MAGICAL RISO

PROGRAMME FRIDAY 16 NOVEMBER

VAN EYCK 09:00 Registration and welcome guests 12:15 Bananafish Books – Wei Guan (CN) A Key to 15:45 De Kijm & Zonen – Thomas Klaui & Donzige the Undefined – Risograph as an approachable Deef (NL) The quest for white ink 10:00 Introduction by Hicham Khalidi, Director Jan tutorial to the vast field of design making Thomas Klaui and Donzige Deef started a van Eyck Academie and Gérald Biersohn, Sales Bananafish Books is China’s first bookshop printing workspace in 2008 in order to make Director of RISO Benelux. Moderation by focusing on independent publishing (since their own artwork. Later they began doing Jo Frenken, Head of the Charles Nypels Lab 2009) as well as China’s first Riso studio (since assignments to be able to purchase higher for Printing & Publishing. 2011). Major activities include the Mini Zine quality equipment. That got completely out project, the Unfold Shanghai Art Book Fair and of hand. Ten years later, they make 10:30 Sigrid Calon (NL) – Spinoff from a Book Riso education for design students. Bananafish a living serving artists and designers as an Sigrid Calon made her first artist’s book Books also organized the first Asia Risograph experimental and creative print service. in 2012, on the Riso at the Conference in June 2018. By mixing Riso inks on their own they have Academie. The book and accompanying prints created a large collection of colors, including became an international success. She could 12:45 Lunch by Van Eyck Food Lab some very special inks. never have imagined the impact it would have, let alone the huge spinoff that ensued. It 14:00 Michiel Schuurman (NL) Unwanted Toots from 16:15 Magical Riso In-Lab The Art of Forgetting opened new doors, brought new opportunities the Bugle Horn The Magical Riso In-Lab approaches the and new partnerships. Sigrid herself saw Michiel Schuurman graduated from the graphic biennale from a curious and investigative it as one big playing field where she could design department of the Gerrit Rietveld standpoint that ventures beyond the unique test whether her visual idiom was powerful Academie in . As a graphic artist, formalist qualities of Riso as a technique. enough in itself to hold its own in other he specializes in typography, pattern and The participants of this collaborative research formats, materials and techniques. She has a poster design, embracing a fearless and bold group investigate the process of production great love of RISO and the DIY approach, and approach. The base of his work is a certain and are curious to think and act through – she plans to completely clear her schedule for logic – whether natural, scientific or historical. and potentially against – the aesthetic quali- the start of next year in order to make a new Geeky algorithms, natural phenomena or ties, the formal histories, the cultural contexts book! historical patterns are applied in his design and the current significance of Risograph process in innovative ways, resulting in printing. 11:00 Break: Demonstrations by RISO Benelux and visually dazzling graphics that feel completely Marjolein Schalk (Project space) sensible, yet include a mean dose of visual 16:45 Plenary Forum friction. 11:45 Martín La Roche (CL) The present of Stencil 17:15 Drinks Machines and a proposal for a Good 14:30 Perfectly Acceptable – Matt Davis (US) Color Neighbour Criteria & Form: Expanding Stencil-Based Printing 18:00 Dinner by Van Eyck Food Lab Martín La Roche studied Visual Arts at the Perfectly Acceptable Press has been in University of Chile in Santiago, in 2015 he was operation since 2013 offering contract-printing 21:30 End a participant at the Jan Van Eyck Academie services to artists and designers worldwide. In in (NL). In Martín’s practice a addition, Perfectly Acceptable Press publishes crossword can be used to organize a library, short-run narrative artist’s books with an a hat to initiate a museum, a good neighbour emphasis on synergy between content, criteria to start an artist book platform. In craft, and form. As well as his printing and these constellations printed matter and books publishing practice, Matt is also a co-organizer are a way of embodying the process, playing of the North American Risograph Conference with language in its chewing-gum-ness, like alongside George Wietor of Issue Press and when a word is a text and a text is a word. a co-host of the popular Chicago comics- performance series ZINE NOT DEAD.

15:00 Break: Demonstrations by RISO Benelux and Marjolein Schalk (Project space) MAGICAL RISO

