NODEUL SCHOOL FOR THE DISABLED @AGIT

 Exciting News!

After our successful Seoul Volume launch in March, we're thrilled to invite you to a launch our latest issue:

"The Invisible Archive: Nodeul School for the Disabled," written by Paolo Caffoni. 

Join us for an evening of performative reading, screening and artworks with Paolo Caffoni, Iden Sungyoung Kim, Saverio Cantoni, Ko Kwon-Geum, and Hopscotch Reading Room.  

The Invisible Archive prints will be available for purchase. A selection of books by Hopscotch will be also available for purchase. Payment is possible via cash or PayPal. Refreshments will be provided. 

The event is organized in collaboration with Agit and Hopscotch Reading Room.

Please come Covid-tested. Masks are welcome.

Date: Thursday, August 15th, 7-8:30pm. 
Location: Agit [Nansenstrasse 2, Berlin]

The Nodeul School for the Disabled is a grassroots, self-organized school and activist organization for and by disabled adults located in Seoul, South-Korea. The issue presents Paolo Caffoni's encounter with the school, which practices a pedagogy that empowers students to act politically and to forge resistance and rights for individuals marked by precarity. Issues of disability are discussed through various lenses such as the history of labor and the inherent weaknesses within systems of language and translation.

As creative research publication, The Invisible Archive (TIA) is committed to creating a dialogue that investigates how ideas on performativity and embodiment intersect with art and activism. TIA is also an archive project concerned with the structures and process of archiving through collaboration, self-organization and publishing. In our previous issues we have featured writings that reflected on the invisible labor, politics, and challenges attached to artistic and activist practices that are vulnerable due to their ephemeral nature, censorship, institutional neglect, cultural bias, or politically unpopular content.

Access info: Step-free, ground floor access. Please note that the toilet is very narrow and not accessible with a wheelchair. Please don’t hesitate to contact us and we guide you to the nearest accessible toilet. If you have any questions or other access needs, please let us know.

SEOUL VOLUME LAUNCH @FOREVER

We're super excited to let you know that Volume Seoul is launching this week! Now, our project is coming to life in Los Angeles, Berlin, and Seoul!🌱💫

Back in March 2019, we kicked things off with the first issue of the Invisible Archive, which turned into Volume Los Angeles. Then, in November of the same year, we got Volume Berlin off the ground.

The first issue of Volume Seoul documents the work at the Nodeul School, and is written by Paolo Caffoni. We're looking forward to expanding our network and getting to know more about the work of artists, cultural workers, and activists, especially through the lens of performativity and embodiment. It's exciting to think about what's ahead for us in Seoul. Starting now, we're opening up for submissions (in either Korean or English) for the Seoul Volume. Check out our website to find out how you can get involved and contribute to our multi-authored archive and publication project. 🙏🤍🙌

@paolo_caffoni
@nodeul_school
@forever.shadowed.white.star
@theinvisiblearchive

DALLAS ART BOOK FAIR 2024

TIA is coming to Texas THIS weekend! 🤠

Look for us at this year’s Dallas Art Book Fair @dallascontemporary.

PUBLISHING OTHERWISE BOOK FAIR @ESEA CONTEMPORARY

We're in love with esea contemporary's concept of the slow book fair and feeling grateful to be invited to participate and join this group of wonderful publications. If you're in Manchester, please visit this amazing art space and learn more about their fine programming.

@eseacontemporary is "the UK’s only non-profit institution specialising in presenting and platforming artists and art practices that are informed by East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) heritages."

The book fair goes until October 15!

MISSREAD BERLIN ART BOOK FAIR 2023

Meet us from Friday to Sunday at Miss Read, HKW in Berlin! We're launching our new New new issue on Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens written by Saskia Vogel. Celebrate with us! We're bringing the whole archive so you can also learn about the other issues:)

PRIMA X LARA @ ONE ARCHIVES FOUNDATION

Dear Friends,

We’re thrilled to invite you all to launch with us a new TIA issue! 

The Invisible Archive: Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai (Vol. LA, Issue No. 7)

written by Lara Salmon

edited by Erin Gordon

The launch event is graciously hosted by

ONE Archives at the USC Libraries

featuring a conversation with Prima and Lara, moderated by TIA advisor and Director of Content Strategy at ONE Archives Foundation Umi Hsu!

Location: 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007.
Date/Time: June 4, 2022 at 3PM (PDT)

Learn more about this beautiful issue HERE. You can already pre-order the limited prints on our website. During the launch event, the limited prints will be available for purchase.


We hope to see you all this Saturday!

