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Dear Friends, We hope this may be of your interest. Enjoy! New podcast: STAPLES AND INK. Some reflections on the small press boom in the art world Independent publishing is experiencing a boom in the art world. Before the bubble bursts, we speak to Kit Hammonds and Bernhard Cella<http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/small-press/capsula> about the boom, the recovery of supposedly obsolete printing techniques, the risk-aversion of institutional art collections, about professionalisation and about digital generation. Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/small-press/capsula Independent publishing is experiencing a boom in the art world. The vitality and ubiquity of small artist-editions has gone hand in hand with a proliferation of sometimes highly imaginative micro-fairs and other spaces for sharing, connection, dissemination and distribution. Post-internet technological development has accompanied this latest stage in the emancipation of the book. Leaving behind its quintessential role as a conveyor of ideas, the book becomes a space for expression, a blank page freed from the responsibility of representing 'reality'. The increasing affordability and accessibility of means of production, maker culture, and the revival of craft and DIY have favoured the boom, which revives and updates the tradition that emerged in the late-sixties, of conceptual artists’ books as an autonomous, democratic space. Today’s independent publications maintain and strengthen their links to non-objectual, immaterial art as idea and action, although they tend to stay away from the political potential that once characterised the world of the small press, in favour of the shifting sands of the fashionable. Before the bubble bursts, we speak to Kit Hammonds and Bernhard Cella about the boom<http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/small-press/capsula>, the recovery of supposedly obsolete printing techniques, the risk-aversion of institutional art collections, about professionalisation and about digital generation. We also look at some of the strategies they have used to explore the medium, which range from placing the book at the centre of the exhibition space, to inventing bizarre taxonomies, turning stolen books into artworks, and being seduced by the eroticism of publication raves. Timeline: Berhnard Cella: 02:55 Publishing and the legacy of Conceptual Art 04:55 The Artist Book is a work of art 07:30 Show, share, sell: the phenomenon of micro art book fairs 12:20 Curating fairs and the case of Publish or Be Damned 13:25 What it means to organise a micro-fair 14:15 Professionalisation, money and meaning 15:30 Boom and bubble: self-publishing goes mainstream 16:08 Self-publishing and political expression: a change of paradigm 18:20 Digital natives and bookmaking 21:45 The small publishing scene in India and China 25:40 The beginning of the collection 29:10 Making a living 31:30 Classifying books by colours 34:26 Interaction rules and stolen books Kit Hammonds: 37:20 Independent curator 43:12 After the death of print: the art world fascination with artists publications 45:40 Publishing as a trendy activity 48:06 The blurring of genres and disciplines in the book form 51:10 Publications as autonomous curatorial spaces 53:05 Teaching: protecting bodies, provoking emotions 53:48 Self-institutionalisation: lack of uniqueness and tick-boxing practises in art book collections Produced with love by Maite Muñoz, Lucrecia Dalt and Anna Ramos Enjoy! [http://macba.cat/uploads/tagline_post.jpg]<http://www.macba.cat/ca/expo-miralda-madeinusa?utm_source=Tagline&utm_campaign=MIRALDA%20MADEINUSA&utm_medium=Tagline&utm_content=Email> Avís legal: Aquest missatge pot contenir informació confidencial. Si vostè no n'és el destinatari, si us plau, esborri el text i els arxius adjunts que pugui contenir, i faci'ns-ho saber immediatament. No el reenviï ni en copiï el contingut, ja que està sotmès a secret professional i la llei en prohibeix la divulgació. El correu electrònic via Internet no permet assegurar la confidencialitat dels missatges que s'envien, ni que es rebin íntegrament ni tampoc que la recepció sigui correcta. MACBA no assumeix cap responsabilitat per aquestes circumstàncies.