PROGRAMME SATURDAY 17 NOVEMBER

VAN EYCK 09:00 Registration and welcome guests of several MZ and ME printers. Also available been mostly through the lens of her camera are machines for further processing such as and expressed through screen-printing and 10:00 Facebook Analog Lab – Scott Boms (US) cutting, creasing, staple and spiral binding. alternative photo processing on varieties of Following the Dots and Pixels Furthermore there are several manual-finishing natural fabrics. In addition to this, she exper- Since 2012 the Risograph has been an essential tools available. Besides the Riso print service iments with new and found wood as well as tool within the creative practice of the Analog Drucken3000 also publishes its own products textiles and garments used in different mani- Research Lab at Facebook – one that encour- such as a 36-color calendar and typographic festations of side specific installations. ages a spirit of experimentation and play as sketchbooks. a means to celebrate, question, and under- 16:15 Risolve Studio / Sebastian Delaney & stand the world. This talk will look at the place 12:45 Lunch by Van Eyck Food Lab Lyndsey Burke (US) Risovation of the Risograph as a critical counterbalance Founded in 2017, Risolve was born from to the digital nature of the organization, and 14:00 Dan Walsh (US) Vehicles a shared love of printmaking, design and also as a means to transform our built environ- Dan Walsh is a painter, printmaker, book- innovation. Risolve is a print and design ments and the communities that occupy them. maker, and installation artist based in New studio that celebrates Riso printing and York. He created the Riso print Vehicles at the works to expand the technical limits 10:30 O.OO – Ihwa Lu and Yuxian Liu (TW) Jan van Eyck Academie for the Magical Riso and boundaries of the digital duplicator (think) out of office exhibition. New paintings are on view at Elvira process. Risolve provides print services to a Two graphic designers form Taipei-based Gonzalez Gallery, Madrid. His work is included wide variety of individuals and companies design studio O.OO, dedicated to creating in public collections including the FNAC, Paris; globally, including educating newcomers designs that are experimental, using Risograph the MOMA, New York; the Art Institute of about the benefits and the beauty of Riso printing technology. O.OO will share the Riso Chicago; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, printing. Risolve Studio strives to provide environment in Taiwan through their perspec- London. Walsh’s work will be the subject of the highest quality Riso print services with tive as well as their design works. They believe a ten-year survey at the , a unique focus on adaptation, pre-press that with every new project or challenge, they Maastricht opening January 2019. improvement, and novel innovations. can uncover solutions, and discover the possi- bilities of Design and Risograph printing. 14:30 Raum Press – Laura Pilar Delgado (ES) 16:45 Plenary Forum It all begins with a book 11:00 Break: Demonstrations by RISO Benelux and At the end of 2013, the artists Miguel Ângelo 17:15 Drinks Marjolein Schalk (Project space) Martins and Laura Pilar Delgado founded a Risograph printing studio and an independent 18:00 Dinner by Van Eyck Food Lab 11:45 Kyuha Shim (KR) Spectrum publishing project. Raum Press focuses on Kyuha Shim (Q) is a computational designer providing a printing service and advice to stu- 19:30 Opening Exhibition Monumental Riso and and researcher based in Pittsburgh. He is an dents and professionals such as artists, graphic Preview Magical Art Book Fair Assistant Professor in the School of Design at designers, curators and academics. Raum Monumental Riso presents newly made Carnegie Mellon University, director of Type Editions also publishes art projects that are works at the Charles Nypels Lab by twelve Lab. He worked as a researcher at MIT’s conceived as a book. One feature of these edi- selected artists. Tasked with the challenge to SENSEable City Laboratory, Jan van Eyck tions is that the artworks are Riso printed and venture beyond the unique formalist qualities Academie (NL), and Frans Masereel Centrum produced entirely in their own studio. of risography as a technique, this collection (BE). Q works in the integrative realm of art, of works poses questions to the aesthetic design, and technology. He uses computa- 15:00 Break: Demonstrations by RISO Benelux and qualities, formal histories, cultural contexts tion as medium to design generative systems Marjolein Schalk (Project space) and current significance of risography. Can informed and driven by data. a relation to monumentality be drawn? 15:45 Zohra Opoku (GH) Fortunate Mishaps With: Dan Walsh, Johannes Schwartz, Kees 12:15 Drucken3000 – Florian Haberstumpf & Zohra Opoku examines the political, histori- Goudzwaard, Martín La Roche & Erwin Blok, Alexander Branczyk (DE) Riso print from the cal, cultural, and socio-economic influences in Michiel Schuurman, Paul Drissen, Raewyn heart of Berlin the formation of personal identities, particu- Martyn, Sigrid Calon, Stanley Donwood, Zoe Founded in 2014 Drucken3000 is the Berlin larly in the context of contemporary Ghana. Beloff, Zohra Opoku. based atelier for Risography. Located in a cozy She repeatedly integrates family heirlooms backyard garden in Mitte the workshop is of her Ghandescent and her own self-image 21:30 End open for everyone who loves to do their own into her visual observations of Ghana’s cul- RISO prints, with 30+ colors available on one tural memory. Zohras explorations have MAGICAL RISO