Invitation designed by Vanessa Dahbour

Miss read 2022 - The Berlin art book fair

From Friday, April 29 to Sunday, May 1, The Invisible Archive will welcome you at the Miss Read art book fair!

Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair brings together a wide selection of the most interesting artists/authors, artist periodicals and art publishers and is accompanied by a series of lectures, discussions, book launches and workshops exploring the boundaries of contemporary publishing and the possibilities of the book.

Miss Read is Europe’s Art Book Festival, dedicated to community-building and creating a public meeting place for discourse around artists’ books, conceptual publications and publishing as practice.

Location:

Haus der Kulturen der Welt

John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10

10557 Berlin

Train stations

U55: Bundestag

S3, S5, S7, S9, S75 & Bus 100: Hauptbahnhof

Founded in 1989 the Haus der Kulturen der Welt becomes one of Berlin’s most important places for international contemporary arts and a forum for current developments and discourse. The Haus brings together artistic and social relationships in a special network that extends throughout and beyond Berlin. Here visitors can experience art as the practice of experimenting, questioning and discovering.

<<LAUNCH EVENT>> The Invisible Archive: Francis & Anthony Almendarez - Navigating the Archive Within

Dear Friends,

We're thrilled to launch into 2022 with a new issue: 

The Invisible Archive: Francis & Anthony Almendárez,
Navigating the Archives Within, Volume LA / Issue 6

Join us Sunday, February 20 for the issue launch on Zoom! The launch will take form as a conversation between The Invisible Archive (TIA) editor and writer, Virginia Arce, with Houston-based artists Francis and Anthony Almendarez and special guests. 
 

Tune into Zoom (meeting ID: 862 9330 9273)
Or join us at Instagram Live (@theinvisiblearchive)
11 a.m. PST | 1 p.m. CST | 8 p.m. CET

Navigating the Archive Within (NATW) is a collaborative, performance-based work that questions how histories, cultural traditions, and personal experiences are kept and transmitted. Incorporating original and archival imagery with live readings and improvised music, the experimental performance explores distinctions between “official” narratives, marginalized histories, and subjective memories while it blends and remixes them. TIA Vol. LA / Issue 6 on NATW takes shape as an interview with the project's founders, Francis and Anthony Almendarez, coupled with a new text written by TIA editor Virginia Arce's Navigating the Archives Within, which is her most experimental and personal to date.

This event is free and open to the public; no RSVP is needed.

You can order your limited-edition print of this issue now on our website.

OPEN CALL - Volume Berlin, Issue 3

The Invisible Archive (TIA) is now accepting proposals from writers/artists for the Berlin Volume.

As a creative research journal, TIA is committed to creating a dialogue that investigates how ideas on performativity and embodiment complicate and inform the conventions under which art is made, shared, and understood. We encourage textual interventions crossing disciplinary boundaries and welcome writing praxis that combines creative or art writing with critical scholarship working at the intersection of feminist & queer studies, critical race studies, decolonial studies, philosophical inquiry, or political economy. We’re looking for authors who write in English or German.

For each TIA journal issue, a new author is invited to critically explore, shed light on and give testimony to the work of an artist/collective of their choice through an essay (ca. 3000-4000 words) and an interview (ca. 3000-4000 words). Your work will be published as the next Berlin Volume, Issue No. 3 and available to order online as well as at selected libraries and bookshops in Los Angeles and Berlin. Please see the journal mission statement on our website. The writer will receive compensation for the work. Proposals can be submitted in English or in German.

Please submit

• A 1-page proposal text, which includes the following: Who do you want to write about and why? What topic or question will guide you to reflect on the artist/collective of your choice? -

• A link to your website (or a bio, max. 100 words)

• A link to one previously published writing (if you have not published a writing before, you can submit 1 writing sample)

Deadline: April 18, 2021 Submissions and questions to invisiblearchive@gmail.com

Camille O'Grady | Andy Campbell ISSUE LAUNCH & Virtual Wake @Facebook Live

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Dear Friends, 

Join us for the launch of The Invisible Archive's (TIA) fifth Los Angeles-based issue and virtual wake for the inimitable Camille O'Grady. TIA's editors will be in conversation with the issue's author Andy Campbell, who will talk about Camille's life, work, and legacy.

Andy will be joined by friends of Camille including Janet Hamill (poet), Anado McLauchlin (artist/poet), Eric Brogger (private chef/artist/writer), and August Bernadicou (producer, QueerCore Podcast), who will share stories about their relationship with the iconic artist, performer, and friend.

We encourage guests, listeners, and anyone tuning in to join us through the end of this virtual wake to toast to Camille's life, friendship, and legacy.

