Cross-pollinating across publishing ecologies 🍎 🐞 a bookshop pop up and open-ended conversation about ecosystems for books with Shisi Huang (Bungee Space), Oscar Salguero (Interspecies Library), and Jacob Lindgren (Inga Books) 🌱 🐜
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12/8, Sunday 11am–6pm (free, all welcome)
Jacob Lindgren, co-founder of Inga will hangout at Bungee, temporarily docking the book-ship with a selection of publications of his own and from Inga's imprint and network of collaborators across themes such as: biocultural relations, primitive reading, political ecology, brick works, the zoological gaze, and totemic animals.
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12/11, Wednesday 7pm–9pm (limited space, RSVP needed)
An open-ended conversation about spaces and ecosystems for books with Oscar Salguero (Interspecies Library), Shisi Huang (Bungee Space/3standardstoppage), and Jacob Lindgren (Inga Books). What (more) can a bookstore/library do? Less of a lecture, more heart-to-heart: join us to chat about ways of working with books, sustainability of spaces, “doing the books,” book branches, staying afloat, how to keep wind in your sails/sales, and bibliodiversity. Using the three models present as a point of departure, we want to hear from you!
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About |
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Inga Books & Jacob Lindgren |
Jacob Lindgren is a graphic designer, programmer, and writer living in Chicago with an interest in the ways knowledge and visual language are circulated across (hi)storytelling technologies. Or in other words: typography. This usually happens through lectures, books, websites, and other forms of publishing, and in conjunction with themes of self-organization and ecology. Inga is a bookshop and imprint in Chicago with a focus on in(ter)dependent publishing across film, political education, design, art, ecology, and much more. The bookshop’s name is a reference to a genus of small tropical, tough-leaved trees with nitrogen fixing roots that improve soil health for its surroundings. |
| Interspecies Library & Oscar Salguero | Oscar Salguero is an independent curator, researcher, and archivist based in Brooklyn. In 2021, he curated Interspecies Futures [IF] at Center for Book Arts, NY. The show marked the first survey of bookworks by artists working at the intersection of speculative fiction and new multispecies thinking. Salguero founded Interspecies Library in 2019, a book archive dedicated to the preservation and advancement of artists' books focused on alternative interspecies futures. Since 2023, Salguero runs the Journal of Therolinguistics, a platform for the poetic study of nonhuman languages. |
| Bungee Space & Shisi Huang |
Shisi is a multidisciplinary practitioner, director of Bungee Space (art bookstore on image studies and criticism, and much more) and Rehearsal Art Book Fair (reviving independent publishing in capitalized/censored contexts), and co-founder of 3standardstoppage studio (Bungee Space, NYC & postpost, Beijing). She creates projects exploring connections and complexities through chaos. What (MORE) can a bookstore do? - A question we must constantly propose. Bungee Space is an image study- and image criticism-focused art book store, which also sells coffee, wearable designs, and works as an artist-run space & publisher. Rooting in where we come from, our ways of working, and means to survive, we simultaneously try to pursue independence and sustainability to provide a valuable space for emerging contributors to our art ecology. Standing beyond the conventional definition of a bookstore, we involve, form, and transform communities, intervene social, political, and cultural lives, creating chaos. |