THE ELDER by Esther McManus Launch
Thursday, 30 January, 6.30-9.00 pm

Join us at Ti Pi Tin on Thursday, 30 January to celebrate the launch of Esther McManus‘ new comic The Elder.

The Elder tells the story of an ancient forest dweller, and her fear of an encroaching community who she fears will alter her way of life. Predominantly wordless, The Elder explores the feeling of vulnerability, the tragedy of misunderstandings and the fear of change. The book is 2-colour riso throughout, with a screenprinted gatefold cover. Printed at Ditto Press and published by Æ Folklore.

Something of a labour of love, it would be great to see and thank in person everyone who helped to make it possible - you are considerable in number and magnificence.

folio issue two launch event
Friday, 6 December, 7.00-9.00 pm

We’d love to invite you to the launch of folio issue two. folio is an independent art publication which seeks to operate as an exhibition space on paper, presenting the work of several artists per issue. The magazine offers a platform for three-dimensional, time-based and de-materialised work to be realised on the flat page. We work with a different guest editor in each issue to bring in influences from other disciplines, including music, architecture and writing.

The guest editor and designer of this issue is Antwerp based Ward Heirwegh. folio issue two artists are: Phil Baber, Kit Craig, Zoe Giabouldaki and Melike Kara.

The issue is based around Samuel Beckett’s short play Come and Go.

Regular copies come with A2 insert posters by either Kit Craig or Melike Kara. There’s also a limited edition of 20 copies featuring specially commissioned artwork by Kit Craig and both artists’ posters.

Regular copies: special launch price of £7.00 (normally £9.00).
Limited edition copies: special launch price at £13.00 (normally £18.00).

As well as folio, we will also present Cannon Magazine by Phil Baber.

PAGe
when you move something happens
Project by TRASLOCHI EMOTIVI
Saturday, 26 October, 12.00-3.00 pm

Join us this Saturday for the launch of PAGe and a series of performances with Maxine Ma’atSankofa, JongSun Woo, Noa Shiff and Francesca Baglietto.

Traslochi Emotivi is an independent production house founded by Giulia Curra in 2010. Spreading through publications and galleries as a nomadic and viral form of art, it unfolds narratives from the occurrence of ‘happy coincidences’ which connect actions and thoughts.

Among the projects already completed by Traslochi Emotivi are: Di Madre in figli in 2010 with the curator Marina Wallace, Kabul-Roma Roma-Kabul with Salman Ali about the story of Alighiero Boetti, InSieMe for Fondazione Remotti, SHAKE IT with the artist Aki Sasamoto presented to Bullet Space in New York, TO SUD EST summer residence with the artist Cecilie Skov in the Pasquale Leccese’s Masseria, The muse is exhausted - an homage to Marlene Dumas’s poem with Maxine Ma’atSankofa, Autofficina during the exhibition AUTORITRATTI at MAMBO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Bologna, curated by Francesca Pasini, S-BALLO performance during the publishing exhibition Voglio fare subito un libro in the Gallery of Modern Art in Milan, TANDA for the show ARTRISSIMA curated by Chiara Guidi at ARTRA gallery in Milan, Progetto per Pomona. Che figata! during the Festival dei Sensi, in Puglia, a work in situ for the Conservatorio Botanico di Pomona.

PAGe, a double-page publication produced by Traslochi Emotivi, is a moving between people where the white space of a paper sheet becomes a dialogue between different artists and territories. Ti Pi Tin will present to the public all 9 issues published so far, host performances by contributors of the project and serve beverages from A Passo d’Uomo.

3|12
Skeletons in the Closet by Klaus Pichler
Thursday, 17 October, 6.00 pm

This Thursday [arthur-frank] are taking residency at Ti Pi Tin with the X|12 project for the first UK presentation of Skeletons in the Closet. So join us for a few drinks and the opportunity to browse through the book and a pop-up exhibition of 10 prints.

Skeletons in the Closet is Klaus Pichler’s collection of sometimes absurd sceneries and strange still lives, accompanied by written reflections on the bloody past of natural history museums. Unlikely arrangements are captured in Pichler’s behind-the-scenes tour of the Museum of Natural History in Vienna, culminating in a photobook which ranges from the ironic to absurd.

