1:00—2:00 pm

Ways of Hearing, with Damon Krukowski and Matthew Browne 

             Ways of Hearing is a new book from  M.I.T. Press, based on the podcast of the same name produced by Radiotopia, and a response to John Berger’s classic examination of visual culture Ways of Seeing (itself based on a BBC television series). Author Damon Krukowski and MIT Press editor Matthew Browne will discuss how translating a podcast to print both complicates and potentially deepens the project’s examination of how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time, space, love, money, and power. The book also features an “interlude" by historian of technology Emily Thompson, and was meticulously designed by James Goggin of Practise. Presented by M.I.T. Press. ︎



2:00—3:00 pm

Non-Terminal Education and Post-Linear Curricula: Rethinking Structures of Higher Education in (Graphic) Design, with Yasmin Khan, Jessica Wexler, Adam Feldmeth, Joe Potts, and Masood Kamandy

                Traditional structures and hierarchies by which design educators have framed and understood culture and the academy are of diminishing relevance in an evolving cultural context characterized by rapid evolution, simultaneity, erosion of expertise and disciplinarity, and spiraling debt. As other disciplines develop new models to describe and prescribe the evolution of their practices, how can design educators (and administrators) articulate new structures that frame our understanding of our practices and the contexts in which they unfold? Exploring and proposing alternate structures for higher education, with attention to the connections between curricular, pedagogical, and economic concerns, Workshop Project and the Southland Institute have been examining different ways that interwebbed institutions create networked landscapes of pedagogical heterodoxy, to be navigated over the course of a lifelong education. Presented by The Southland Institute and Workshop Project.



3:00—4:00 pm

Queering as Praxis as Pedagogy, with Nicole Killian, Jerome Harris, Kelsey Elder, and Christina Webb

                As design educators at various institutions, Nicole Killian, Jerome Harris, Kelsey Elder, and Christina Webb will discuss the serial form of design education and the ways to ask more questions, instead of solve problems. The panel will investigate communication, accountability, the publication of bodies in educational spaces, and how those physical spaces are created for students and educators alike. 

4:00—5:00 pm

Designing the Scriptural Economy, with Ali S. Qadeer 

               Designers/educators Chris Lee and Ali S. Qadeer, guest editors of the C Magazine issue 141 Graphic Design, engage in the examination of a genre of designed artifacts that constitute what theorist Lisa Gitelman calls the Scriptural Economy. This concept describes the way that printed, reproducible forms are central to the formation of culture, the production of knowledge, and the reification of information; these forms perform as evidence, and sediment power through administration and managerial forms of governance. Lee and Qadeer take an expanded definition of the field to include the plethora of forms that are created by design operations, but often without the authorial hand of the designer (think passports, money, deeds to death certificates, and beyond). Led by Qadeer, the discussion will be framed around key documental objects and how their design informs their operations within the Scriptural Economy. It will speculate on “the document” as a genre of design, and also asks us to consider an expanded imagination of what the subjectivity of the designer is. Presented by C Magazine.




5:00—6:00 pm

NEWS!#2. Domestic Orbits, with Frida Escobedo, Xavier Nueno, and León Muñoz Santini

                NEWS! is a series of publications dedicated to practice-based research by artists, architects, educators, scientists, scholars, and writers. NEWS! publishes ongoing investigations committed to reading material records of the present, the histories they enfold, and the futures that haunt them. At LAABF, we will present NEWS!#2 Domestic Orbits. Organized through a series of case-studies that range from the 1950s until today in Mexico City, this publication looks at the different scales—from the housing unit to the urban environment—in which domestic labor spaces are erased by architects and planners. By making visible what architectural plans render invisible, Frida Escobedo draws the guidelines for a counter-history of modernist architecture in Mexico. ︎ 




6:00—7:00 pm

Conversion Therapy: Making Movies into Books and Back Again, with Mariah Garnett, William E. Jones, Nguyen Tan Hoang, and Brontez Purnell

                Dirty Looks assembles the contributors from their fourth installment in their printed Volume series to discuss the language of filmmaking and how it relates to underground publishing. ︎

1:00 pm

Ang Wilson + Pauline Lay

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2:00 pm

Jazzy Romero

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3:00 pm

Emily Reo

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4:00 pm 

Dustin Wong + Takako Minekawa

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5:00 pm

Carlos Niño

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6:00 pm

Noise Heals

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10:00 am—12:00 pm

Castelar Elementary School, with Ann Greene Kelly

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1:00—3:00 pm

Diego Rivera Learning Complex, with Wendy Yao

Wendy Yao of Ooga Booga will be leading zine-making workshop with Diego Rivera Learning Complex.
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3:00—4:00 pm

Talking Turkey by John Baldessari. Presented by Small Press / Westreich Wagner.

