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SPRINT 2024  |  22–23–24  NOVEMBER  2024

+  EXTENSIONS  UNTIL  14 DECEMBER

PUBLIC PROGRAM  &  ART BOOK FAIR  

PERFORMATIVE READING ⟶ Spazio Maiocchi📍

2ly

An exchange of letters of two pairs between London and Leipzig

by Colorama, SM Studio, Florian∞Emden

‘Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy.’ But what happens to familiarity when it is publicized, widely? How do intimate thoughts, a formerly private conversation, react to being printed and (mis)read?

A transeuropean exchange of thoughts and feelings, the letters explore these questions and plenty more, some more mundane than others, through a shared love for characters, words, and texts. Publishing, here, is understood as speculation, and a shared authorship as given.

SM Studio is the London-based collaborative design practice of Molly Cranston and Safiye Gray. They work across print, book design and intertwined image-text. Their approach is guided by deep friendship, intuitive making processes and expansive research.

F∞E – Sophie Florian and Hanako Emden form Florian ∞ Emden: They design posters, spaces, typefaces, and books, influenced by the feelings they share in their friendship. Cradled between typography and writing they live, love, work, and laugh in Leipzig, Germany.

Colorama is a project space in Berlin run by Johanna Maierski since 2015. We publish artist books and experimental comics, print Riso-projects and run an educational workshop and membership program around self publishing, printing and binding.

22 NOV  |  6–10 PM

⟶ Spazio Maiocchi📍

EXHIBITION ⟶ Spazio Maiocchi📍

COLLIDING INTO NEW RELATION

A book display on 'Seeing <—> Making: Room for Thought' by Susan Buck-Morss, Kevin McCaughey, Adam Michaels, published by Inventory Press LA

'Seeing <—> Making: Room for Thought' both studies and presents the creative process of constructing ideas with images. By activating the techniques of montage, the book reveals a wide field of view and a space to engage new critical connection between a multiplicity of objects from the past and present. Realized through an intergenerational collaboration of three cultural producers committed to making theory visible, a transformative anthology of critical essays by Susan Buck-Morss anchors this rhizomatic project. Images and ideas sync with Buck-Morss’ perceptive texts on visual culture, history, politics, and aesthetics, fusing criticism with visual play and linking collective imagination and social action.

 

Building upon the methods and ways of seeing put forth by visual thinkers like Walter Benjamin and John Berger, designer Kevin McCaughey (Boot Boyz Biz), designer, editor, and publisher Adam Michaels (IN-FO.CO/Inventory Press), and renowned theorist Buck-Morss collectively assemble colliding material into new relation. What results is a (typo-) graphic articulation that thinks seriously about the stakes of ideation and reorients the space of the book in the service of a theory and philosophy that speaks the language of our image-based information age.

Susan Buck-Morss is an American philosopher, visual theorist, and intellectual historian. She is currently Professor of Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center, and professor emeritus in the Government Department at Cornell University.

Kevin McCaughey is a designer and co-founder of Boot Boyz Biz, a research and production cooperative based in New York.

Adam Michaels is a Los Angeles-based book designer, editor, and publisher. He is principal of IN-FO.CO (Inventory Form & Content), publisher of Inventory Press, and founder of the National Design Award-winning studio Project Projects in New York.

22 NOV  |  6–10 PM

23–24 NOV   |   11 AM – 9 PM

⟶ Spazio Maiocchi📍

EXHIBITION ⟶ Spazio Maiocchi📍

 

MAD - AUTONOMOUS WOMEN'S MOVEMENT

Lecce's first separatist feminist group

'MAD - Autonomous Women's Movement' is a book and exhibition that describes and documents the personal and political context of the rupture that feminism, a global and almost planetary unforeseen, activates in the 1970s with widespread practices of women's relationships and politics. In the case of MAD in Lecce it is about very young women, together, united by desire and practice of Feminine Freedom put, necessarily and for the first time, in the foreground. An experience of struggle and sharing, born in a territorial context often narrated as 'marginal' for great revolutions, the South and the province.

Atelier Bizzarro, curated by Elena Campa and Ruggero Asnago, is an independent, nomadic publishing project with a focus on ethnography, art brut and folklore.

ziczic edizioni, curated by Lilia Angela Cavallo and Silvia Tarantini, is a small independent publishing house whose main line of research and publication is the narration of places, landscapes and stories, often making different expressive languages coexist, from photography, to illustration, to writing.

