The 12th NYC Art Book Fair will be held at new York’s MoMA from September 22 to September 24. Organised by the cultural initiative Printed Matter, the fair is a significant event for artists working with books, catalogues, monographs, zines and periodicals.
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“DIK Fagazine is the first, and, so far, the only art magazine from Central and Eastern Europe concentrated on homosexuality and masculinity,” Karol Radziszewski told Hyperallergic. The artist founded it in 2005. “It gradually evolved from a periodical addressing the current situation in Poland to a platform exploring queer archives determined to discover our ‘queer ancestors,’”Radziszewski says, adding that the magazine is a combination of queer archival research and contemporary art featuring interviews with “artists, authors, prominent names in culture, as well as ordinary guys.”
Photo from the artist’s Facebook page
At DIK Fagazine’s booth, two issues are presented – “Zagreb: Queering the Museum” and “Communist Homosexuality”. At the fair, Radziszewski is going to show the latest issue about queer culture in Belarus. Asked by Hyperallergic how he felt about being the only representative of Poland at the event, he said: “I think it’s quite funny and ironic that pretty homophobic Poland is represented here only by the queer magazine.”
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