Imperfect Archiving, Archiving as Practice

Imperfect Archiving, Archiving as Practice: Queer Bibliographic Explorations is a special expanded 5th edition centering on archiving as artistic practice. This manifesto addresses the core of GenderFail, collecting and archiving practices that treat softness as a metaphor for the material and content of artist-made publications. The GenderFail Archive Project is a socially engaged reading room that looks at archiving as practice. The project stems from GenderFail’s desire to share publications from their personal library archive and to provide a platform for other publishers they cherish. This publication features more than 100 artist books, art books, and zines.

DETAILS

92 Pages

Spiral Bound

Risograph Printed

Made in USA

ABOUT

GenderFail (founded in 2015) is Be Oakley's publishing, programming, and archiving platform. GenderFail is not non-profit but profit-for-survival or profit-to-continue-our-work-without-other-means-of-capital, and, most importantly, to make money for others I publish, to create profit-for-labor. All Books are handmade, risograph-printed, fair-trade, and ethically sourced!