THE 2024 SF ART BOOK FAIR

Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation
July 19–21, 2024
Preview: Thursday, July 18
1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

The San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF) is pleased to announce its seventh year at Minnesota Street Project’s contemporary art campus. Open July 19 through July 21, 2024, with a preview the evening of July 18, the SFABF is a free annual multi-day exhibition and celebration of printed material from independent publishers, artists, designers, collectors, and enthusiasts from around the world.

The fair places the unique history and perspectives of the Bay Area in conversation with national and international publishing communities. Free and open to the public, SFABF features artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, zines, printed ephemera, and artists’ multiples. Throughout the weekend, visitors to the fair are welcome to experience a diverse range of talks, performances, book launches, special projects, exhibitions, and signings across the Project’s contemporary art campus, as well as select off-site projects and events.

Presented by the Minnesota Street Project Foundation, SFABF’s mission is to help sustain the creation and distribution of printed material through support of the independent publishing community from the Bay Area and beyond, and to expand our reach to new audiences.

2024 SFABF EXHIBITOR APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN


Exhibitor applications are now open. The deadline for applications is Friday, March 22, 11:59 PST.

Apply to be a 2024 SFABF exhibitor here.

We are looking to get a sense of who you are and what you do! Please share new work, information about upcoming releases, and ideas for programming.
In reviewing applications, our committee will try to represent a diverse range of publishing practices.

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If you have further questions or press inquiries, you can email the fair at info@sfartbookfair.com.

If you would like to volunteer, please email volunteering@sfartbookfair.com.

The SFABF was co-founded by Park Life, Colpa and Minnesota Street Project. The 2024 SFABF is presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation.
SFABF’s 2024 branding and identity by David Kasprzak.

THE 2023 SF ART BOOK FAIR

Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation
1201 + 1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

Thursday, July 13: 6pm – 10pm
Friday, July 14: 11am – 6pm
Saturday, July 15: 11am – 6pm
Sunday, July 16: 11am – 5pm


Photo: Aaron Wojack

EXHIBITORS



A Magic Mountain (CA)
Afterlife Press (CA)
Alicia's Klassic Kool Shoppe (Canada)
Altman Siegel (CA)
Anal Magazine (Mexico)
And Aaron Krach (NY)
Animal Sleep Stories (OR)
Aperture (NY)
Arion Press (CA)
Aventures Ltd Press (NY)
Awkward Ladies Club (CA)
B.B. Press (CA)
Basement (CA)
Blum & Poe (CA)
BOMB Magazine (NY)
Book and Job Gallery (CA)
Bronze Age (UK)
But Whole Press (CA)
cademy (NY)
Can Can Press (Mexico)
Canyon Cinema Foundation (CA)
CCA COMIC COHORT (CA)
CCA Small Press (CA)
CCA Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Arts
(CA)
Christopher Kardambikis and
Paper Cuts
(D.C.)
Chronicle Books (CA)
Cita Press (CA)
Club del Prado (Argentina)
Cold Cube Press (NY)
The Codex Foundation (CA)
Colour Code (Canada)
Colpa Press (CA)
commune (Japan)
Company Studio (CA)
Cone Shape Top (CA)
Container Corps (OR)
conventional projects (CA)
Creative Growth (CA)
Creativity Explored (CA)
Crisis Editions / Dane Press (Canada)
Curious Publishing (CA)
Dalé Zine ® (FL)
Datz Press (South Korea)
Deadbeat Club (CA)
Deep Time Press (CA)
DeMerritt Pauwels Editions (CA)
diasporan savant press (GA)
Division Leap (OR)
Documerica Books &
Light Squared Media
(CA)
DRY. (CA)
Each and Every Press (MI)
East of Borneo (CA)
edgar bryan books (CA)
Ediciones Concordia Mx (Mexico)
Eggy (CA)
Entropy Editions (MN)
Et al. (CA)
Eternal Now (CA)
Evil Twin (CA)
FAWW GALLERY (UK)
Fillip (Canada)
Fish Juice (CA)
Floss Editions (CA)
For The Birds Trapped in Airports /
Speculation Bookshop (CA)
Forgotten Youth Records (CA)
Friends of the San Francisco
Public Library
(CA)
Fugitive Materials (NY)
The Fulcrum Press (CA)
Gabriel Edwards (CA)
Gallery 16 Editions (CA)
Garage Publishing (CA)
Gato Negro Ediciones (Mexico)
GRL GRP (CA)
Groove Merchant San Francisco (CA)
Handy Hand Goods (CA)
Hat & Beard Press (CA)
Headlands Center for the Arts (CA)
Hi-Bred (CA)
Homie House Press (MD)
HOMOCATS (NY)
horse gurl press (OR)
Hotam Press (Canada)

The Ice Plant (CA)
IDEAL Surf (CA)
illetante books (CA)
Illustoria Magazine (CA)
Inventory Press (CA)
Irrelevant Press (CA)
Issue Press (MI)
Ivy Zheyu Chen / UPON (NY)
Jamiyla Lowe (Canada)
KAHL Editions (UK)
Kareem Michael Worrell (MA)
KGP | MONOLITH (NY)
Kidtofer (CA)
Kodoji Press (Switzerland)
Korean American Artist Collective (CA)
Laguna Collective (CA)
LAND AND SEA (CA)
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (CA)
Louis M Schmidt (CA)
Lower Falls (CA)
Margaux Bigou (French Polynesia)
Martian Press (CA)
modlitbooks (CA)
Monograph Bookwerks (OR)
More Human Editions (CA)
MÖREL Books (UK)
Most Ancient (CA)
National Monument Press (CA)
Nazraeli Press (CA)
New Documents (CA)
NIAD Art Center (CA)
Night Diver Press (CA)
NIGHTED (CA)
Nino Mier Gallery (CA)
nueoi (CA)
OMMU (Greece)
Paper Monument / n+1 (NY)
Paragon Books (CA)
Park Life (CA)
People I've Loved (CA)
Perimeter Editions (Australia)
Plunge (CA)
Poppy Press (CA)
Press Press (CA)
Raya Editorial +
La Chancleta Voladora
(Colombia - CA)
RE/Search and Search & Destroy (CA)
Revista Balam (Argentina)
RITE Editions (CA)
S.A.R.A. (Mexico)
San Francisco Cinematheque (CA)
Saleem M’Boge (CA)
Savi Factory and Friends (CA)
Seaton Street Press (PA)
Secret Headquarters (CA)
Setanta Books (UK)
Shlag Lab (France)
Shortt Editions (FL)
siglio (NY)
Silver Sprocket (CA)
/ (Slash) (CA)
Sming Sming Books (CA)
Soberscove Press (IL)
Special Effects (CA)
The Spooky Haus (CA)
stop.gap (CA)
Strangeways Magazine (CA)
StreetSalad (CA)
Taxonomy Press (MI)
TBW Books (CA)
te magazine (CA)
Telematic Media Arts (CA)
THESE DAYS (CA)
Tiny Splendor (CA)
TIS books (NY)
Tomorrow Today (CA)
Triangle Books (Belgium)
Unity Press (CA)
Vacancy Projects (CA)
Visible Publications (CA)
Wasted Books (CA)
Who Press'd Press (PA)
William Stout Architectural Books (CA)
Written Names Fanzine (CA)
X Artists' Books (CA)
Zatara Press (VA)



Photo: Aaron Wojack

PROGRAMMING


Our Director of Programming is David Senior.
To download the 2023 SFABF program guide, click here.

THE LOUNGE


Friday, July 14


11am-12pm
Cyberfeminism Index, with a performative reading by Mindy Seu, who will be joining remotely, followed by an in-person discussion with Kishonna Gray
Edited by designer, professor, and researcher Mindy Seu, CYBERFEMINISM INDEX includes more than 700 short entries of radical techno-critical activism, academic articles, hackerspaces, software education, net art, and more. Both a vital introduction for laypeople and a robust resource guide for educators, CYBERFEMINISM INDEX—an anti-canon, of sorts—celebrates and makes visible cyberfeminism’s long-ignored origins and its expansive legacy. Presented by Inventory Press.

1-2pm
The Molotov’s Poetry: Queer, Trans, and Feminist Self-Publishing, with golden dreamsong
In the last fifty years, self-publishing has been critical in the dissemination of a number of seminal queer and feminist works, including Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider and Larry Mitchell’s The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions. Diasporan Savant Press’s golden dreamsong would like to take you on a tour of some of their favorite examples of feminist, queer, and trans works published by small publishing houses throughout history, as well as contemporary independent publishers keeping the tradition alive! Presented by Diasporan Savant Press.

2-3pm
40 Years of Zines, Monographs, and Collaborative Art Publications by Creativity Explored Artists
Creativity Explored presents over two dozen artful books, zines, and collaborative projects by artists with developmental disabilities. Meet several Creativity Explored artists and learn about their growing contributions to the world of art publishing.  Featuring Fears of Your Life and Imaginationally, both by Michael Bernard Loggins, Lancescapes by Colter Jacobson, Tell You What series by NY Times best-selling author Beth Lisick, Wonderful Blackiful People by CE’s Blackiful Collective, and a selection of original art books.

3-4pm
New Life in the Public Domain, with Jessi Haley
Our cultural heritages contain a vast trove of material that can inform understanding of our current moment and inspire new work. Readers and creators can get their hands on tens of thousands of books, images, and other media in the public domain–all free to consume and adapt. Curation and accessibility are essential to finding and nurturing the legacies of works by marginalized and avant-garde artists. How can designers and artists draw from this body of work? Cita Press is an open access, design-focused feminist press that honors the principles of decentralization, collective knowledge production, and equitable access to knowledge. Join us for an exploration of how we can help those works breathe new life into our present. Presented by Cita Press.

4-5pm
Gregory Rick: Book Launch Event, in coversation with Chris Grunder
Headlands Center for the Arts presents the publication of artist Gregory Rick’s first artist monograph, which features a new commissioned essay by artist, writer, and educator Brooks Turner along with new paintings completed during Rick’s time at Headlands. This publication is the culminating project of the artist’s 2022-2023 Tournesol Award, an award which recognizes one Bay Area painter each year with a generous cash prize and a yearlong studio residency. The event features an intimate conversation between the artist and Chris Grunder. It will be followed by a book signing.

5-6pm
A brief history of Mexico’s LGBTQ+ Publications, with Ricardo Velmor
Mexico’s LGBTQ+ movement has been enriched and spread out through time, thanks to independent publications. Many of them were made by the same people who first walked in the streets to fight for rights and freedoms of this community. However, the first mentions of LGBTQ+ people in printed matter were all about judging, demonizing and criminalizing sexual behaviors different from heteronormativity. Both sides are part of Mexican LGBTQ+ history and both will be part of this discussion by Ricardo Velmor, featuring materials from a growing archive of Mexican LGBTQ+ publications called Archivo Anal. Presented by Anal Magazine.

Saturday, July 15


11am-12pm
Saturday Morning Cartoons with Koak
Koak shares a selection of her favorite pioneering and experimental animations from the 1930s-1990s including the likes of Charley Bowers, Ladislas Starevich, Norman McClaren, Jan Švankmajer, and others (approx. run time 1hr). Presented by Altman Siegel.

11am-12pm
How To Breathe Underwater, breathwork with Rohini Moradi and edition by Carissa Potter.
Meet us outside the lounge at 11am and together we will walk to a green spot for some relaxation and magic.  Presented by Rite Editions & People I've Loved.

12-1pm
Personal Projects: Strategies for Publishing, with Gabriela Hasbun, Janet Delaney and Kelsey McClellan
Join photographer Gabriela Hasbun to discuss the creation of her first print publication with Chronicle books, THE NEW BLACK WEST: Photographs from America’s only touring Black Rodeo. Hasbun will be joined by Janet Delaney and Kelsey McClellan to discuss the ins and outs of pitching your work to publishers after creating a long-term photographic project.

1-2pm
On Latin American Expanded Photography, with Luis Cobelo
Expanded photography has hybridization, fragmentation, and constant resignification as its fundamental characteristics, where the limits between the traditional pictorial representation and the production of images by the territories of abstraction can coexist with artistic, documentary, or journalistic practice. There is more than ever a need to expand from the image in a historic moment, where Latin America is redefining itself inwards, in community, and towards the world.

Raya Editorial and La Chancleta Voladora are independent publishers, created by Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo and Luis Cobelo, that focus on the design and promotion of photobooks & zines by authors who use photography to reflect on human and political tensions by using mixed techniques and visual narratives. Through the way we face and carry out our artistic photographic projects, our understanding of ourselves expands, and all of this multiplies necessary reflections and a better and broader understanding of our Latin American continent.

2-3pm
Social Documentary Photography & The Humanist Vision, with Ken Light and Wessam Al-Badry
Documentary photography aims to witness and shed light on social issues and injustices. It focuses on capturing images that tell stories and provoke dialogue about important political and cultural topics. Ken Light and Wesaam Al-Badry both work in this tradition and are driven by their desire to create awareness and stimulate change through their photographs and projects. Light’s photobooks have long been a part of this tradition as well. He has been actively involved in the field of photography for five decades as photographer and Professor at UC Berkeley. His powerful photographs explore innumerable social and political issues as seen through his numerous books, including Delta Time, Texas Death Row, Midnight La Frontera and Course of the Empire. Wesaam Al-Badry, an Iraqi refugee, multi-talented visual artist and part of the new contemporary generation of social photographers, will discuss with Ken the practice of this powerful medium for storytelling and advocating for social change as witnessed through their photos and publications. Presented by Documerica Books.

3-4pm
A TIME MACHINE: From personal to community archives, with Adriana Monsalve, Alex Arzt, and Marc Fischer, moderated by Lindsay Buchman
While it has been written about extensively, the archive continues to circulate in contemporary art discourse. Image-making, publishing, and the history of print coalesce into a complex, provisional space. Through this lens, A TIME MACHINE examines how archival histories inform artists’ books by asking independent publishers Adriana Monsalve (Homie House Press), Alex Arzt (A Magic Mountain), and Marc Fischer (Half Letterpress / Temporary Services) about the urgency and role of archives in their work. This conversation explores what we might learn from the suture between past, present, and future while centering on how personal and community archives continue to inspire generations of artists’ books. Presented by Seaton Street Press.

4-5pm
Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán: Brown Eyes from Russell Street
Join us for a conversation with Héctor Muñoz- Guzmán and Vivian Sming, in celebration of the launch of Brown Eyes from Russell Street. Brown Eyes from Russell Street traces Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán’s artistic practice during a transformative and critical period in his life— contending with isolation, mental health struggles, hospitalization, and alcoholism. The book weaves together ideas, memories, thoughts that provide continual sources of reflection, illustrating the range of Muñoz- Guzmán’s experiences—growing up in South Berkeley, attending RISD, being diagnosed with bipolar, working in the agave fields of Tepatitlán, and staying connected to family. Whether the subject is community, depression, or agrarian life, Muñoz-Guzmán treats them with the same attention, care, and grace, recognizing that all of these people, places, and states of mind inform who he is as a person today. Presented by Sming Sming Books.

5-6pm
Kawabata, the Writer, the Travesti Philosopher, and the Fish, with Shook and Mario Bellatin
With longtime collaborator Shook, Mexican prose stylist and Documenta guest curator Mario Bellatin presents a performative reading of Gato Negro’s new bilingual edition of Kawabata, the Writer, the Travesti Philosopher, and the Fish, a genre-fluid—and previously unpublished—text and cryptic key to Bellatin’s iconic plague novela Beauty Salon. Presented by Gato Negro Press.