22 NOV  |  6–10 PM

23–24 NOV   |   11 AM – 9 PM

⟶ Spazio Maiocchi📍

EXHIBITION ⟶ Spazio Maiocchi📍

 

GUTTER LOUNGE

presented by Shrub, an exhibition by Fern Teo & Shaiful Hardy

 

Gutter Lounge is an exhibition presented by Shrub, led by Fern Teo and Shaiful Hardy. The show brings together original artworks alongside curated pieces from close collaborators, offering a comprehensive view of Shrub’s multifaceted practice. The works uncover the intricate relationship between geographical landscapes and the shared stylistic nuances of the participating artists. Drawing from street vernaculars and cultural idiosyncrasies familiar to the Southeast Asian diaspora, the exhibition documents the individual and collective creative processes that shape these influences. Former schoolmates Fern and Shaiful, have nurtured a creative partnership over the years. Both pursued independent projects — ‘Ripe’ and ‘Hause’ — which served as precursors to Shrub and laid the groundwork for their continuous creative collaboration. Their approaches reflect a commitment of resourcefulness, from processes to mediums, resulting in a sense of fluidity and playfulness that transcends conventional boundaries while preserving core themes and subject matter. 

With work by Fern Teo, Shaiful Hardy, Hause (Shaiful Hardy, Hazween Rosli, Izzwann Shah), Ripe (Fern & Cam Tu), tofu house (Annie Hung, Mina Choo), Jankhouse (Rin Tachihara)

 – Shrub – founded in Singapore, is an artist-led independent space that serves as both a store and a gathering point. The space hosts pop-ups, exhibitions, and events while doing small scale publishing. Located in a former locksmith’s shop, Shrub embodies a raw, people-driven ethos.

22 NOV  |  6–10 PM

23–24 NOV   |   11 AM – 9 PM

⟶ Spazio Maiocchi📍

EXHIBITION ⟶ Spazio Maiocchi + Ten Thousand Feet

 

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SWISS BOOKS

in collaboration with Istituto Svizzero

'The Most Beautiful Swiss Books' will display - in collaboration with Istituto Svizzerothe twenty titles awarded on the occasion of the prestigious competition held by the Federal Office of Culture that brings together the best of Swiss publishing. Each year, the award celebrates the work of the most talented book designers and their outstanding achievements in book production and art, highlighting and promoting high-quality works that reflect contemporary trends. A traveling exhibition is organized annually in Switzerland and abroad as a promotional measure to share and consolidate skills related to book design. 

What is a Swiss book?

 

A product is considered a Swiss book if it meets at least one

of the following three criteria: The book was designed by a Swiss designer,

the publishing/printing house has its headquarters in Switzerland.

'The Most Beautiful Swiss Books' 2023 (awarded 2024) ⟶ LIST HERE

 

Catalogue: The most beautiful Swiss books 2024
80 Years of The Most Beautiful Swiss Books Competition.

'An Autopsy of Tastes and Values' ⟶ DOWNLOAD THE CATALOGUE HERE

 

The books will be on view during SPRINT Milano Art Book Fair hosted at Spazio Maiocchi and after will move to Ten Thousand Feet, an independent creative studio and a physical space where intimate events related to design, publishing, photography, and illustration take place. 

22 NOV  |  6–10 PM

23–24 NOV   |   11 AM – 9 PM

⟶ Spazio Maiocchi📍

26 NOV – 14 DEC

Mon–Fri   11 AM – 5 PM

Sat. & Public Holidays   2 – 6 PM

Sun. Closed

⟶ Ten Thousand Feet📍

EXHIBITION  |  ⟶ Spazio Maiocchi📍

BILLBOARD 

Jeffrey Cheung (Unity Press/Skateboarding)

Jeffrey Cheung is a Bay Area born and raised Chinese-American artist, and the co-founder of Unity Press, Unity Skateboarding, and THERE skateboards. Cheung’s bright, figurative work celebrates queerness within his personal life and within skate culture. He is a prolific maker, whose vivacious art examines freedom, identity, and intersectionality through bold color and intertwined characters

