Paper Manifestoes

Forum with authors including Matjaz Tancic and Luka Yang, moderated by Geisel Cabrera and WAI Think Tank

For the second year, Paper Manifestoes will present a selection of artists’, and architects’ books, journals, zines and photobooks during the 2015 Edition of Beijing Design Week.

The Second edition of Paper Manifestoes explores space in its multiple dimensions (architectural, geopolitical, domestic, utopian, urban, rural, peripheral), and reflects how it affects, influences, and informs artist’s practices around the world. Ranging from comic strips, to collaborative editorial efforts, ethnographic research and monographic surveys, the exhibition presents publications produced for and as exhibitions, but also as mediums and as ends in themselves.

Curated by WAI Think Tank and Geisel Cabrera, Paper Manifestoes will be presented on a site-specific installation on the factory at the centre of historical Dashilar District in Beijing.

A digital catalogue will be published on the occasion of the exhibition together with a symposium with artists, authors and publishers on the exhibition.The publications presented in Paper Manifestoes will be included as public resource in the collection of Condenser, an experimental space for architecture, art and spatial investigations based in Beijing.

Featured Publications:

Arkanum (Berlin)
Boredom 2000 (Paris0
Common Plan: Public-Private (Santiago de Chile)
Concrete Flux (Beijing)
Hong Kong In-Between (Hong Kong)
House with Doors and Windows (London / Nijmegen)
Intelligentsia Zine (Beijing)
In Visible Cities (Beirut)
Ganko (Milan)
Lens of an Idea (Shanghai)
10 Days in Krakow (Beijing)
The Indigenuity Project (Sápmi)
The Story of the Little Girl and The Sun (Beijing)
Those aren't your memories, they're somebody's else's (Berlin)
Timekeepers (Beijing)
NBDBKP – Volume One (Berlin)
Niemandsraume-eine utopische spurensuche (Graz)
No One Hurry Anyone (Beijing)
Pink Republic (Beijing)
Poetry for Architects (Beijing)
Product Placement (Beijing)
Pure Hardcore Icons (London)
Rational Reality (Beijing) 
Shapes Islands Text (Sevilla)
Sheep (Rotterdam)
What About It? (Beijing)
X (Mexico City)