Sunday, July 16


12-1pm
Is now the time for joyous rage?
with Selam Bekele, Jacqueline Francis, Jeanne Finley, Charles Lee, and Trina Michelle Robinson
Is Now The Time For Joyous Rage? is the fourth book in A Series of Open Questions, which is published by the Wattis and Sternberg Press, and distributed by MIT Press. Each reader includes newly commissioned texts and an edited selection of perspectives, images, and references related to the Wattis’s year- long research seasons. The title of each book comes in the form of a question. The fourth issue is informed by themes found in the work of Lorraine O’Grady, including diaspora, Black female subjectivity, racial hybridity, translation, intersectional feminism, institutional critique, Black representation in the art world, archives, music, Conceptualism, and performance art. For this launch event, several contributors have chosen to highlight a piece from the book (other than their own). In a series of short presentations, they read and/or introduce the piece and why they chose it.

1-2pm
Where digital and analog meet: the many worlds of Most Ancient books
What is the significance of analog books in an increasingly digital world and how can digital experiences expand narrative conventions? Veronica Graham founded Most Ancient in 2010 and since then has experimented with interactive narrative and nonlinear storytelling in comics and exploration games. The projects explore ideas at the intersection of art, technology, and activism. At SFABF she will discuss “Diatribes,” a virtual reality experience and companion printed publications that explore fears about climate change.

2-3pm
Transforming Ephemera Into Evidence, with Catalina Cariaga and Catherine Ceniza Choy
A conversation between Oakland-based Filipina American poet Catalina Cariaga and Asian American historian and ethnic studies scholar Catherine Ceniza Choy on the occasion of “Notes on Cultural Evidence,” the multidisciplinary exhibition and reading room curated by PJ Gubatina Policarpio, on view in the Slash library through August 19, 2023. The exhibition is anchored in the out-of-print but influential poetry collection “Cultural Evidence” (1999, Subpress Collective) by Catalina Cariaga. Catherine Ceniza Choy wrote the accompanying essay for the exhibition. Presented by / (slash).

3-4pm
Taxonomies of Labor Within Small and Self Publishing, with Vivian Sming,
Carissa Potter, John DeMerritt and moderated by Zach Clark
Art books take many forms. Under the same umbrella term, one may come across fine press handmade artist books, large-scale production coffee table books, urgently made zines, forms of ephemera that push the idea of what a book even is, and endless other forms that fit somewhere in between. Behind any one art book is a publisher or artist taking on a number of tasks to bring the project from conception to tangible object. Publishers may work largely as project managers and financial backers or practice a more holistic publishing approach, touching the book in every stage of its creation. A group of publishers from the fair, Vivian Sming of Sming Sming Books, Carissa Potter of People I've Loved, John DeMerritt of DeMerritt Pauwels Editions with Zach Clark of National Monument Press will discuss the various types of labor they perform in the creation of their books to form a non-hierarchical taxonomy of the labor involved in small & self publishing. Presented by National Monument Press.

MEDIA ROOM
Ongoing - LOOP


Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live!
presented by San Francisco Cinematheque and INCITE Journal of Experimental Media
Clocking in at 508 pages, Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live!—published 2023 by San Francisco Cinematheque an INCITE Journal of Experimental Media (SFABF —documents the life and work of acclaimed filmmaker and curator Craig Baldwin (b. Oakland CA, 1952), an inspiring and influential figure in contemporary media arts. Meticulously detailed, with contributions from over 50 writers, artists, illustrators and ideologues, Avant to Live! is the first critical text to examine the artist’s films analytically as a coherent and meaningful body of work and critical artist’s statement while also examining the cultural impact of Baldwin’s Other Cinema curatorial project. In celebration of this publication, Cinematheque and INCITE present this five-film survey of Baldwin’s work, including Stolen Movie (1976), Bulletin (2015), Wild Gunman (1979), Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1991) and Sonic Outlaws (1995). Please visit SFABF Table E04 to pick up a copy of Avant to Live!

TENNESSEE ST.


Friday, July 14, 11am-2pm
Typographic Spirograph: Experimental Letterforms with Savi Factory + Friends: Savithri Velaga and Maria Cardenas
Participants will use a spirograph drawing tool created specifically for typography; the resulting letterforms converge analog geometry alongside moments of improvisational drawing. This workshop structure will allow visitors to continually engage with the tool in an informal outdoor setting, and hands-on demos throughout the activity will provide a combination of free-form experimentation and individual instruction.

Saturday, July 15, 11am-12pm
Zine making with Illustoria
Come make an accordion-style zine with Illustoria! Illustoria is an art and storytelling magazine for creative kids and their grownups. They will have magazines to cut up for collage making, and all sorts of drawing tools so you can create the zine of your dreams.

Saturday, July 15, 1-3pm
Drop-In-Zine-Making with Curious Publishing

Learn how to make your own paper collage zine using the saddle-stitch technique! Feast your eyes on vintage magazines and colorful paper swatches to cut, glue, and assemble your very own creation with us. All supplies provided. Drop in any time during the program!


Photo: Aaron Wojack

PROJECT SPACE - 2nd Floor


FAWW Gallery, also known as Forget About White Walls, is a leader in the screen print art community. It cultivates the next generation of art collectors, offering unique silk screen prints, zines, and art-related publications. Committed to inclusivity, the gallery supports diverse artists globally, hosting lively openings with renowned DJs. FAWW fosters artistic innovation and increases artists' visibility. They champion collaboration, empathy, and community involvement. Beyond visual arts, the gallery endorses cutting-edge music and film. FAWW aims to make art approachable, inspiring, and transformative, actively contributing to cultural development.

PARTICIPATING GALLERIES


Friday, July 14, 3pm
“IN C” - K.R.M. Mooney
Altman Siegel - 1150 25th St.
In conjunction with his solo exhibition auxil, artist K.R.M. Mooney will stage a performance of Terry Riley’s 1964 composition “In C” at Altman Siegel on Friday, July 14, 2023 at 3:00 pm. Described as the first minimalist composition of its kind, “In C” consists of 53 melodic fragments and numbered musical phrases which can be combined and recombined to start at varying times with no specific duration. Purposely lacking a definitive form, its significance is underpinned by its improvised and performative nature as to undergo constant renewal. Focused on wind and breath activated instruments, this re-performance, coupled with the sculptures on view, will explore nature of exchange within the interpersonal realm.

Saturday, July 15, 12-2pm
Flowers and Their Meanings book signing event with author/artist Karen Azoulay
Themes+Projects gallery (2nd Floor, #205)
Uncover the secret meanings behind your bouquets and floral arrangements in Karen Azoulay's new book, Flowers and Their Meanings. Stop by to pick up a signed copy!  The book contains stunning illustrated explorations of the Victorian language of flowers, including the multicultural history, rituals, and mythology behind over 600 flowers, herbs, and trees.

Karen Azoulay is a Canadian born, Brooklyn-based artist and author whose projects have been featured and reviewed in publications such as the New York Times, New Yorker, Hyperallergic, and Vogue. Azoulay incorporates performance, photography, sculpture and video into her art. She has a fascination with floral symbolism and secret messages are often embedded in her work. Inspired by “feminine” motifs, Azoulay explores cultural phenomena that have historically been overlooked with the purpose of recontextualizing and championing them.

Saturday, July 15, 2-5pm
Live Drawing with Charlo
Themes+Projects gallery (2nd Floor, #205)


Stop by Themes+Projects gallery from 2pm to 5pm to see Charlo create unique drawings live! Charlo's objective as an artist is to create joy, optimism, and build community through his work. This event also coincides with his solo exhibition, Looking for Clouds, currently on view at Themes+Projects.

Charlo is a multimedia artist and designer. He emigrated from Monterrey, Mexico in 2013, and is currently based in Denver, Colorado. In 2020, using the NextDoor app, he connected with fellow residents of the greater Denver community who invited him to paint murals onto their garage doors. As part of his Make Alleys Great Again project, he brought unity and joy to communities through his five dozen alleyway murals. In 2021, in partnership with Nextdoor and the New York Stock Exchange, he produced a live mural entitled The Joy of Being Together. In August of 2022, Charlo made his debut as a keynote speaker at TEDxMileHigh allowing him to tell his story to a much wider audience.  Currently, his solo exhibition, Looking for Clouds, is on view at Themes+Projects gallery through August 26, 2023.

SIGNINGS & LAUNCHES


Friday, July 14
Table E06 - 11am-6pm - Nathaniel Russell Coloring Book - Gallery 16
Table D05 - 1pm - Course of the Empire by Ken Light - Documerica Books/Light Squared Media
Table A43 - 1pm -  Flowers by Tucker Nichols, published by Nieves - Park Life
Table E06 - 2-3pm - Book signing with Hal Fischer, The Gay Semiotics - Gallery 16
Table D05 - 4pm - Midnight La Frontera by Ken Light - Documerica Books/Light Squared Media
Table A26 - 5pm - TE AMO by Luis Cobelo - La Chancleta Voladora

Saturday, July 15
Table Z75 - 12-1pm - Words for White People: An Etymylogical Kit - Diasporan Savant Press
Table A40 - 1pm - Book signing with Taylor Galloway, I Can Feel You Dreaming - Deadbeat Club
Table E06 - 1-2pm - Book signing with Hal Fischer, The Gay Semiotics - Gallery 16
Table B06 - 2pm - High Contrast by Sarah Hotchkiss - Colpa Press
Table D05 - 2pm - Picturing Resistance by Melanie Light: Moments and Movements of Social Change - Documerica Books/Light Squared Media
Table A40 - 4pm - Book signing with Patrick O’Dell, Big River - Deadbeat Club
Table Z26 - Uncreative Writing by Taylor Swift - Wasted Books

Sunday, July 16
Table E07 - 11:30am-12:30pm - The Sperry Collectible Card Set: Poster Series 2 by Chuck Sperry - Paragon Books

OFFSITE


Friday, July 14, 10:00am
Caitlin Cherry: The Regolith Was Boiling exhibition tour
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
360 Kansas Street, San Francisco

Wattis Assistant Curator Diego Villalobos, who organized Caitlin Cherry's solo exhibition The Regolith Was Boiling, gives a public tour of the exhibition.

The Regolith Was Boiling is a site-specific installation of large-scale oil paintings and digitally produced prints inspired by the architecture of the Wattis Institute. Conceived as a mural, where an overall visual ripple effect connects individual parts to a larger whole, Cherry has taken countless vignettes from popular social media platforms, Google Image Search, and Getty Images, each one featuring a female celebrity from the Black diaspora. Painted in the artist's distinct style of chromatic distortions and dizzying overabundance, this installation emphasizes the depersonalization of celebrities and dilutes their iconographic status by placing them within a visual sea of others. Coffee and bagels are served.

What can we learn from artists today? CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is a nonprofit exhibition venue and research institute dedicated to reflecting on this question through temporary exhibitions, public events, and in-depth research. It is part of California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Friday, July 14, 6pm-later
...Tomorrow another dream will start
Et al etc. & Et al. books
2831a Mission Street, San Francisco

Et al. is pleased to invite you to a party celebrating the San Francisco Art Book Fair and the opening
of ...Tomorrow another dream will start - an exhibition curated by Wild Life Archive.

...Tomorrow another dream will start presents a survey of 1980’s nightclub ephemera from
the Mediterranean island of Ibiza, focused primarily on the promotional posters distributed throughout
the island during the summer season to publicize some of the world’s most renowned nightclubs of
the era including Pacha, Amnesia, KU and Glory’s to name a few.

The Balearic Islands had long been a bohemian escape attracting both pleasure seekers and those in
search of refuge from repressive political regimes. Ibiza in particular became a utopian
paradise offering new arrivals both sanctuary and likeminded community. Hedonistic pursuits
were soundtracked via jazz bars during the 1950’s, psychedelic happenings in the 1960’s and with
the arrival of nightclubs on the island in the 1970s. By the 1980’s both free spirited holiday makers
and the European jet-set had joined the party, further enhancing the uniquely decadent atmosphere
that could be found nightly across the islands dance floors. Patrons danced with wild abandon under
the stars at open air disco’s like KU and Amnesia while listening to the local DJs eclectic mix of
genres encompassing pop, rock, classical, new beat, house and flamenco among others, a discerning
anything-goes selection that would in time become known as the Balearic Beat.

The posters themselves were offset printed in small quantities and used only for
promotional purposes. The poster design, briefed in-house or commissioned to a freelance artist was
most often a mix of hand drawn illustration and graphic design centered around the club logo and
theme of the night e.g. ’Luna Lena’, ‘Summer Dream’ and ‘Noche Romantica’. The few posters that
remain in private hands today help to further document the collective history of dance music culture.
They also act as memories, inspiration and are beautiful pieces of art in their own right.

Soundtrack: Khotin
Graphic design: Daniel Lucas

Friday, July 14, 6-9pm
I Can Feel You Dreaming: Taylor Galloway
Book and Job Gallery
838 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA 94109

Book and Job Gallery invite you to I Can Feel You Dreaming featuring work from Taylor Galloway’s latest release of the same name from Deadbeat Club. The pictures in Taylor Galloway’s I Can Feel You Dreaming are glimpses of things, sometimes slippery, peripheral, brief, furtive shadows in the margins; they’re slowly unraveling threads that you can’t quite follow back to anything, but that nonetheless feel like clues, pieces of a forensic puzzle; they’re trance visions, or something you briefly noticed while looking for something else. Perhaps they remind you of channel surfing through the foothills of sleep as you toss and turn in a motel bed, slowly emerging from a fever dream or hangover.

Taylor Galloway is a photographer based in Los Angeles, CA. Galloway’s photographs explore the ideas of memory, navigation, and one’s own place in their journey. His work has been exhibited across the United States and Europe.

Friday, July 14, 7:30pm
A Barcode Scanner, Book Launch and Film Screening
Medicine for Nightmares
3036 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

On Friday the 14th of July at 7:30pm, Gato Negro Ediciones will be having a book launch presentation at Medicine for Nightmares together with Zêdan Xelef and Shook for their new edition of the book: A Barcode Scanner. And a screening of the film adaptation of the title poem, created by Shook, Zêdan's longtime collaborator and co-translator of the book.

Friday, July 14, 7-10pm
Isabella Manfredi: sew your echo
staircase
148 Clement Street
San Francisco, CA 94118

sew your echo is a nostalgic rumination on object, place, and relationship. Artist Isabella Manfredi repurposes found footage of her family ranch to create an original film and textile-based artworks. Through stitching, printmaking, and carpentry, Manfredi presents artifacts as a conduit for memory.

Isabella Manfredi works in printmaking, sewing and poetry; creating sculptural installations that can be worn for years. There are nods to workwear, entropy, familial identity and nostalgia within her work. While she strives to craft a utilitarian object; she aims for her work to exist within and outside the gallery space. Graduating from University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor's degree in Art Practice and with a Minor in Journalism, she lives and works in San Francisco, CA.

Opening Reception: Tuesday, July 18, 6-8pm
Datz Press: Contemporary Voices in Global Photobooks
July 15-Oct. 1, 2023
San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island Street
San Francisco, CA 94103


San Francisco Center for the Book’s latest exhibition, Datz Press: Contemporary Voices in Global Photobooks showcases ten years of collaboration and artist book production between Datz Press and artists such as Linda Connor, Alyssa Fujita Karoui, Young Suh, and Gap Chul Lee. Over forty-five photobooks ranging from special edition volumes to handling copies of exhibited work will be displayed.

Datz Press is an artist book publisher and community space based in Seoul, South Korea. Focused on working with photographers, designers, and bookmakers, Datz Press creates, publishes, and exhibits works centered on photography, operating a bookmaking studio to support artists who want to self-publish their work. Director Sangyon Joo also oversees the Datz Museum of Art and a book project space called D'ARK ROOM; her comprehensive vision of artists’ photo books includes artists living and working across many countries and cultures while creating compelling work.


Maria Otero and Christopher Robin Duncan of LAND AND SEA.

2023 PUBLICATION GRANT


This year we were happy to present our 2023 SFABF Publication Grant, courtesy of Edition One Books, to LAND AND SEA.
LAND AND SEA was selected from our pool of exhibitors and will receive $5000 in printing credit at Edition One Books.