The event will be hosted on the Zoom Platform at 11AM (PST)/8PM (CET). We have created a Facebook Event Page for you where pre/post-discussions can take place and from where you can access the Zoom Link to the event: https://fb.me/e/3jnHCtmLt

This event is free and public; no RSVP needed. 

About the issue:

As both a public obituary and journal issue, this experimental text celebrates the life of late poet, musician, and "multimedium" artist Camille O'Grady (who recently passed from liver cancer on March 17, 2020). It serves as a meditation on her long, fascinating, and oft-tumultuous life underground while placing her firmly among well-known contemporaries such as Patti Smith and Lou Reed. Followed by an interview between the author and TIA editors Virginia Arce and Yon Natalie Mik, the three discuss the process in bringing O'Grady's obituary to life while ruminating on building her world through her posts and conversations with friends on social media. As a frequent user of Facebook towards the end of her life, O'Grady is explored through her online presence in tandem with her physical presence.

You can pre-order your limited edition print for this issue now on our website

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Liebe Freunde,

Wir laden euch herzlich ein zu unserem Launchevent für die 5. Los Angeles Ausgabe von The Invisible Archive mit einem Nachruf auf die unnachahmliche Camille O’Grady. Die Herausgeberinnen von TIA werden sich mit Andy Campell, dem Autor unterhalten und über Camille’s Leben, ihre Arbeit und ihre Hinterlassenschaften sprechen.

Überdies werden auch Freunde von Camille zu Wort kommen wie Janet Hamill (Poetin), Anado MacLauchlin (Künstler/Poet), Eric Brogger (Koch/Künstler/Autor), und August Bernadicou (Produzenten, QueerCore Podcast) und ihre eigenen Geschichten und Erinnerungen zu dieser außergewöhnlichen Ikone, Performerin und Freundin, mit uns teilen.

Wir freuen uns mit unseren Gästen und Zuhörern am Ende dieses virtuellen Gedenkmoments auf Camille, ihre Arbeit und ihre Freunde anzustoßen.

Das Event findet auf der Zoom Platform statt. Uhrzeit: 11:00 (PST) 20:00 (CET). (Wir haben für euch eine Facebook Event Page aufgemacht, wo Diskussionen vor und nach dem Event stattfinden können. Von hier aus könnt ihr auch zum Zoom Live Event klicken. Das Event steht Zuschauern mit oder ohne Zoom-Account zur Verfügung): https://fb.me/e/3jnHCtmLt

Diese Veranstaltung ist kostenlos und öffentlich ; Keine Reservierung erforderlich.

Über die Ausgabe:

Die neuste TIA Ausgabe veröffentlicht einen experimentellen Text, der sowohl als öffentlicher Nachruf als auch eine Kunstzeitschrift das Leben der verstorbenen Dichterin, Musikerin und "Multimedium" -Künstlerin Camille O'Grady (der kürzlich am 17. März 2020 an Leberkrebs erkrankt ist) feiert. Autor Andy Campbells Text dient als Meditation über ihr faszinierendes und oft turbulentes Leben in der Untergrundszene und verortet die Künsterlin als unnachahmliche Protagonistin unter bekannte Zeitgenossen wie Patti Smith und Lou Reed.

Caroline Böttcher | Mario Margani LAUNCH @KREUZBERG PAVILLON

Caroline Böttcher | Mario Margani

THE INVISIBLE ARCHIVE
Vol. Berlin Issue 2

curated by Kreuzberg Pavillon & Paulina Gimpel 

16.02.2020 | 18:00 - 22:00 
Kreuzberg Pavillon | Naunynstraße 53 | 10999 Berlin

The Invisible Archive (TIA) is a print journal of performance and time-based art based in LA and Berlin. For the launch of the new issue 'The Invisible Archive: Caroline Böttcher' written by curator, writer, and artist Mario Margani, the publication project expands into the physical space of Kreuzberg Pavillon and performatively exhibits a dialogue between artist and writer. 

Mario Margani reflects on the multidisciplinary practice of Berlin-based artist Caroline Böttcher by focusing on her latest site-specific audio walks that are part of her larger archival research project on the Berliner rubble hills (Trümmerberge) and the 1896 Great Industrial Exposition (Berliner Gewerbeausstellung). He ruminates on these sound-based pieces through ideas of memory and virtuality among others, opening up a conversation about artistic modes that are performed by the audience, and considering how these works relate to other more material-based works by Caroline that further employ notions of history and the present.

New readers and writers will have a chance to learn about TIA's self-organized project through copies of former publications and to join us for an artist talk. We look forward to seeing friends and supporters, both established and new, as well as making curious and unexpected friends. Grab a drink with us and celebrate a collective effort of dialoguing and performative writing on time-based practices. 

