Karin Higa @ Hammer Museum
Karin Higa: Hidden in Plain Sight @ the Hammer Museum, LA, on November 21, 2022
Karin Higa: Hidden in Plain Sight was coorganized by AAPI Arts Network and Hammer Museum to highlight the legacy of the late curator, writer, and cultural activist Karin Higa. to explore the many legacies of the late curator, organizer, and art historian Karin Higa (1966–2013). Artists and curators Kelly Akashi, Anna Sew Hoy, Karen Ishizuka, Marci Kwon, Sonia Mak, and Mika Yoshitake discuss the reverberations of Higa’s work in the present.
This conversation coincided with the publication of “Hidden in Plain Sight: Selected Writings of Karin Higa,” a substantial illustrated volume surveying her curatorial and scholarly work released in October 2022 by Dancing Foxes Press.
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Karin Higa: Hidden in Plain Site @ JANM
Karin Higa: Hidden in Plain Sight @ the Japanese American National Museum, LA, on November 5, 2022
Karin Higa: Hidden in Plain Sight was coorganized by AAPI Arts Network and Japanese American National Museum to highlight the legacy of the late curator, writer, and cultural activist Karin Higa. The program explored and celebrated the intersections of art, community, and organizing in Higa’s work. Among her many accomplishments, Higa was senior curator at JANM from 1992-2006. Her creative, intellectual, and political commitments to Asian American art, the Japanese American experience, the Little Tokyo community, and their deft interweaving with broader contexts, continue to be powerful inspiration for artists, art historians, and many other cultural workers.
Panelists included Howie Chen, curator and writer who recently edited the book “Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network;” Bruce Yonemoto, an artist who, along with his late brother Norman, worked very closely with Higa on the exhibition “Bruce and Norman Yonemoto: Memory, Matter, and Modern Romance;” and Julie Ault, editor of “Hidden in Plain Sight: Selected Writings of Karin Higa.” The panel was introduced by Higa’s niece and recent JANM Getty Marrow Undergraduate intern, Rose Keiko Higa, and moderated by writer, curator, and organizer Ana Iwataki, who worked under Karin Higa as a JANM Getty Marrow Undergraduate intern.
This conversation coincided with the publication of “Hidden in Plain Sight: Selected Writings of Karin Higa,” a substantial illustrated volume surveying her curatorial and scholarly work released in October 2022 by Dancing Foxes Press.
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PPI3, Postscript: Leslie Hewitt in Conversation with Omar Berrada @ 192 Books
Leslie Hewitt: Postscript: Archives, Annotations, and the Unfolding of Time as Image and Agency @ 192 Books, NY on November 15th, 2022
In PPI#3, Hewitt attempts to come to terms with both the teaching and the unlearning of photographs through an examination of reportage photography, portraiture, and conceptual art. Through a staging of and search for mediated sites of resistance, this process expands on how a public might collectively reconcile grief and images of trauma. In an effort to redress these issues through public dialogue, Hewitt organized two pivotal conversations over the course of 2020, one with artist, author, and scholar Deborah Willis; and the other with author, curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. By presenting a range of conceptual and historical strategies over the course of the issue, Hewitt finds ways to address images, moving with agency to reclaim power in spaces that attempt to arbitrate critique and exhibit care for the lives of people and the afterlives of their images.
LESLIE HEWITT is an associate professor of art at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York. Her work, which utilizes photography, sculpture, and site-specific installations to address the mechanisms behind the construction of meaning and memory and to contend with shifting notions of space and time, has been shown internationally at such venues as Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Menil Collection, Houston; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario; and Sculpture Center, New York. She has held residencies at the American Academy, Berlin; Konstepidemin, Göteborg, Sweden; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Project Row Houses, Houston; the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, among others.
OMAR BERRADA is a writer and curator whose work focuses on the politics of translation and intergenerational transmission. He is the author of the poetry collection Clonal Hum (2020) and the editor or co-editor of several books, including Album: Cinémathèque de Tanger, about film in Tangier and Tangier on film (2012); The Africans, on racial dynamics in North Africa (2016); and La Septième Porte, a posthumously published history of Moroccan cinema by Ahmed Bouanani (2020). Berrada’s writing was included in numerous exhibition catalogs, magazines and anthologies, including Frieze, Bidoun, Asymptote, The University of California Book of North African Literature, and Poetic Justice: An Anthology of Contemporary Moroccan Poetry. Currently living in New York, he teaches at The Cooper Union where he and Leslie Hewitt co-organize the IDS Lecture Series.
“Postscript: Archives, Annotations, and the Unfolding of Time as Image and Agency” is the third issue in the series Pounds Per Image, a collaboration with Pratt Photography Imprint, a serial experiment in pedagogy through the activities of publishing.
Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair
We are excited to participate in the beloved Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair, scheduled to take place October 13-16, 2022, at 548 W 22nd Street, the historic location of Printed Matter’s very first NYABF.
We look forward to presenting our latest as well as backlist titles and have opportunities for in-person conversations and exchanges and invaluable feedback on our titles.
Small Press Flea Art Book Fair
Small Press Flea (SPF) makes its return to the steps of the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Branch at Grand Army Plaza for another beautiful August day with your favorite local publishers and magazines.
