Panel Discussion
Partial list of participants and publications: Booklyn, Alejandro Cesarco, Veronica de Jesus, Dexter Sinister, Gallery 16, Golden Guns Investigations, InterReview Journal, Darin Klein, Material Press, Rebecca Miller, Kottie Paloma, Airyka Rockefeller, Roddy Schrock, Silverman Gallery, Whitehot Magazine, Skank Bloc Bologna
Saturday 03 May 2008
Saturday, May 3, 11-6pm



Book It! is a one-day alternative publishing gathering, including a panel discussion, bringing together artist’s books, ‘zines, magazines, and online publications from the Bay Area and beyond. The day offers visitors a chance to browse and purchase unique, hard-to-find, and one-of-a-kind publications, as well as a forum for discussion.

As part of Book It! Langton presents a panel discussion focused on independent publishing, and experimental approaches to the making and distribution of publications. The panelist—Gwen Allen, Noah Becker, Julian Myers, and Ginger Wolfe-Suarez (see bios below)—will survey fanzines’ culture, artists’ magazines, and online publication.

Book It! is organized in conjunction with two exhibitions now at Langton: Once Within a Room by Alejandro Cesarco and Dexter Sinister’s Phantom Rosebuds, both of which reconsider the place of text, narrative, and reading in contemporary art and society. The artists and curators involved in these exhibitions examine the function of language and text in the artistic process, and propose alternative models of publishing and production.

Panel:

Gwen Allen is Assistant Professor of Art History at San Francisco State University, where she teaches modern and contemporary art history. Her research focuses on art and media, with an emphasis on alternative distribution and artists' publications of the 1960s and 1970s. She co-curated "Conceptual Art and the Document" at the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University in 1999, and has published criticism and articles in Art Journal, Artforum, Umbrella, Performance Research, and Vectors.

Noah Becker is a visual artist and musician. In 2007 he founded Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art. In it's first year of operation Whitehot Magazine has grown to over 140 writers and has seen 390,000 readers internationally. Whitehot Magazine has been recognized as one of the world's largest art magazines. In addition to reviews from major galleries and museums, Whitehot conducts interviews with known and less known art world figures. Whitehot Magazine was a participant in the publications area of the NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance) art fair, Miami 2007.






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