Reassembly Workshop: Archive Activation with Many Folds Press

On Saturday, March 7th, from 1–3PM, Many Folds Press Co-founders Andra Palchick and Connie Yu will present their past research and ongoing publishing practice, which contend with varying levels of diasporic mediation — from homeland tourism to what is lost-and-found in the archives. 

The talk will be followed by a collective annotation of Many Folds Press’ Readers, featuring reprinted excerpts from queer Asian archival materials — and an activation of Ulises’ Assembly archive. Through creative, transparent, and participatory research, Many Folds Press offers artistic interventions for recontextualizing and recirculating archival materials, by and for their communities.

Many Folds Press is a Philadelphia-based risograph studio, and an extension of FORTUNE — a print collective assembled by/for queer and trans Asians. We think of printing and publishing as a practice of learning, gathering, remembering, and making multiple. 

Many Folds Press provides accessible and responsive print services, to make room for more queer BIPOC stories, and to celebrate our own — in material forms, in many layers. Our catalog broadly includes resource guides and functional objects, distributed through alternative, slow, or intentional ways.

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About Ulises: Reassembly

A year after presenting Ulises: Assembly at Tufts University Art Galleries, Ulises revisits the question at the heart of the project—What do you do?—this time asking, How do you do it?

Reassembly brings together three independent art publishers: Can Can Press (Mexico City, Mexico), Further Reading (Bandung, Indonesia), and Ruth van Beek (Koog aan de Zaan, Netherlands), whose contributions to Assembly inspired a closer examination of their practices. This new presentation invites visitors to engage with their work to gain insight into the processes, materials, and concepts that shape each practice. 

Exhibited alongside the cataloged Assembly archive, Reassembly extends an ongoing conversation about the labor and care that shape the field of independent art publishing.

The exhibition considers the material, conceptual, and social dimensions of publishing, and the forms of attention, collaboration, and repetition that define the work behind the work. Reassembly invites new ways of engaging with the publishers’ methods, materials, and research, foregrounding the relationship between what we do and how we do it.

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