News & events - Errant Journal

14 December 2024
Breaking even! Art Book Fair, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam

Breaking even! is an art book fair dedicated to showcasing experimental and independent publishing practices, with booths, workshops, presentations and talks. ‘Breaking even’ is an expression that refers to a financial result where there is neither profit nor loss. It not only points out the economic reality many independent publishers face, where covering costs without profit is often considered a success, but also speaks to the delicate balance that fairs must navigate between resisting commercial pressures and finding ways to be economically sustainable. Participants share their publishing practices and collectively reflect on this context’s potential by meeting, creating, and sharing curiosity.

12-14 December 2024
Cairo Art Book Fair

The third edition of the Cairo Art Book Fair is on December 12th, 13th, and 14th at Ghurnata in Heliopolis, Masr ElGedida. CABF #3 brings together a mix of artists, art publishers, institutions, design studios, and more. This year’s edition also features an exciting public program with talks, book launches, panels, a temporary library, and workshops.

24 November 2024
DRUK book fair in Paradiso, Amsterdam

More than a hundred publishers and makers from the Netherlands and Belgium will sell their art books, (translated) literary gems, poetry collections, self-published publications, literary non-fiction, unique (paper) objects, riso or screen prints at DRUK in all halls of Paradiso on Sunday 24 November 2024.

Errant Journal is represented at the fair by Jesse Presse.

24 November 2024
Sunday Wedding Market for books, zines, music & more at Vagabund Brauerei in Berlin

Please join us for the first ever lit market at Vagabund Brauerei! Dozens of established local publishers, radical zinemakers, and other music & media pop-ups will grace the presence of the Vagabund Kesselhaus on the afternoon of Sunday, November 24th.

If you are looking to explore the independent and limited-print zine scene in Berlin, this is the market for you. Along with the chance to browse, discover, and maybe pick up some gifts (for both others, and yourself), you can also enjoy some food and live vinyl sets to close out your weekend.

7-10 November 2024
Offprint Art Book Fair Paris

From November 7 to 10, 2024 Offprint Paris will host at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal a selection of independent, experimental and socially engaged publishers in the fields of art, architecture, design, humanities and visual culture. This new edition will also present a new program of talks and encounters throughout the weekend.

3 November 2024
Launch: Errant Journal #7, Embodying Resistance

Framer Framed and Errant Journal are happy to invite you to the launch of Errant’s seventh issue titled ‘Embodying Resistance.’ For the launch, the issue will be introduced by a live interview with guest editor Ghiwa Sayegh who will be joining us via Zoom. Afterwards, there will be room for questions, and the evening will be closed with drinks.

26-27 October 2024
Flyleaf Book and Zine Festival in Berlin Neukölln

Hosting over 70 publishers and book artists, spread over 3 independent spaces the 4-day Flyleaf Festival is all about connecting, and sharing knowledge between publishers, artists, readers, zine enthusiasts, and book lovers. Flyleaf is co-organized by WIRWIR, FALSCHRUM BOOKS, and REPLIKA PUBLISHING. Their three spaces in Berlin-Neukölln are within walking distance, small, cozy, and conducive for conversation.

11-13 October 2024
Miss Read Art Book Fair in Berlin

We’re very happy to announce Errant is yet again taking part in the Miss Read Art Book Fair in Berlin. As they continue their exploration into Decolonizing Art Book Fairs, Miss Read is committed to nurturing spaces and communities that take into consideration the richness and breadth of publishing from around the world. In this context, Miss Read 2024 will have a special focus on Afro-feminist and queer voices. The Conceptual Poetics Day is scheduled to be held on Saturday, October 12, 2024 and will explore the imaginary border between visual art and literature. Entrance to the fair is FREE.

14 July 2024
The Books Are Bridges Art Book Fest

Errant Journal is once again taking part in the fabulous art book fest Books Are Bridges with 30+ international and local artist publishers, who present their latest publications at the Clubhouse of SNV community gardens in Rotterdam-West, the Netherlands. The Art Book Fest is the place for those who love artists’ publications – from books to zines, from toolkits to experimental projects. In addition to tables with the latest releases, there will be book presentations, workshops, food and music. Errant Journal is represented there by Jesse Presse. Everyone is welcome!

