Frame welcomes you to the event “ON AIR: African Art Book Fair in conversation with Station of Commons”, which will take place on Friday, 27 September, from 5–7 PM at our office (Töölönkatu 11, Helsinki). The event is open to all. It will be broadcast live on the Station of Commons
and lumbung radio platforms.
Speakers Grégoire Rousseau and Eddie Choo Wen Yi from Station of Commons, along with Pascale Obolo and Sara Mychkine, co-curators of the African Art Book Fair 2024, will engage in a conversation exploring the digital commoning practices of the artist collective Station of Commons in relation to the African Art Book Fair, which took place in May 2024 in Dakar, Senegal. Station of Commons and lumbung radio are supported by KONE Foundation.
The discussion will delve into the role of radio within the art book fair, examining how publishing practices intersect with the politics of sound and how radio can function as a radical form of collective organisation.
Accessibility information on Frame’s office is found here.
Initiated in 2020, Station of Commons is an artist collective based in Finland, working as a research platform on digital commoning practices and radical technology. It is a collaborative project exploring the idea of the “commons” in both digital and physical spaces. SoC has cooperated with local and international partners, such as Oksasenkatu11 gallery, Äänen Lumo ry, ENSBA Paris Fine Art Academy, Paris Beaux Arts Museum, Manifesta13, documenta fifteen, Pixelache Helsinki, H.F.B.K Hamburg art academy, Miss Read art book fair 2023–2024–2025, ZKM art centre and African Art Book Fair in Dakar Biennale 2024.
African Art Book Fair is a platform for debate and encounters with professionals in the field of art publishing and critical production from Africa and the diaspora. It highlights new and innovative publishing practices and the ‘physicality’ of the book as a medium. The fair comprises a selection of publishers at the intersection of art, photography, design, experimental music, open culture, and activism. The African Art Book Fair’s 10th anniversary focused on exchanges between the North and the Global South and the circulation of knowledge providing a contextual framework for African arts and intellectual production.
Photo credit: Samuel Thoma
