VOLUMES, Art Publishing Days

VOLUMES, Art Publishing Days VOLUMES is a non profit organisation based in Zürich, Switzerland. VOLUMES team: Anne-Laure Franchette, Gloria Wismer, Patrizia Mazzei.

Since 2013, we organise events (including an eponymous festival on the last week end of November) dedicated to showcase, explore and question what books made by artists can be.

Happy to support this exciting new initiative by ❤️ Check it out 👀
02/01/2022

Happy to support this exciting new initiative by ❤️

Check it out 👀

Join us this Sunday 19/12 at to discover an exciting range of artists and publishers: About Books (Zürich, CH); .nussb...
18/12/2021

Join us this Sunday 19/12 at to discover an exciting range of artists and publishers:

About Books (Zürich, CH); .nussbaumer (Zürich, CH); (Warsaw, PL); (Zürich, CH); (Genève, CH); Bookboi* HfG Karslruhe (Karlsruhe, DE); (Lausanne, CH); Caroline Minjolle (Zürich, CH); (Brusino Arsizio, CH); Christophe Daviet-Thery (Paris, FR); (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, CH); (Zürich, CH); Der gesunde Menschenversand (Luzern, CH); (Lichtenstein, CH); Dominique Turzer (Aarau, CH); (Sierre, CH); Éditions ExposerPublier (Paris, FR); Edition Fink (Zürich, CH); (Zürich, CH); (München, DE / Zürich, CH); (St. Gallen, CH); (Leipzig, DE); .ch (Zürich, CH); Fair Enough (Zürich, CH); GRRRR (Zürich, CH); (Zürich, CH); (Zürich, CH); Ink Press (Zürich, CH); (Torino, IT); inter:archive (Zürich, CH; (St. Gallen, CH); .press (Athens, GR); (Bern, CH); (Zürich, CH); Maria Pomiansky (Zürich, CH); Mariano Gaich (Zürich, CH); Mimi Bunko (Zürich,CH); Mini-Zine Library (Zürich, CH); Radi Kahlo (Zürich, CH); .zoller + Corinne Vionnet (London, UK / Vevey, CH); Rolling library (Zürich, CH); Rollo Press (Zürich, CH); (Basel, CH); Spinatsch Books (Zürich, CH); Superhaufen–magazine for independent publishing (Dortmund, DE); TETI Press .group (Zürich, CH); .books (Vevey, CH); (Zürich, CH); (Zürich, CH / Beijing, CN); (Freiburg, DE) + VOLUMES Award 2021

A perfect opportunity to find original presents!
+ Food, drinks & music by Ms Hyde and Momo Love.

Sunday 19th December, 12 - 19h, Zentralwäscherei, Neue Hard 12, 8005 Zürich

All the exhibitiors and visitors will have to show their certificate and wear masks. Thank you for your support and see you tomorrow! ❤️

inter:archive presentation at this Sunday for Initiated in 2020, inter:archive is a non-exhaustive, ‘particip-active’ ...
17/12/2021

inter:archive presentation at this Sunday for

Initiated in 2020, inter:archive is a non-exhaustive, ‘particip-active’ project that seeks to shed light on the concept of ‘intersectionality’ – or ‘intersectional feminism’. In short, ‘intersectionality’ argues for the presence of not a single but overlapping oppressions based on social categorizations, such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, religion, sexuality, migratory status. Thinking intersectionally means to take ‘a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects’ as stated by scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, who first coined the term in 1989.

The collaboration with VOLUMES forms one of inter:archive’s main engagements. After hours spent at the VOLUMES archive library, it resulted in a collection of publications that subtly relate to the topic. This activation also aspires to support VOLUMES in growing its archive further. Indeed, inter:archive is interested in going beyond the mere selection of publications and categorization. It wants to develop over time and engage further with the topic, i.e. by integrating more sources, interviews, readings, artist contributions, etc. – and shaping a sphere to imagine plural futurities.

In a nutshell, inter:archive collects the multiple voices that rise from literature and art to emancipate and highlight intersectional lived experiences.

