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

This is an adult workshop, no experience necessary. Booking is advised.

Collaboratively produce a publication through the use of prompts, questionnaires, dialogue, and collage. To foreground the workshop, the editors of .pdf magazine will include discussion on what, if anything, ‘counterpublishing’ means and their experience making a digital magazine. They aim to emphasise the value of spontaneity, detritus, locality, and community in ‘print cultures’ during the process of collectively making the publication.

The workshop takes place in Studio 1 and will begin with a set of prompts to collectively generate the content of a volume using whatever WiFi connected device you have, while discussing together what intentions or contexts can be brought to a publication. The second half of the workshop will focus on the editing and design stages, practicing iterative critical and aesthetic approaches, implementing collective input.

Participants will leave with a volume of .pdf magazine to which they have contributed from start to finish, and a renewed vigour for the DIY and experimental in publishing. While the editors of .pdf magazine will lead the workshop, they hope to also learn from what participants contribute, building on their own understanding of .pdf magazine and a potential DIY ethos.

This is an adult workshop, no experience necessary.

Access information: Approximate duration is 2 hours. Accessible to all skill levels (including basic English). The workshop will be held in a wheelchair accessible ground floor studio space. There is a semi-accessible bathroom. For further access information please contact Learning + Public Engagement Curator Órla Goodwin.

.pdf is a digital magazine that publishes new art and writing. Issue one can now be found at pdf-mag-pdf.com; issue two is forthcoming. Taking the digital as daily, .pdf magazine pushes to make writing free and pocketable, all while remaining bigger than life (and no less disposable/precious).

Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF) is a centre for contemporary artist books offering unique artist publications and titles from creative, small and independent publishers, both Irish and international.

DABF24 is proudly sponsored by Henry J Lyons and supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and RTÉ Supporting The Arts.