Anna Iatsenko, Angela Marzullo (a.k.a. MAKITA), Stéphanie Probst (La fanzinothèque genevoise), Martin Leer
BOOKISHNESS
Collective Installation
Book Fair
This collective installation proposes approaches to the book and the practice of reading as complex technologies. The book as a material object, and the practices and fields associated with it, have a rich history, punctuated by major events with consequences stretching back thousands of years. Their capacity for resistance, adaptability and transformation provide a reservoir of examples and tools that are needed today to address the issues raised by new technologies.
Bios
Anna Iatsenko was born in Moscow and, after living in Berne and London, finally settled in Geneva. An expert researcher in Afro-American, postcolonial and, more generally, contemporary literature, she is interested in textual acoustics and other perceptual phenomena in our interactions with works of art. Her fields of activity include writing, translation, teaching and culture, and she is also interested in transdisciplinary methodologies.
Angela Marzullo (a.k.a. MAKITA) is an artist born in Zurich, Switzerland. Her mother is Swiss and her father Italian. She has lived in Geneva since graduating from art school in 2004. In her artistic practice she combines video and performance art to explore the feminist issues at the heart of her artistic practice, and uses this practice to engage in social and political critique.
Stéphanie Probst (La fanzinothèque genevoise) is a photographer and researcher in the field of analogue photography. But she is also a librarian in a Geneva art institution, an expert on and collector of fanzines and artists' books, editor of La Mouche and a person with a passion for books and people.
Martin Leer (guest curator of this installation) was born in Copenhagen, grew up on ships, on a small island, in a fishing village and an artists' colony, a suburb, a provincial town and a capital. He grew up with a sense of geographical and cultural diversity, which led him to explore the idea of space and place, and which continue to dominate his research during and after his degrees at the Universities of Copenhagen and Queensland. A literary cartographer, he is also an expert in postcolonial and contemporary literatures.
Bios
Anna Iatsenko was born in Moscow and, after living in Berne and London, finally settled in Geneva. An expert researcher in Afro-American, postcolonial and, more generally, contemporary literature, she is interested in textual acoustics and other perceptual phenomena in our interactions with works of art. Her fields of activity include writing, translation, teaching and culture, and she is also interested in transdisciplinary methodologies.
Angela Marzullo (a.k.a. MAKITA) is an artist born in Zurich, Switzerland. Her mother is Swiss and her father Italian. She has lived in Geneva since graduating from art school in 2004. In her artistic practice she combines video and performance art to explore the feminist issues at the heart of her artistic practice, and uses this practice to engage in social and political critique.
Stéphanie Probst (La fanzinothèque genevoise) is a photographer and researcher in the field of analogue photography. But she is also a librarian in a Geneva art institution, an expert on and collector of fanzines and artists' books, editor of La Mouche and a person with a passion for books and people.
Martin Leer (guest curator of this installation) was born in Copenhagen, grew up on ships, on a small island, in a fishing village and an artists' colony, a suburb, a provincial town and a capital. He grew up with a sense of geographical and cultural diversity, which led him to explore the idea of space and place, and which continue to dominate his research during and after his degrees at the Universities of Copenhagen and Queensland. A literary cartographer, he is also an expert in postcolonial and contemporary literatures.