13 July 2024
Too Hot to Read book fair, Fahrbereitschaft, Herzbergstr. 40-43, 10365 Berlin-Lichtenberg

Errant Journal is very happy to announce her participation in a new Berlin Book Fair for independent publishers organised by @cabinetmagazine and @k_verlag. Too Hot To Read takes place on Saturday 13 July and entrance is free (but be sure to part with some money in exchange for books). With 30 magazine and book publishers as well as events, performances, book launches, food & drinks to celebrate the eve of revolution. Hope to see you there, and bring some friends!

6 June-12 July 2024
MSURS The Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

An exhibition by Niccolò Masini is inspired by and borrows the title of Errant Journal’s 4th issue States of Statelessness. The works on display take shape in the interaction of multiple expressive languages, borders, and/or political displacements, raising questions concerning individual and collective responses to the complex realities imposed by different forms of geographical appurtenances. In these terms, States of Statelessness suggest spatial investigations and analytical languages beyond their mere territorial reference, tracing those mobile limits that consolidate confined communities’ statuses of “imagined” de-territorialization processes through various forms of written-unwritten knowledge.

26-28 APRIL 2024
Libros Mutantes Art Book Fair Madrid

Libros Mutantes is a Spain-based independent project focused on the relation between publishing and Visual Arts. Throughout the year they organise different events in order to bring this creative universe closer to the public. The main event in their calendar is Libros Mutantes Madrid Art Book Fair, held at La Casa Encendida. Since 2010, this Art Book Fair gathers a wide selection of national and international art books, independent publications and zines, and attracts a wide audience. This makes Libros Mutantes the largest and most comprehensive Spain-based project aimed at researching and spreading the creations of independent publishers.

1 APRIL 2024
Open call for issue No. 7 ´Embodying Resistance´

The seventh issue of Errant Journal aims to interrogate the role of the body in strategies of resistance from below. Taking Palestine as a starting point, the ongoing genocide committed by Israel and other colonial powers and the people’s continued struggle for liberation inform our thinking and praxis. From this political standpoint, we understand that resistance from below will never be considered legitimate by the system in place, specifically because it fights said system. In a world where the only forms of accepted and acceptable violence are state-led and state-condoned, any form of opposition to this order is automatically vilified and criminalised. In this issue, we want to explore the ways in which bodies – that are sexualised, criminalised, racialised, crip – have been able to divert and subvert in order to fight back.

For this issue, Errant Journal has invited Ghiwa Sayegh, founding editor of Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research based in Beirut and Paris, as guest editor to lead the conceptual framework and relocate Errant’s editorial centre. This issue is made possible with the generous support of The Creative Industries Fund. You can find the complete call here. (NOTE: this call is now closed)

12 JANUARY 2024
OT301, Amsterdam from 7 pm

On the invitation of the Institute of Network Cultures, Errant Journal is taking part in Expanded Publishing Fest at the OT301 in Amsterdam. Small publishers, authors, artists, designers, activists, programmers, and researchers worldwide have been gathering at the Institute of Network Cultures to experiment with new forms of publishing since 2004. On 12 January, we celebrate 20 years of INC publishing at the Expanded Publishing Fest. Join us for a triple book launch, micro book fair, live tactical television broadcast, and club night at OT301 in Amsterdam!

7 OCTOBER 2023
Hopscotch Reading Room from 7 pm (Gerichtstrasse 45, 13347 Wedding, Berlin).

Join Errant Journal at Hopscotch on Saturday October 7 where we celebrate the launch of Errant’s fifth issue Learning from Ancestors. Epistemic Restitution and Rematriation. This issue focuses on current discussions around the restitution of colonially looted objects, but takes a wider lens to the questions of repair with(in) communities and the more fundamental knowledge shifts which must take place for healing to begin. The issue will be introduced by editor-in-chief Irene de Craen, after which Tonderai Koschke will tell a bit about her contribution on the (problematic?) return of some of the Zimbabwe Birds. Tea and other drinks available, and of course books, books, books!