The project is conceived by curators , , , as part of the curatorial programme of the Project Space.

Read more about it here: https://www.volumeszurich.ch/collection/interarchive-digital-platform

The VOLUMES Archive is a collection of zines, artist books and publications, which exists thanks to the many donations we receive annually for our international open call and award exhibition. Taking this library as a site of investigation, we have been researching new forms for organising and understanding the paradigm of the archive. Please get in touch with us if you would like to visit it. We also happily accept donations of your zines and printed matter, feel free to mail them to us 🤓

Reading room and collective zine making by ISTERIKA ISTORIKA this Sunday at for ISTERIKA ISTORIKA is an informal readi...
16/12/2021

Reading room and collective zine making by ISTERIKA ISTORIKA this Sunday at for

ISTERIKA ISTORIKA is an informal reading group exploring femminist, transfemminist and q***r narratives. Focusing on science fiction, fantasy, dystopian fiction and critical theory, it creates a non-academic, open and horizontal space for discussion. For VOLUMES, ISTERIKA proposes a stretched and deconstructed version of the reading group, setting up a reading/working table and inviting the public to join an ongoing conversation and participate in the production of a collective zine.

ISTERIKA ISTORIKA was born in Torino, in autumn 2020, as a collaboration between artists Caterina Giansiracusa and Sara Cattin, along with Denise Cappadonia, owner and curator of , q***r and transfeminist bookstore in Turin (IT). What started as a monthly meeting moved by the wish to explore the world of feminist science fiction, created an open and collective space to think together. The intent is to approach contemporary issues in a collective mode, through the meeting points offered by feminist and transfemminist narratives. Q***r sci-fi and other related visionary genres become a way to explore narrative freedom, looking for new languages and worlds, taking small steps outside of our own comfort zone.

Performance by Anissa Nussbaumer at 2pm and 4pm on Sunday 19/11 at for MATERIAL ORAKEL is an installation and performa...
15/12/2021

Performance by Anissa Nussbaumer at 2pm and 4pm on Sunday 19/11 at for

MATERIAL ORAKEL is an installation and performance that the artist makes in collaboration with a book. Its pages originally come from almost four hundred different publications from MATERIAL. The pages chosen and edited by the artist have the function of promises in the new book.
Do you need inspiration for the New Year? Or do you have a specific question? The oracle provides.

Anissa Nussbaumer lives and works in Zurich. In her artistic work, she deals mainly with so- cio-cultural themes. Driven by confrontations with her own borderline experiences, the artist draws from subcultural worlds, religious rituals, philosophical theses and scientific classifications. In doing so, she resorts to various media, from the written word to painterly experiments to performance.

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MATERIAL ORAKEL
Installation & Performance, 2021, Anissa Nussbaumer
MATERIAL ORAKEL ist eine Installation und Performance, welche die Künstlerin in Zusammenar- beit mit einem Buch macht. Seine Seiten stammen ursprünglich von fast vierhundert unterschied- lichen Publikationen aus dem MATERIAL. Die von der Künstlerin gewählten und bearbeiteten Seiten haben im neuen Buch die Funktion von Verheissungen.
Brauchst du eine Inspiration für das Neue Jahr? Oder hast du eine konkrete Frage? Darauf gibt das Orakel Antwort.

Anissa Nussbaumer lebt und arbeitet in Zürich. In ihrer künstlerischen Arbeit beschäftigt sie sie sich mehrheitlich mit soziokulturellen Themen. Angetrieben von Auseinandersetzungen mit eige- nen Grenzerfahrungen schöpft die Künstlerin aus subkulturellen Welten, religiösen Ritualen, phi- losophischen Thesen und wissenschaftlichen Klassifikationen. Dabei greift sie zu verschiedenen Medien, vom geschriebenen Wort über malerische Experimente bis hin zur Performance.

This year we are doing a VOLUMES 1 Day Christmas Edition! Who is in? The bookfair will take place on 19 December 2021, 1...
15/11/2021

This year we are doing a VOLUMES 1 Day Christmas Edition! Who is in?

