New York NY (US)
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New York Art Book Fair 2010
GAGARIN will take part in the NYABF2010, Printed Matter Inc's dazzling annual fair at PS1 for contemporary art books, art catalogues, artist's books, art periodicals and 'zines offered for sale by some 120 international publishers, booksellers and antiquarian dealers. Admission is free.
PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, 22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101
Thursday, 5pm - 6 pm (preview, vip & press)
Thursday, 6pm - 8 pm (opening reception, free and open to the public)
Friday & Saturday, 11am - 7pm
Sunday, 11am - 5pm 

Paris (FR)
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SALON LIGHT #7 
Salon Light is an initiative of CNEAI and the annual meeting of small publishers of the artists' publication at Point Ephémère, situated by the Canal Saint Martin in Paris. This seventh edition of the Salon Light is linked to the off program of the international art fair FIAC. SALON LIGHT #7 brings together some fifthy art publishers from around the world.
Point Ephémère, 200 Quai Malvy, 75010 Paris, France
Friday, 2 - 8pm
Saturday, 2 - 9pm
sunday, 12 - 6pm 

Strasbourg (Fr)
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LES LIVRES A VENIR
GAGARIN will take part in the exhibition "Le Livres à venir" (the books to come), organised by the Ecole Supérieure des Arts de Strasbourg, France. "Les Livres à venir" presents itself as a signal, It shows precise editorial statements. It will not just concentrate on the actuality of the moment, but show some of its intensities and signs that are representative by means of selected invitations. 
Ecole supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg, 1 rue de l'Académie, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Friday, 7pm: preview
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 11am - 7pm  

London (GB)
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London Art Book Fair 2010 - Whitechapel Gallery
For the second year now, GAGARIN joins the LABF2010. The selection was made by Marcus Campbell, Tacita Dean, Franz König, Farshid Mousawi and Soraya Rordiguez. Over 90 leading publishers from all over the world will fill the Whitechapel Gallery's spaces. As Iwona Blazwick, Director, Whitechapel Gallery said: 'London is the centre of the art world, and the London Art Book Fair is the chance to exchange and read the latest ideas, as well as an unmissable opportunity to buy the most beautiful publications. 
Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX, UK
Private view (by invitation only): Thursday: 6 - 9pm
Friday, Saturday & Sunday:  11am - 6pm  

Baltimore MD (US)
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Creative Control
GAGARIN was invited to take part in the exhibiton "Creative Control", showcasing a selection of zines, self-published and independent art books and magazines. "Creative Conrtol" calls attention to the diversity as well as the creative control independent publishers have over the work they release. The exhibition is organised by the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts at the occasion of the Baltimore Book Festival.
Baltimore, Maryland, in historic and picturesque Mount Vernon Place. The closest landmark is The Walters Art Museum at 600 North Charles Street, 21201.
Friday, 12pm - 8pm
Saturday, 12pm - 8pm
Sunday: 12pm - 7pm 

Glasgow (GB)
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CCA Book Fair 2010
The CCA book fair pulls together a series of alternative and independent publishers from Scotland an further afield, aimed at anyone interested in contempoary art or new ideas. GAGARIN was invited to take part.
CCA Center for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall St., Glasgow, Scotland.
Saturday 17 november, 12pm - 4.30pm

Brussels (BE)
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PA/PER VIEW Artbook Fair 2010
PA/PER VIEW Artbookfair will bring together a selection of some 30 of Europe's leading artist book publishers during Belgium's most intense contemporary art weekend. Will be present: Book Works, GAGARIN, Gevaert Editions, Marcus Campbell Art Books, Mousse, Onestar Press, Onomatopee, Roma Publications, Witte deWith Publications, etc...
Wiels, Avenue Van Volxem 354, 1190 Brussels, Belgium
Thursday, 4pm - 6pm: panel discussion with E. Sturtevant, J. Smiers, S. Sieglaub, D. McClean, L. Derycke
Thursday, 6pm - 9pm: preview with drinks and canapes served
Friday, 11am - 7pm
Saturday & Sunday, 11am - 6pm 

Ghent (BE)
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GAGARIN the Artists in their Own Words
The first Decade
The Museum of Contemporary Art S.M.A.K. in Ghent (B) organizes a unique & comprehensive exhibition confronting the complete GAGARIN oeuvre of artist's texts with a selection of works by the same artists from the museumcollection and special loans.
With works by a/o Gabriel Kuri, Manfredu Schu, Jimme Durham, Mark Manders, Panamarenko, Juan Munoz, Suchan Kinushita, Richard Serra, Joe Scanlan, Maria Serebriakova, Franzeska & Lois Weinberger, David Maroto, Willem Oorebeek, Kirsten Pieroth, Guillaume Bijl, Raoul De Keyser, Henk Visch, Lawrence Weiner, Edtih Dekyndt, Allora & Calzadilla, Philippe Van Snick,...     
Museum of Contemporary Art S.M.A.K., Citadelpark, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Tuesday / Sunday, 10am - 6pm

