Events Archive

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DABF24 Book Launch | A L T A R (Part II)

01 December 2024, 5.30—6pm

Mick Wilson returns to Dublin for the A L T A R Book Launch (Part II) to read his essay ‘We that Swarm Among the Living and the Dead.'

A group of people stand in conversation in a book shop

DABF24 Art Walk | Bookshops of Temple Bar

30 November 2024, 11:30

Take a guided walk through Temple Bar and discover the rich collection of bookshops the area has to offer.

Siobán Piercy, ‘All That I Know Folded in Your Boundaries’. Photo by Clare Lymer, image courtesy NIVAL.

DABF24 Talk | NIVAL presents 'Books that don't fit'

30 November 2024, 4pm

Join Ruth Hallinan from the National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL) in Studio 6 as she presents a selection of artist books from the archive's vast collection of over 1400 publications.

DABF24 Workshop | From the Tabletop Press to Counterpublishing with .pdf Magazine

30 November 2024, 2pm

Explore experimental publishing through the act of making a publication, facilitated by the editors of .pdf magazine.

Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe (left) and Adrian Duncan (right).

DABF24 Talk | Words as objects, words as hinges

29 November 2024, 6pm

Join DABF Guest Curator Adrian Duncan and poet and fabulist Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe for a series of readings and a conversation about the ways single words can create narrative-direction, sense, shape and form within poetry.

Two portraits side-by-side. On the left is a photo of Adrian Duncan, and on the right is a photo of Sean Lynch.

DABF24 Talk | Objects in narratives

28 November 2024, 6pm

Artist Sean Lynch and artist, writer and DABF Guest Curator Adrian Duncan explore—through a series of objects—the fascinating relationships between reality and fiction in Lynch's practice.

The cover of Crudo by Olivia Laing has the image of a woman in a pool covering her face.

DABF24 Book Club | Olivia Laing, 'Crudo'

28 November 2024, 5pm

Read and discuss Olivia Laing’s first novel, Crudo, an experimental autofiction which blends the personal and political, testing the limits of fiction.

A snippet of text cut from a page reads 'the grain of things,' and is placed agains a lime green grainy background.

DABF24 Talk | the grain of things

27 November 2024, 6pm

Writer Ingrid Lyons and visual artists Liliane Puthod and Ella Bertilsson meet to discuss the place of storytelling, inner worlds and material culture in each of their practices.

Dublin Art Book Fair 2023. Photo: Maria Maarbjerg.

DABF24 Tour | Artist Book Spotlight

26 November 2024, 5pm

The second of two tours spotlighting a selection of the artist books at this year's Dublin Art Book Fair led by TBG+S Gallery + Studio Coordinator Anna Maye.

Tara Carroll, 'Art as Pilgrimage', 2022. Film Photograph by Clodagh O’Leary, courtesy the artist.

DABF24 Book Launch | Seeking Solace

24 November 2024, 2pm

Join TBG+S Studio Artist Tara Carroll and members of an older women's group to celebrate the launch of Seeking Solace, part of the ongoing project Art as Pilgrimage.

Workshop at RHA School, 2019. Image courtesty of the artist.

DABF Workshop | Create Your Own Fantasy World with artist Ella Bertilsson

24 November 2024, 11:30am

Inspired by this year’s Dublin Art Book Fair theme, Fictions: The makings of other worlds, Ella Bertilsson leads a family-orientated workshop exploring world-building, fantasy and storytelling.

A black and white collage shows photographic images of same sex couples and drawings.

DABF24 Workshop | Exploring Queer Archiving with Collaborative Zines

23 November 2024, 2pm

Explore the queer archive with Emma Hurson and Ava Chapman as they lead a workshop using copied and found archival material to create a collaborative zine.

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