LAND AND SEA is a small press and project space in Oakland, California founded in 2010 by artists Maria Otero and Christopher Robin Duncan. They collaborate with a wide array of artists to produce books and records that share images, ideas, and/or sounds that otherwise might go unseen/unheard. Recent projects from LAND AND SEA include ARCHIVE - a book by Leonie Guyer, EMPATHY - a cassette by SF-based musician Joel St. Julien, small yellow center a sun - a collection of artwork and poems by nkiruka oparah and Maxine Schoefer-Wulf, and SEASONS - a collection of stories and poems related to winter, spring, summer and fall, as an accompaniment to the current exhibition at Rebecca Camacho Presents. Upcoming releases include REAL AND MAKE BELIEVE  by architect - Craig Steely. REAL AND MAKE BELIEVE is a collection of Craig Steely’s explorations into where architecture can be found - not just in the finished homes and structures, but sketches and models as well. Personal and generous, this catalog presents his recent work within a non-hierarchical framework. THE STUD - Working closely with Chloe Miller, STUD bartender and STUD Pin Archive coordinator, THE STUD is a collection of pin backs/buttons and ephemera found in boxes in the basement of the historic SF gay bar THE STUD.

Edition One Books works with design professionals, photographers, artists and other creative types to manufacture highly customized, top-quality books. They are focused on building longterm relationships with their customers, and strive to offer a more personalized book production service for small to medium runs.

Check out our 2020 Publishing Grant  and 2022 Publication Grant to see publishers we have supported in the past!

Photo: Aaron Wojack

SPONSORS


The 2023 SFABF was organized by Park Life, Colpa and Minnesota Street Project.
SFABF’s 2023 branding and identity by David Kasprzak.

Presenting Sponsor:
Minnesota Street Project Foundation

Supporting Sponsors:
San Francisco Arts Commission, Independent Arts and Media, Chronicle Books and San Francsico Center for the Book

Media Sponsor:
Hyperallergic and KQED

In-kind Sponsors:
Shapco Printing, Edition One, Lightsource SF

Special thanks to Deborah and Andy Rappaport, Michael Rubel, Rachel Sample, Caitlin Kirkpatrick, Cherisse Baird, Julie Casemore, Aidan Williams, Morgan Stanley, Anglim Trimble, bitforms gallery, Hashimoto Contemporary, Marbie, Lauren D’Amato, Ruby Wine Bar and all our volunteers!

The 2023 SFABF wouldn’t have been possible without the support of the San Francsico Arts Commission as administered through Independent Arts and Media.

THE 2022 SF ART BOOK FAIR

1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

Thursday, July 14 - 6pm – 10pm
Friday, July 15 - 11am – 6pm
Saturday, July 16 - 11am – 6pm
Sunday, July 17 - 11am – 5pm

 
Photo: Jenna Garrett

EXHIBITORS


1418 Fulton (CA)
3standardstoppage studio /
Bungee Space
(NY)
Aaron Krach (NY)
Altman Siegel (CA)
Anthology Editions (NY)
Aperture (NY)
ARTBOOK | D.A.P. (NY)
Aventures LTD (NY)
Awkward Ladies Club (CA)
Basement (CA)
Blum & Poe (CA)
Boabooks (Switzerland)
BOMB Magazine (NY)
Boo-Hooray (NY)
Book and Job Gallery (CA)
Book & Wheel (CA)
Bronze Age (UK)
Brown Recluse Zine Distro (CA)
But Whole Press (CA)
Can Can Press (Mexico)
Carletta's Books (CA)
Case Publishing / shashasha (Japan)
Cassandra Press (NY)
CCA Hybrid Practices (CA)
Childish Books (ME)
Chronicle Books (CA)
Clown Kisses Press (VA)
Club del Prado Ediciones (Argentina)
Colpa Press (CA)
Commune (Japan)
Concordia Press (Mexico)
Container Corps (OR)
Conveyor Editions (NJ)
CRISIS EDITIONS / DANE PRESS (Canada)
DABA (NY)
Dale Zine (FL)
Deadbeat Club (CA)
DeMerritt Pauwels Editions (CA)
Draw Down Books (CT)
Each and Every Press (MI)
edition fink (Switzerland)
Endless Editions (NY)
Et al. Books (CA)
Fair Enough (Switzerland)
Fillip (Canada)
FISK Gallery (OR)
Floss Editions (CA)
The Fulcrum Press (CA)
Gato Negro Ediciones (Mexico)
GenderFail (NY)
GRL GRP (CA)
Hamburger Eyes (CA)
Handy Hand Goods (CA)
Hi-Bred (CA)
The HIV Howler:
Transmitting Art + Activism
(CA)
Homie House Press (MD)
HOMOCATS (NY)
The Ice Plant (CA)
illetante books (CA)
Inventory Press (CA)
Irrelevant Press (CA)
Jungle Books (Switzerland)
Kareem Worrell (MA)
KGP (NY)
Kodoji Press (Switzerland)

LAND AND SEA (CA)
Louis Schmidt (CA)
Lower Falls (CA)
LUCCA MART (CA)
A Magic Mountain (CA)
Margaux Bigou (French Polynesia)
Martian Press (CA)
Mi Casita Press (AZ)
modlitbooks (CA)
Moniker Press (Canada)
Monograph Bookwerks (OR)
MÖREL books (UK)
Most Ancient (CA)
Mouth 2 Mouth (CA)
National Monument Press (CA)
Neuro Fuzzy (CA)
New Documents (CA)
NIAD Art Center (CA)
Night Diver Press (CA)
Onomatopee Projects (The Netherlands)
Open Projects Press (NY)
Other Books (CA)
Paper Monument / n+1 (NY)
Paragon Books (CA)
Park Life (CA)
People I've Loved (CA)
Perimeter Editions (Australia)
Pier 24 Photography (CA)
Play Press (CA)
Plunge (CA)
Press Press (CA)
Printed Matter, Inc. (NY)
Radical Documents (IL)
Random Man Editions (NY)
Ratio 3 (CA)
RE/Search and Search & Destroy (CA)
RITE Editions (CA)
Sarah Duyer (CA)
Scary Sugar (UT)
Seaton Street Press (PA)
Sebastien Girard (France)
Siglio (NY)
Silent Sound (CA)
Silver Sprocket (CA)
Sleeper Studio (PA)
Sming Sming Books (CA)
Soberscove Press (IL)
Strangeways Magazine (CA)
StreetSalad (CA)
Sun Night Editions (CA)
TBW Books (CA)
Tiny Splendor (CA)
TIS books (NY)
tria publishing (Switzerland)
Triangle Books (Belgium)
TXTbooks (NY)
Unity Press (CA)
Unknown Unknowns (NY)
Unrealized Archive Press (CA)
Vacancy Projects (CA)
Visible Publications (CA)
Wasted Books (CA)
Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Arts
(CA)
Wendy's Subway (NY)
Written Names Fanzine (CA)
X Artists' Books (CA)



Photo: Jenna Garrett

PROGRAMMING


Our Director of Programming is David Senior.
To download the 2022 SFABF program guide, click here.

The Lounge


Friday, July 15


12-1pm
Publishing Spaces: Chroma × Practise with Alexis Tompkins, Emily Poole, and James Goggin

Chroma and Practise are both design studios with processes rooted in research and scholarship around art, architecture, design history, and contemporary culture. For Chroma, this work results in physical (and occasionally virtual) interior spaces (like this year’s SFABF public program space). For Practise, it manifests in digital and printed spaces (like some of the books on display at SFABF). Emily Poole (Brand Manager, Chroma) will moderate a discussion between Alexis Tompkins (Creative Partner, Chroma) and James Goggin (Partner, Practise) accompanied by a presentation showing a common spatial language evident in three particular projects: a virtual apartment, a printed zine, and a new quarterly online journal.

1-2pm
Fair Enough with Izet Sheshivari

Fair Enough is an alliance of four independent art book publishers from Switzerland: Boabooks, edition fink, Jungle Books and tria publishing platform. They represent each other internationally at book fairs and jointly take care of the sales and distribution of publications. Izet Sheshivari from Boabooks and Fair Enough, will share more about how the alliance has realized alternative modes of book distribution in Japan as well as Switzerland. He will share notes of the alliance’s journey so far and share their experiences, as well as giving some insight into the ideas, relationships, and new public they have found with this model. Sponsored by Swissnex.

2-3pm
Pandemic Publics: Expansive Publishing Practices in a Time of Contagion with Josh Schaedel (Fulcrum Press), Zoë Taleporos and Sarah Hotchkiss (Premiere, Jr.) and Daniel J. Glendening (Labor is a Medium), moderated by Alex Lukas

The delineation of roles within the field of artists’ publications is slippery. The ability to morph from artist to publisher to printer, organizer, curator, editor, or audience member is a hallmark of the medium. We are resourcefully multifaceted makers, and our publications are, in short, community affairs. As COVID-19 redefined the ways we interact, artists and publishers were forced to not only reconsider what it means to “make public” but what “public” itself entails. In the midst of this isolating time, the participants in this panel discussion redefined notions of shared space, proposed radical forums for community, and created new and expansive modes of collaboration. Our conversation will focus on these efforts to push and redefine what a publishing practice can encompass during a pandemic. Presented by Written Names Fanzine.

3-4pm
What happens between the knots? BARBEDWIRE Scores performed by Phillip Greenlief

What happens between the knots? is the third book in the annual A Series of Open Questions published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and Sternberg Press. Each book in the series includes newly commissioned writing as well a selection of perspectives, images, and references related to the Wattis’s year-long research seasons dedicated to single artists. This third volume is informed by themes found in the work of Cecilia Vicuña, including ecofeminism, indigenous forms of knowledge, poetry and politics, dissolution and extinction, exile, dematerialization, regeneration, and environmental responsibility.

For this book launch, musician Phillip Greenlief (tenor saxophone, Bb clarinet), Kyle Bruckmann (oboe, English horn), and Madalyn Merkey (live electronics) perform a selection of Greenlief’s graphic BARBEDWIRE Scores, some of which are included in What happens between the knots? When performing a score, each player improvises for a set duration, loosely following one of three lines as drawn by Greenlief. The shape of the line informs how much (or how little) the musicians change their improvisatory behavior.

4-5pm
The Floating Museum by Lynn Hershman Leeson in conversation with David Senior

The Floating Museum was a temporary museum that, over its lifetime, from 1974-1978 commissioned over 350 artists to create work that existed outside the very limited boundaries of traditional museum spaces. It was intended to “recycle space” wherever it existed, from the walls of San Quentin prison to the landscapes of Fort Point and even the Bay Area Rapid Transit Artists used mediums not yet accepted by traditional museums and galleries, such as performance, photography, comic drawings, video, soundscapes and all manner of site specific locations (though that term had not been yet invented). It was designed to be temporary. Its structure became the model for Creative Time and PS1, amongst others. Though the archive is in Stanford University’s Special Collections Library, its history was unknown. This was the motivation of this book, to make accessible this influential project so that it could be added to the history of that time.

5-6pm
Keko Jackson & Lava Thomas: In Conversation

This conversation celebrates two new books, Keko Jackson: Restored/Access and Lava Thomas: Homecoming, published by Sming Sming Books. In Restored/Access, Jackson combines photography with archival materials from his uncle’s collection to share the history of Allensworth, the first town in California to be founded, financed, and governed exclusively by Black people. Homecoming brings together Thomas’s intricate drawing installations that explore personal and cultural narratives of bravery and survival, including a new body of work Decatur, about Thomas’s great-great- great-grandfather, Charles H. Arthur, and the eight-year- long legal battle to receive his army pension. Jackson and Thomas will be discussing their respective projects and the ways they draw upon Black family archives to create work, share US history, and build community. Presented by Sming Sming Books.

Saturday, July 16


11am-12pm
Bay Area Contemporary Art Archive: Building a Community Archive

The Bay Area Contemporary Art Archive (BACAA) is a public archive: a receptacle, preservation society and venue for the ephemera of Bay Area contemporary artists, venues and related projects. BACAA has been collecting and digitizing thousands of postcards, press releases, posters, zines, and more, while creating an online venue to preserve and share the work of our local art scene. BACAA founder Lexa Walsh will present an overview of the project and its vast contents, how Bay Area artists, curators and collectors can participate, and the importance of community-sourced archives.

12-1pm
The Southeast San Francisco Regional Portfolio: An Art-Based Conversation with 4 Neighborhoods

The Southeast San Francisco Artists Portfolio is composed of print reproductions of work from artists of the four neighborhoods of Southeast SF. The Portfolio is designed to find its way into the hands of local residents via Chispa, a mobile cultural hub that houses the Portfolio and acts as a base for artistic exchange. Come hear from: artist and curator Kate Connell, who co-developed Chispa along with Book & Wheel partner Oscar Melara; artist Amy Diaz-Infante, whose work was reproduced for the Portfolio; and Bayview historian Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin, who will contextualize the project and its importance to the folx in Southeast SF. You’re invited to visit Chispa at SFABF, where you can trade for art from the Portfolio.

1-2pm
I Got Something to Say: Poster Inventory, 2013-2021 by Draw Down Books

The founders of Draw Down Books, graphic designers Christopher Sleboda and Kathleen Sleboda, will discuss their 2022 publication, I Got Something to Say — Poster Inventory, 2013–2021, with a contributor—graphic designer and educator Mary Yang; a frequent collaborator—illustrator Tim Lahan; and a colleague—graphic designer, educator and type designer Javier Viramontes. The panel will speak about poster design, participation in art books fairs as exhibitors, collectors, and designers; and collaborative publications that bring together different voices and perspectives.

2-3pm
Media Burn: Ant Farm and the Making of an Image with Chip Lord and Steve Seid

In Media Burn, Ant Farm’s legendary 1975 performance, a radically customized Cadillac is driven through a wall of burning television sets. Media Burn: Ant Farm and the Making of an Image, by Steve Seid, is a vibrant assessment of the complex set of cultural references and art-making strategies informing this collision of twentieth-century icons. Chip Lord of Ant Farm and Steve Seid will discuss Media Burn alongside a narrated slideshow of images, ephemera, and more. Co-presented by Inventory Press and RITE Editions.

3-4pm
Strikethrough: Radical Publications at Letterform Archive

Letterform Archive’s next in-house exhibition is Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest. In this sneak peek of the show, before it opens on July 23, co- curator Stephen Coles will present some highlights of special interest to Art Book Fair attendees: independent publications. From Fire!!, to The Crisis, from One to The Black Panther, activists throughout the 20th century wielded language, design, and newly accessible reproduction techniques to spread their message, empower communities, and fight oppression.

4-5pm
The Last Survivor is the First Suspect, coming of age in Amerika with Nick Haymes

A conversation with Nick Haymes about coming of age in Amerika based on his latest book. The Last Survivor is the First Suspect is at once a celebration and a requiem. The project, captured between 2005 and 2009 by photographer Nick Haymes, is a record of a drifting community of young friends based mainly between two distinct geographic points: Southern California and Tulsa, Oklahoma. The book’s narrative merges a sense of joy in documenting burgeoning friendships and bonds, and a looming sense of dread that would ultimately culminate in a series of tragedies. Haymes invites us to form a contemporary engagement with this specific historic moment, where things are both different and the same in equal measure. Presented by Kodoji Press.

5-6pm
Gravity Spells II: Bay Area New Music and Expanded Cinema Art, with John Davis and Konrad Steiner

Recently released by Bimodal Press, Gravity Spells II is a multimedia “bundle” featuring 2 LPs, 4 DVDs, a perfect bound letterpress booklet, packaged in a hand-printed sleeve designed to give form to the ineffable - a physical set of transposable time-based variables that, when combined, approximate the uncanny and unpredictable inherent in live cinema and music performance. For this event, John Davis and Konrad Steiner will perform an improvisational collaboration that unites sound and image. John performs music to complement Konrad's performance collage of original 16mm loops and samples from feature films.

