Wednesday, September 17
6 PM

Please join us at 6 PM on Wednesday, September 17 for Telephone Telephone #37 with special guests HAMBRE at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). We will be viewing ISLAA’s current exhibitions, Violaciones Domésticas: Feminist Constellations in 1990s Argentina and Marcia Schvartz: Power in Looking Back, and HAMBRE will be giving a short presentation on their publishing practice, followed by our usual open discussion.

Our reading will be an excerpt from Off-Register: Publishing Experiments by Women Artists in Latin America, 1960–1990 by Mela Dávila Freire (Center for Book Arts, 2023) and two short texts from HAMBRE’s ACCIÓN GRÁFICA URGENTE (2022). Both readings can be accessed at this link.

To attend, please RSVP to info@darlinggreen.com.

About HAMBRE

The Chilean press HAMBRE began in 2019, printing with a multifunctional machine and assembling books on a small kitchen counter. Today, they work from a colorful 12-by-9-foot studio in their new home, where the publishing practice blends seamlessly with daily life.

This year, thanks to Printed Matter’s Publisher Work Grant, they welcomed a risograph duplicator — which fittingly arrived on the birthday of Chilean queer poet Gabriela Mistral. The duplicator has transformed their studio, reshaping their processes, paper sizes, formats, and outcomes.

Inspired by artisanal publishing traditions in Latin America and the politics of the kitchen, HAMBRE cooks each publication like a unique dish, prepared with its own recipe, blending intimacy, experimentation, and resistance.

About Telephone Telephone

Part seminar, part reading group, and part gathering of co-conspirators, Telephone Telephone is a self-organized experiment in dialogue and cooperative discovery. 

Telephone Telephone is a collective space of study about the exhibition form. Beginning with the history of exhibitions as a starting point, we will generate a series of questions related to exhibition-making and viewing, in order to better understand the present and re-imagine the future of art exhibitions. We will host a series of meetings and continue to discuss the format and character of Telephone Telephone as an opportunity to gather, ask questions, and accumulate an archive of open source research material. We will begin with a mode of dialogue that leaves space for questions but doesn’t necessarily provide answers.