LIBRARIES ARE FOR THE SUMMER
Image: Conchi Tabares and Iria Pero.
Reading books by the pool, a special summer edition, making books that can survive a day at the swimming pool, reading underwater, wearing diving goggles to read, a book for applying sun cream, a sudoku puzzle book, a book for fanning yourself, a book for topping up your tan, a book for looking intriguingly intellectual on the lawn, a book for shielding yourself from the sun...
What is a book? What is a library? What does it mean to publish? And does any of this have anything to do with summer? We think it does.
For four days, we will transform the museum and its surroundings into a laboratory for editorial creation and bibliographic reflection. We will explore the practice of making books, reflect on the relationship between books and summer, and collectively publish and create a small library to see us through the warmer months.
As we do every summer, we invite you to join this workshop led by Conchi Tabares and Iria Pero, two creators whose work centres on self-publishing and the fanzine universe.
Conchi Tabares (2000) is an artist, researcher and designer. Her work focuses primarily on reading as a hybrid concept that extends beyond literature into other formats, and on the ways literary forms are transformed when opened up to alternative modes of reading. Language, chance and attentiveness to everyday phenomena are among the elements that currently shape her practice. Since 2022, she has co-coordinated Pichi Fest, a self-managed transfeminist fanzine festival, together with fellow zinesters, and many of her zines can be found on her Instagram profile, @_conchipcion. She studied Fine Arts and Comprehensive Design and Image Management at Rey Juan Carlos University, and is currently completing an MA in Art Research and Creation at Complutense University of Madrid.
Iria Pero (2001) is an arts mediator and visual artist. Iria's principal interest lies in working with discarded materials and exploring the notions of waste, residue and noise in contemporary culture through a variety of published formats. A graduate in Fine Arts from Complutense University of Madrid, Iria is currently studying for an MA in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture. Iria publishes fanzines under the name Peromedapereza. Iria also regularly runs self-publishing workshops and keeps a small fanzine library inside a dollhouse. Currently, Iria coordinates Index(a)1.1, an amateur fanzine cataloguing group at the Marcablanca community library.