Sunday, July 17


12-1pm
Rip Tales: Jay Defeo’s Estocada and Other Pieces by Jordan Stein with Dena Beard

Curator and writer Jordan Stein in conversation with Dena Beard, executive director the The Lab, about Stein’s first book, Rip Tales: Jay DeFeo’s Estocada & Other Pieces. In addition to DeFeo, Rip Tales concerns creation and destruction in the works and lives of artists Zarouhie Abdalian, April Dawn Alison, Ruth Asawa, Lutz Bacher, Bruce Conner, Dewey Crumpler, Trisha Donnelly, and Vincent Fecteau. Presented by Soberscove Press.

1-2pm
The HIV Howler in conversation with Anthea Black

The HIV Howler is a global art newspaper published by Anthea Black and Jessica Whitbread that focuses on artists living with HIV. The paper is a forum for dialogue and a guide to navigating the vibrational ambiguities between art and AIDS policy, pathology, and community. Publisher Anthea Black will present on The HIV Howler editorial and wage equity work with poz artists, and host a dialogue with featured artists from recent themed issues on movement- migration, time+money, home, and spirit-substance.

2-3pm
UBI SUNT with Blaise Agüera y Arcas and James Goggin

Are we living in reality? Is this the past, or the future? And is there a human on the other side of this screen? These questions rear up and twist back on themselves in Ubi Sunt, a solipsistic first-person loop of a life in tech during COVID lockdown by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, a Fellow at Google Research who has invented AI and privacy technologies and written widely circulated essays at the intersections of machine intelligence, art, ethics, and social science. Is this book fiction or nonfiction? Though speculative, its historical material is accurate, and its present tense is drawn from life; some of its AI dialogs, too, are generated by interaction with a real large neural language model. Blaise will discuss the concept, influences, materiality, and collaborative process behind the book with graphic designer James Goggin, who will present the project’s print and digital editions with live projection. Presented by Hat & Beard Press.

3-4pm
Salones de belleza /The Beauty Salons: Writers & poetas /Escritores & Poets at Aeromoto
Presented by Gato Negro Ediciones

Between 2017 and 2020, the Aeromoto public arts library in Mexico City organized a monthly series of bilingual readings, curated by Kit Schluter and Tatiana Lipkes. The gatherings, called Salón de belleza (Beauty Salon), brought together more than 70 poets and writers from many generations, contexts, and traditions, predominantly from Mexico and the United States, but also from various parts of Latin America and Europe. In these events, translation was used to bridge linguistic and cultural gaps between poets separated by political borders, and helped to create a space in which literatures of different origins and approaches could coexist. The result of this collective initiative was a unique cross-section of some of the most intriguing writing taking place in the Americas during the second decade of this century. Salones de belleza: Writers in Aeromoto gathers work from these writers—in a completely bilingual edition—many of whom are appearing in translation for the first time.

4-5pm
Cassandra Press Artist Zine series with a performative lecture by Christine Wang

Curated by Kandis Williams, the Cassandra Press Artist Zine series consists of contributions from a community of BIPOC artists, scholars, writers, and poets with the intention of asking such questions as: how can print formats like scripts, newspapers, and pamphlets be activated to produce new associations? And what voice or voices can we represent in simultaneity on the page? How does the virtual page act and operate in our social economies? The series includes artists manuel arturo abreu, Hannah Black, Rhea Dillon, Boz Garden, Christine Wang, and Charlotte Zhang, with future iterations to come. For this event, Christine Wang, who is featured in the 2022 Cassandra Press Artist Zine series, will be giving a performative lecture on personal art expenses in the hopes of improving artists’ financial literacy and increasing financial transparency.

Media Room


Ongoing - LOOP


The Abominable Freedom
by Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin
Random Man Editions

(41 mins / 2006)

Originally shot video and appropriated film weaves together a musical celebration of the flesh, an egg from the missing link holds a skeleton key to our educational future. On a parallel world, life coaches made of bone and fur activate televisual coursework including circular zooming studies, cryptid folklore, spectral-mating, and etheric birthing techniques. Manifest destiny eludes its colonial past and takes refuge deep in our pagan libidinal nature.

Psychology Today
by Extreme Animals
Random Man Editions

(30 mins / 2021)

In information theory, the repetition of messages tends towards the obliteration of meaning. This theorem is vitally demonstrated in Extreme Animals’ 2021 video Psychology Today, which traces the algorithmically accelerated decomposition of images from the post-millennial cultural imaginary: Shrek, the Joker, and other depressive icons of our interminable financial crisis inspire a legion of exhausted reenactments by children’s birthday party workers and freelance Blender artists. Interwoven with motivational programming staged at depreciating levels of conviction, the final assembly speaks not so much to the experience of overstimulation as to the unique combination of sensory hypertrophy and apathy characteristic of life post-2020.

Sarah Klein Puts Paper to Motion
Misty Quartet, Sing the Hits, Stir the Beat, Fall Girl, Misty Duet
(15 mins / 2013-2021)

For the 2022 SFABF, Sarah Klein is presenting her books, posters, calendars and prints, under her Lower Falls imprint, as well as animations in the media room. Her work draws from personal and imagined iconographies that she spans fluidly between serialized, sequenced, and book forms. She looks to images for stories whose telling might be hidden or only suggested. Lone Star is a collaboration with David Kwan. Fall Girl includes music by Synchronized Watches.

Works on Paper: Animated Films by Meghana Bisineer, Martha Colburn, Jennifer Levonian, Peter Millard, Johan Rijpma, Paloma Trecka, Selina Trepp, curated by Clark Buckner and Sarah Klein. Presented by Telematic Media Arts.

Telematic is pleased to present Works on Paper, a curated screening of animated films by artists working with paint, paper, drawing, cut-out collage, and sculpture to produce time-based, moving image works. Attending to tangible materials, the films in this screening simultaneously foreground the artistic process and the labor required for their own creation. They mark the passage of time as chronicles of physical change. And they show how – with the right degree of creative imagination, focused attention, and sustained physical effort – the world is open to re-invention.

But I Love The Zine by Fiona McDougall
(16 mins / 2019)

But I Love The Zine is a short documentary exploring the enduring love in the Bay Area for zines — self-published, accessible, often artistic publications that offer an antidote to the disconnectedness of internet culture. In this documentary, viewers are introduced to a thriving small press community through interviews with publishers in their studios and at festivals like the East Bay Alternative Book and Zine fest. It features zine makers such as: Raphael Villet, Jeffrey Cheung, Max Stadnik, Jess Wu, and OMCA curator, Carin Adams, among others. Produced and Directed by Fiona McDougall.

Zium by Most Ancient
(60 mins / 2022)

Visit the Most Ancient arcade, a collection of point and click adventure games and surreal Virtual Reality worlds. Walk through an eroded habitat with ominous messaging, visit Zium: part zine and part museum walking simulator, and move through an eerie funhouse to discover hidden stories.

Tennesee Street


Saturday, July 16


11-6pm
Southeast San Francisco Artists Portfolio with Chispa

Chispa is a roving art cart the size of a parade float. Wherever Chispa appears in Southeast San Francisco you’ll find art, music and performances by Southeast SF artists. Chispa is a cross-cultural pollinator building connections between the Bayview/Hunters Point, The Excelsior, The Portola and Visitacion Valley. Sometimes Chispa events spread out on blankets for storytelling and neighborhood games, sometimes she broadcasts poetry, music and soundscapes. Prints by Southeast San Francisco artists are displayed on board Chispa. All of them are available for trade.

4-5pm
Noodz Noodz Noodz

Join Mouth 2 Mouth zine creators for an outdoor social gathering to celebrate the release of their second issue, “DEATH”, featuring readings, activities, and snacks made by contributors. See and be seen. Touch and be touched. Taste and be tasted.

Ongoing


KunstCapades LIVE!

KunstCapades is an art-themed variety show/podcast hosted by Robyn Carliss, Tim Sullivan, and Josh Pieper. Guests from all points on the artist-curator-dealer-collector spectrum board a gondola up to the recording booth – Altitude, an alpine-island bar in an undisclosed, altitudinous San Francisco location – for conversation and cocktails. Listeners are treated to a rollicking agenda of absurd segments, including “Art Crimes,” “eBay Today,” “Let’s Ask Tantum,” “Bartender’s Ballyhoo,” and intel regarding local openings and calls for work. Join us for a multi-part, LIVE recording at the 2022 San Francisco Art Book Fair.

Ideomotor Drawing Sessions with Stephen Lichty
Book an appointment - July 15, 16, 17

Stephen Lichty is taking appointments with individuals for his ongoing practice of automatic collaborative drawing. Each 30 minute session results in two identical carbon-transfer drawings, produced after holding a pen to a stack of papers with another person and allowing the shared non-conscious movement of the pen to determine the work. Sessions will take place during the fair on Tennessee St.  

Project Room


Boo-Hooray Presents Underground Film: Jack Smith, John Waters, Andy Warhol

Boo-Hooray is proud to present an exhibition of ephemera and unseen photography from Jack Smith and the Lobster Landlordism, Andy Warhol and His Cronies, the Wonderful World of John Waters, and Kenneth Anger’s Leather Daddy Occultism. Most of these artifacts have never before been publicly exhibited.

Centered on the work of four defining figures of American underground film and gay sensibility, the exhibition discloses these filmmakers’ working processes and the development of their singular visual vocabularies. The photography, ephemera, and artwork contextualize each figure in the larger cultural milieus they invented, worked in, and confronted: the respective vibrant cultural scenes Warhol and Waters cultivated, Smith’s bellicose relationship to the New York underground film scene, and Anger’s clique of thelemite Hollywood aesthetes.

Included in the exhibition is behind-the-scenes photography of filmmaking and partying at The Factory; ephemera from the production, publicity, and distribution of John Waters’ early films; artwork, flyers, and photography documenting Jack Smith’s filmmaking and performance practice, as well as state repression of his work; and photography and ephemera spanning nearly 20 years of Kenneth Anger’s queer, occult filmmaking. Together, these materials highlight the working and social lives of four legends of queer and underground cinema.

Boo-Hooray is dedicated to the organization, stabilization, and preservation of the 20th and 21st century cultural movements, specializing in ephemera, photography, and book arts. We place artists' and organizations' archives with universities and museums, publish and sell rare books, photography, ephemera, and art, and stage exhibitions all over the world. This exhibition includes guest curation by San Francisco’s own Chris Veltri of Groove Merchant Records.

Signings


Friday, July 15

3pm - Michael Diamond - Untitled 8 fold - at Play Press - Z3

Saturday, July 16

12pm - Eva Lipman - Restraint & Desire - at TBW Books - A40

12pm - Eva Lipman - Derby - at TBW Books - A40

12pm - Christine Atkins - Essential Celebrations - at Play Press - Z3

1pm - Ruth Laskey - Twill Series - at Ratio 3 (co-published with RITE Editions) - E10

1pm - Michael Jang - Untitled - at Park Life - A9

1pm - Phil Jung - Windscreen - at TBW Books - A40

1pm - NIAD Art Center -"Me & My Gal" NIAD Fashion Book Launch & NIAD Fashion Show invitation- at NIAD - A24

1pm - Chris Johanson - Considering Unknow Know With What Is, And - at Altman Siegel - A20

2pm - IAN BATES “MEADOWLARK” - at Deadbeat Club - A39

2pm - Catherine Sieck - Orbiting Whorl- at Play Press - Z3

3pm - Nick Haymes - The Last Survivor is the First Suspect - at Kodoji Press - A04

4pm - SHIORI IKENO “SADO” - at Deadbeat Club - A39

Sunday, July 17

12pm - Ruth van Beek - Catlogue Flyer - at New Documents - A1

1pm - Jeremy Fish - Forever Ever After - at Paragon Books - Booth A25

2pm - Andrew Schoultz - Decade 2011-2021 - at Paragon Books - Booth A25

3pm - Felicia Chao - Sketchbook 6 - at Paragon Books - Booth A25


Photo: Jenna Garrett

2022 SFABF PUBLICATION GRANT


We were thrilled to present our 2022 SFABF Publication Grant courtesy of Edition One Books.
The recipient for the 2022 grant of $5k, selected from our pool of exhibitors, was The Fulcrum Press!

Founded in Los Angeles in 2014, The Fulcrum Press is a small publisher exploring the interplay between photography and other artistic media. They are committed to expanding the possibilities of the publication format through their approach to the photo book as a curatorial project that exists both on and off the printed page. This commitment to the expanded role of the photographic object inspired their new brick-and-mortar Los Angeles space, The Fulcrum, which will bring together local, national and international artists working in photography and provide a single site for books, lectures, exhibitions and classes open to the local community.

Edition One Books works with design professionals, photographers, artists and other creative types to manufacture highly customized, top-quality books. They are focused on building longterm relationships with their customers, and strive to offer a more personalized book production service for small to medium runs.

Check out our 2020 Publishing Grant to see publishers we have supported in the past! 


SPONSORS


The 2022 SFABF was organized by Park Life, Colpa and Minnesota Street Project.
SFABF’s 2022 branding and identity by David Kasprzak.

Supporting Sponsors:
Chronicle Books, RITE Editions, San Francsico Center for the Book, Gold Collective and Chroma.

Media Sponsor:.
Hyperallergic and KQED

In-kind Sponsors:
Shapco Printing, CULK, Edition One, Lightsource SF, Swissnex San Francisco, Swiss Arts Council ProHelvetia, Liquid Death, Fort Point Beer Company and Dad Grass.

Special Thanks:
Deborah and Andy Rappaport, Anglim Trimble, bitforms gallery, Buddy, True Laurel, Bar Part Time, Casemore Kirkeby and the San Francisco Arts Eductation Project.

THE 2020 SFABF PUBLISHING GRANT


The San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF) is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2020 SFABF Publishing Grant: Sming Sming, BlackMass Publishing, Melissa Sáenz Gordon, Sun Night Editions, Unity Press, Dale Press, The Bettys, Felicita Maynard, Sharita Towne, The Free Black Women’s Library, Brown Recluse, 3 Dot Zine, Homie House Press, WORK/PLAY, and Black Chalk & Co.

The 2020 SFABF Publishing Grant was made possible due to the generous support of Dropbox, Figma, Adobe and Chronicle Books. It was awarded to 15 BIPOC publishers nominated and selected by a committee made up of Paul John Jr. of Endless Editions, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo and a representative of SFABF. While we were unable to host a fair in 2020, SFABF hopes that these grants will help support our publishing community.



Sun Night Editions is a fine art print publishing house in West Oakland, CA run by Yoni Asega and Drew Grasso. Sun Night was founded in 2019 with the overall goal of connecting artists of all mediums with their community through the power of print. The publishing house aims to bridge the gap from artists to collectors, institutions and non-profits. The shop provides artists the ability to create works in the traditional and contemporary screen printing, relief printing, monotype and bookbinding techniques. Over the past year they have published the prints of artists who not only work in a wide variety of mediums but come from different backgrounds. Sun Night Editions has concerned itself with sustaining and strengthening the diversity essential to any viable movement toward the liberation of all people. Image: Yétúndé Olágbajú, ♾,  ed. of 30, 16x20, 100lb cougar white, singed and numbered, 2020 25% of proceeds go to People’s Breakfast of Oakland. Purchase online at Sun Night Editions.

Sming Sming Books is the publishing studio of artist Vivian Sming, experimenting with books as art, discourse, exhibition, and archive. Formed in 2017, the studio designs and publishes a wide range of artists' books, zines, and editions out of close collaboration with artists whose works and ideas inform design, material, and printing choices. Sming Sming Books is invested in creating books from practices that are challenging to represent on paper. They are committed to promoting critical discourse and advancing cultural equity through the format of publishing.


Unity is a print space, small press, and queer skateboarding project based in Oakland, CA. Their efforts are centered on supporting publications by queer + trans people and POC. Unity also aims to make printing resources accessible for local communities.


