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Julie Chen:

Murray, Heather, Journal of Artists Books, Fall 2015, Issue 38, p10-15. 6p.

PRODUCTIVE CONSUMPTION: READING BOOK ARTS

Caroline Tabet
Caroline Tabet is a Lebanese artist who lives and works in Beirut. She studied Photography in Montpellier and is a photographer, video artist and performer. Tabet was born in Beirut in 1974 and spent "much of her youth" living in France.

In 2000, she co-founded the Beirut-based collective, Art.Core, which brought together "the works of painters, musicians, and photographers."

Tabet's work, Faim de Communication was exhibited at Zico House in Beirut and Galerie Artcore in Paris. It was screened at Né à Beyrouth film festival in 2002, the Women Make Waves Festival in Taipei, Taiwan in 2006 and the Côté Court Festival in Pantin, France.

In 2003, Tabet co-founded the collective, Engram, with Lebanese photographer, Joanna Andraos. They collaborated on 290 rue de Liban and Notes on Arabi. 290 rue de Liban was self-published as a monograph in 2010.

Tabet's collection of black and white images, Beirut Lost Spaces, were featured in her 2013 exhibition, Of Places and Dust. This series features images of "deserted or uninhabited places" in Beirut that were "intended to be changed or vanquished," including the Egg. These images explored the collective memory of the city and further accentuated the nostalgia surrounding the Egg, as a ruin.

Tabet worked with designer Wafa Aoun on a collaborative body of work, Disintegrated Objects, in 2015.

Projects/Work

 * Faim de Communication (2002)


 * Of Places and Dust (2013)
 * Disintegrated Objects (2015) collaborative body of work with designer Wafa Aoun (source)

Engram
 * Ombres Projetées (2018)
 * 290 Lebanon Street
 * Notes on Arabi


 * Numbers, an installation with Engram

Books

290 rue du Liban (2010), Monograph from Engram

Disintegrated Objects (2015), Edition of 100, numbered by hand, printed digitally in England (book)


 * "Disintegrated was a series of photographs taken on Monday, August 14, 2006, the first day of a ceasefire" (source)

Interview via Freunde von Freunden (source)


 * Interview & Text: NJ Stallard


 * Photography: Tanya Traboulsi

https://artscoops.com/artist-details/tabet-caroline

= Mariana Valencia = Born in 1984 in Chicago, Illinois

Mariana Valencia is a contemporary choreographer, performer, and writer based in Brooklyn, who uses ethnography and embodied research in the creation of her performances. She holds a B.A. in dance and ethnography from Hampshire College and has performed her work at AUNTS, Center for Performance Research, Danspace Project, The Kitchen, the New Museum, Roulette, Ugly Duckling Presse, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Wendy's Subway. Her work has been presented internationally at Perform(a) Festival in Macedonia and at the Kodenz Festival in Serbia (2016). Valencia utilizes her “dance savings," or the "accumulation of journal entries, letters to collaborators, questions, interviews, observations, and drawings" that she draws upon during the creative process.

Valencia created and performed Futurity, 2019, a piece commissioned by the 2019 Whitney Biennial, 3 times in June 2019 at the Whitney. In Futurity, Valencia examines "the concept of site—whether personal, public, historic, and fictitious," particularly, the west side and downtown New York, in the 1960s and 1970s.

Valencia premiered, AIR, in January 2020, at Performance Space New York. In AIR, she "pays homage to Mexican and Mexican-American pop culture icons" she encountered growing up. This includes the collective, Asco, as well as, Mexican television and film characters like Don Ramon, El Chavo, Cantinflas, Maria Felix.

Creative Work
Valencia has created and performed both solo and collaborative works, including works with AK Burns, Jules Gimbrone, MPA, Elizabeth Orr, robbinschilds, and Em Rooney. Valencia's projects outside of dance and performance include costume design and ethnography.

Choreographic Works
Originators was commissioned in 2016 by the ISSUE Project Room Artist-in-Residence Program and premiered at Abrons Art Center in New York. Originators provided background and context for Valencia's work as a queer Latina woman.