The event is free and public; no RSVP needed. 
The journals will be available for sale in the evening.

www.invisiblearchive.com ; @theinvisiblearchive
www.carolineboettcher.com; 
http://digicult.it/author/mario-margani/ ; @abigpit4ubigpig 
www.kreuzbergpavillon.de; @kreuzbergpavillon

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The Invisible Archive (TIA) ist ein Journal für zeitbasierte Kunst aus LA und Berlin. Zur Veröffentlichung der neuen Ausgabe The Invisible Archive: Caroline Böttcher, verfasst von Kurator, Schriftsteller und Künstler Mario Margani, dehnt sich das Publikationsprojekt in den physischen Raum des Kreuzberg Pavillons aus und stellt performativ einen Dialog zwischen Künstlerin und Schriftsteller her. 

Mario Margani reflektiert die multidisziplinäre Praxis der in Berlin lebenden Künstlerin Caroline Böttcher, indem er sich auf ihre jüngsten ortsspezifischen Hörspaziergänge konzentriert, die Teil ihres größeren Archivforschungsprojekts über die Berliner Trümmerberge und die Große Industrieausstellung von 1896 sind. Er reflektiert über diese klangbasierten Stücke unter anderem über Ideen der Erinnerung und der Virtualität, eröffnet ein Gespräch über künstlerische Modi, die vom Publikum ausgeführt werden, und überlegt, wie sich diese Werke zu anderen, eher materialbasierten Werken von Caroline verhalten, die sich weiter mit Vorstellungen von Geschichte und Gegenwart beschäftigen.

Neue Leser*innen und Autor*innen werden die Möglichkeit haben, das selbstorganisierte Kollektiv von TIA anhand von früheren Ausgaben der Publikation kennen zu lernen und an einem Künstler*innengespräch teilzunehmen. Wir freuen uns auf Freunde und Unterstützer*innen, Neugierige und Unerwartete. Gönnt euch einen Drink mit uns und feiert die gemeinsame Anregung dieses Dialogs und des performativen Schreibens über zeitbasierte Praktiken. 

Die Veranstaltung ist kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung.
Die Publikation kann an diesem Abend erworben werden.

www.invisiblearchive.com ; @theinvisiblearchive
www.carolineboettcher.com; 
http://digicult.it/author/mario-margani/ ; @abigpit4ubigpig 
www.kreuzbergpavillon.de; @kreuzbergpavillon

Friends with Books Berlin Art Book Fair @ Hamburger Bahnhof Museum

Come say hello at this year’s FWB Berlin Art Book Fair from September 20-22, 2019 at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum. On Saturday, September 21st from 5 to 6pm, we will also give a performative lecture in collaboration with Lara Salmon who will create mnemonic gesture, 2019.

The Invisible Archive is available at PAM!

Dear TIA readers!

If you missed us at the journal launch or the LA Art Book Fair, you can still visit PAM and snatch a copy of our inaugural publication (only a few left!)

This is also a great chance to learn about PAM and experience one of their upcoming events. Founded in 2013, PAM is a blue theater in a second floor studio in Highland Park, Los Angeles. They provide holistic support for the process of making new, original, long form performances by providing time, space for performance art residencies and other events such as the forum for critical discourse. Visit PAM’s website or follow them on social media to learn about the latest news.

Website: http://www.pamresidencies.com

Instagram: @pamresidencies

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pamresidencies

TIA @ LA ART BOOK FAIR 2019

We are very excited to announce that our inaugural edition of The Invisible Archive LA will be available at the Printed Matter’s 2019 LA Art Book Fair (LAABF) from April 12-14 at the Goodbye Books booth.

Initiated in 2013, LAABF is the companion fair to the NY Art Book Fair. Free and open to the public, the two fairs are among the leading international gatherings for the distribution of artists’ books, celebrating the full breadth of the art publishing community.

LAABF 2019 takes place on April 12–April 14, 2019 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Opening Night will be held on Thursday, April 11 from 6–9 pm.

The Invisible Archive Launch @ PAM

-INVITATION-

We invite you to the launch party of The Invisible Archive, a new journal of performance art in Los Angeles edited by Virginia Arce & Natalie Mik and published by Goodbye Books. The launch party will take place at PAM in Highland Park, Los Angeles. Contributors of this special inaugural edition are Cindy Rehm, Kim Zumpfe, Heisue Chung-Matheu and Grace Hwang.

• March 24th, 2-4pm

• 5810 1/2 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles, California 90042

Link to Facebook event page