OlaRonke Akinmowo is a Black feminist nerd, award-winning set decorator and interdisciplinary artist who makes hand-cut collages, one-of-a-kind monotypes, handmade paper, stop-motion animations and interactive installations. She is also the creator and director of The Free Black Women's Library, a social art project and mobile library that features a collection of 3,000 books written by Black women. The library pops up monthly in free public spaces throughout NYC, and sometimes it even travels outside of NYC. The library activates these spaces through interactive workshops, performances, games, book discussions and radical conversations. All ages, races and genders are welcome to come to spend time in the library, take part in all events and trade books written by Black women with the collection. She is deeply invested in creating beautiful spaces and counternarratives around race, culture and gender, that are rooted in ritual, tenderness and community care. Ola has received fellowships and grants from various institutions such as Brooklyn Arts Council, The Laundromat Project, Culture Push, The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Shop and the New York Foundation of the Arts. She is a single mom of one child and several plants, living and loving in her hometown, the village known as Bedstuy, Brooklyn.

BlackMass Publishing was founded by New York-based artist Yusuf Hassan, though its beginnings lie in a project devised by Hassan and a handful of fellow artists, in which they combined their practices in a printed, spiral-bound edition. The book, titled Project BlackMass, never went to press, but it was quickly acquired by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Studies. The publisher has gone on to produce zines and books by Black artists, with visuals, prose and poetry, many of which have also been acquired by various collecting institutions. They take an experimental, improvisational approach to visual language and pay particular attention to the physicality of their projects. “My rule is, I’ll print on anything as long as it’ll feed through the printer,” says Hassan. In recent months, frequent collaborator and founding member Kwamé Sorrell launched an international mail-art initiative to continue and expand the conversation around Black art across the diaspora. Hassan and Sorrell continue to work in tandem in developing programming around Black storytelling through print media.


Devin N. Morris is a Brooklyn-based artist interested in abstracting American life and subverting traditional value systems through the exploration of identity, memory, and grief in mixed-media paintings, photographs, writings and video. Morris was recently in The Aesthetics of Matter, the first NYC curatorial project by Deux Femme Noires: Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont. He was also featured in the New Museum’s MOTHA and Chris E. Vargas: Consciousness Razing—The Stonewall Re-Memorialization Project, and the two-person show Inside, Out Here at La MaMa Galleria, curated by Eric Booker (exhibition coordinator at the Studio Museum). Morris is the founder of 3 Dot Zine, an annual publication that serves as a forum for marginalized concerns. 3 Dot Zine recently hosted the Brown Paper Zine & Small Press Fair with the Studio Museum in Harlem and created a site-specific installation at the MoMA PS1 2018 NY Art Book Fair.


Dale Zine, established 2009 in Miami, is an independent printer and publisher with the goal of giving a platform to multimedia artists and designers. With humble beginnings as a zine collaboration about Garfield, Dale has broadened into something of an open cultural space for the Miami community, with offerings ranging from all-age zine workshops to our independent radio show, pop-up events, and most recently a storefront in Downtown Miami. Collaborations of note include those with Tim Biskup, Matt Furie, Legowelt, Friendswithyou, to name just a few of our over their 75 titles and counting.
Felicita “Felli” Maynard is a New York City-based interdisciplinary artist and educator. They received their BFA from Brooklyn College, with a concentration in film photography. As a first generation Afrolatinx-American, their work uses photography to investigate and explore identity, gender, and history when related to the Black body. They challenge and re-write history by means of their work. Maynard has shown work at the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Westchester Community College, Spectrum Gallery at MCLA college, Brooklyn Photoville and Pen + Brush Gallery. Maynard is currently a Queer | Art Mentorship Fellow working with photographer Lola Flash, a Smack Mellon Art Ready Mentor and a teaching assistant at the Penumbra Foundation.

WORK/PLAY is an interdisciplinary design/art duo based in St. Louis, Missouri started by Danielle and Kevin McCoy. Kevin received a BFA in Graphic Communication from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and his MFA from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis. Danielle is a conceptual artist, writer, and educator. Together, they rely on a personal archive of unfamiliar information, redacted histories, and images from popular culture to explore racial inequality, identity, and erasure. The duo has exhibited both locally and nationally. America's Mythic Time, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO; Small Talk at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; SPF 1991 at projects+gallery, St. Louis, MO; Dream Wavers at Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA; Overview is a Place at SPRING/BREAK Art Show in New York, New York, NY; Change of State at The Wassaic Projects in Wassaic, NY. Recent book fairs include Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair in Los Angeles, CA; Chicago Art Book Fair in Chicago, IL; Small Press Expo in St. Louis, MO; Fully Booked Art Fair in Dubai, UAE and Engaged Edition in New York, NY.


Adriana Monsalve and Caterina Ragg spearhead the multifaceted space of Homie House Press. They are a skeleton crew of femmes creating and publishing in the foto book medium. They are photographers, book makers, and educators holding space for and with underrepresented communities. They are a playground where fotos become books, a safe space for secret stories and an open house for honest content. Find them migrating through the in-betweenness of all that we are.

Sharita Towne is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Portland, OR. Born and raised on the West Coast of the U.S. along Interstate 5 from Salem, OR, to Tacoma, WA and down to Sacramento, CA, Sharita is a true granddaughter of the great migration. She is most interested in engaging local and global Black geographies, histories, and possibilities. In her work, a shared art penetrates and binds people–artists, audience, organizers, civic structures, sisters, cousins, and landscape–in collective catharsis, grief, and joy. Sharita holds a BA from UC Berkeley, an MFA from Portland State University, and was recently appointed Program Head of the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s MFA in Visual Studies. She self-publishes under the collaborative project URe:AD Press (United Re:Public of the African Diaspora).


Founded in 2015, Black Chalk & Co. is a creative agency bringing together writers, artists, designers, academics, and technologists with a mutual interest in publishing, curating conversations and exhibitions, and facilitating teaching residencies. What animates all these activities is the effort to engender a new culture and new forms of publishing and creative production. Their work has led to a run of synchronized events, screenings, and public talks. The founding partners, Tinashe Mushakavanhu and Nontsikelelo Mutiti, operate between Harare and Richmond, VA. Image: SOME WRITERS CAN GIVE YOU TWO HEARTBEATS
This limited edition paperback was printed in 2019 at Cassochrome in Belgium. The publication is 5.5 x 8 inches with 258 pages. ISBN: 978-0-7974-9573-9.

The Bettys is an innovative art community concept founded by Salvadoran-American Aurora Diaz in 2014. Throughout its tenure, The Bettys has been an outlet for authentic and experimental creative environments. The Bettys has shown at multiple art book/zine fairs across America, distributing and collaborating with emerging artists whose intersections make it harder to be in the rich cis-man’s world more commonly referred to as ‘The Art World.’

Melissa Sáenz Gordon is a cultural worker, editor, and photographer based in Ridgewood, Queens. In 2020, she co-founded Soft Power Vote, an independent civic engagement initiative centered on NYC politics. For over 15 years, Melissa has documented the nuance of everyday life through film photography, a practice born out of preserving the cultural landscape of San Francisco, her hometown. Melissa understands the social impact and power of representation and utilizes the camera as a tool for social justice. Her work has been featured in Remezcla, SFMOMA’s Open Space, and Whetstone Magazine. She’s participated in the Press Play Fair hosted by Pioneer Works, New Latin Wave Festival, Brooklyn Art Book Fair, and the Los Angeles Art Book Fair by Printed Matter.

Brown Recluse is a collectively run zine distro for Black, Indigenous, People of Color based on Ohlone lands. This project was born out of passion for zines and frustration at the lack of representation and meaningful zine material for BIPOC. This project is a collaboration by QTBIPOC directly to QTBIPOC, connecting marginalized voices to marginalized readers. Their aim is to disseminate print media affordably and effectively to communities of color, strengthening our ties and highlighting our intersectional, relatable experiences.


FUNDRAISING EDITIONS FOR BLACK LIVES MATTER GLOBAL NETWORK


In 2020, we donated 100% of the proceeds of our Fundraising Editions to the Black Lives Matter Global Network. Thanks to Sadie Barnette, Alicia McCarthy, Will Rogan, KOAK, Chris Johanson and Lonnie Holley for the generous donation of their artwork. 

THE 2019 SF ART BOOK FAIR

1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

Friday, July 19th - 6pm – 10pm
Saturday, July 20th - 11am – 6pm
Sunday, July 21st - 11am – 5pm



EXHIBITORS


2nd Cannons Publications (CA)

34 Trinity Arts & News /
G. F. Wilkinson Books
(CA)

6 Decades (CA)

871 Fine Arts (CA)
Almighty & Insane Books (CA)

Altman Siegel (CA)

Anthology Editions (NY)

Aperture (NY)

Art Metropole (Canada)

ARTBOOK | D.A.P. (NY)

Aventures Ltd. Press (NY)

BASEMENT (CA)

Benjamin Critton Art Department (CA)

Blum & Poe (CA)

Bolerium Books Inc. (CA)

BOMB Magazine (NY)

Book and Job Gallery (CA)

BOOK/SHOP (CA)

Can Can Press (Mexico)
Canyon Cinema (CA)

Case Publishing / shashasha (Japan)

Catharine Clark Gallery (CA)

CCA Hybrid Practice (CA)

Chronicle Books (CA)

Coloured Publishing (CA)

Colpa Press (CA)

Container Corps (OR)

Conveyor Editions (NJ)

Creativity Explored (CA)

Dale Zine (FL)

Deadbeat Club (CA)
DUM DUM Zine (CA)

Eggy Press (CA)
Emigre (CA)

Endless Editions (NY)

Et al. (CA)
The Everyday Press
aka Bunker Basement (UK)
Fillip (Canada)

FIST (CA)

Floss Editions (CA)

Fraenkel Gallery (CA)

The Fulcrum Press (CA)

Gagosian (CA)

Gallery 16 (CA)

Gato Negro Ediciones (Mexico)
Genderfail (NY)

Hassla (NY)

Hat & Beard Press (CA)

Here Press (UK)

Hesse Press (CA)

Hi-Bred Studio (CA)

THE ICE PLANT (CA)

The Idea of the Book (OR)

illetante collective (CA)

Inventory Press (CA)

Issue Press (MI)

ISSUES (CA)
J&L Books (NY)
Joy of Being (CA)
Kayrock Screenprinting (NY)
Kris Graves Projects (NY)
Kunstcapades (CA)

LAND AND SEA (CA)

MacFadden & Thorpe (CA)

Martian Press (CA)

modlitbooks (CA)

Monograph Bookwerks (OR)

MOREL books (UK)

Most Ancient (CA)

MSP Editions (CA)

Nazraeli Press (CA/UK)

Needles & Pens (CA)

New Documents (CA)

NIAD Art Center (CA)

Night Diver Press (CA)

Onomatopee Projects (Netherlands)

Other Books (CA)

Paper Monument / n+1 (NY)

Park Life (CA)

Paulson Fontaine Press (CA)

People I've Loved (CA)

Peradam Press (NY)

Pier 24 (CA)
Print in Progress (CA)
Publication Studio San Francisco / P.E. Area / 2727 California Street (CA)
R-ev (Venezuela)

Ratio 3 (CA)

RE/Search and Search & Destroy (CA)

Real Time and Space (CA)

Risotop (Germany)

RITE Editions (CA)

SF Cinematheque (CA)
SFAI Bookmaking (CA)

Side Issues (Switzerland)

Siglio (NY)

Silent Sound (CA)

Silver Sprocket (CA)

Sming Sming Books (CA)

Soberscove (IL)

Stripe SF (CA)

Tan & Loose Press (CA)

TBW Books (CA)

These Days (CA)

Tim Lahan (CA)

Tiny Splendor (CA)

Tropic Editions (HI)
Unity Press (CA)

Vacancy Projects (CA)

Verge Center for the Arts (CA)

Visible Publications (CA)

Wendy's Subway (NY)

Witty Kiwi (Italy)

Wolfman Books (CA)

zingmagazine (CA)



PROGRAMMING

Our Director of Programming is David Senior.

THE LOUNGE


Saturday, July 20

12-1pm 
Harm Reduction, with Jen Shear

Interdisciplinary artist, Jen Shear, will discuss the opioid epidemic and its impact on her creative community. Here she’ll address why certain social, cultural, political, and economic factors make some low-income artists vulnerable to addiction, and how the spread of harm reduction practices can help save lives.

1-2pm
"Brancusi-like" sculpture, Strange Fruit, and defaced record covers

Greg Wooten, author of "Marred For Life!" (J&L Books, 2019) will discuss his experiences as a professional "picker", and his 13 all-time best flea market finds, including a giant pewter tooth and a painting by an orangutan. Presented by Jason Fulford.

2-3pm
REEL, by Paul Clipson

In celebration of the newly revised 3rd edition of Paul Clipson's book: REEL, Land and Sea are pleased to present a 16mm film screening- A collection of Paul's favorite footage from 2017. The film was last projected in silence at his memorial at SFMoMA last year. For this screening a live score will be provided by Amma Ateria.

3-4pm
Steven Leiber Catalogs

A public program on Steven Leiber and his dealer catalogs. David Senior will moderate a panel discussion focusing on the catalogs as well as the art that Steven Leiber collected, sold and celebrated. Panelists include: Alexandra Bowes (art collector), Arnaud Desjardin (artist and owner of The Everyday Press) Amber Hasselbring (former Steven Leiber Basement Manager) David Kasprzak (artist and co-owner of Colpa Press) and Adam Michaels (designer of Steven Leiber Catalogs and owner of Inventory Press.)

4-5pm
Meaningfulosity: a discussion with Anne Lesley Selcer

Wolfman Books’ new publication, Blank Sign Book, approaches art writing premised on the idea that it can contain anything, except detached authority. Engaging the relationship between politics and art—in the streets, on the screen, in the book, in the feminist meeting, and in the museum—this literary and experimental collection meets art with its own febrile and fecund energies. Author Anne Lesley Selcer will discuss her practice, and welcome a discussion with other artist-writers and writers devoted to art.

5-6pm
Lento Violento, with Rosa Tyhurst

Lento Violento is a style of electronic dance music that Torinese DJ Gigi D’Agostino developed in the early 2000s. Italian for slow and violent, lento violento has elements of a hardcore or hardstyle sound played at a very slow tempo, usually between 85 and 115 BPM. Developed from research for a recent exhibition and book that considered dance music culture in Italy, Rosa Tyhurst will consider lento violento’s emergence within a post-industrial, Berlusconi-era Italy and hypothesize about slow and violent artistic practices today.
Sunday, July 21

12-1pm
DEATH BY TECHNOMANCY, with Micki Meng and Tatiana Vahan

San Francisco is a city that founded a slow food movement, hosts a strong maker culture, and privileges communing with nature, yet is also the birth city of AI and computer technology. As industry shifts, Meng, founder of the new publishing and partnership initiative &Art&, and Vahan, founder of Los Angeles Artist Census and bar-fund, discuss the contemporary moment, its paradoxes, and different support structures for artists and art workers in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.

1-2pm
All Possible Futures 3, with Jon Sueda and Chris Hamamoto

All Possible Futures: Unrealized Archive uncovers “unrealized” graphic design projects that consumed many hours—sometimes years—of work, but were never produced. These fascinating proposals—ranging in form from PDFs to photos, dummies, models, and sketches—remain unmade but are deserving of serious discussion. Issue #3: Large Format will feature unrealized works that explore extreme scale in some way. To launch this latest issue Jon Sueda and Chris Hamamoto will give a short presentation on the history of the project and the latest issue, and moderate a discussion with a panel of participants in the project.

2-3pm
April Dawn Alison, with Andrew Masullo and Erin O’Toole

April Dawn Alison was published by MACK to accompany an exhibition of the same name now on view at SFMOMA. The book features previously unseen Polaroids made over the course of thirty years by April Dawn Alison, the feminine persona of male photographer Alan Shaefer, based in Oakland. Erin O’Toole, curator of the exhibition and editor of the book, will discuss Alison’s work with the painter Andrew Masullo, who gave Alison’s archive to the museum.