22-24 SEPTEMBER 2023
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

We’re very happy to announce we are yet again taking part in the Miss Read Art Book Fair in Berlin. This year, MISS READ will bring together more than 320 exhibitors and international guests at HKW from September 22nd to 24th. The festival invites a wide range of publishers, art magazines, artists and authors to discuss and celebrate the art of bookmaking. The annual Conceptual Poetics Day explores the imaginary boundary between visual art and literature on Saturday.

2 SEPTEMBER 2023
4-6 pm at Framer Framed, Amsterdam

Framer Framed and Errant Journal are happy to invite you to the launch of Errant’s fifth issue Learning from Ancestors. Epistemic Restitution and Rematriation. This issue focuses on current discussions around the restitution of colonially looted objects, but takes a wider lens to the questions of repair with(in) communities and the more fundamental knowledge shifts which must take place for healing to begin. We welcome you to celebrate the latest Errant together with us, with drinks and an introduction to the theme by editor-in-chief Irene de Craen.

13-16 JULY 2023
From 13 to 16 July, Errant Journal is taking part in the Tsundoku Art Book Fair in Dublin, Ireland. We’ll be represented and managed at the fair by the PhotoIreland team in their generous programme for small publishers. Go check it out if you’re there!

9 JULY 2023
On Sunday 9 July, Errant Journal is taking part in Books Are Bridges, a playful Art Book Fest with over 30 international and local artist publishers, who present their new work and that of others at the site of the community gardens in Rotterdam-West, organised by PrintRoom. Errant is represented there by Jesse Presse.

01 MARCH 2023
In collaboration with Ngün Nieup Collective, Errant Journal is happy to welcome you to an evening about Berlin’s self-determined spaces and communities, from Barackia to OPlatz. During this event, organised in the context of our latest issue States of Statelessness, Saskia Köbschall will expand on her research and the essay she wrote for Errant, after which Muhammed Lamin Jadama will share his experience as part of the OPlatz movement.

Location: Göttin der Weisheit, Berlin. The bar and Gambian kitchen are open from 17:00, DJ Muha (WeAreBornFreeRadio) will be spinning tunes after the event :).

27.11. 2022
On 27 November Errant Journal took part in De Beurs van Bijzondere Uitgaven (The Fair of Special Publishers) at Paradiso in Amsterdam. Errant was represented by Jesse Presse.

12.11. 2022
Launch Errant Journal No. 4 States of Statelessness, Saturday 12 November 4-6 pm at Framer Framed in Amsterdam.

Framer Framed and Errant Journal are happy to invite you to the launch of Errant’s 4th issue States of Statelessness. This issue focuses on the harmful fiction of the nation state and celebrates alternative forms of solidarity and community-building. For the launch, editor-in-chief Irene de Craen will be joined by select contributors to give an introduction to the issue.

09.10–23.12.2022
Errant Journal is part of GAK’s programme publics&publishings; a range of contributions dedicated to spaces both as frameworks for activity and as normative codings, speaking to and with art in different ways. At the same time, the platform will discuss and negotiate questions of plurivocal publishing. For the duration of the programme, the space in Bremen is converted to a temporary bookstore where Errant Journal is sold (among others). On December 16, Errant editor-in-chief Irene de Craen will give a presentation.

06.08.2022
Saturday 6 August from 7 pm, we have a little launch party at Hopscotch Reading Room in Berlin for our friends, friends of friends and anyone else who’d like to drop by. Hopscotch is the English language bookstore in Berlin centering non-western & diasporic perspectives.

17.07.2022
Books Are Bridges Art Book Fest is organized by the lovely Printroom in Rotterdam. A playful Art Book Fest with over 30 international and local artist publishers, who present their new work and that of others at the site of the community gardens in Rotterdam-West. Errant is represented there by Jesse Presse.

