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doubledummy is proud to present the exhibition "Kaghazi Pairahan: Publishing and Resistance in South Asia". The exhibition,hosted during the Rencontres d’Arles 2023 and curated by Akshay Mahajan and Devadeep Gupta, produced by JOJO.

Kaghazi Pairahan* or Clothes made of Paper, weaves captivating stories and histories of resistance from South Asia, showcasing a wide range of historical material that sheds light on struggles against oppression and the fight for liberation. From the Indian uprising of 1857 to the present day, this exhibition encapsulates the spirit of defiance and resilience in the face of colonialism and social injustice in South Asia.Visitors can find a library of photobooks, dummies, artist books, zines, posters, digital publications, and pamphlets—an exhibition of an archive of everyday defiance intended for reading and disseminating alternative, progressive, and autonomous viewpoints, often as a form of artistic protest in Pakistan, India, Kashmir, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Visitors can expect to embark on a captivating journey through diverse narratives. The exhibition deals with the challenges of publication and circulation of images as they are re-contextualized, archived, disguised, and circulated in response to the prevailing status quo. Each piece offers a unique perspective on the complex testimonies of stateless nations, disenfranchised individuals, and victims of state violence. A new edition of our newspaper will be published for the occasion : "Margin Notes : self-publishing as counter-strategy" by Tanvi Mishra.

As a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup, a Global South solidarity day is planned in Thursday 6th, with a pop-up exhibition of contemporary Latin American protest books from artists like Celeste Rojas Mugica, Musuk Nolte, Federico Paladino, Luis Weinstein, Alexis Díaz Belmar, Alejandro Cartagena, Bruno Barbey, Pedro de Moraes, Rosângela Rennó, Rosa Gauditano, Santiago Escobar Jaramillo among others... organized by Zur, a research unit within Doubledummy dedicated to artistic research that aims to interrogate the photographic practices currently taking place in the Souths coordinated by Alejandro Léon Cannock.

Monday to Friday, 11h : Guided tours at the exhibition

Wednesday 5th July, 13h : Global South Protest talk at Podesta!

Wednesday 5th July, 19h : Vernissage at Double Dummy

Thursday 6th July, (all day) : Latin American Solidarity Day

Saturday 8th July, 15pm : A conversation between Dr. Shahidul Alam and Bill Shipsey at Podesta!

Thanks to Arthshila & Libraire du Palais.

MORE INFO AT: https://www.editionsjojo.com

DOWNLOAD THE LAST EDITION OF OUR NEWSPRINT here

DOWNLOAD THE PRESS RELEASE here

PHOTOS FROM THE WEEK https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oKdItamrgleM8NF668XN1r8JjzzWmnIo?usp=share_link

CALAMITA/À joins Double Dummy on the 7th and 8th July 2021 to present the current stage of artists projects. 

Artists presented are: Gianpaolo Arena, Marina Caneve, Céline Clanet, François Deladerriere, Petra Stavast, Jan Stradmann. 

Don Delillo tells us "Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else." In Italian CALAMITA means magnet, CALAMITÀ catastrophe. CALAMITA/À with its double identity was started in 2013 as a reflection on disasters and the attraction our society feels for them. The project is interdisciplinary and our major site of investigation so far has been the Vajont area. Vajont it sadly famous because of a catastrophe happened in 1963 in which almost 2.000 people died due to a dam flooding.

The board is composed by Gianpaolo Arena and Marina Caneve. Sara Bassi recently joined the project as collaborator. 

MORE INFO AT: https://calamitaproject.com/

In 2020 we founded Zur, a new platform dedicated to research, creation and exchange that aims to interrogate the photographic practices that are currently taking place in Latin America, focusing in particular on the links that these establish (or not) with the ways of making and thinking about photography that are developing in other regions of the planet. In this sense, Zur seeks to problematize the territory of "Latin American photography" by discussing its displacements, borders, hybridizations, cross breedings, decentralizations, delusions, contradictions, utopias, and dystopias. The interest of Zur is thus to put in tension the Latin American photographic practice with all its otherness, but not only with those who inhabit the "outside" but also in its own "inside".

ZUR is composed of a team of two artist-teachers-researchers : Alejandro Leon Cannock & Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo.

-June 2023. ZUR presents " Global South solidarity day " at the Dd Studio a reading room on actual protest book from Latin America.

-May 2021. ZUR presents " DE AQUI PA ALLA " at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (Arles- ENSP). a reading group project with the students from the school. 

Atelier NŌUA and doubledummy is delighted to present their first online educational program Once upon a time ... by Mathieu Asselin and Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo. Throughout the activities of this educational program, there will be a series of events held online for artists, photographers, students, curators, designers, curious minds, and other interested parties discussing the issues within documentary photography today. The lectures, seminars, courses, and talks are compiled by Asselin and Valenzuela Escobedo in collaboration with Marianne Bjørnmyr and Dan Mariner will be shared from May 25th to August 14th in NŌUA online platform. The educational program consists of a two-month workshop and a public program. 

The public program consists of six artist talks, seven photobook designer's presentations, and two lectures. The guest speakers for this first online program on protest and engagement are photographers, designers, and curators that somehow are developing works related to long-term projects that propose to rethink the nature and objectives of documentary photography to make it more responsive to the challenges of today’s society. Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Laia Abril, Anthony Luvera, Max Pinckers, and Newsha Tavakolian will be sharing their work, their process, and their vision with Sunil Shah in real-time ‘live’ discussion. Adam Bromberg and Ana Kaisa Rastemberg will be giving an oral presentation intended to present information about a particular subject. Roger Williams, Ramon Peza, Eleana Schlenker, Ricardo Báez, Nina Bačun & Roberta Bratović, Hans Gremmen, and Lewis Bush meet online to open their InDesign files and discuss their choices, inspirations via video conference. The main idea is to bring together a community of photographers, critics, intellectuals, etc. to discuss and exchange information, ideas, and experiences that highlight the current challenges, prospects, and frontiers in contemporary documentary photography. The online public program is supported by the Arts Council Norway. 

Guest: Mathieu Asselin & Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo, Roger Willems, Adam Broomberg, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Ramon Pez, Anna Kaisa Rastenberger, Laia Abril, Elana Schlenker, Anthony Luvera, Ricardo Báez, Max Pinckers, Nina Bačun & Roberta Bratović, Newsha Tavakolian, Hans Gremmen, Lewis Bush.