22 NOV  |  6–10 PM

23–24 NOV   |   11 AM – 9 PM

⟶ Spazio Maiocchi📍

EXHIBITION ⟶ Spazio Maiocchi📍

 

DO YOU WANT US HERE OR NOT

installation by Finnegan Shannon

Finnegan Shannon's practice consists of designing interventions that make the physical and digital spaces in which their works are exhibited more accessible. Responding to the surrounding environment, Shannon pinpoints architectures and protocols that prevent non-conforming or disabled bodies from visiting or spending time in a venue. Their works highlight multiple needs, responding for example to the physical fatigue that a prolonged visit to a museum may cause. By addressing people with disabilities first and foremost, Shannon's works encourage the participation of subjectivities that would otherwise be excluded. Likewise, the artist highlights how everyday spaces and activities are conceived and designed according to a standard ideal of an abled body.

'Do you want us here or not' is a project started in 2018 consisting of a series of benches that invite people to sit and rest through handwritten phrases printed on the seats. For Pinacoteca Agnelli, Shannon designed a new set of six benches confronting the ideology of speed and movement with which the FIAT car test track that now houses the project was conceived. ‘I prefer gradual to accelerated. Sit if you agree’ or ‘I prefer staying to going. Sit if you agree’ are some of the phrases written by the artist to invite people to take a moment to pause and rest along the track walk. 

 

On the occasion of SPRINT24 four of these benches are now installed in the courtyard of Spazio Maiocchi ready to welcome the pause of those visiting the Art Book Fair and resonate with their message in the space.

 

Also referring to a long history of demonstrations in which sitting represented an act of protest, Do you want us here or not suggests that occupying space with benches is a way of emphasising the presence of unseen and unheard bodies. For Shannon, accessibility is not a design concern, but rather a community-building issue, a matter relating to art and education. Accessibility is an ongoing learning process that prompts individuals, communities and institutions to question their responsibility to make spaces open to the largest possible number of people.

Finnegan Shannon (1989, Berkley) is a NY-based artist. Responding to the context in which they work, they identify architectures and protocols that prevent noncompliant or disabled bodies from visiting or remaining in the space and create works that highlight multiple needs and encourage the participation of otherwise excluded subjectivities. They have worked with, among others, MUDAM Luxembourg, Queens Museum, moCa Cleveland, High Line and have been supported by the Wynn Newhouse Award, Eyebeam fellowship, the Art Matters Foundation, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Disability Visibility Project.

Thanks to Deborah Schamoni, Munich, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino

EXHIBITION ⟶ Project–Room📍

X–PRESS

A curated selection of magazines that reshape the aesthetics of the 1990s and shattered the boundaries of graphic design

The titles selected - from Archivio Slam Jam & Archivio SPRINT - broke into the mainstream or remained niche, each carving out a distinct path and in some cases cementing their influence across multiple decades. Some began as uncompromising fanzines and have since evolved into corporate digital platforms; others published only a few issues, creating their own mythology before fading out; a few operated like secrets, distributed for free by mail only.

 

Emerging in an era marked by the rise of desktop publishing and before the widespread adoption of digital photography, these projects were fueled by an initial personal effort and the dedication of a few visionary individuals, determined to offer alternative perspectives to mass media, igniting a desire for new ways of seeing, listening, and being in the world.

 

Featured Magazines*

 

BIKINI, 1994–1999 circa, US   |   BLAH BLAH BLAH, 1996, UK    |   CUBE, 1993–1999, ITA

DAZED & CONFUSED 1991–2005, UK   |   GRAND ROYAL 1993–1997, US   |   i–D, 1980–2012, UK

  PAPER, 1984–2017, US   |   RAYGUN, 1992–2000, US   |   SLEAZENATION, 1999–2003, UK

  STRAIGHT NO CHASER, 1988–2007, UK   |   THE FACE, 1980–2004, UK

 

*Dates reflect the original publishing periods and do not account for later acquisitions or name changes

 

22 NOV  |  6–10 PM

23–24 NOV   |   11 AM – 9 PM

Project–Room📍

VISIT ⟶ Compulsive Archive📍

SHOW-AND-TELL – COMPULSIVE ARCHIVE

by Giulia Vallicelli

Compulsive Archive is an archive and long-term project based in Milan, Italy, aimed at rediscovering and enhancing the lesser-known punk publishing, that of feminist and queer fanzines produced between the 1990s and the 2000s. Hundreds of fanzines, records, fetishes, bulletins, letters on paper and early emails represent the heart of Compulsive Archive, which intends to keep itself alive through different activities and moments of confrontation: talks, publications, exhibitions, artistic residencies, readings.

