Líbrica

The relationship between artistic practices and books goes way beyond production, documentation or reading. Such dynamics face the abundance of hybrid formats, resonances, and multidirectional fluxes, and are laid out as a great and unstable shared territory whose temporalities are punctuated by constant mutations and pollutions. We will call librica this area of confluences, affects, agencies and sensitivities linked to the book as a sensitive device and artifact––a portable one, in close proximity to bodies and capable of connecting them, as well as passing from one to another. Librica is, too, the word that repeatedly appears in the programme that einaidea has conceived for the ArtsLibris International Seminar 2023. 

Within the framework of the fourteenth edition of the ArtsLibris bookfair, Librica’s programme unfolds on 10-11 June 2023 at Sant Antoni Market, Barcelona. 

Participants:

Sonia Berger co-founder and director of Dalpine editorial, Madrid
Nina Canell artist, Stockholm / Berlin 
Andreu Dengra textile conservator at Centre Grau-Garriga d'Art Tèxtil Contemporani, Barcelona
Adrià Julià visual artist, Barcelona 
Pierre Leguillon artist, curator and writer, Brussels / Paris
Teresa Mulet artist and visual communicator, Barcelona / Caracas  
Yasmil Raymond curator and rector of Städelschule, Frankfurt / San Juan de Puerto Rico
Ramón Reverté co-founder and editorial director of Editorial RM, Barcelona
Lua Ribeira photographer, A Coruña
Seher Shah artist, Barcelona / Karachi
Sílvia Ventosa Muñoz anthropologist and textile curator at Design Museum, Barcelona
Oriol Vilanova artist, Brussels / Manresa
Robin Watkins designer, Stockholm / Berlin

PROGRAMME

Saturday 10 June



> 12:00 Presentation, Manuel Cirauqui, director of einaidea  



> 12:10 - 13:15 Líbrica: Tropisms of the found image. Recent books by artists Adrià Julià, Lua Ribeira and Seher Shah. 



> 13:15 - 14:00 Curating processes, editing processes. Yasmil Raymond, curator and director of Städelschule, in conversation with Ramón Reverté, Editorial RM and Sonia Berger, Editorial Dalpine [Moderator: Manuel Cirauqui]. 



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>  15:30 - 16:00 To be delta: crossed readings by Teresa Mulet, artist, with the collaboration of Mireia Molina Costa. 



> 16:00 - 16:45 Líbrica: Teratologies of the book. Presentation and conversation with Nina Canell, artist, and Robin Watkins, designer [Moderator: Manuel Cirauqui; in Enghlish, consecutive translation by Mireia Molina Costa].

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> 17:15 - 18:00 On the aerial books of Aurèlia Muñoz. Sílvia Ventosa Muñoz, textile curator of Disseny Hub Barcelona and representative of the Aurèlia Muñoz Archive; and Andreu Dengra, coordinator of Centre Grau-Garriga d'Art Tèxtil Contemporani [Moderator: Manuel Cirauqui].

Sunday 11 June



> 12:00 - 13:00 Reading of the manifesto Mercats, mercaders, mercaderies by Oriol Vilanova, artist. 



> 16:00 - 17:00Líbrica: Talismanic encounters. Special programme with Pierre Leguillon, artist [Sant Antoni metro stop].