburg based self-broadcasters CUSS will be screening their second 'webisode', a short film made for online viewing, at 19:00 in the auditorium (see process images of their shoot at the Goethe here).

Participation and works by Josh Ginsburg, Rangoato Hlasane, Mark Kannemeyer, Talya Lubinsky, Georgia Munnik, Ndaxola Nkalashe, Ryan van Huyssteen, CUSS, Mika Conradie, Shannon Ferguson, Jared Ginsburg, Zahn Rust, Joe Foster, Sebastian Borckenhagen, Alphabet Zoo (Mini Ngoyi and Isaac Zavale) and CUSS (Jamal Nxedlana, Zamani Xolo and Ravi Govender with Nikki Comninos) amongst others.

MAKING SPACE workshop schedule update

all sessions (except the city wallk on Saturday 14) are to be hosted at the Goethe-Institut (details below or here)

Friday 13.04.2012, 11:00-16:00

DIY book-binding session with Helene van Aswegen 

Saturday 14.04.2012; (meeting point and other details TBC)

City/sound walk with audio investigator, writer and DJ Rangoato Hlasane 

Friday 20.04.2012; 11:00 – 16:00 (presentation at 13:00-14:00)

Josh and Jared Ginsburg on process, dynamic archiving, flow and real-time reflexivity

Saturday 21.04.2012; 11:00 – 16:00 (presentation at 13:00-14:00)

Comic artists Mark Kannemeyer and Sebastian Borckenhagen in consultation

RSVP to independentpublishingproject@gmail.com

MAKING SPACE - IPP WORKSHOP

The IPP will be hosting a workshop titled ‘making space’ over the next few weeks starting this Saturday 31 March at 10:30 am sharp. Following the intro, the programme will run every Friday and Saturday until 21 April. 

‘Making space’ is about using the physical or virtual space of a publication as a space for critical thought, experimentation and play. The aim of the workshop is to introduce a small group of students to independent publishing as an artistic or creative strategy. The workshop will facilitate each student’s creation of a personal or collaborative space through the development of a publishable form or structure. Focused loosely on small-scale print and online publishing, students will interact with a range of different strategies employed by different practitioners – from self-broadcasting to real-time archiving to book binding and layout. 


The workshop will be supported by guest participants CUSS (Zamani Xolo, Ravi Govender, Nikki Comninos & Jamal Nxedlana), Rangoato Hlasane, Sebastian Borckenhagen, Josh and Jared Ginsburg and Mark Kannemeyer. 


WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:

Saturday 31 March: 10:30—14:00: WORKSHOP INTRO with Jonah Sack and Francis Burger (IPP facilitators). 

10:30—11:30 Introductory session

11:30—12:00 Visual research and reading time within IPP library

12:00—13:00 Break

13:00—14:00 Group discussion

14:00—15:00 OPTIONAL individual consultation about ideas


BRING pens/pencils and paper plus any previous works, zines, publications etc…

The remaining workshop dates are each following Friday and Saturday from 10:30 to 18:00, with compulsory contact times from 10:30—16:00 – so that’s 6, 7, 13, 14, 20 and 21 of April.

Guest participants will conduct either morning or afternoon sessions consisting of a half to one hour presentation of their work and a 2 hour + session consulting with individual students who are interested.

All workshop contact will be hosted at the Goethe-Institut head office on Jan Smuts Ave.

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

NB not at Arts on Main … except for Saturday 14 April where we will walk in the CBD with Ra Hlasane. 

Details about this and other guest participant sessions will be given during the intro on Saturday 31 March & posted here on the blog. Please let us know if you're coming as space is limited. 

For more information please email independentpublishingproject@gmail.com

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

General project info

THE INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING PROJECT, facilitated by Jonah Sack and Francis Burger. September 8th to October 1st, 2011, at Blank Projects, Woodstock, Cape Town.

The Independent Publishing Project is aimed at gathering people and objects around the idea of self or small-scale publishing within South Africa. Functioning as an installation in two parts, the project will run at Blank Projects in September 2011 as both an interactive exhibition of collected works and a working studio aimed at producing new collaborative publications.

Combining contemporary and historical examples, the books, booklets, zines, take-aways and leaflets collected through the project advocate independent publishing as a first rather than a last resort. Looking at independent or small-scale publishing as both a medium and a strategy, our interest in these items is part sentimental, part tactile and part political. Consumable but not commodified, these works traverse closely-knit networks as if by word of mouth, existing as intimate instruments of personal agency and freedom of thought. They create a space.

They’re also just good to carry around, to look or read, and to think about.

Additional participation is encouraged and welcomed. 

General call for participation

We’re seeking participation in the following ways:

1. Networking- pointing us in the direction of people who are up to these sorts of things, have been in the past, or want to be in the near future. 

2. Working with us and others in the space - working across disciplines (independently or collaboratively) on publication oriented projects within the space during the exhibition run.

3. Collecting - we’re collecting items in two parts, firstly from practitioners who have their own works to be exhibited as part of the exhibition, and secondly from interested parties who have personal collections that they’re willing to share in part (aimed at loaning items that have had a personal impact, things that arrest or speak to you and advocate the idea of independent publishing in some or other way, basically, instructive objects that will enthuse/inspire/excite/agitate).