Printing Plant: Book Launches, Signings and Talks
23 November – 24 November 2019

Throughout the weekend, visitors of 'Printing Plant' are invited to attend exciting events put on by a selection of independent publishers and artists in our Room for Books - an intimate space where we offer room for books both literally and metaphorically. Here, book lovers can encounter informal readings, book launches and signings by authors, artists, graphic designers and other specialists in the field. For more information please refer to the timetable. Free admission.

Saturday 23 November

13:30 – 14:00
Informal talk: Van Zoetendaal Publishers presents ‘The Coming of the Light (Fiona Tan –Goraiko)’.
Publisher Willem van Zoetendaal will be present

14:00 – 14:30
Book launch: The Museum of Loss and Renewal presents ‘Place, People, Time: Publishing as an Artistic Practice’
Publishers Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen will be present

14:30 – 15:00
Book launch: Witte de With presents ‘Hans van Dijk: A Life with Art in China’
Author Marianne Brouwer and professor Kitty Zijlmans (Leiden University) will be present.
(For this event a reservation is required. More information here)

16:00 – 16:30
Printing Plant x San Serriffe
‘Tea Readings’: ‘Reworlding Ramallah’ by Callum Copley and ‘Chants of Energy’ by Jonathan Aldenberg

16:30 – 17:00
Informal talk: Frame Publishers presents ‘Let Your Fingers Do the Talking’
Architect and co-founder of Danish architecture firm CEBRA, Mikkel Frost will be present

17:00-17:30
Informal talk: Atelier Triay presents ‘Visions: Publishing from the Ground Up’
Independent magazine publisher Mathieu Triay will be present
(For this event a reservation is required. More information here).

18:00 – 18:30
Performative Reading: Sandberg Insititute’s Lost Dad presents ‘Viscosity’
Author and artist David Haack Monberg will be present

Sunday 24 November

13:00 - 13:30
Book launch: Cartha presents 'The Form of Form'
Co-editor Francisco Moura Veiga will be present

13:30 – 14:00
Book launch: Sandberg Institute’s Lost Dad presents ‘Transcription’
Authors Sun Chang and Sara Santana López will be present

14:00 – 14:30
Book launch: Punta Lara Ediciones presents ‘Turning Argentinian Flags’
Artist and author Candelo Santiago will be present

14:30 – 15:00
Informal talk: MM Artbook printing & repro presents ‘NASA // Past and Present Dreams of the Future - Nine Years in the Making’
Photographer and author Benedict Redgrove, and printer Marcel Meesters will be present

15:00 – 20:00 (ongoing), various sites throughout Looiersgracht 60
Book launch: P/////AKT presents Reinier Vrancken, ‘An owl is an owl and a swan is a swan but a crow is only partially crow and partially the sound a rooster makes’

15:30 – 16:00
Informal talk: Bon Gah presents ‘Independent Art Book Publishing in Iran’
Mahmoud Bakhshi (founder of Bon-Gah) will be present

16:00 – 16:30
Printing Plant x San Serriffe
‘Tea Readings’: ‘The Chance Event, wherein…’ by Becket Flannery

16:30 – 17:00
Informal Talk: Jap Sam Books presents ‘Remy Jungerman, Where the River Runs’
Editor Rob Perrée will be present.

17:00 – 17:30
Book Launch: Good Neighbour presents ‘Good Neighbour criteria for English (100 Indexes)’
Authors Dongyoung Lee, Martijn in ’t Veld and Martín La Roche will be present

18:00 – 18:30
Informal talk: Sandberg PS presents ‘The Place of Birth’
Writer Thomas van Huut and Sandberg alumni Elizaveta Strakhova and Rowena Buur will be present.