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First book launch of Amanda by .m__m will take place tomorrow !

Olga Micińska will be joined by Medeleine Morley ❤️❤️

Please join our celebrations if you are in Berlin!

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Excited that our new publication is being launched tomorrow in Berlin !
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Amanda
Olga Micińska

2022

Design: Studio Nico Stephou
Edition of 500
€15

42 Pages
Softcover, 16 x 23 cm
Published in Nicosia, Cyprus
Printed in Amsterdam,
Netherlands
ISBN 978-9963-2137-2-6

Contributions by: Maria Toumazou, Samantha McCulloch, Sepideh Karami and Madeleine Morley

Amanda is an artist book by Olga Micińska made in the framework of The Building Institute, an experimental organization aiming to strengthen the position of femme builders in the domain of technical construction work. Amanda brings together literary texts by Maria Toumazou, Samantha McCulloch, Sepideh Karami and Madeleine Morley, combining fiction stories with visual artwork.

Inspired by the Tradeswomen: magazine for women in blue-collar work published in the 80's and 90's in the United States, Amanda is a periodical discussing matters of technology and industry from a feminist (not only female) perspective. The first issue contains fiction stories of an emancipatory character, citing trade associations, oil industry in Iran and ghosts of the printer feeders.

Publication of the first issue of Amanda is kindly supported by Mondriaan Fonds and Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst.

Olga Micińska is a visual artist currently living in Amsterdam. Also trained as a woodworker, Olga collaborates with craft studios of various domains. Recently she has initiated The Building Institute, an experimental and non-formal organization engaging with diverse questions surrounding the subjects of labor and technology, and aiming to strengthen the position of femmes in the field of technical construction work.

We are proud to announce the launch of Lisa Gutscher’s artist’s book, the mind is the body, as part of her solo exhibition, Against a dark sky it is possible to catch glimmers of the wild energetics of indeterminacies in action, opening today at Frankfurt's 1822-Forum!

The mind is the body
Lisa Gutscher

Design: Studio Immo Schneider
Edition of 250
€ 25

22 pages
Cardboard book
210cm x 297cm
Printed in Plauen, Germany
ISBN 78-3-945243-49-7

"inside her, so many very different things are working together to keep her alive. a single cell in her body has more memory than the conscious mind has. inside her cells, mitochondria, a previously independent form of life, have found a haven and trade their ability to synthesize proteins and metabolize fats for room to live and reproduce. we’re in her cells too now, and the cells have accepted us."

Lisa Gutscher lives and works in Frankfurt am Main where she is currently enrolled at Städelschule. As a DAAD-scholar she studied Georgian Polyphony in the Caucasus region in 2020/21. Gutscher’s work consists of bodies made up of both found and haphazardly produced attributes. It stands as a network of abiding incompletion, an ever changing choir of urgencies and pleasures, contusions and failures, that communally relay polyphonically. Recent exhibitions include Against a dark sky it is possible to catch glimmers of the wild energetics of indeterminacies in action, 1822-Forum, Frankfurt am Main (2022); FÜNFZEHN JAHRE – FÜNFZEHN WERKE, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim (2021); facets, faces, Fffriedrich, Frankfurt am Main (2021); Recession Grimace, Klosterruine, Berlin (2020); 3-4 trees, ea-shared space, Tbilisi (2020).

The book will be available for purchase during the exhibition, 15 March - 9 April 2022.
Additional distribution points will be announced shortly.

Supported by Kulturamt Frankfurt, Stiftung der Frankfurter Sparkasse

.m__m Olga Micińska's solo exhibition, "Guild", is now open for visitors at the Museum of Warsaw ! The homonymous series of photographs exhibited, will also be part of her forthcoming artist book, "Amanda" , which we're publishing and excited to share with you very soon!

The "Guild" is a continuation of Olga Micińska's activities to date. In the field of research and performance practices, the artist covers craftsmanship, in particular carpentry and weaving, methods of organizing production and systemic assumptions behind these processes.

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Make sure to visit the ‘Events’ section on our Printed Matter, Inc. page, https://mariaeditions.pmvabf.org/EVENTS!

Watch the film and video program orchestrated by John Ryan especially for the duration of PMVAF - Online until tomorrow!

'Raised on song and story' features works by Annika Ström, Cooper Union Workers Film Group, David Blandy, Hamza Halloubi, Jacob Dwyer, Keren Cytter, Laure Prouvost, Luzie Meyer, Yong Xiang Li

Image credit: Luzie Meyer, 'Period Piece', 2021

Happy Birthday Sophia Dawson!

We are so grateful you trusted us with ‘Correspondence’ 💌

A reminder for Sophia's artist talk and panel discussion:

Join us and the Langston Hughes Community Library on Saturday, February 27, 2pm EST / 9pm EET, for an artist talk and panel discussion featuring Sophia Dawson, former US held political prisoners, and their supporters. Free and open to the public.

You can Register for the discussion via our Printed Matter, Inc. Virtual Art Book Fair page, https://mariaeditions.pmvabf.org/EVENTS !

Maria Editions at Printed Matter, Inc. Virtual Art Fair goes live today 💗

You'll be able to browse our titles, order, chat with us and watch John Ryan 'Raised on Song and Story' from 5pm EST / 12 EET

www.mariaeditions.pmvabf.org

Printed Matter, Inc. Virtual Art Book Fair is Opening tomorrow!

We are so happy and grateful to all the amazing artists we’re sharing our virtual table with!

Please join us for the launch of Sophia Dawson’s ‘Correspondence’, the launch of ‘Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites’ by Marysia Gacek, the launch of the second edition of ‘Mallorca’ with additional texts by Sara Blazej and William J. Simmons, a sneak-peek to Olga Micińska’s ‘Amanda’ through a collaborative poster, the video works 'Raised on song and story' orchestrated by John Ryaner with works by Annika Ström, Cooper Union Workers Film Group, David Blandy, Hamza Halloubi, Jacob Dwyer, Keren Cytter, Laure Prouvost, Luzie Meyer, Yong Xiang Li!

We will share our special virtual table link tomorrow!

Big thanks to Sara Blazej and William J. Simmons for contributing to our second edition of 'Mallorca' available starting this week at Printed Matter, Inc. Virtual Art Book Fair!

Design: Marysia Gacek
Copy editor: Maria Petrides

Soft cover
Printed in USA

'Mallorca' is one of the fifteen short stories by Anais Nin published posthumously in 1977 as 'Delta of Venus'. It tells a story of a young Spanish girl, Maria, who decided to go swimming at night with an American named Evelyn. The text is accompanied by drawings by Heidi Hahn and a conversation between the artists and Marysia Gacek.

Printed with permission from the Anais Nin Trust and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

On the occasion of Printed Matter, Inc. Virtual Art Book Fair we’re launching Marysia Gacek’s new artist's book!

Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites
Marysia Gacek

2021

Marysia Gacek's documentation of her stay at Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites in Coxsackie, NY, in 2017.

Edition of 30
Softcover photo album
ISBN 978-0-9962822-7-7