Starting from the idea of archive as living matter, able not only to tell the past but also to make people reflect on the present, Compulsive Archive has been included in the volume 'Out Of The Grid. Italian zine 1978–2006'. In the setting of SPRINT24, founder Giulia Vallicelli will show and comment on some originals of the fanzines mentioned in the book.

22 NOV  |  6–10 PM

Compulsive Archive📍ONLY 22 NOV BY REGISTRATION - SOLD-OUT

ONLINE SCREENING H24 ⟶ Afterimage📍

TRANSFORMERS: THE PREMAKE

by Kevin B. Lee, curated by Insolente x SPRINT

Afterimage, Spazio Maiocchi’s digital platform, hosts the streaming of 'Transformers: The Premake' (2014), a unique video essay by Kevin B. Lee. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the film's release—a perfect occasion to revisit its themes. The video-essay explores the global production of 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' (2014) through an innovative, layered lens. Using YouTube footage shot by fans and bystanders and other data found online, the piece critiques and examines the marketing machine behind big-budget films, offering insights into how local communities worldwide engage with, and are affected by, massive film productions. The essay ingeniously combines desktop filmmaking techniques, capturing the fragmented, multi-perspective nature of online media consumption in an era of globalization. By weaving together diverse visual and narrative elements, 'Transformers: The Premake' serves as both a commentary on Hollywood’s power and a glimpse into the evolving nature of film spectatorship, questioning traditional ideas about authorship, media consumption, and the cultural ramifications of large-scale media productions. A text by Insolente introduces the streaming video.

Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker, media artist, and critic. He has produced over 360 video essays exploring film and media. His films have screened in intentionally renowned festivals such as Berlin Critics Week, Rotterdam International Film Festival and Viennale International Film Festival, and have earned him, among other awards, the Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Grant, the European Media Artist Platform Residency and the Eurimages Lab Project Award. He is Professor of the Future of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts at Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano in corporation with the Locarno Film Festival.

 

⟶ Afterimage📍  |  LINK ACTIVE HERE FROM  22.11–14.12

SPRINT MILANO ART BOOK FAIR  +  SURPRIZE AWARD

⟶ Spazio Maiocchi📍 + Regina Giovanna📍  

SMABF24

PUBLISHERS LIST   HERE

More than 150 participations from 29 countries. This year we are exceptionally launching several thematic areas that amplify the relationship with contemporary publishing: a selection of reality that also relate to sound-whether by pressing vinyl or recording tapes-small independent labels that take special care of covers and alities involved in the 11th edition of SPRINT MABF. One projects under development – published during 2025 – will receive funds support for production, research, to nurture pathways or to ignate time/space in vision and purpose.

23–24 NOV   |   11 AM – 9 PM

⟶ Spazio Maiocchi📍

TALK  |  23 NOV  |  2–3 PM  |  ITA  |  ⟶ Regina Giovanna📍

ARE WE ANGRY ENOUGH?

The relevance of the homosexual liberation movement between the 1960s and 1970s in the US and Italy - with historian Dario Pasquini

The conversation will analyze the role, potential and limits of emotions in political activism, starting from the example of homosexual liberation movements. Stemming from the Stonewall Riots and the founding of the Gay Liberation Front in New York in 1969, they developed in the United States and then in Europe, with the establishment of FUORI! in Italy in 1971. The Turin movement emerges as the main spreader in continental Europe of a new 'emotional style' originating in America, imbued with anger against heteronormative society and with joy and pride in being homosexual. The discussion will be based on the book ‘With Joyful Anger. Politics and Emotions in the Italian LGBT press’ 1969-1979 (PM Editions, 2023), authored by historian Dario Pasquini, and will draw from it a reflection on issues of our present.