Ghent (BE) 
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S.M.A.K. going GAGA
Until March 14, 2010, the Museum of Contemporary Art S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Belgium, runs the comprehensive exhibition "GAGARIN the Artists in their Own Words - The first Decade". On show are the complete artist's writings published in GAGARIN and a selection of artworks by the same artists from the museum collection and special loans. GAGARIN the Artists in their Own Words is a recent international art magazine, entirely dedicated to the publication of original writings by artists who are now working, anywhere in the world. Recently, the complete GAGARIN oeuvre was acquired by the MoMA, the Guggenheim and the Thomas J. Watson Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, all in New York, and by the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles. To celebrate its unique concept and the 20 issues published since 2000, S.M.A.K. will now organize the special GAGARIN event with the alarming title "S.M.A.K. going GAGA" on Saturday, March 13^th, the next-to-last day of the exhibition.
The program of "S.M.A.K. going GAGA" is as follows:
11:00 am - 12:30 pm :
GAGARIN: out of orbit into the museum
This presentation and ensuing panel discussion will examine originality when the pages of GAGARIN are removed from bound gatherings and displayed across gallery walls. Concepts of originality in GAGARIN the Artists in their Own Words will be discussed, assessed, and put to work analyzing artist's texts as they appear transposed from a journal to an exhibition. The members of the panel are:
- Simon Deakin, presenter, artist. He is currently doing doctoral research on GAGARIN at The University of Leeds (UK). He is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art , the Slade School of Fine Art, and Goldsmiths College.
- Olaf Nicolai, artist. His work was a/o shown at the 3^rd RIWAQ Biennial in Ramallah, "Animism" at MuHKA in Antwerp & "La Boule de Yoyante" - a narration performed in 10 episodes (May-December) at 10 not art-related places in Venice, Budapest, Rome, Amsterdam, Munich, Berlin, Sipan (Hr.), Paris, Palermo & Santiago de Chile.
- Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield, Reader in Theory and Philosophy of Art at the University of Reading UK. He sits on the Executive Committee of the Forum for European Philosophy at the London School of Economics. 
- Asja Szafraniec is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She studied at the Warsaw University, the University of Amsterdam, the SUNY at Buffalo and the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of "Beckett, Derrida and the Event of Literature" (Stanford UP 2007). 
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm :
GAGARIN: reading marathon
The panel discussion will be followed by a new ground breaking "reading marathon" with artists who have contributed to GAGARIN. They will read their GAGARIN text, or eventually another text of their own, before a live audience. The artists who will take part in the reading marathon are Boris Achour, Guillaume Bijl, Pierre Bismuth, Jota Castro, Adam Chodzko, Michel François, Joseph Grigely, Kati Heck, IngridMwangiRobertHutter, Suchan Kinoshita, Job Koelewijn, Gabriel Kuri, Bernd Lohaus, Mark Manders, Ria Pacquée, Philippe Van Snick, Berend Strik, Jennifer Tee, Danh Vo, Franziska & Lois Weinberger.
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm :
Voodoo-Faust (Crash Opera) by ManfreDu Schu
"S.M.A.K. going GAGA" will conclude with a unique and breathtaking musical performance of his Voodoo-Faust (Crash Opera) by ManfreDu Schu & friends. ManfreDu Schu took part, along with Juan Muñoz, Maria Serebriakova, Guy Rombouts, Marlene Dumas and Stephan Balkenhol, in the very first edition of GAGARIN the Artists in their Own Words (volume 1 #1, May 2000) with his writnig: "Deinetwegen" Theatrale Philosophie / Akt II "THE BLACK-MOUTH" (OPERA-PHILOSOPHIA-THEATRALIA) #1wlwkLFS.
Disillusion, a strategic cardboard game for two players created by David Maroto, will be played from 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm and from 5:00 pm - 5.30 pm on the spot at the "GAGARIN the Artists in their Own Words - The first Decade" show on the ground floor of the museum. Volunteers who want to take part in the tournament are most welcome.   
Museum of Contemporary Art S.M.A.K., Citadelpark, 9000 Ghent, Belgium 
Saturday, March 13th, 11:00 am - 6:30 pm
Entrance fee  6 | 4 | 1

Berlin (DE)
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Kiosk, Modes of Multiplication
The travelling archive of independent art publishing Kiosk - Modes of Multiplication has recently been handed over to the international Library (Kunstbibliothek, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz) in Berlin. As a conclusion of 10 years of intense collecting activity, the Kunstbibliothek is organising a last Kiosk exhibition, displaying and highlighting a variety of individual titles and publication series of the archive. Moreover a major publication, functioning primarely as a true source book on independent art publishing activities of the last decade - which have become an important and influential component in the art system - will be released. GAGARIN The Artists in their Own Words will be included in both.  
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Matthaïkirchplatz 6, 10785 Berlin, Germany
Thuesday - Friday, 10am - 6pm
Saturday - Sunday, 11am - 6pm
Monday closed