29.04.2022-01.05.2022
Errant Journal is very happy to take part in Miss Read in Berlin! Drop by at HKW to see us and 300+ other publishers, art periodicals and artists/authors. Entrance is FREE. Click here to listen to the interview with our editor-in-chief on Miss Readio.

28.04.2022
During the AICA Salon titled ‘Wie maakt er nog nieuwe tijdschriften?’ (Who still makes new magazines?) Errant editor-in-chief Irene de Craen has been invited to discuss Errant Journal.

21.04.2022
Errant Journal is part of Il Gazzettino, Via Garibaldi, Venice. Organized by Studio Lukas Feireiss & Friends.

As an uninvited and unofficial event on occasion of the 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, a small kiosk is transformed for one afternoon only, into a discursive platform for indie magazines and artist publications from around the world. Located right between the two main exhibition venues – the Giardini and the Arsenale – the newsstand “Il Gazzettino“ on the lively Via Garibaldi becomes an informal meeting place to get together, discuss, exchange and connect. The project is a celebration of self-published printed matter and an ode to the urban typology of the kiosk as a democratic space for the dispensation of knowledge and information.

09.04.2022
Launch Errant Journal #3 on DISCOMFORT, Saturday 9 April 4-6 pm at Framer Framed in Amsterdam.

Framer Framed and Errant Journal are happy to invite you to the launch of Errant’s third issue on DISCOMFORT. This issue begins from the understanding that feelings of discomfort often reveal the boundaries of power relations in our societies. For the launch, editor-in-chief Irene de Craen will be joined by contributors Maaike Hommes and M.C. Julie Yu to give an introduction to the issue.

19.08.2021
Errant Podcast on Radio Alhara, every 3rd Wednesday of the month, 2.30 pm Bethlehem time.

Radio Alhara is a communal online radio station that broadcasts from Bethlehem, Ramallah, Amman and other places to the world. Founded at the beginning of the pandemic by Elias and Yousef Anastas, Yazan Khalili, Saeed Abu Jaber, and Muthanna Hussain. The radio is a platform through which the community of the producers and listeners explore the rich terrain of sound. We host live and recorded music sets by a continually expanding roster of amateur and professional DJs, composers and sound artists, and broadcast soundtracks, audio documentaries and essays, conversations and interviews, podcasts, poetry, speeches, movies but also any and all sounds that pique our curiosity and further our appreciation for listening. At Radio Alhara, we want to carve out a sonic space that fosters experiences of collective listening and exchange and have fun doing it. It’s a communal media that dimensions that distance between the producers and the listeners.

Go to Radio Alhara.

15.08.2021
We are very happy to announce that our friends at Hopscotch Reading Room in Berlin are organizing a Publishers’ Fair and Errant Journal has been invited to join. The fair will host various small and micro publishers who constitute the invaluable independent publishing ecology of Berlin. Come and meet publisher friends, artists, artist-publishers, and acquaintances based mostly in Berlin and its environs, who will be selling publications in Hopscotch’s hof. The bar will be open with their regular drinks as well as a special cocktail. There will also be delicacies from their local Indian Imbiss available for sale at cost.

See for more info Hopscotch’s FB event.

21.07.2021
Crisis Imaginaries, Chapter 5: On Slow Violence and the Anti-Spectacle. With: Connie Zheng

This event, organized by Framed Framed and the Goethe-Institut Niederlande, begins from the question of representing slow violence, through discussing Connie Zheng’s recent article for Errant’s second issue — on aesthetic representations of environmental disaster (‘Amidst slow violence: cascading reincarnations in Thao Nguyen Phan’s Becoming Alluvium‘). Thinking on the distancing, overwhelming effect of images of climate catastrophe so often plastered across media; what do these images do, and not do?

With this frame we turn toward Zheng’s own practice, and specifically her work around seeds as speculative futures. Together, De Craen and Zheng will guide us in a screening of Zheng’s film Seedtime (2020) and a discussion of anti-spectacular action and practice responding to climate collapse.