ALBUM premiered in 2017 at Brooklyn Arts Exchange and was also included in the American Realness festival in New York in 2018. It was a solo performance, created and performed by Valencia and directed by Lilleth Glimcher, made possible through the Artist in Residence Program at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Jerome Robbins Foundation and the Jerome Foundation.

Yugoslavia (2017)

AIR (2020) references Mexican and Mexican-American pop-culture icons, as well as other cultural figures from Latin American culture, including news anchor, Edna Schmidt, and Puerto-Rican astrologer, Walter Mercado.

Works

"Originators (2016) recounts Valencia's work's origin story and her identity as a queer Latina woman, and was commissioned by the ISSUE Project Room Artist in Residence program and premiered at Abrons Arts Center, New York."

"ALBUM (2017), a solo performance that is similar to a photo and song archive and functioned as an altar for Valencia's body, premiered at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Brooklyn (2017), and was included in the American Realness festival, New York (2018). "

"Yugoslavia (2017), which premiered at Danspace Project, New York, Valencia explored themes of transmission, translation, relation, proximity, and blend through differently angled anecdotal, historical, whimsical, and observational texts."

= Times Change Press = Times Change Press was a small press founded in New York in 1970. It published "books, pamphlets and posters on social issues, sexual politics, ecology and ethics," including work from Phyllis Birkby and Stanley Aronowitz. It was formerly distributed by Monthly Review Press. Michael Sherick then became the publisher until 1987, when it was purchased by Lamar and Sally Hoover and relocated to Ojai, California.

Titles

 * Amazon Expedition: A Lesbian Feminist Anthology ed. by Phyllis Birkby, Bertha Harris, Jill Johnston, Esther Newton, and Jane O'Wyatt (1972 or 1973)
 * Arab-Israeli Debate: Toward a Socialist Solution by Jewish Liberation Project and Committee to Support Mid-East Lib'n
 * Begin at Start: Some Thoughts on Personal Liberation and World Change by Su Negrin
 * Burn This and Memorize Yourself: Poems for Women by Alta, photos by Ellen Shumsky (1971)
 * The Cultural Revolution: A Marxist Analysis by Irwin Silber
 * Come Out!: Selections from the Radical Gay Liberation Newspaper by Come Out! Collective
 * Free Ourselves: Forgotten Goals of the Revolution by Arthur Aron, illustrated by Elaine N. Blesi
 * Free Space: A Perspective on the Small Group in Women's Liberation by Pamela Allen
 * Generations of Denial: 75 Short Biographies of Women in History by Kathryn Taylor
 * A Graphic Notebook on Feminism by Su Negrin
 * Great Gay in the Morning!: One Group's Approach to Communal Living and Sexual Politics by the 25 to 6 Baking and Trucking Society (1972)
 * Hip Culture: 6 Essays on its Revolutionary Potential
 * Honor America: The Nature of Fascism by Stanley Aronowitz (1970)


 * Lessons from the Damned: Class Struggle in the Black Community by the Damned (1973)
 * LISTEN, MARXIST! by Murray Bookchin
 * Some Pictures from My Life: A Diary by Marcia Salo Rizzi


 * This Woman, Poetry of Love and Change by Barbara O'Mary (1973)
 * The Tupamaros: Urban Guerillas of Uruguay by Carlos Nuñez
 * Unbecoming Men: A Men's Consciousness Raising Group Writes on Oppression and Themselves (1971)
 * Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly: The Lives and Writings of Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin by Arlene Kisner
 * Youth Liberation: News, Politics, and Survival Information by Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor

= Violet Press =

= Waterfront Press = Titles

Hidden Parts by Lynne Álvarez

The Gravedigger and Other Stories by Ramón Ferreira

Traffic Violations by Pedro Pietri

= Out and Out Books = Founded by Joan Larkin

= The Crossing Press =

= Barbara O'Mary = Poet

This Woman, Poetry of Love and Change (1973) Times Change Press