3-4pm
Lazy Painter, by Side Issues

The book 'Lazy Painter’ turns a robot vacuum cleaner into an artist. It combines technology and art, as a result of a workshop ‘design by rules’  with students of Lucern – and reflects on the human-machine relationship in creation. Furthermore, it exemplifies a series of Side Issues publications about science, history, art and visual culture from the point of view of a committed dilettante.

4-5pm
nkiruka oparah x 2727

Using repetition, drawing, and writing, this workshop series explores how we can use our dreams to illuminate non-linear possibilities, future & ancestral knowledge, and map inner landscapes and time-scales. The workshop will also include practical tools for sustaining a dream practice, as well as plants/herbs that can support us in recentering and being at home in our bodies.




PROJECT ROOM: GAGOSIAN
Friday, July 19 - Sunday, July 21

Gagosian presents Flags and Aces, a project room featuring the exhibition of a unique artist book by Richard Prince and a presentation of two Jack Kerouac items from the Ryder Road Foundation: Kerouac’s Big Sur notebook and a scroll drawing of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s cabin in Bixby Canyon, drawn by Kerouac during his “secret return” to the Bay Area.

SPECIAL EXHIBITION: STEVEN LEIBER CATALOGS
Gallery 207, Bass and Reiner
Thursday, July 18 - Saturday, July 27

Curated by David Senior, Head of Library and Archives, SFMOMA, in conjunction with the launch of the book Steven Leiber Catalogs, there will be an exhibition of Steven Leiber’s catalogs at Minnesota Street Project in Bass & Reiner Gallery on the second floor. David Senior, the publication editor and essayist will curate the exhibition and will introduce source materials for Steven’s mailers. The exhibition will open on July 18th and will be on view through July 27th, 2019. Sponsored by RITE Editions.

KUNSTCAPADES LIVE
OUTSIDE - 1275 Minnesota St.

KunstCapades is an art-themed variety show/podcast hosted by Josh Pieper, Tim Sullivan, and Robyn Carliss. Guests from all points on the artist-curator-dealer-collector spectrum board a gondola up to the recording booth - Altitude, an alpine-island bar in an undisclosed, altitudinous San Francisco location - for conversation and cocktails. Listeners are treated to a rollicking agenda of absurd segments, including “Art Crimes”, “Beats from the Belfry”. “ebay Today,” “Let’s Ask Tantum,” “Bartender’s Ballyhoo,” and intel regarding local openings and calls for work. Join us for a multi-part, LIVE recording at the 2019 San Francisco Art Book Fair.

MEDIA ROOM


Friday, July 19

7:00-8:30pm
Canyon Cinema and San Francisco Cinematheque present Missed Connections
Join us for a program of short media art and experimental film in celebration of the release of Canyon's Cinemazine #6: Missed Connections and recent publications offered by San Francisco Cinematheque. The camera sees something that the person using it does not — a luminous detail or furtive glance, a chance moment found only in retrospect; letters are sent (or not sent), messages sent into the void...

8:30-9:30pm
Civic TV Vol. 5 with Bonanza, David Bayus, Sara Eliassen, Matthew Lax, and Marta D Strazicic. Designed by Marianne Poinsot.  Presented by Colpa Press.


Saturday, July 20

12-6pm
Over and Over, Again and Again
by Allen Ruppersberg and Thomas Cvikota
Directed by Lucas Cvikota
Soundtrack by Allen Ruppersberg
2018

Over and Over, Again and Again, documents the typewritten index cards that accompany a collection of 78 rpm records donated by Barrie H. Thorpe to the Batavia Public Library in Illinois. The cards identify the artist/performer, date and title of each recording from Thorpe’s collection along with anecdotal information and his personal commentary. The Thorpe Collection of 48,000 78's was the first major donation to the Internet Archive’s Great 78 Project. The accompanying soundtrack is a collage of movie soundtracks, sound effects, experimental music, musique concrete, pop songs, and miscellaneous recordings. The screening will show a section of the 13-hour work-in-progress film.
Sunday, July 21

12pm-1pm
Thoughts on a Black Aesthetic
This hybrid screening / performative lecture will feature varied observations on black representation that carry with them a distinct, personal viewpoint. Through these acts, The Black Aesthetic will ruminate on the themes of lineage, context, and collaboration.

1pm-1:30pm
Leila Weefur. Excerpt from Between Beauty & Horror, a short film (originally a video installation) exploring the symbiotic nature of beauty and horror. The film’s poetic narrative explores this particular duality as an intrinsic part of the Black experience. Presented by Sming Sming Books.

1:30-2:00pm
V. Vale of Search & Destroy, screening of a short documentary about the history of Search & Destroy

2:00-3:00pm
Civic TV Vol. 5 with Bonanza, David Bayus, Sara Eliassen, Matthew Lax, and Marta D. Strazicic. Designed by Marianne Poinsot. Presented by Colpa Press.

3:00-4:30pm
Canyon Cinema and San Francisco Cinematheque present Missed Connections


SIGNINGS


Friday, July 19

7-9pm R-ev - M19
Carlos A. Etcheverry

Saturday, July 20

12-2pm - Verge Center for the Arts - C10
Angela Willetts

1-2pm - Real Time & Space - B2
Rosco

1-2pm - Stripe SF - B4
Martin Venesky - What I know about photography

1-2pm - Pier 24 - C9
Corine Vermeulen - Your Town Tomorrow (Detroit, 2007–2017)

2-3pm - TBW Books - A3
Mimi Plumb - Landfall

2-3pm - Nazraeli Press - A42
Todd Hido - Bright Black World
Saturday, July 20 contd.

2-3pm Real Time & Space - B2
Johnna Arnold

3-5pm R-ev - M19
Carlos A. Etcheverry

5-6pm Anglim Gilbert Gallery
Jori Finkel and Lynn Hershman Leeson

Sunday, July 21

12-1pm - Real Time & Space - B2
Lexa Walsh

1-2pm - Pier 24 - C9
John Chiara California

2-4pm R-ev - M19
Carlos A. Etcheverry


PARTICIPATING GALLERIES


ANGLIM GILBERT GALLERY
Saturday, July 20th, 5-6pm

Join author Jori Finkel and artist Lynn Hershman Leeson for a book signing of Finkel’s latest publication, It Speaks to Me (Prestel). Featuring interviews with 50 leading contemporary artists, discover which artworks from museums across the globe have made an enduring impact on their work.


NANCY TOOMEY FINE ART
Friday, July 19 - Sunday, July 21

Nancy Toomey Fine Art will present a curated selection of works by NY based Brian Dettmer, known for his detailed and innovative art objects using the book as his medium.  After a book or series of books is sealed into a solid form, he cuts into the surface, reading with his knife one page or layer at a time. Fragmented images, words and ideas emerge to expose and create new relationships within the book's internal elements.

RENA BRANSTEN GALLERY
Friday, July 19 - Sunday, July 21

Rena Bransten Gallery will be selling a selection of new and used gallery publications, exhibition catalogues, & artist monographs.

Yen-Hua Lee & Marissa Katarina Bergmann will also present "The Sound of Mesostic Reading" in conjunction with the exhibition "Yen-Hua Lee / Book project: a silent conversation."

Reading Times:
Friday, July 19 at 7pm
Saturday, July 20 at 12pm
Sunday, July 21 at 12pm
Length: 10-20 min.

CASEMORE KIRKEBY
Friday, July 19 - Sunday, July 21

Casemore Kirkeby will host a series of pop-up book sales, artist talks, and book signings throughout the fair weekend. Full schedule below.

Booksellers:
Owen Hido, B-sides Box Sets, featuring Erik Kessels Notes on Accidents, Vanessa WinshipSeeing the Light of Day, Ed Templeton Loose Shingles and Todd Hido Homing In

Casemore Kirkeby presents a selection of titles by gallery artists including Anouk Kruithof, Todd Hido, Hiroshi Takizawa, Kenta Cobayashi, Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel, Sean McFarland, Raymond Meeks, Naohiro Utagawa, Steve Kahn, Ed Templeton, Deanna Templeton, Motoyuki Daifu, Jim Jocoy, Elspeth Diederix, Aspen Mays, Whitney Hubbs, Daisuke Yokota & Yoshi Kametani, and others.

Sunday, July 21st 3-4 PM
SFMOMA will have a pop-up selling copies of April Dawn Alison, edited by Erin O’Toole, and published by Mack. Books will be for sale from 3pm -4pm immediately following a conversation about the publication in the MSP Lounge.

Sunday, July 21
David Pace and Stephen Wirtz Images in Transition-Wirephoto 1938-1945, Schlit Publishing

Artist talks:

Saturday, July 20
Raymond Meeks and Todd Hido in conversation with Adam Meeks

Sunday, July 21
Raymond Meeks in Conversation with Adam Meeks

THEMES & PROJECTS
Friday, July 19 - Sunday, July 21

Themes+Projects gallery has teamed up with Gingko Press to widen our book selection on art and pop culture. In addition, photography books published by Themes+Projects will be on sale! For purchases over $50, receive a complimentary copy of Hong Kong Yesterday perpetual calendar by Fan Ho (while supplies last). Themes+Projects gallery is located gallery space #205.

EVER GOLD [PROJECTS]
Saturday, July 20, 5-6 PM

The Internet Archive’s 2019 Artist in Residence Exhibition presents Radical Digital Painting — THE BUG LOG

In conjunction with the Internet Archive’s 2019 Artist In Residence Exhibition at Ever Gold [Projects], programmer and digital painter Jeffrey Alan Scudder presents a new iteration of Radical Digital Painting, an ongoing performance project which often includes other artists.

Radical Digital Painting is named after Radical Computer Music, a project by Danish artist Goodiepal, who Scudder has been touring with in Europe over the last two years. In 2018 alone, Jeffrey gave over 45 lecture performances on digital painting and related topics in the United States and Europe.

On July 20 at 5 pm, Radical Digital Painting presents THE BUG LOG, a project by Ingo Raschka featuring Julia Yerger and Jeffrey Alan Scudder.

MCEVOY FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
1150 25th Street, Building B
Saturday, July 20 - Sunday, July 21
All programs are free and open to the public.
No registration required unless otherwise noted.

Saturday, July 20
1:00–5:00pm | Parking Lot, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
Blank Art Objects presented by Brion Nudarosch

1:00–1:45pm | McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
Gallery Sessions: Ala Ebtekar

Artist Ala Ebtekar is joined by his mother to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 11 moon landing with a reading and to discuss its relation to his monumental work Thirty-six Views of the Moon, 2019, on view in McEvoy Foundation for the Arts' summer exhibition What is an edition, anyway?. The work is the Spring edition of a series in four seasons that takes its cue from a twelfth century poem by Omar Khayyam that imagines humans as the objects of the Moon’s omnipresent gaze. Using photographic negatives of the Moon provided by California’s Lick Observatory Archives, Ebtekar treated book and pamphlet pages from ten centuries of texts referencing the moon and night sky with photographic chemicals then exposed them to moonlight.

https://www.mcevoyarts.org/event/gallery-sessions-ala-ebtekar/

6:00–7:30pm | McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
Bonanza: That’s Funny

Free registration encouraged

McEvoy Foundation for the Arts presents a special, free performance by multidisciplinary art collective Bonanza in conjunction with its summer exhibition What is an edition, anyway?. That’s Funny is a stand-up comedy performance, emceed and designed by Bonanza that features artists taking the mic alongside comedic ringers as a celebration of comedy’s potential for posturing and resilience. Now in its fourth edition, That's Funny began as an alternative to a traditional opening event for the collective’s dyke, ginger, Mexican show at Interface Gallery in 2017. The event is curated by interdisciplinary artist and THE THING Quarterly co-founder Jonn Herschend as part of a series that explores the possibilities of performance as edition. A limited-run silkscreened poster designed by Herschend and THE THING co-founder Will Rogan will be available to attendees.

https://www.mcevoyarts.org/event/bonanza-thats-funny/


Sunday, July 21
1:00–1:30pm | McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
Gallery Sessions: Stephanie Syjuco

Artist Stephanie Syjuco discusses the commissioned installation Excess Capital (Double or Nothing), 2013–, on view in McEvoy Foundation for the Arts' summer exhibition What is an edition, anyway? and how authenticity is defined in a commodity-based culture. The work displays used copies of Karl Marx’s Capital that Syjuco purchased at auction on eBay and then re-classifies as artist editions by inserting a signed bookplate. Offering each book for sale at exactly double the price paid, Syjuco leverages visitors as partner investors in the project, with all proceeds donated to local activist organizations specializing in racial justice and immigration rights at the close of the exhibition.

https://www.mcevoyarts.org/event/gallery-sessions-stephanie-syjuco/


1:45–2:15pm | McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
Gallery Sessions: Thomas Cvikota

Publisher and collector Thomas Cvikota leads a tour of the editioned works from his personal collection on view in McEvoy Foundation for the Arts' summer exhibitionWhat is an edition, anyway?, many of which were part of the 2018 exhibition of the same name at Mana Contemporary Chicago co-curated by Cvikota and Susan Tallman. Prints, books, posters, artists’ ephemera, and vinyl records highlight longstanding traditions in edition-based practices.

https://www.mcevoyarts.org/event/gallery-sessions-thomas-cvikota/


3:00–4:00pm | McEvoy Foundation for the Arts Artist Talk:
Alison O’Daniel in Conversation with Tanya Zimbardo


Free registration encouraged

McEvoy Foundation for the Arts invites visitors to navigate, de-construct, and reimagine sound through the film/video exhibition Alison O'Daniel: The Tuba Thieves. Curator Tanya Zimbardo joins O’Daniel to discuss her unfolding project including the process of reimagining through film the punk show for the closing party of the Deaf Club in San Francisco in 1979. In this expanding series of short films, O’Daniel collaborates with hearing, Hard of Hearing, and Deaf composers, musicians, and performers to highlight the loss or re-creation of information as it passes through various channels. The half-hour program reimagines legendary concerts hosted by Bruce Conner and John Cage as well as fictionalized, poetic narratives. Screens continuously during gallery hours through September 7, 2019.

https://www.mcevoyarts.org/event/artist-talk-alison-odaniel/

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING


Thursday, July 18
6:00-8:30pm
The Most Beatutiful Swiss Books
swissnex San Francisco
Pier 17, Suite 800
San Francisco, CA 94111

The Most Beautiful Swiss Books is an annual competition recognizing the work of the most talented book designers in Switzerland. Selected by an international jury, this year includes 19 books, chosen from 388 entries, to be showcased in the exhibition. At 7pm, there will be a presentation and drinks.

Saturday, July 20
7:30-10pm
Rob Lowe – IMA – Chris Duncan
Center for New Music
55 Taylor St, San Francisco, CA 94102

On this installment of Latitudes, Other Minds teams up with the San Francisco Art Book Fair to present vocalist/composer Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, sound artist Chris Duncan, and the electronics and percussion duo IMA at Center for New Music.

SPONSORS


The 2019 SFABF was organized by Park Life, Colpa and Minnesota Street Project.
SFABF’s 2019 branding and identity by MacFadden & Thorpe.

Supporting Sponsors:
Chronicle Books, Dropbox, chroma

Media Sponsor:
Hyperallergic

In-kind Sponsors:
Aesop, Fallout Shelter, Fort Point Beer Co., General Graphics, hint, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Macfadden & Thorpe, Shapco Printing, Small Works SF, swissnex San Francisco, swiss arts council prohelvetia and VINCA MINOR.

Special Thanks:
Imprint Projects, Kayleigh Henson, Lynne Winslow & Associates, Partners in Crime, Nat Swope, Masako Miki, Ben Peterson, Sadie Barnette, Jason Polan and Lightsource SF.