The bookfair will take place on 19 December 2021, 12 - 19h, at in Zürich (Neue Hard 12). Free entrance

We invite you, all publishers and self-publishing artists, to apply now and before 28 November 2021, simply by filling out the form here below and emailing us the answers. Like at our 1 Day Summer Edition, we will rent out a full table per application for CHF 50.

We would love to see you once again this year and spend a day together filled with friends and books (perfect potential Christmas presents, as we all know). We look forward to receiving your applications!!

APPLICATION FORM for our 1 Day Xmas Edition:
Name of the publishing project:
Responsible person at the fair:
Address, Webpage, E-Mail, and Phone:
Short description of your publishing project:
email your answers to [email protected]

Dear Friends! We are very happy to announce our VOLUMES 1 Day Christmas Edition!The bookfair will take place on 19 Decem...
10/11/2021

Dear Friends! We are very happy to announce our VOLUMES 1 Day Christmas Edition!

The bookfair will take place on 19 December 2021, 12 - 19h, at in Zürich (Neue Hard 12).

We invite you, all publishers and self-publishing artists, to apply now and before 28 November 2021, simply by filling out the form here below and replying to this e-mail. Like at our 1 Day Summer Edition, we will rent out a full table per application for CHF 50.

Are you in? We'd love to see you once again this year and spend a day together filled with friends and books (perfect potential Christmas presents, as we all know).

We look forward to receiving your applications!!

Oh, by the way: you can still apply for the VOLUMES 2021 Award (deadline is 21 November)! The winners and all the submitted books wil be on display at the 1 Day Christmas Edition!

APPLICATION FORM for VOLUMES 1 Day Christmas Edition:
Name of the publishing project:
Responsible person at the fair:
Address, Webpage, E-Mail, and Phone:
Short description of your publishing project:
email your answers to [email protected]

01/11/2021

Oooh what is this? It’s the 🧡VOLUMES AWARD 2021🧡 Apply by: 21/11/2021

What was published by artists and independent publishers in 2021? With this second VOLUMES award, we would like to follow up on the initiative we started last year, to highlight and support the production and producers of 2021 with 4 cash prizes of 500 CHF each. 3 prizes will be awarded by online voters and 1 will be selected by the VOLUMES team, to support especially an artist/publisher with small means, making meaningful and selfless work.

All of the submitted books will be showcased both online and within an award exhibition in Zürich, Switzerland (TBA). Just like last year, we will invite everybody to vote and elect 3 finalists. Please submit your publication before November 21 via our website (link in bio)

Requirements:
- Each publisher/artist can only submit one book
- The book has to be published between November 2020 and November 2021
- Each publisher needs to fill out the submission form
- A copy of the book needs to be sent to VOLUMES before November 21, 2021, we will not accept any books sent to us on a later date. All the books sent to us will be showcased online and will be displayed as part of our 2021 award exhibition. All books will afterwards become part of the growing VOLUMES archive, which also gets activated and showcased.
- Each application needs to include a video of max. 3 min length to introduce the book. The publishers are completely free in which ever way they would like to do this. The video must be uploaded to Youtube or Vimeo and the link must be sent to VOLUMES by email: [email protected].
- Also send by e-mail a JPG of the cover and a double page from the publication

Please note that we will not accept any submission which does not meet the requirements listed above. We will also not accept any abusive content (racist, sexist etc.).

Shipping Address for the book:
VOLUMES Zurich Art Publishing Days
Goldbrunnenstrasse 140
CH-8003 Zürich

We are SO looking forward to receiving your submissions! Please help us spread the word to reach creatives outside of our current Swiss and European network! 🍑 🍑Oooh what is this? It’s the 🧡VOLUMES AWARD 2021🧡 Apply by: 21/11/2021

What was published by artists and independent publishers in 2021? With this second book award, we would like to follow up on the initiative we started last year, to highlight and support the production and producers of 2021 with 4 cash prizes of 500 CHF each. 3 prizes which will be decided by online voters and 1 will be selected by the VOLUMES team, to support especially an artist/publisher with small means, making meaningful and selfless work.