Dario Pasquini, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Liverpool. He was a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Bielefeld and a visiting scholar at the City University of New York. He is the author of two books in Italian, the first about Fascism and Nazism in the Italian and German satirical press and the second about politics and emotions in the Italian LGBT press. His essays and articles have appeared in leading international academic history, philosophy, and art history journals.

TALK  |  23 NOV  |  3-4 PM  |  ENG  |  ⟶ Regina Giovanna📍

 

INVENTORYING INVENTORY

with Adam Michaels

– Stemming from the recent release 'Seeing <—> Making: Room for Thought' (Susan Buck-Morss, Adam Michaels, Kevin McCaughey), and spanning across titles such as 'The Electric Information Age Book: McLuhan/Agel/Fiore' and the 'Experimental Paperback' (Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Adam Michaels), this lecture will cover an ongoing set of related books exploring formats such as the mass market paperback with honed-in, unconventional integrations of text and image. This will touch upon how this specific area of activity fits into the broader publishing program of the decade-old publishing imprint Inventory Press.

Adam Michaels is a Los Angeles-based book designer, editor, and publisher. He is principal of IN-FO.CO (Inventory Form & Content), publisher of Inventory Press, and founder of the National Design Award-winning studio Project Projects in New York. His most recent book is 'Seeing <—> Making: Room for Thought', co-authored with Susan Buck-Morss and Kevin McCaughey, follows titles such as 'The Electric Information Age Book: McLuhan/Agel/Fiore' and the 'Experimental Paperback' and the expanded reprint of Maurice Stein and Larry Miller’s Blueprint for Counter Education.

TALK  |  23 NOV  |  5–6 PM  |  ITA  |  ⟶ Regina Giovanna📍

CONCRETE FRANKENSTEIN

This is the result of a workshop held on October 12 and 13, 2024, during which participants gathered at Salvaraja (in the Parco Nord Ticino, Milan) and for 48 hours explored the theme of the monster and the monstrous, with the goal of producing several experimental (concrete, visual, sound) poems. CONCRETE FRANKENSTEIN is a limited-edition book that narrates the journey and experience of collaborative project development across various artistic disciplines.

BBDB Studio is an independent design practice. We are a small team of experienced design professionals, capable of addressing complex creative challenges. With twenty years of international design experience, we work for commerce and culture with established businesses and smaller, agile organizations. We ideate, develop and self-publish diverse cultural projects with specific attention to visual and typographic research. Our expertise lies in design, direction and ideas for product, visual, interactivity and brand.

Frankenstein Magazine is an independent editorial project created by Marcello Mosca, Emiliano Fadda, Dario Guccio and Stefano Coizzi of the cultural association Aldebaran Studio. A melting pot/magazine intent on promoting experimental and research content, reaching across figurative arts and creative writing, with a particular focus on auteur comics. Its hallmark is heterogeneity, while one of its cornerstones is inclusivity at every level, which manifests itself in the diversity of the artists involved and the effort to guarantee maximum expressive freedom for authors.

 

TALK  |  24 NOV  |  2–3 PM  |  ENG  |  ⟶ Regina Giovanna📍

BENEATH THE SURFACE

Deep Listening, Buried Narratives and Embodied Resistance

Talk/Performance by Luïza Luz

The publication Beneath The Surface (2024) by Luïza Luz engages deep listening as a practice to disrupt cycles of oppression and ecological destruction. It challenges dominant narratives and enforced silences that obscure specific stories, emphasizing the need to reclaim these experiences through embodied resistance. Luz draws on the body as a living archive, showing how physical sensations and ancestral memories can guide pathways for eco-liberation and collective healing. Beneath The Surface reimagines educational systems that often disregard embodied knowledge by linking personal experiences with larger Planetary struggles. It offers an approach to learning and solidarity rooted in attunement, embracing complexity, and inviting listeners to reconsider how we relate to one another and the Earth.

– Their work focuses on intersectional environmentalism and emancipatory pedagogies, engaging with spatial, textual, sonic, performative, and somatic ecologies. Through the reciprocal acts of voicing and listening, Luz approaches education as a medium, recovering forgotten or suppressed narratives and nurturing collaborative-bodied learning experiences. Between 2021 and 2023, they founded and led the Planetary Embodiment seminar at the Berlin University of Arts, culminating in the publication Planetary Embodiment: Cooking With Words for Systemic Change and Solidarity.