Chicago IL (US)
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College Art Association CAA2010
CAA is the largest professional organisation for individuals and institutions working in the visual arts internationally. It reaches a broad range of artists, scholars, art historians, museum staff, university librarians, critics, curators and others. In addition of four days of panel discussions, museum exhibitions, gallery receptions and special events, one of the largest draws of its conference is a Book and Trade Fair featuring some 140 periodicals, art publishers, distributors, university presses, etc...
Hyatt Regency Chicago, 151 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60601, USA
Thursday & Friday, 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Saturday, 9:00 am - 2:30 pm

Brussels (BE)
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The Voice of GAGARIN
Some 15 people with different backgrounds are invited to read artist's texts from GAGARIN before a life audience. The event is a proposition by Parisian curator Grégory Castèra. 
Monday 14th
- Mark Manders, Waarom hebben wij tijd om over ons lichaam na te denken? Tijd trekt mij steeds weer weg uit het geluid waar ik van hou, read by Felicia Atkinson
- Jota Castro, Artforum; mi sombra y la probabilidad de mi muerte., read by Jota Castro
- Pierre Bismuth, Vendredi 28 Octobre 1994, read by Scali Delpeyrat and Lenka Luptakova
- Roman Ondak, STAR CITY, read by Scali Delpeyrat and Lenka Luptakova 
- Peter Regli, die Liebe kommt - die Liebe geht, read by Scali Delpeyrat and Lenka Luptakova
- Bili Bidjocka, NKWEL BA YI DJAM OU NOMB BEE, read by Gilles Collard
- Anne Daems, In the supermarket a bundle of leeks lay on a pile of newspapers, read by Karl Larsson
- John Baldessari, A Person Wears Many Masks and Perhaps We Are Not Who We Think We Are read by Laurent de Sutter 
Wednesday 16th
- David Shrigley, 6 Textdrawings, read by Florent Delval
- Lawrence Weiner, ...EN ROUTE TO..., read by Nicolas Fourgeaud
- Tsuyoshi Ozawa, The Nasubi Shimbun, read by Zicmuse McCloud
- Honoré D'O, And if you do decide to.doc, read by Michiel Reyneart
Thursday 17th
- Dora Garcia, Twice Told Tales, read by Bojana Cvejic
- David Shrigley, 6 Textdrawings, read by Florent Delval
- Harmony Korine, Mac and Plac, read by Sébastian Dicenaire
- Lawrence Weiner, ...EN ROUTE TO..., read by Nicolas Fourgeaud
- Alfredo Jaar, LUCIDITY, read by Jonathan Lévy
- Jonathan Monk, Dear Mr. Kounellis, read by Jonathan Lévy
- Olaf Probst, Mc loop + Undrawn Monografie of Johannes Meinhardt, read by Michael Schmid
- Eija-Liisa Ahtila, WORDS, read by Coralie Stalberg
Friday 18th
- Marlène Dumas, Titels, eerste name en verkleinwoordjies, read by Jean-Philippe Convert
- Lefevre Jean Claude, A C T D L M R S S 1 9 9 0, read by Jean-Philippe Convert
- David Shrigley, 6 Textdrawings, read by Florent Delval
- Paul Chan, Oh Gertrude, read by Maja Jantar
- Agnès Geoffray, Les Enchantés (11 chansons), read by Maja Jantar
- Mat Mullican, Trance performance Zürich 2003, read by Emmanuel Lambion
- Bernard Villiers, Mes ABéCéDaires, read by Emmanuel Lambion
- Boris Achour, OPERATION RESTORE POETRY version to shout extremely hard, alone or in public, with the voice of a Marines instructor, read by Emmanuel Lambion
- Kader Attia, Sans Titre 2006, read by Marie-Aude Leledy
- David Maroto, Dissillusion, read by Lara Pandurovic
- Patrick Corillon, Sur le Chemin, read by Nina Souquet
Saturday 19th
- Ria Pacquée, Street Rambling, read by Maya Boquet
- Joëlle Terulinckx, selectgagarin, read by Lucille Calmel
- David Shrigley, 6 Textdrawings, read by Florent Delval
- Paola Pivi, THANK YOU FOR SHARING LOVE, read by Sonia Demierce
- Sophie Calle, La visite médicale, read by Delphine Jonas
- Roman Ondàk, STAR CITY, read by Elena Sorokina
- Anatoli Osmolovski, For the Apartment and for the Office, read by Elina Sorokina
Elaine Levy Project, Rue Fourmois 9 (first floor), 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
daily from 7:00 pm

Amsterdam (NL)
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Small Publishers Fair
Some 110 small publishers from the Dutch speaking countries present their new and old titles in the field of literature, non-fiction and visual arts.
Paradiso, Weteringsschans 6-8, 1017 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sunday, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Breda (NL)
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B-Sides and Rarities
B-Sides and Rarities is an exhibition with (for practical, economical or other reasons) unrealized artprojects on different locations and in Lokaal 01 in Breda. With scale models, story boards, sketches, etc.. GAGARIN will take part with some 8 issues featuring unrealized projects by Simon Patterson, Stan Douglas, Joe Scanlan, Berend Strik & One Architecture and Boris Achour.
Lokaal 01 & inner city of Breda.
More info: www.lokaal01.nl