P_PAL Issue 2
P_PAL Issue 2
P_PAL Issue 2
P_PAL Issue 2
P_PAL Issue 2
P_PAL Issue 2
P_PAL Issue 2
P_PAL Issue 2
P_PAL Issue 2
P_PAL Issue 2
P_PAL Issue 2
P_PAL Issue 2
P_PAL Issue 2
P_PAL Issue 2

P_PAL Issue 2

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P_PAL is a magazine founded by abC (art book in China). This somewhat emoticon-like code is a blank space left for each reader's own definition. The use of the letter “P” in the title is related to books, paper, printing, and publishing, while “PAL” represents the aspiration to become friends and partners with all those who are involved in book-making and love books. Through this magazine, we aim to engage in in-depth conversations with outstanding professionals from around the world, interpreting their creative methods and conceptual thoughts. This bilingual magazine focuses on art books and book creators, with a special emphasis on the self-publishing scene in Greater China. 

In this issue of P_PAL, the focus shifts towards a broader community, actively imagining a sense of “collective work and life.” Passing on a glass named “Action” from the hands of “Big Idiot” Matsumoto Hajime, a group of artists, curators, and activists gather in the living room of Xiao Zhou Village in Guangzhou, toasting to the completion of a new space, naturally maintaining a loose yet close collaboration, akin to breathing. Inheriting the community radios of Pirate Radio, they use music as a lifeboat, participating in day-to-day acts of resistance alongside their listeners. 706 Youth Space, built upon the concept of “shared living”, has established a democratic experiment to redefine the boundaries between private and public.

《P_PAL》是由 abC(art book in China)創辦的雜誌,這個有些像顏文字的代號,是留給每一位讀者自定義的填空題。 “P”字頭的命名與書、紙張、印刷、出版有關,"PAL" 則是希望與所有做書人、愛書人成為夥伴朋友。我們將用這本雜誌展開與全球優秀的專業書友們深入對話,解讀他們創作背後的工作方法與觀念思考。

做書猶如蜘蛛結網,將散落在世界各地的文字和語言編織成本不存在的經緯。《P_PAL》第二期的線索依舊延續創刊號,期以展現藝術出版行業當中的人——同時也是做一本書所涉及的所有“工種”、“角色”,是他們構成了這個豐富多彩的創作圖景。本期封面藝術家是我們的親密書友常羽辰,在她的藝術實踐中書總是那個珍貴而巧妙的材料,也是禮物。她的作品展現出了書本最本質的一面:交流,那些在不同語言、圖像之間的曖昧互譯讓人著迷。主刊部分包含了多場對話,從常羽辰的一封手寫信開始,到Nelson與Steve(Stack)電子郵件中的你來我往,再到與Malte(INDIECON)視頻窗口中面對面的即時通訊……時間被等待拉長之後驟然收縮,隨之而來的是對溝通和交流的珍惜。

我們也嘗試“紙上談兵”式地總結一些做書當中大家共同關心的話題:如何選擇紙張,自出版如何發行,疫情之後如何組織書展;本期依舊編輯了全球獨立書店黃頁,同時邀請五位中國的獨立書店店長以漫畫的形式介紹自己。
在不同維度的對話中打撈起的,是各位同路者對於“做書”這個課題的思考和經驗,鑽入事物的細部並將其縫隙打開的心氣,對於實踐方法的不吝分享,使得這本書擁有令人踏實的指南力量。

本期《P_PAL》的專題將目光投向更廣泛的社群,積極地去想像一種“共同的工作與生活”。接過“大笨蛋”松本哉手中遞過來的名為“行動”的酒杯,一群藝術家、策展人、活動家們正在廣州小洲村的客廳里為新空間的落成而碰杯,像呼吸一樣自然地維繫著鬆散卻緊密的合作;繼承了海盜電台的各地社區電台,以音樂為救生艇,與聽眾們共同完成日復一日的微小抵抗;706青年空間曾基於“共同生活”創建民主試驗場,試圖重寫私人與公共的邊界。

《P_PAL》第二期的封面上寫著2021-2022,如同一道顯著的傷疤,時刻提醒著我們自由的代價。在這樣一個人人都得先學會自我審查以確保安全的時代,我們依然在窄路里尋找講述的可能。第二期比預想的晚了,謝謝各位幫助過、等待過《P_PAL》的讀者,我們會這本書裡再度重相逢。

Beijing, China, 2023
Softcover, 24 x 17 cm, 286 p., Sewn Bound

Cover color(available in 3) will be assorted