TALK  |  24 NOV  |  4–5 PM  |  ENG  |  ⟶ Regina Giovanna📍

 

TRACKING CHANGES

IN THE EXPANDED FIELD OF ART CRITICISM

A conversation with Ben Eastham and Barbara Casavecchia,

moderated by George MacBeth

In a talk moderated by the editor of the e-flux Index, the editors of e-flux Criticism and Mousse discuss the role of criticism in the 'expanded field' of contemporary art. Taking for a starting point Carla Lonzi’s expanded and agonistic understanding of the activity of criticism (as outlined in her enduringly influential Autoritratto), the speakers will discuss how an increasingly unstable and obscure form might adapt to the changing ways in which art is produced and understood, and what the function of criticism might be today. 

Ben Eastham is the editor of e-flux Criticism. He was previously founding editor of London-based literary magazine The White Review, editor at ArtReview, and associate editor at Documenta 13. He was a co-curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, and publications editor of the next Seoul Mediacity Biennale. He is the author of two books, most recently The Imaginary Museum, and editor of monographs on Fabio Mauri, Stephen Spender, and Arshile Gorky (forthcoming), among other things. His writing is widely published. 

Barbara Casavecchia is a writer, independent curator and educator based in Milan, where she works as editor-in-chief at Mousse Magazine. In 2023, she edited the book Thus Waves Come in Pairs. Thinking with the Mediterraneans (Sternberg Press & TBA21) and curated the eponymous exhibition at Ocean Space, Venice, with new commissions by Simone Fattal, Petrit Halilaj & Álvaro Urbano. Her texts have appeared in Frieze, e-flux Criticism, ArtReview, Arts of the Working Class, Flash Art, Kaleidoscope, La Repubblica, Spike. 

 

George MacBeth is a writer and editor based in Berlin. He is the editor of the e-flux Index. His writing on film, literature, and art has appeared or is forthcoming in Asymptote Journal, Texte Zur Kunst, Art Monthly, Spike Art Magazine, PartisanHotel, and Mubi Notebook amongst other outlets. He was previously a managing editor of publications for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and an editor for the UMBAU journal of art and theory.

TALK  |  24 NOV  |  6–7 PM  |  ENG  |  ⟶ Regina Giovanna📍

BOOTLEGGING, BRAND JACKING AND LOGO RIP-OFFS

A conversation with

Michele Galluzzo and Ben Schwartz

What can we learn from bootlegs that destabilize the rules of canonical visual communication and copyright? What happens to logos when they step outside brand guidelines and meet the real world? Michele Galluzzo (author of 'LOGO IRL' Krisis Publishing) and Ben Schwartz (author of 'UNLICENSED' Source Type/Valiz) will discuss about the past, present, and future of these phenomena, presenting their projects unique approach to bootlegging across a variety of subjects: from corporate highjacking to contemporary art, street wear to high fashion, internet memes to underground publishing.

Michele Galluzzo is a graphic designer and researcher. He studied Communication Sciences, Graphic Design and Visual Communication History at the University of Salento, the ISIA of Urbino, the IUAV in Venice (PhD). After three years as research assistant and graphic designer at the AIAP Historical Archive in Milan, in 2018, he became part of the editorial board of the magazine “Progetto Grafico”. In 2020 he co-founded Fantasia Type – a design / research duo with Franziska Weitgruber.  RTD at the UniBZ in Bolzano/Bozen (2021-2023), he curates the Instagram page @logo_irl with his “notes for a social history of visual identity”, on which his last book is centered coming out this month with the title Logo In Real Life (Krisis Publishing).

Ben Schwartz is a graphic designer, researcher, and writer from Ohio. After working in the music industry, Schwartz attended the ArtCenter College of Design in Los Angeles, CA. In 2018 he was awarded the Walker Art Center design fellowship. In 2020 Schwartz participated in the Jan van Eyck Residency where he investigated the act of bootlegging through an interview series and text, recently published in the volume UNLICENSED: Bootlegging as a Creative Practice. He has also worked freelance for various studios including Folder Studio, Studio Lin, ETC., and Benjamin Critton Art Dept. Currently he works as the managing editor for Source Type.

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