THE 2018 SF ART BOOK FAIR

1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

Preview - Friday, July 20th - 6pm – 10pm
Saturday, July 21st - 11am – 6pm
Sunday, July 22nd - 11am – 5pm


EXHIBITORS


2NCBooks (CA) / Motto Distribution (GERMANY)
3standardstoppage studio (CA)
6 Decades Books (CA)
871 Fine Arts (CA)
Aidan Koch & Kyle England (NY)
All Gold / It's Just Great (CA)
Altman Siegel (CA)
Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books (OR)
Anthology Editions (NY)
Aperture (NY)
ARTBOOK | DAP (NY)
Atelier Editions (CA/UK)
Aventures Ltd. Press (CA)
Basement (CA)
Bill Daniel (TX)
Blum & Poe (CA)
BOMB Magazine (NY)
Bon-gah (IRAN)
Boo-Hooray (NY)
Breezy Circle (CA)
B-Sides Box Sets (CA)
Canyon Cinema (CA)
Case Publishing / shashasha (JAPAN)
Casemore Kirkeby (CA)
Catharine Clark Gallery (CA)
CCA Hybrid Practice (CA)
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (CA)
Chronicle Books (CA)
Colour Code (CANADA)
Coloured Publishing (CA)
Colpa (CA)
commune (JAPAN)
Container Corps (OR)
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (CA)
Conveyor Editions (NJ)
Cooperative Editions (NY)
Creative Growth (CA)
Crown Point Press (CA)
Dale Zine (FL)
David Zwirner Books (NY)
Deadbeat Club (CA)
DeMerritt Pauwels Editions (CA)
East of Borneo (CA)
Eggy Press (CA)
Electric Works (CA)
Endless Editions (NY)
Et al. (CA)
Extra Vitamins (CO)
Fillip (CANADA)
Floss Editions (CA)
Fraenkel Gallery (CA)
Fully Booked Dubai (UAE)
Gallery 16 Editions (CA)
Gato Negro Ediciones (MEXICO)
Gem Books (CA)
GenderFail (VA)
HARDCORE AMBIENT (CA)
Hassla (NY)
Hat & Beard Press (CA)
Hesse Press (CA)

Hex Editions (CANADA)
illetante collective (CA)
Institute for Interspecies Art and Relations (NY)
Inventory Press (NY)
ISSUES (CA)
Issue Press (MI)
KAYROCK SCREENPRINTING (NY)
Kodoji Press (SWITZERLAND)
Kopeikin Gallery (CA)
LAND AND SEA (CA)
Little Big Man (CA)
LOCUS (NORWAY)
Louis Schmidt (CA)
Martian Press (CA)
modlitbooks (CA)
Monograph Bookwerks (OR)
Morel (UK)
Most Ancient (CA)
Nazraeli Press (CA)
Needles & Pens (CA)
New Documents (CA)
Night Diver Press (CA)
Onomatopee Projects (NETHERLANDS)
Oof Books (CA)
Other Forms (IL)
Owl Cave Books (CA)
Paper Monument / n+1 (NY)
Park Life (CA)
Paulson Fontaine Press (CA)
People I've Loved (CA)
Peradam (NY)
Perfectly Acceptable Press (IL)
Pier 24 Photography (CA)
Primary Information (NY)
Publication Studio San Francisco (CA)
Ratio 3 (CA)
RE/Search and Search & Destroy (CA)
RITE Editions (CA)
S U N (NY/CA)
San Francisco Art Institute (CA)
San Francisco Cinematheque (CA)
SFAI Digital Bookmaking (CA)
Silent Sound (CA)
Skinnerboox (ITALY)
Sming Sming Books (CA)
Soberscove Press (IL)
Soft City (NY)
Stolen Books (PORTUGAL)
Stripe SF (CA)
Tan & Loose Press (CA)
TBW Books (CA)
The Aesthetic Union (CA)
The Ice Plant (CA)
The Idea of the Book (OR)
THESE DAYS (CA)
Three Star Books / onestar press (FRANCE)
Tiny Splendor (CA)
Unity Press (CA)
Vacancy Projects (CA)
Visible Publications (CA)
William Stout (CA)
Wolfman Books (CA)





PROGRAMMING

Brought to you by Levi’s Made & Crafted
Hosted by Kunstcapades
Director of Programming - Heidi Rabben

Download the 2018 SFABF Program Guide here.

Friday July 20th
6-10 PM Opening Night Preview

Saturday July 21st
Fair hours: 11AM - 6PM

11AM -12PM - The Lounge
Photobibliomania Casemore Kirkeby
Ed and Deanna Templeton join Todd Hido in conversation about their love of creating and collecting photography books.

12-1 PM - The Lounge
Museum of Capitalism: Readings
FICTILIS and Inventory Press
Museum of Capitalism treats capitalism as a historical phenomenon, viewing the present and recent past from the implied perspective of a future society in which our economic and political system is memorialized, and subjected to the museological gaze. Join us for a series of readings by contibuting artists and authors from the book, published in conjunction with an exhibition installed in Oakland, 2017, and including texts from Lucy Lippard, Lester K. Spence, T.J. Demos, Chantal Mouffe, McKenzie Wark and Kim Stanley Robinson, among others.

1-1:30 PM - The Lounge
Kunstcapades LIVE

KunstCapades is an art variety podcast co-hosted by Josh Pieper, Tim Sullivan, and Robyn Carliss. Guests from all points on the artist-curator-dealer-collector spectrum board a gondola up to the recording booth – Altitide, an alpine-island bar in an undisclosed, altitudinous San Francisco location – for conversation and cocktails. Listeners are treated to a rollicking agenda of absurd segments, including “Art Crimes,” “Beats from the Belfry,” “eBay Today,” “Let’s Ask Tantum,” “Bartender’s Ballyhoo,” and intel regarding local openings and calls for work. Join us for a multi-part, live recording at the 2018 San Francisco Art Book Fair.

1:30-2:30 PM - The Lounge
Piles of Books: Art as Publishing in the 20th and 21st Centuries
David Senior (SFMOMA)
David Senior, Head of the Library and Archives at SFMOMA, will discuss a history of artists’ publications in modern and contemporary art and design. Senior presents a broad range of examples of how artists and designers have used little publications as experimental containers for new ideas, creating lively and accessible spaces to communicate work and archive art actions. These examples will come from the collection of books that he now works with at SFMOMA Library and several past library exhibitions he organized of artists’ books, magazines and ephemera while working at MoMA in New York.

2:30-3:30 PM - The Lounge
We Can Create Life Without War. - Corita Kent & Californian Radicalism
Atelier Éditions - Corita Art Center Director, Dr. Ray Smith & SFMOMA Associate Curator of Architecture & Design, Joseph Becker

Radical American artist, educator and once-devout Catholic nun, Corita Kent’s remarkable serigraphy has entranced audiences for decades. Drawing upon the Left Coast’s long heritage of art-radicalism, and the several artists, such as Kent, then courageously excavating the nation’s tortured conscience, a panel dialogue will collectively examine that tumultuous era of American art-making, the catalysts and enduring legacy of such. As well as the necessity of art-radicalism and creative resistance within our equally tumultuous political and cultural landscapes today. Developed by Atelier Éditions, the panel dialogue is lead by Corita Art Center Director, Dr. Ray Smith, and SFMOMA Associate Curator of architecture and design, Joseph Becker.

3:30-4 PM - The Lounge
KunstCapades LIVE


4-5 PM - The Lounge
RTS talks: Macon Reed and Leila Weefur

Real Time and Space
Real Time and Space (RTS) is an art studio and artist residency program in Oakland, CA. The mission of RTS is to provide a productive and participatory workspace for its members and residents by fostering opportunities for dialog, collaboration, and cross-disciplinary interaction. RTS hosts a monthly talk series featuring artists in residence and local Bay Area artists. We are excited to host our next talk as part of the SF Art Book Fair. The July talk will feature RTS artist in residence Macon Reed and RTS studio member Leila Weefur.

5-6PM - The Lounge
People Are A Light To Love: Artist Talk and Book Signing
Veronica DeJesus and Rite Editions
Veronica DeJesus sees this Artists Talk as an active meditation for all who attend. Participants will help the artist create a simple impromptu crystal grid. The aim of the grid is to create space for protection, healing, loss and truth and at the same time give space to release anything that is no longer serving a purpose. The artist talk will also include a discussion about her artist’s book and 12 year project, People are a light to Love. And Veronica will reflect on recent current events, recent deaths, and general reflections surrounding how we process and measure intimacy, love and loss. Veronica will show images of her work and bring objects related to her art practice for the audience to interact with during the event. The last 15 minutes will be dedicated to Q and A, book signing and
closing of the crystal grid.

OFFSITE


6-730PM - McEvoy Foundation for the Arts - 1150 25th Street
2016 in Museums, Money, and Politics: A Discussion with Andrea Fraser, Jamie Stevens and Rob Reich
Presented by CCA Wattis for Contemporary Arts

This event is free and open to the public. Space is limited. RSVP to wattisrsvp@cca.edu by July 17. At the end of our 2014-2015 Andrea Fraser research season, The Wattis Institute invited the artist to publish a book with us. Much has happened in our country in the last few years, and Fraser has felt an urgent need to respond. In partnership with Westreich Wagner Publications and MIT Press, the Wattis has co-published her timely new book 2016 in Museum, Money, and Politics (2018).

We launch the book with a discussion between Fraser, former Wattis Curator & Head of Programs Jamie Stevens (now of Artists Space), and Stanford Professor of Political Science Rob Reich. The event is followed by a book signing with the author.

2016 was unlike any other election cycle that came before it. It was the most expensive election in this country’s history with over $6.4 billion raised for presidential and congressional races combined. More than half of this money came from just a few hundred people—many of whom also support cultural institutions and serve on their boards. In a 900-page book organized like a telephone directory, Fraser documents the reported political contributions made by trustees of more than 125 art museums.

Andrea Fraser is an artist and professor of art at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser, among other books.

6:30-8:30PM - Catharine Clark Gallery - 248 Utah Street
Afterparty and reception to celebrate the release of Sandow Birk’s Proposal for a Monument to the Declaration of Independence (and a Pavilion to Frederick Douglass) with Sandow Birk and Mullowney Printing, plus a viewing of new drawings.

7PM-10PM - Gallery 16 - 501 3rd Street
PEACE JAZZ
Live music event at Gallery 16 featuring Andy Cabic, Sonny Smith and the Leakers, and Tommy Guerrero with Matt Rodriguez, Louie Senor and House. Doors at 7PM, free event with RSVP.

9PM-LATE - Cloaca Projects - 1460 Davidson Avenue
OFFICIAL SFABF AFTERPARTY and Closing of ARENA by Rodrigo Valenzuela
Join us for the SFABF afterparty and Closing of Arena by Rodrigo Valenzuela at Cloaca Projects, w/ DJ Russell E.L. Butler, Jonathan Runcio and Bob Linder. ARENA is Rodrigo Valenzuela's first solo exhibition in the Bay Area and consists of sixty feet of photocopy transfers on canvas wrapping around the interior of the gallery. Considering the ideology of Manifest Destiny and the failures of the Homestead Acts that quickened the settlement of public land in the American West, Valenzuela's images invoke these ideas of expansion and opportunity and, at the same time, painful histories of erasure that resonate with present-day debates on immigration, border control, gentrification, and climate change.

Sunday July 22nd
Fair hours: 11PM - 5PM

11AM-12PM - The Lounge
SKINNERBOOX - Milo Montelli and Federico Carpani
Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco
Skinnerboox is a young - Italian - publishing house focused on contemporary photography. In partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute, both Milo Montelli and Federico Carpani (founder and designer) will introduce their work, explaining the principles of the young publishing house that features projects that are very different in style (diary, visual research, archive, google generated images) as well as content but held together by a certain vision and taste. In this occasion they'll focus on the Italian scene presenting a selection of recent publications featuring the work of Marcello Galvani, Errichiello & Menichetti, Piero Percoco, Alessandro Calabrese and Casotti & Brutti.

12-1PM - The Lounge
Kodoji Press - Winfried Heininger

Pro Helvetia & Swissnex
Kodoji Press is an independent, non-profit-oriented publishing project based in Baden, Switzerland. Founded in 2007 by designer Winfried Heininger, Kodoji Press focuses on young contemporary art and photography and is defined by an artist-centric perspective. Kodoji Press offers a communicative platform for non-commercial projects by artists whose work responds to the complexities of contemporary society and culture. The imagery found in their titles range from the grandiose to the frightening to the silly. For this talk, Kodoji's award-winning designer and publisher, Winfried Heininger, will discuss, in conversation with Nicola Ruffo, Head of Public Programs at swissnex San Francisco, his approach to publishing and design. They will talk about his practice and his recent publications, such as 43–35 10TH STREET by Daniel Shea. This program is generously supported by swissnex San Francisco and Pro Helvetia.

1-1:30PM - The Lounge
Kunstcapades LIVE

1:30-2:30PM - The Lounge
Tania Bruguera: Talking to Power/Hablándole al Poder catalogue launch
YBCA - Lucia Sanroman, Peggy Phelan, Ivan Muniz Reed, and Susie Kantor
Join Peggy Phelan, Ann O'Day Maples Professor in the Arts Professor of Theater & Performance Studies and English at Stanford University; Ivan Muñiz Reed, independent curator; Lucía Sanromán, Director of Visual Arts, YYBCA; and Susie Kantor, Associate Curator of Visual Arts, YBCA, for a book launch celebrating the publication of the exhibition catalogue Tania Bruguera: Talking to Power / Hablándole al Poder. The group will discuss Bruguera’s ideas around performance, re-performance, recall, and updates, particularly as these concepts relate to her works, Homenaje a Ana Mendieta and Escuela de Arte Útil.

2:30-3:30PM - The Lounge
Ruth Asawa Book Launch
David Zwirner Books
Jonathan Laib, Director at David Zwirner, will be in conversation with Addie Lanier and Aiko Cuneo of the Asawa family, and Janet Bishop, Thomas Weisel Family Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA. Known for her extensive body of intricate and dynamic wire sculptures, American sculptor, educator, and arts activist Ruth Asawa challenged conventional notions of material and form through her emphasis on lightness and transparency.

3:30-4:00PM - The Lounge
Kunstcapades LIVE

4:00-5:00PM - The Lounge
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE SOUP: Orientation /// Pile
Laura Nelson, Calvin Rocchio, Vee and Brian Moran, Owl Cave Books
A conversational workshopping of language to provoke the permeability of terms under which we gather. As a group, we will think with and through the concepts of Orientation & Pile, performing these thoughts and movements in a dialog sure to sprawl out in many directions. By joining us here, you will be a part of a collective extending beyond this initial meeting in cultivating material for a publication yet to be realized. And of course, there will be soup and a pile of something. THERE WILL ALWAYS BE SOUP is a meandering model for gatherings, conversations, and publications that celebrates the porosity and malleability of the language we use to communicate as beings in the world.