PROGRAMME SUNDAY 18 NOVEMBER

VAN EYCK 11:00 — 13:00 Brunch by Van Eyck Food Lab 12:00 — 18:00 Exhibition Monumental Riso 14:30 Book presentation Wobby: A Dutch risograph Monumental Riso presents newly made printed, thematic magazine for Comics, 12:00 — 18:00 Magical Art Book Fair works at the Charles Nypels Lab by twelve Illustration and Literature by Wobby.club – Participants: Alexander Barrett (US), Alice selected artists. Tasked with the challenge to Marjolein Schalk (NL) Mulder (NL), Alice Schiavone (IT), Bananafish venture beyond the unique formalist qualities The Wobby factor can be described as Books (CN), Bronze Age (GB), Chez Rosi (BE), of risography as a technique, this collection humorous, quirky, authentic and with a Colour Code (CA), Corners (KR), Dan Walsh of works poses questions to the aesthetic certain roughness. Each edition, printed by (US), Dizzy Ink (GB), Do The Print (ES), Dream qualities, formal histories, cultural contexts Wobby.club themselves, is a collector’s item. Press (ZA), Drucken3000 (DE), DRUKT (NL), and current significance of risography. Can a Endless Editions (US), Facebook Analog Lab relation to monumentality be drawn? 15:30 Performance/Workshop How to take apart (US), Fidèle Editions (FR), Hagen Verleger With: Dan Walsh, Johannes Schwartz, Kees and clean a Riso drum yourself by Risolve (DE), Hato Press (GB), hawaijj (IL), Issue Goudzwaard, Martín La Roche & Erwin Blok, Studio (US) Press (US), Jeroen Wellens (NL), Johannes Michiel Schuurman, Paul Drissen, Raewyn Schwartz (DE), Look Back and Laugh (SI), Martyn, Sigrid Calon, Stanley Donwood, Zoe 16:30 Book Presentation Le centre ne peut tenir by Kabinet Studio (BE), Kevin Reynaert (BE), Beloff, Zohra Opoku. Lafayette Anticipations – Matthieu Bonicel KNUST / Extrapool (NL), Kristina Alijosiute (FR) (LT), Lafayette Anticipations (FR), Lucky Punch Open Studio: In-Lab The Art of Forgetting Devised as an original commission – like the Press (DE), malenki.net (DE), Martian Press ( Studio 204) twelve works produced for the exhibition Le (US), Martín La Roche (CL), Michael van Kekem centre ne peut tenir – this eponymous book (NL), O.OO (TW), OYE (KR), Paper Cuts (US), 12:30 Book presentation Margaret van Eyck – is both a catalogue and a unique editorial Paul Bailey (GB), Perfectly Acceptable (US), Renaming an Institution, a Case Study by experiment. Entirely printed by Risograph in Pointed Press (US), Quintal Éditions (FR), Raum Hagen Verleger (DE) the exhibition space of Lafayette Anticipa- Press (ES), Riso sur Mer (FR), Risotrip Print Hagen Verleger will present a two-volume tions during the summer of 2018, it contains Shop Co. (BR), Risotto Studio (GB), Risolve publication about “Margaret van Eyck”, an not only images of the works themselves, Studio (US), Rope Press (GB), RUJA Press (GB), ongoing, collaborative research/art project at but also the highlights, artists’ exchanges, RV.Papers (ES), Sarah Alfarhan (KW), Sigrid the intersection of institutional critique, feminist and the contributions of thinkers, curators Calon (NL), Sofie Joossen (BE), We make it (DE), intervention, and the politics of (re-)naming, and other public figures which accompanied Wobby.club (NL), Zohra Opoku (GH) which he initiated in 2017 during his time as each of the artistic productions. The book artist-in-residence at Van Eyck. Published by also includes a large number of four-color Presentation Riso colour test charts and Peradam Press (New York), the two books plates, a technical feat rarely performed manuals by We Make It – “Volume One: Research, Interventions, using Risograph printing. and Effects” and “Volume Two: Comments, Demonstrations by RISO Benelux and Contexts, and Connections” – feature 17:30 Paper Cuts publishers podcast registration Marjolein Schalk: contributions by a diverse group of artists, by Christopher Kardambikis (US) — ComColor GD7330 Inkjet: 130 pages/minute designers, curators, writers, and scholars. Paper Cuts is an exploration of the contem- in full colour. 4+1 colours (Cyan, Magenta, porary world of zines and DIY publishing. Yellow, Black + Grey) 13:30 Workshop Colour Profiling by Perfectly Through a series of Podcasts and live events, — MF 9350 2–colour Duplicator*: 600x600 dpi, Acceptable (US) Paper Cuts features writers, performers, and 150 pages/minute The workshop will cover the basics of produc- artists who have shared their work in print, — SF5350 duplicator*: 300x600 dpi, ing both CMYK and spot-colour colour profiles on paper, and in small editions. 150 pages/minute for the Risograph using a spectrophotometer. We will also touch on techniques for modifying 18:30 Drinks and finger food by Van Eyck Food Lab * New inks based on rice bran oil contribute to existing profiles, and best practice for applying environmental sustainability colour profiles. 21:30 Goodbye!

Presentation RISO Primary School Duplicator Art Project