              Two Kids, One Grown-up is the newest artist’s book from John Baldessari, a non-linear narrative based on movie lines and blown-up emojis from the artist's 2017 Los Angeles show. Playing with the limits of language and imagery, it’s both conceptual art primer and exhibition catalog. Join us to read from the story and talk about meaning in a multimedia age.︎ Add to Calendar

4:00—6:00 pm

Southeast Asian Community Alliance (SEACA), with Milano Chow

            Artist Milano Chow will be leading a 3D drawing workshop re appropriating Chow’s artwork.
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2:00 pm
P27    Launch of Zombie Girls by Lucie Lučanská. Presented by Colorama.
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2:00 pm
O15    Signing of The Pillar and other titles by Stephen Gill.
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2:00 pm
O16    Signing of Bushes and Succulents by Mona Kuhn. Presented by STANLEY/BARKER. 
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2:00 pm
G01    Signing of a new print by Heather Benjamin. Presented by Kayrock Screenprinting. ︎ Add to Calendar

3:00 pm
I03    Signing of Vanishing Wave by Devandra Banhart. Presented by Anteism Books. 
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3:00 pm
M11    Launch of Amoria by Linnea Kniaz. Presented by Space Sisters Press.︎ Add to Calendar  

3:00 pm
L08    Launch and signing of Tarot, $$$, and Street Spirit: New York by Oswaldo García. Presented by Gold Rain.
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4:00 pm
B02     Signing of Grey Organization: Cork Street Attack (21st May, 1985) by Toby Mott. Presented by Arcana: Books on the Arts. 
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5:00 pm
L17    Signing of Fachstelle and Contact by Michael Günzburger. Presented by Edition Taube and Edition Patrick Frey.
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5:00 pm
H01    Signing of The Road by Ross Goodwin, writer of writer. Presented by Jean Boîte Éditions.
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5:00 pm
R64    Launch of Can Can Friends Vol. 02 with contributions from Zebu, Molly Dogson and Colin Doerfler. Presented by Can Can Press.
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5:00 pm

O09    Signing of Heavy III by Sam Contis and Matthew Genitempo. Presented by The Heavy Collective.
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5:00 pm
P92    Signing of If Our President Was An Ordinary Man by Nikita Shokhov. Presented by Samopal Books. 
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6:00 pm
M02    Launch of Etiquette of the Arms Trade by Jill Gibbon. Presented by Beam Editions. 
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6:00 pm
P28    Signing of An Atlas of Outer Space by Alice Wang. Presented by Sming Sming Books.
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6:00 pm
O42    Signing of Sinking Stone by Cristiano Volk. Presented by Witty Kiwi. ︎ Add to Calendar

6:00 pm
G04    Launch of Reproductions Direct From Papers by Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson. Presented by Multinational Enterprises.
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6:30 pm
G09    Launch and signing of Gerontion by Christian Michael Filardo. Presented by UCLA Collective: D|MA & IS.
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Anteism Books

              Anteism Books—together with Artists + Machine Intelligence (A+MI), a research program at Google—presents a selection of print editions, objects, and art books by artists working with artificial intelligence. Featuring works and essays by Casey Reas, Ross Goodwin, and Hito Steyerl, this project space celebrates an emerging art field with the publication of a new zine that catalogues contemporary artist-engineer collaborations, and explores what it feels like to collaborate with intelligent systems.

Gagosian

                Gagosian presents a project space exploring the multifaceted work and influences of painter and performance artist Spencer Sweeney. Sweeney, along with collaborators Lizzi Bougatsos, Jennifer Herrema, and Kurt Midness, will record a musical performance directly onto a 7-inch single using a record lathe—a device for making individual records by cutting into the vinyl, in real time. The lathe will continue to be utilized and demonstrated throughout the duration of the fair as additional records of the performance are created and made available, along with accompanying record sleeves that are themselves limited edition prints by Sweeney.
                Alongside this and other editioned works, a library of books and ephemera curated by Sweeney reflect and expand upon how the sonic, visual, and mystical are inextricable within the artist’s work and practice. Select Gagosian publications will focus on similar multidisciplinary themes and feature Los Angeles artists.
 

Corita Art Center

                The Corita Art Center in Los Angeles was established in 1997 to preserve and honor the legacy of Corita Kent (1918–1986), an artist, educator, and advocate for social justice. Since its founding, the Center has facilitated hundreds of exhibitions of Corita’s work, maintained the largest collection of Corita’s works, and housed her archival materials, including prints, books, and watercolors. At LAABF, the Center presents an exploration of its archive alongside a selection of screen prints by the artist.

Werkplaats Typografie

               Looking to clan? From the company who brought games like Sondokruna to the Sigleplonks on Gromodoru comes Nonoki, the first LERP from SenTech to hit the shelves of Earth. Sentech, a universal corporation originating from Arkwelpsat Peigytrofa aims to connect all social organisms in universal insight through the unique divination of the ritual symbolic. Join us in cosplay and reserve your ghost!
                The Werkplaats Typografie, part of ArtEZ University of the Arts, is a two-year graduate program in graphic design based in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The program encourages self-accountable and independently motivated work and research.

Paper Cuts

                Duplex is a project by Paper Cuts, the collaborative publication endeavor of Sara Greenberger Rafferty and David Kennedy Cutler. A duplex refers to a house divided into two apartments and to duplex printing, where an impression is left on both sides of a piece of paper. Paper Cuts: Duplex is a double-sided, double-floored, fully-scaled structure for displaying and selling editioned publications.