All of the submitted books will be showcased both online and within an award exhibition in Zürich, Switzerland. Just like last year, we will invite everybody to vote for their favorite publications of 2021. Please submit your publication before November 21 via our website: https://www.volumeszurich.ch/

Requirements:
- Each publisher/artist can only submit one book
- The book has to be published between November 2020 and November 2021
- Each publisher needs to fill out the submission form
- A copy of the book needs to be sent to VOLUMES before November 21, 2021, we will not accept any books sent to us on a later date. All the books sent to us will be showcased online and will be displayed as part of our 2021 award exhibition. All books will afterwards become part of the growing VOLUMES archive, which also gets activated and showcased.
- Each application needs to include a video of max. 3 min length to introduce the book. The publishers are completely free in which ever way they would like to do this. The video must be uploaded to Youtube or Vimeo and the link must be sent to VOLUMES by email: [email protected].
- Also send by e-mail a JPG of the cover and a double page from the publication

Please note that we will not accept any submission which does not meet the requirements listed above. We will also not accept any abusive content (racist, sexist etc.).

Shipping Address for the book:
VOLUMES Zurich Art Publishing Days
Goldbrunnenstrasse 140
CH-8003 Zürich

We are SO looking forward to receiving your submissions! Please help us spread the word to reach creatives outside of our current Swiss and European network! 🍑 🍑

While in Kazan, we were given an insightful tour of the newly open library and of its current exhibition about the glob...
01/11/2021

While in Kazan, we were given an insightful tour of the newly open library and of its current exhibition about the global world of Tatar books.

The exhibition contains several sections, from the era of the Golden Horde to the Soviet period. Each section of the exhibition shows not only the continuity of different periods in the development of the Tatar book culture, but also dramatic breaks, such as the changes from Arabic alphabet to Latin then Cyrillic script. During the heyday of handwritten culture in the eighteenth century, you can see signs of globalization: the Tatars rewrote Persian texts on Dutch paper and left notes in them in Russian. The unusual section “Magic and Medicine” gives an idea of ​​how the Tatars borrowed and interpreted the medical treatises of the Indo-Persian culture. The beginning of the last century saw the Tatars move between Arabic graphics, Latin and Cyrillic. Typography in the Arabic script reached its climax, the Latin alphabet was associated with modernity, and the Cyrillic alphabet united the Tatars with the entire Soviet culture. Letters of all these alphabets are displayed as an installation in the main hall.

The building, conceited during the Soviet period and built in Armenian stone, wears a few traces of Soviet propaganda, such as large indoor sculptures.

A special prize for DIY face masks goes to and . Many thanks to .lukyanova.ru and for organizing this visit during our stay!

An amazing collection of artist books is being developed by within the library of in Moscow. After a first meeting in ...
01/11/2021

An amazing collection of artist books is being developed by within the library of in Moscow. After a first meeting in 2019, Valerijl updated us on the current state of this exciting collection which, amongst many others, comprises the work of Sergei Bespamyatnykh, Rostan Tavasiev, DVR movement, Andrey Olenev, AlexandreDanilov, Igor Ponosov, Anna Tereshkina, Nikita Alexeev, Leonid Tishkov, or Anton Gudkov. We were especially happy to see publications from and who had just taken part in our Kazan workshop at with and .group

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VOLUMES is a non-profit organisation and collective which was created in Zürich in 2013 to support the local and international DIY-facet of art publishing and introduce it to a larger audience in Switzerland.

Operating in various locations, the organisation’s main event is an eponymous book fair which takes place annually in Zürich at the end of November. The fair showcases the production of local and international independent publishers as well as self-published artists who use small means of production. Exploring the practices and experiments gravitating around the practices of art publishing, the event also offers to the visitor a series of experiences such as performances, workshops, talks, projections and book exhibitions.

VOLUMES is building an archive of artist books and zines which are mainly donated. The collection is showcased online and exhibited at fairs, workshops and presentations.

All the events organised by VOLUMES are made possible by the involvment of artists and publishers, the funding contributions and the limitless enthusiasm and engagement of the team of organisers, technicians and helpers.