MEDIA ROOM

Friday July 19th, Saturday July 20th and Sunday July 21st
Canyon Cinema & SF Cinematheque Film Program

Friday July 19th

6:30-7PM
Ephraim Asili: Fluid Frontiers (2017)
Fluid Frontiers is the fifth and final film in Ephraim Asili’s Diaspora Suite, a series of films exploring the artist’s personal relationship to the African Diaspora. Shot along the Detroit River and featuring readings from Detroit’s renowned Broadside Press and artworks by Detroit Artists, Fluid Frontiers explores the relationship between resistance and liberation. All the film’s poems are read from original Broadside Press editions by natives of the Detroit, Michigan/Windsor, Ontario region. (Ephraim Asili)

7–8PM Out of Print (guest curated by Linda Scobie)
Associations (1975, John Smith)
Blood Story (1990, Greta Snider)
Friend Good (2003, Jay Rosenblatt)
No No Nooky TV (1987, Barbara Hammer) – Restoration Print
High Kukus (1973, James Broughton) – New Print
Pony Glass (1997, Lewis Klahr)
Verses (2012, James Sansing)

8–9PM I Am Not Here (CROSSROADS capsule 1)
One of several programs presented during SFABF as an echo of Cinematheque’s CROSSROADS festival 2018, the films in I Am Not Here include works of self- and other-portraiture, fragmented bodies, abstracted spaces, ritual exorcisms of trauma and enactment of feminist art actions.
I Am Not Here For You (2017, Nico LaShae)
me and my army (2017, sair goetz in person)
Model of a Hand (2018, Rosa John)
Water/Mist/Fire/Off (2017, Youngzoo Im)

9–10PM Visions of the Void (CROSSROADS capsule 2)
In this second SFABF CROSSROADS echo, the paranoid visions of Philip K. Dick (as voiced in Alexander Stewart’s Void Vision) blur with the dystopic oppressions of the contemporary techno-surveillance state. Technophobia meets technophilia as crowds gather, blood is spilled, flowers bloom and electrons flow
you can’t plan a perfect day sometimes it just happens (2017, Alison Nguyen)
Wasteland No.1 (Ardent/Verdant) (2017, Jodie Mack)
The Forcing No. 2 (2015, Lydia Moyer)
The Falling Sky (2017, Peggy Ahwesh)
Void Vision (2018, Alexander Stewart)
Season of Doubt (2015, Seth Pimlott

Saturday, July 21

11AM -12PM Michael Snow: So Is This (1982)
“With formalist belligerence, So Is This threatens to make its viewers ‘laugh, cry and change society,’ even promising to get ‘confessional.’” (Canyon Cinema)

12–12:30PM Ephraim Asili: Fluid Frontiers (2017)
Fluid Frontiers is the fifth and final film in Ephraim Asili’s Diaspora Suite, a series of films exploring the artist’s personal relationship to the African Diaspora. Shot along the Detroit River and featuring readings from Detroit’s renowned Broadside Press and artworks by Detroit Artists, Fluid Frontiers explores the relationship between resistance and liberation. All the film’s poems are read from original Broadside Press editions by natives of the Detroit, Michigan/Windsor, Ontario region. (Ephraim Asili)

12:30 – 1PM The Sun Quartet, part 4: November 2/Far from Ayotzinapa (2017, Colectivo Losingrávidos)
The Sun Quartet is a solar composition in four movements, political composition in four natural elements, kinematic composition in four body mutations: a sun stone where youth blooms in protest, a river overflowing the streets, the burning plain rising in the city. And finally the clamor of the people who after the night of September 26, 2014 shook Mexico. The massive disappearance of 43 students of Ayotzinapa opened a breach in the Mexican political body. The Sun Quartet is a cinematographic composition of this event.

November 2/Far from Ayotzinapa: The clamor of the people after the disappearance of 43 students of Ayotzinapa. The Mexican poet David Huerta wrote a poem called Ayotzinapa on November 2, a date is a very important date of in Mexico, because is the celebration of “Day of the Dead.” The poem is about the experience of current Mexican war. (Colectivo Los ingrávidos)

1–2PM Canyon Cinema’s Drive-Thru Cinema, part 1: one of two mini-micro programs: 15 films on 16mm spanning 40 years in 40min (works by Chick Strand, Robert Breer, Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut, and and many more…):

Explosion Motion
Blazes (1961, Robert Breer)
Tensile (1994, Mark Wilson)
Black Ice (1994, Stan Brakhage)
Decroux’s Garden (2012, Baba Hillman)
Anselmo (1967, Chick Strand)
Found footage flights and quick delights
Los Ojos (1975, Gary Beydler)
I Began to Wish (2003, Julie Murray)
Shot-countershot (1987, Peter Tscherkassky)
Excess, Black Noise, and Fast Moving Pictures (1981, Tyler Turkle)
Restricted (1999, Jay Rosenblatt)
The Succinct Sublime
Lonesome Cowboy (1979, Toney Merritt)
Runaway (1969, Stan Lawder)
Electronic Moon No. 2 (1969, Paik/Yalkut)
The Soccer Game (1960, Lawrence Jordan)
Dub Film (1980, Doug Wendt)

2-3PM the word, my dear: text moving in time
Echoing a similar program presented by Cinematheque in 2013, this program presents works in which written text is visualized and plasticized, explored and displayed, a thumbnail catalog of the diverse expressive potentialities of language’s graphic notation displayed as light moving in time. All works drawn from the collection of Canyon Cinema and projected in 16mm.
Word Movie (1966, Paul Sharits)
I, Dreaming (1988, Stan Brakhage)
Hardwood Process (1996, David Gatten)
Gently Down the Stream (1981, Su Friedrich)

3–4PM Jeffrey Skoller’s The Malady of Death (Jeffrey Skoller in person)
“[…] an adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ story of the same name […] which is a particular reading of the story in which word and image, in a complex interplay, explore male sexuality. […] The male ‘you’ is multiplied[…]. The ‘she’ the ‘difference,’ is literally absent from the image but present metaphorically, ‘possessed’ but not known. While societal connections between possessing sexuality, economically, and by force are explored in relation to male sexuality, the implication of the act of looking permeate all these discourses[…]” (Kathy Geritz, Pacific Film Archive)

4–5PM I Am Not Here (CROSSROADS capsule 1)
One of several programs presented during SFABF as an echo of Cinematheque’s CROSSROADS festival 2018, the films in I Am Not Here include works of self- and other-portraiture, fragmented bodies, abstracted spaces, ritual exorcisms of trauma and enactment of feminist art actions.
I Am Not Here For You (2017, Nico LaShae)
me and my army (2017, sair goetz in person)
Model of a Hand (2018, Rosa John)
Water/Mist/Fire/Off (2017, Youngzoo Im)

5–6PM Canyon Cinema’s Drive-Thru Cinema, part 2: 11 films on 16mm spanning 40 years. Works by Kenneth Anger, Bruce Baillie, Robert Nelson, Alice Anne Parker and many more…:

Toe Tapping Treats
I Change I Am the Same (1969, Alice Anne Parker)
Day then Night (1977, Andy Moore)
Mr Sandman (1973, Victor Faccinto)
All My Life (1966, Bruce Baillie)
Rigid/Hysterical
Preview (1980, JJ Murphy)
Nightclub, Memories of Havana in Queens (1975, Silvianna Goldsmith)
Rumble (1977, Jules Engel)
Together (1976, Broughton/Singer)
Wash it, drive it, crash it
Wash it (1982, Elizabeth Sher)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965, Kenneth Anger)
Hot Leatherette (1967, Robert Nelson)

Sunday, July 22

11am -12PM Michael Snow: So Is This (1982)
“With formalist belligerence, So Is This threatens to make its viewers ‘laugh, cry and change society,’ even promising to get ‘confessional.’” (Canyon Cinema)

12–1PM Visions of the Void (CROSSROADS capsule 2)
In this second SFABF CROSSROADS echo, the paranoid visions of Philip K. Dick (as voiced in Alexander Stewart’s Void Vision) blur with the dystopic oppressions of the contemporary techno-surveillance state. Technophobia meets technophilia as crowds gather, blood is spilled, flowers bloom and electrons flow.
you can’t plan a perfect day sometimes it just happens (2017, Alison Nguyen)
Wasteland No.1 (Ardent/Verdant) (2017, Jodie Mack)
The Forcing No. 2 (2015, Lydia Moyer)
The Falling Sky (2017, Peggy Ahwesh)
Void Vision (2018, Alexander Stewart)
Season of Doubt (2015, Seth Pimlott)

1–2PM Anne McGuire’s Oh Hi Anne + Curt McDowell’s Weiners and Buns Musical (Anne McGuire in Person!)
SF’s own Anne McGuire appear in person to present Oh Hi Anne (2017), an animated audio portrait (derived from answering machine messages) of the Brothers Kuchar—George and Mike—in all their self-effacing, self-mocking, candid and obliquely confessional quirkiness. Oh Hi Anne is followed by Curt McDowell’s Wieners and Buns Musical (1972), a “domestic musical” featuring Ainslie Pryor as a  Dorothy Lamour-admiring housewife and George Kuchar himself as her hen-pecked husband.

Oh Hi Anne (2017, Anne McGuire)
Weiners and Buns Musical (1972, Curt McDowell)

2–3PM Cinemazine Digest – abstraction and animation edition (prismatic glasses will be provided)
A short selection of works featured in the revived and alive Canyon cinemazine (thanks to Courtney Fellion).
Let Your Light Shine (2013, Jodie Mack)
Ich Bin Ein Junger Hupfer (2008, Anna Geyer)
Five Improvisations (1979, Paul Glabicki)

3–4:30PM James Benning: Casting a Glance (2007)
In 1970 Robert Smithson built his iconic Spiral Jetty, a 1,500-foot long sculpture of mud, salt crystals and rocks jutting into Utah’s Great Salt Lake, embodying elemental and philosophical principles essential to the artist’s aesthetic. […] Simulating the Jetty’s thirty-seven year history, casting a glance records the shifting ecology of the Great Salt Lake’s north-eastern shore, finding the earthwork “a barometer for a variety of cycles.” Benning has created a work “that [Smithson’s film Spiral Jetty, 1970] begs for, which pays attention to the Jetty over time.” (Canyon Cinema)

4:30–5PM The Sun Quartet, part 4: November 2/Far from Ayotzinapa (2017, Colectivo Los ingrávidos)
The Sun Quartet is a solar composition in four movements, political composition in four natural elements, kinematic composition in four body mutations: a sun stone where youth blooms in protest, a river overflowing the streets, the burning plain rising in the city. And finally the clamor of the people who after the night of September 26, 2014 shook Mexico. The massive disappearance of 43 students of Ayotzinapa opened a breach in the Mexican political body. The Sun Quartet is a cinematographic composition of this event.

Humboldt Originals - M26 on the map
Exhibition of Growers’ Guides, the underground press, and cannabis-cultivation ephemera of Humboldt County from 1967 - 73.

PARTICIPATING GALLERIES


Ever Gold [Projects]
Saturday & Sunday 12-4pm - Tarot Readings by Mieke Marple
Reservations recommended info@evergoldprojects.com
In celebration of her second edition Art World Tarot, artist Mieke Marple will be providing free thirty minute tarot readings at the SF Art Book Fair. Those who are interested must sign up in advance through Ever Gold. The session involves a fifteen card spread with the latest version of Marple's deck. This spread takes into account karmic, societal, and psychological forces, each essential in the quest for self-knowledge. The spread also invites stories within stories (and themes within themes) to unfold–and, in this way, more closely mirrors the complexity of life. In addition to Marple’s readings, MSP Editions will launch the Art World Tarot Ed. II Deck at the SF Art Book Fair this weekend.

Saturday 5:30-6pm 
Chris Sollars and Lee Lavy’s band Skullture performs the set “By the Book”.

Rena Bransten Gallery
Sunday 3:30-5pm
Jonathan Calm: The Green Book / Artist in Conversation with Charif Shanahan
This presentation is about Jonathan Calm's ongoing, expanding body of work that relates to the complex visual representation of African American Automobility. This project was inspired by a five-day road trip through the American South Calm was invited on in June 2016 to take photographs for a BBC radio documentary on the Travelers’ Green Book (published 1936-66), the unique guide that provided information on secure and dignified accommodations for black Americans during the last three decades of the Jim Crow era. Some of Calm's new work was exhibited in solo shows at Stanford and Fisk University earlier this year.

SIGNINGS


Friday July 20th

5-10pm Ward Schumaker, "HATE IS WHAT WE NEED" - Gallery 204 - Jack Fischer Gallery

Saturday July 21st

11am-6pm - Ward Schumaker, "HATE IS WHAT WE NEED" - Gallery 204 - Jack Fischer Gallery

12-1pm - Jim Goldberg book signing of "Darrell and Patricia" - Pier 24 Photography - M17

12-1pm - Alice Shaw for "100 Sheep" - Gallery 16 - C9

1-2pm - Nathaniel Russell for PEACE JAZZ zine - Gallery 16 - C9

1-3pm - Cortney Cassidy - ‘99 Book Signing - Issue Press - A32

1:30-2:30pm - Signing w/ Ed and Deanna Templeton featuring books from B-Side Boxsets, Deadbeat Club, and Nazraeli Press - Casemore Kirkeby

2-3pm - Sonny Smith for "Tour" - Gallery 16 - C9

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM - Book signing w/ Todd Hido - B-Sides Box Sets - D2

3PM - Gene - Book signing with Jim Goldberg - Casemore Kirkeby
Gene shares the intimate story of a man reflecting on his life prior to being placed in assisted living. Through the curation and narration of personal photographs, Gene Egner finds peace with himself and his community. This work was created during the Postcards From America project (2011-16).

3-4pm - Co-creators Shannon O’Malley and Keith Wilson will sign copies of the new softcover edition of GAY MEN DRAW VAGINAS - Breezy Circle - A17

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Daniel Shea signing 43–35 10TH STREET - Kodoji Press - D1

3:30-4:30pm - Susan Meiselas Signing - Aperture - C14

Sunday July 22nd

11am-5pm - Ward Schumaker, "HATE IS WHAT WE NEED" - Gallery 204 - Jack Fischer Gallery

12-1pm - Sandow Birk signing copies of "American Qur’an" - Catharine Clark - C6

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Michael Jang book signing - illetante collective - B0

SPECIAL EVENT


Monday July 23 - 6-9 PM
Art as a Trojan Horse
A conversation with Jonathon Keats, Florence Jung and Mathias Jud
swissnex San Francisco Pier 17, Suite 800
Please RSVP: Eventbrite-Link

In conceptual art, art becomes a Trojan horse: an unexpected, sometimes subversive, means of creating ideas in the mind of an audience. Meet artists who have copyrighted their own mind, let the world send messages to US and UK spies, sold real estate in the extra dimensions of space-time, hired people to live the same lives across the world, and attempted to genetically engineer God. As part of our current exhibition, Mental Work, we present artists with strategies that dismantle boundaries between art and society. No recording is allowed: be there to get a glimpse into the secrets of conceptual art practices.

8-BALL ZINE FAIR SF EDITION #5

Sunday July 22nd - 11am-5pm - 1150 25th St - Parking Lot

8-Ball Community Inc. is an independent not-for-profit organization that — through free, open-access platforms and events — nurtures and supports a community of artists. We provide virtual and physical meeting sites for people of all ages, gender and backgrounds. Our mission is to generate collaborative and educational exchange through public access television and radio stations, an imprint, a self publishing fair, a public library, an internship program, a residency and series of workshops in art-related trades. 8-Ball Community operates free of elitism and is governed by its participants.

8-Ball Zine Fair started in 2012 at Grand Billiards in Brooklyn, NY. It usually happens in a pool hall, and has been reproduced in other cities around the world. The Drop Off table, placed at the centre of the fair, also represents the core of the community, un-selected and free, allows everyone to participate and show their work.8-Ball Zine Fair is free for exhibitors and guests and happens yearly in New York and San Francisco.

For this year's SF edition, we will be located in the parking lot (1150 25th St) of the SF Art Book Fair, put together by Minnesota Street Project, Colpa Press, and Park Life.

We have encouraged publishers to break the mold of the traditional zine/book fair and present their work out of the trunks of their cars or on picnic blankets. Everyone is welcome, we hope to see you there!

Attending publishers:

A Love Token and Hyperspace
Adam Villacin
Allied Forces Press
Boo-Hooray
Casey Corporation
Clare Bland
Doubles Ltd.
George Lochman
Jen Shear
Lower Grand
Matt Goias
Max Allbee
Momma Betty
Mystic Magic
Orange Radio

Play Press
Poker One
Project Paint
Raphael Villet
Sean Maung
Shade Magazine
Stephen Williams
StreetSalad
Take Care Tapes
Tiny Splendor
Troy Lumpkin
Unity Press
Weird Babes Digest Zines
Whiz World

SPONSORS


The 2018 SFABF was organized by Park Life, Colpa and Minnesota Street Project.
SFABF’s 2018 branding and identity by David Kasprzak.

Supporting Sponsors:
Levi’s Made & Crafted, Chronicle Books

Media Sponsor:
Hyperallergic

In-kind Sponsors:
Swissnex, San Francisco, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, San Francisco, Humboldt Legend, Lightsource SF, Fort Point Beer Co.