Goethe-Institut to host Independent Publishing Project
The Independent Publishing Project by Jonah Sack and Francis Burger comes to the Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg on 15 March 2012 and the exhibition will run until 26 April. The project is an idiosyncratic research initiative aimed at gathering people and objects around the idea of self or small-scale publishing within a South African context.
Focusing on contemporary practitioners and on facilitating collaboration and conversation, the exhibition will feature a reading room with a select library and a working studio. The books, booklets, zines, take-aways and leaflets collected and exhibited through the project advocate independent publishing as a first rather than a last resort.
Looking at independent or small-scale publishing as both a medium and a strategy, the project's interest in these items is part sentimental, part tactile and part political. Guest participants will include Johannesburg based online publishers and fledgling self-broadcasters CUSS - Ravi Govender, Jamal Nxedlana and Zamani Xolo.
