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Launch "Tools for Collective Learning" 4-5 November

Launch

Friday November 4th the new publication Tools for Collective Learning wil launch at Kunstinstituut Melly. This publication about Melly's Name Change Initiative is co-published with Kunstinstituut Melly. The program is part of a weekend of celebrations featuring conversation, screening, performance and refreshments.

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Book presentation & signing "As Above, So Below 🙃" (US) 22.10

Book presentation & signing

As Above, So Below documents twenty-one works made by Amsterdam-based artist, Ruchama Noorda over a twenty-year period. With O-Town House serving as Noorda's temporary time-space PORTAL (an installation adapted especially for the rooms at O-Town House), Noorda and California-based art and cultural critic Dick Hebdige will talk about the publication and the collaborative process that lay behind it.

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Beelden 'RAABJERG. Rune Peitersen' + evenementen

Beelden 'RAABJERG. Rune Peitersen' + evenementen

De publicatie RAABJERG die eerder dit jaar in de lente verscheen is nu door The Book Photographer vastgelegd. Rune Peitersen neemt deel in de aankomende tentoonstelling van het Performing Objects project. Als onderdeel van het publieke programma van dit project zal Rune Peitersen een presentatie geven over zijn publicatie. Daarop volgt een open gesprek tussen de kunstenaar en Edwin van Gelder, de ontwerper van het boek.

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CHART Art Book Fair (DK) & book signing 'RAABJERG. Rune Peitersen'

CHART Art Book Fair (DK) & book signing 'RAABJERG. Rune Peitersen'

Our good friends at Really Simple Syndicate Press will be representing our publishing house at their booth at the CHART Art Book Fair in Denmark from August 26th until August 29th! A selection of our publications will be for sale. On the first day of the fair there will be a book signing by Rune Peitersen for his new publication RAABJERG, published by Jap Sam Books and beautifully designed by Edwin van Gelder (Mainstudio)

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Jap Sam Books at Fanzineist Vienna Art Book & Zine Fair online edition

Jap Sam Books at  Fanzineist Vienna Art Book & Zine Fair online edition

A selection of our publications is on view at the virtual art book & zine exhibition by Fanzineist Vienna until August 25th! Fanzineist Vienna brings together small and independent publishers. Their goal is making zines and art book smore accessible to its audience through exhibition, workshops and lectures whilst introducing newcomers to the culture of self-publication.

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'GABO Portrait of a Sculpture/Portret van een sculptuur' browsing sessions

'GABO Portrait of a Sculpture/Portret van een sculptuur' browsing sessions

Jap Sam Books, Sculpture International Rotterdam (SIR), Visual Arts & Public Space (BKOR) and CBK Rotterdam presented GABO: Portrait of a Sculpture / Portret van een sculptuur. At the beginning of the evening prior to the book launch a browsing session was recorded by Arthur Bueno and Sannetje van Haarst.

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SAVE THE DATE! BOOK LAUNCH 'Verboden Landschap'

SAVE THE DATE! BOOK LAUNCH 'Verboden Landschap'

At the beginning of July Jap Sam Books launches the publication Verboden Landschap - Sporen en Verhalen van een Duits-Nederlands cultuurlandschapIn this book Hans Jungerius guides the reader along these traces that tell the extraordinary story of the military landscape that lies hidden silently in the woods of Arnhem.

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All about last months events!

All about last months events!

Last month was filled with great events. A book fair in Ghent, and one at the other side of the world in Singapore! Book presentations for jaune, geel, gelb, yellow. Monochrome by artist Antonis Pittas, Celebrating Patterns. Christie van der Haak and What speaks to us. Arjan van Helmond. Look back at these moments through this post.

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