While we’re alive, we’re water in one form or another. What we discovered is a form of art always beginning again, never complete, with no audience, only participants, a movement, all love. Water never stops moving. — Oscar Tuazon
Join DoPe Press at Marta in Silver Lake for ACID-FREE LITE, the 2024 edition of the Acid-Free art book market and bazaar.
Highlights include the new publication Los Angeles Water School (LAWS), the second volume documenting the Oscar Tuazon’s ongoing, collaborative Water School project. The Los Angeles iteration included talks, performances, and exhibitions by over sixty artists and activists, and the new volume provides an extensive visual and contextual overview of this unique program. Water School, Vol. I will also be available, as well as Building, a look at the artist’s recent practice as installed and exhibited at Bergen Kunsthall, Kunst Museum Winterthur, and Kunsthalle Bielefeld. And check out the Water’s Cool t-shirts, designed by Dorothée Perret and available for purchase.
In addition, DoPe Press presents Scratching at the Moon, co-published with the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles and edited by Anne Ellegood and Anna Sew Hoy. This exhibition catalogue for ICA LA’s groundbreaking 2024 show features the work of Patty Chang, Young Chung, Vishal Jugdeo, Simon Leung, Michelle Lopez, Yong Soon Min, Na Mira, Amanda Ross-Ho, Miljohn Ruperto, Dean Sameshima, Anna Sew Hoy, Amy Yao, and Bruce Yonemoto.
Fran, an artist’s book by Monica Nouwens, is a report from the field, a love letter dedicated to the streets of Los Angeles—or, as the artist describes her work, “a fragmented visual narrative of the soul of a place.”
Less is More is the exhibition catalogue for Jack Pierson’s most recent Regen Projects show, and includes an artist interview by Andy Campbell and an essay by Evan Moffitt.
ACID-FREE LITE opens on Friday night, October 18, and runs through the weekend. See info and links below for details.
ACID-FREE LITE
Friday, October 18, 6 pm–9 pm
Opening night music performance by SK Kakraba
Saturday, October 19, 11 am–6 pm
Morning and afternoon DJ sets by Yosuke Kitazawa, Tickle Polyester, and KnoTheKid
Sunday, October 20, 11 am–6 pm
Live morning and afternoon performances by Pink Dolphins, Dustin Wong, and geovariance (Anna Wise and Maurice II)
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Signings:
Oscar Tuazon, “Natural Laws,” in Los Angeles Water School (Los Angeles: DoPe Press, 2024), 13.
Book images, from top: Oscar Tuazon, Los Angeles Water School (LAWS) [Building the LAWS Zome in downtown Los Angeles; NSRGNTS and Oscar Tuazon, Reading Bench [Leonard Peltier], 2018 painted steel, acrylic, and Xerox on paper]; Anne Ellegood and Anna Sew Hoy, Scratching at the Moon [Na Mira, Hotel, 2024; Anna Sew Hoy Multitude Wall, 2024 (foreground), Heavy Sun and Commotion, 2022 (left), Hard Swamp Ecstatic Return, 2022]; Monica Nouwens, Fran [7].
LAWS and Scratching at the Moon designed by Dorothée Perret.
Artworks and images courtesy and © the artists and DoPe Press.
