Reading & Discussion
Nina Prader // Lady Liberty Press reads her Zine Manifesto.
Discussion with Nina Prader and Lenz Mosbacher about Zines in Vienna
About:
Nina Prader/Lady Liberty Press is an artist, author, independent publisher and print activist in Berlin and Vienna. Her research focuses on printed matters and the Risograph. In 2017, she launched Paper & Tape: Audio on Printed Matters on Vienna Community Radio, Radio Orange. Most recently, she curated the exhibition Druck Druck Druck: Print Communities from Berlin and Beyond, in the Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin; the gallery became a live publishing house and print studio to pursue radical goals in art, education, and community.
www.ladylibertypress.org
Lenz Mosbacher is a comic artist working in Vienna.
His work explores the boundaries of the medium comics by reaching out into different media, such as theatre, music, film and exhibition design. In 2019, he released the first issue of the magazine DIN – Drawn Into Narrative together with Simon Hanzer and Elias Hanzer. The second issue of DIN was released in January 2020 and is a collaboration with the artists Vinz Schwarzbauer, Janne Marie Dauer, Simon Hanzer, Carina Riemenschneider and Nina Buchner.
http://www.lenzmosbacher.com
Zine Matters: Self-Publishing from Prague to Vienna is curated by Deniz Beser (Director of Fanzineist Vienna Art Book & Zine Fair, artist and self-publisher); and Frantisek Kast (Co-director of PhaseBook: Art Book & Zine Fair Prague, Graphic Designer and co-founder of Page Five Art Bookstore). The conceptual framework of the exhibition was shaped by the Czech printing house Quatro Print, Beşer and Kast’s desire to establish a bridge between Austria and Czech Republic through fanzines, and together they took the initiative and focused on contemporary zine production in these countries.