Vendor List:
3 Hole Press, 53rd State Press, A Public Space, The Baffler, Belladonna*, Birds, LLC, Black Sun Lit / Vestiges, BOMB, Common Notions, Dancing Foxes, DoubleCross Press, Hanging Loose, House of SpeakEasy, Inpatient Press, Irrelevant Press, McPherson & Company, n+1, Nightboat, OR Books, Pioneer Works, Poets & Traitors Press, Radix Media, Restless Books, Secret Riso Club, Seven Stories Press, Small Editions, Song Cave, The Quarterless Review, Ugly Duckling Presse, Verso Books, Wave Books, Wendy’s Subway, Wonder, Zone Books
SPF is co-presented by BOMB Magazine and Brooklyn Public Library – BPL Presents
Rosa Barba: Printed Cinema Launch @ Light Industry
Rosa Barba: Printed Cinema Launch Event on March 29th, 2022, 7 pm @ Light Industry
A launch event for Rosa Barba’s Printed Cinema, a collection of publications that the artist has, since 2004, printed alongside her film projects, creating a supplementary literature, sourced from film stills, text, and photographs and including research material and unused filmic fragments. Rosa Barba will join Thomas Beard and Ed Halter from Light Industry to discuss Printed Cinema alongside a screening of selections from related films.Tuesday, March 29, 2022, 7 pm
Light Industry, 155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn
FREESeating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 6:30 pm
Light Industry, 155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn
FREE
Duets 8: William Olander—Julie Ault & David Deitcher in Conversation
Edited by Barbara Schroeder, Karen Kelly, and Kyle Croft. Published by Visual AIDS, New York, in 2021
Duets 7: Frederick Weston & Samuel R. Delaney in Conversation
Edited by Barbara Schroeder, Karen Kelly, and Kyle Croft. Published by Visual AIDS, New York, in 2021
Rosa Barba: Printed Cinema


Rosa Barba: Printed Cinema
Archival Box Set Edition with 22 issues published since 2004, includes subscription for future volumes
Edition of 200 plus AP. Signed and numbered
Release date: September 2021
$700
Please contact us if interested.
German Italian artist Rosa Barba has, since 2004, regularly published Printed Cinema, a kind of readable and portable film, to express and dismantle the cinematic organism. The series, which won the 2006 Artist Book Award at the Ontario Association of Art Galleries, is printed alongside Barba’s film projects, creating a supplementary literature, sourced from film stills, text, and photographs and including research material and unused filmic fragments. Each issue is published on the occasion of an exhibition, where it is distributed for free for the limited time of the show.Addressing key tendencies in Barba’s work, questioning how we occupy space by investigating crisis through an unusual treatment of time and language, the issues are intended not as companions to Barba’s installations but rather as extended and free-form experiments in word and image that can be encountered alongside cinematic experiences or stand on their own. The filmic projection is translated onto paper and confronted with its conditions—its materiality and temporality—reshaping the text and image fragments from the moving image into stillness. The shift in medium from projection to print emphasizes the difference of such experiences of image and text, exposing their relationships, overlaps, and hierarchies. Alongside Barba’s film installations, sculptures, and text-based wall works, these publications further her inquiries into the ambiguous nature of reality, memory, and landscape while probing the precarious relationships between historical record, personal anecdote, and fictional narrative. The publication series records Barba’s continuous critical engagement with the material and sociopolitical conditions of the cinematic apparatus in a contemporary environment dominated by visual information. By means of translation, layering, and fragmentation, the publications reveal structuring principles of how visual information and the moving image specifically become a means of knowledge production, organizing the social and geographical dimensions of the spaces we inhabit. Drawing on a conception of space and language that is equally shaped by cultural, scientific, geological, and geographical transformations, Printed Cinema expands those dimensions that project the possibility of activating a collective subconscious—an artistic method to release and reach into the oscillating environments of the works they accompany. Based on actual, present phenomena—contested places and precarious social transformations, such as those in Peru or at the border zone of Cyprus and Turkey—the series reflects and documents recurring themes in Barba’s artistic research and methodology in order to open doors into new and unpredictable spaces.
The artist explains, “The publication project Printed Cinema continues my audiovisual work as a personal reflection on the essence of the cinematographic: images are merely articulated in the space in between images. Gaps, ellipses, dialectics between images—essentially modernist notions—are essential in that respect. In Printed Cinema, this is expressed in the editing principle, as well as in the oppositions between film and printing, between text and image. The specific distribution method, of course, extends the project into a wide range of cultural and social contexts. In this way, Printed Cinema challenges the outer edges of the artist’s book. Mechanisms proper to the film medium find their translation in a different context.”
This collection brings all issues of Printed Cinema together in a handsome archival and expandable case. The purchase of the edition comes with an ongoing subscription to future issues. (The first ten issues were published in 2008 as a box set by the Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig and quickly sold out.)
Jeanine Oleson: Conduct Matters

Jeanine Oleson, Conduct Matters, 2020
Poster on 100 lb. French paper, 12 x 18 inches with two folds
Available with or without metallic accents $65, including the book
Produced with 10 Grand Press
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