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Jakarta Art Book Fair 2022 aims to provoke thoughts
Print is not dead: the 2022 Jakarta Art Book Fair organizers talk about their reslate from 2020 and the elements that constitute an art book.
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License to print: Kuala Lumpur-based design studio LIE's risograph zine, 'Lain-Lain' at the Road to JKTABF 2020. Overseas participants from Australia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand will also take part in the JKTABF 2022. (Courtesy of RIOP) (Courtesy of RIOP/Courtesy of RIOP)
Print is not dead: the 2022 Jakarta Art Book Fair talks about their reslate from 2020 and the elements that constitute an art book.
Similar to how fairs and festivals lined up for 2020 were delayed or pushed to the brink of uncertainty due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Jakarta Art Book Fair (JKTABF), which was slated for 2020, also went silent after the pandemic hit. It stayed that way until July, when it announced an open call for exhibitors.
Taking place at M Bloc Space Jakarta’s Creative Hall in South Jakarta from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, Indonesia’s very first art book fair will feature 41 exhibitors from Indonesia, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand—from the more-established, gloss-laminate-worshiping booksellers to the indie, wabi-sabi zine-makers or even individual illustrators—offering a baffling number works that are constituted within the wide spectrum of art books or artists’ books. Print is not dead indeed.
Beating around the bush
“Yes, actually we were not too confident back then in using the name Jakarta Art Book Fair’,” said Jakarta-based designer Fandy Susanto speaking to The Jakarta Post on Aug. 19 as the JKTABF PR manager. Fandy was looking back to the moment when he organized PRESSENT, an event that he dubbed the 2018 Jakarta Publications and Records Fair.
“We even added ‘records’ there because we were really not confident,” Fandy snickered.
