The Independent Publishing Project is an idiosyncratic research initiative aimed at gathering people and objects around the idea of self or small-scale publishing within a South African context. The project is facilitated by South African artists Jonah Sack and Francis Burger.

Focusing on contemporary practitioners and on facilitating collaboration and conversation, the exhibition will feature a reading room with a select library and a working studio. The books, booklets, zines, take-aways and leaflets collected and exhibited through the project advocate independent publishing as a first rather than a last resort.

Looking at independent or small-scale publishing as both a medium and a strategy, the project’s interest in these items is part sentimental, part tactile and part political. Guest participants will include Johannesburg-based online publishers and fledgling self-broadcasters CUSS (Ravi Govender, Jamal Nxedlana and Zamani Xolo), amongst others.

For more information, feel free to contact the facilitators: [email protected].