Bookshop Selection: Archipelagic Affects

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Bookshop Selection: Archipelagic Affects

Framer Framed is delighted to announce the launch of a new publication, Archipelagic Affects at the 2024 Taipei International Book Exhibition (TiBE), Taiwan, on 22 February 2024. The launch event takes place in the Dutch Pavilion, where the Netherlands takes centre stage as the guest country of the year. Archipelagic Affects explores how art residencies nurture effective spaces to study the tangible and intangible cultural, historical and geopolitical connections between different island countries.

Pre-order it from the Framer Framed webshop! The publication will be in available in the Netherlands from March 2024.

Conceived by Yornel J. Martínez Elías, researcher Emily Shin-Jie Lee, and in collaboration with Taiwanese novelist Huang Chong-Kai, Archipelagic Affects interweaves visual and textual materials created in different time-spaces. Together they form a shared travelogue that documents how cultures and worlds cross paths through an art residency experience.

Reflecting on how words connect worlds, and how publishing practices generate new content and correlations, the booklet highlights the importance of art residencies in creating new confluences and solidarity networks to sustain cultural production and dissemination within and beyond national boundaries. If we consider an art residency as an island where a group of strangers from different backgrounds temporarily inhabit, how can these unfamiliar strangers make their time together meaningful, and perhaps further create an archipelago of solidarity beyond geographical boundaries after leaving the island?

The 2024 Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE) will take place from 20 to 25 February at the Taipei World Trade Center. This year, the theme of the exhibition is Catch the Reading Wave, featuring the Netherlands as the Guest of Honour Country. During the launch event of Archipelagic Affects, the contributors will share their literary inspirations as well as the various activities and journeys in Taiwan, Cuba and the Netherlands that informed the content and the design of the book.

Order

Archipelagic Affects has two bilingual versions (Spanish/Chinese; Spanish/English). The Spanish/English version is available for pre-order in our webshop and will be shipped from 1 March 2024.

Contributors

Authors: Yornel J. Martínez Elías, Huang Chong-Kai, Emily Shin-Jie Lee
Editor: Emily Shin-Jie Lee
Design: Chen Jhen (Limestone Bookstore)

Publishers

Framer Framed, Amsterdam
The Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht

Specifications

€15
152 pp
Soft cover
Riso-printed at the Jan van Eyck Academie print workshop
Limited edition of 200 copies
10 x 15 cm
English/Spanish, 2024
ISBN 978-90-83079-36-3

This book results from the Archipelagic Affects project, jointly conceived and supported by Cuban artist Yornel J. Martínez Elias and Framer Framed, in collaboration with the Jan van Eyck Academie. Designed by Limestone Books co-founder and designer Chen Jhen, the publication was also realised with generous support from The Netherlands Office, Taipei.

Contributors

Yornel J. Martínez Elías graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in 2007. His practice aims to generate poetic transformations by blurring boundaries between different mediums. Operating within language and in the interstice between the poetic and the conceptual, Yornel Martínez involves and collaborates with multidisciplinary experts and contributors, thus further enriching the poetic intersections that may exist between his own practice and other disciplines. Parallel to his personal projects, he is co-author and founder of the alternative publication project P-350 and founder of Ediciones Asterisco, a self-managed publishing label.

Huang Chong-Kai is a Taiwanese novelist. His works include The Broken, Blue Fiction, The Contents of the Times, and Further Than Pluto (French and Japanese rights sold). He also worked as a book and magazine editor.

Emily Shin-Jie Lee is a researcher and cultural practitioner currently based in Amsterdam. She studied anthropology at National Taiwan University and obtained her research master’s degree in art studies from the University of Amsterdam. Emily works at Framer Framed with a focus on residencies and cross-institutional collaborations. Since 2022, she has been working on a PhD project at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam, in which she studies art residency and its critical engagement with ecological, feminist and decolonial enquiries.

Jhen Chen is a designer based in Taiwan and the Netherlands. Chen’s recent works examine the representation of colonial oppression in contemporary society through books and multimedia. She was a participant of the Jan van Eyck Academie from 2018 to 2019. Chen’s publications have won awards such as the ‘De Best Verzorgde Boeken’ and the ‘Golden Butterfly Award’ (Best Book Design in Taiwan) and have been exhibited internationally.