It all started when I happenned to catch a glimpse through a basement window of the museum of natural history one night: an office with a desk, a computer, shelves and a stuffen antelope. This experience left me wondering: what does a museum look like behind the scenes? How are exhibits stored when they are not on display?

Æ Folklore Comics
Thursday, 25 July, 6.00 - 9.00 pm

Join us tonight at Ti Pi Tin for an evening of new comics and old favourites. Æ Folklore will be installing a mini zine library for one night only to celebrate a recent flurry of new releases of comics and prints. As well as bringing down their entire back catalogue of comics and zines, they will be launching four new publications (including two new issues of their comic saga, Mevlana of the Golden Age).

Æ Folklore is a small, independent press that produces hand-printed (and bound) comics, zines, and prints. Their work focuses on the mystical and the mythological, the overlap between fact and fiction, and draws on the stories and characters of folklore.

ECHO/PLASM Book Launch
Thursday, 20 June, 6.30 – 9.00 pm

Ectoplasm refers to a body outside the body. In a spiritualist sense, it refers to the physical manifestation of a spirit body through the body of a medium. Breath is replaced by a spirit manifestation, the act of respiration exchanged for the production of ectoplasm, and it is through the shifts in breathing that the performance finds its script. The ectoplasm stands in for speech and also stands in the way of speech. It is a kind of smothering, a kind of breathlessness.

Echo/plasm is a small booklet split into two sections ‘Ecto’ and ‘Echo’, and modelled after educational pamphlets from the late Victorian period. Like those pamphlets, it has a small selection of photographs, dense and serifed text and a simple design. The booklet was printed by Hato Press, using a Risograph machine, which, although a contemporary technology, best replicates the quality of the low-cost presses used to produce pamphlets at that time. It has a white card cover with black text and is hand-bound, saddle stitched. It has black paper endnotes that act as stage drapes and echo the curtains referred to in the descriptions of ectoplasm performances from the late Victorian period. They enclose the book, giving it a beginning and an end.

Jessica Worden is a Dutch/American artist living and working in London, UK. She is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at Brunel University where she is looking at different ways that breathlessness can be performed on the page. Her practice is influenced by photography, but based in performance writing. She produces artist books, installations and performance pieces. Her aim is to explore writing-as-performance and the interplay between the visual and the textual.

Shoppinghour Magazine Issue 10 Feast of Listen
(London Launch)
Thursday, 9 May, 7.30 pm

New size (31 x 23 cm), fresh design, 112 pages long! Shoppinghour Magazine is reborn! Their 10th issue challenges the act of listening and the entity of sound. Join us at Ti Pi Tin next Thursday to celebrate the launch and to grab yourself a copy and drinks, heartfelt conversation and lots of hugs.

Contributors: Alexander Goodson, Amy Pettifer, AND-OR , Audun Mortensen, Brian Roettinger, Chandler McWilliams, Dave Okumu, Gee Vaucher, Hayden White, Human Fiction Tartini, Isabella Martin, Jacek Plewicki, Joe Banks, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lefty Le Mur, Mandy Kahn, Martyna Dakowicz, Michal Kosakowski, Mikhail Karikis, Mikołaj Tkacz, Minjeong An, Mushon Zer-Aviv, Niall Macdonald, Nico Krijno, Penny Rimbaud, Sam Beste, Sara C Motta.

Pictures by Peter Eramian and the Shoppinghour crew. Isn’t Ti Pi Tin looking lovely in black and white?

COMMON PEOPLE LAUNCH PARTY
Thursday, 25 April, 6.30 – 10.00 pm

Join us at Ti Pi Tin for the launch of COMMON PEOPLE, a new publication from Bronze Age Editions and Museums Press.

Featuring 100 one-sheet zines from 100 artists from around the world, COMMON PEOPLE was produced using black and white laser printing, red, blue and green Risograph and a variety of different paper stocks - all packed into a hand stamped box in a very limited run.

The publication features works from: Will Adler, Rachel Aggs, Nick Ainsworth, Aaron Anderson, Heather Anderson, Billy Anderson Barnes, David Bailey, Justin Bailey, Tine Bek, Linus Bill & Adrien Horni, Eye Bodega, John Bohl, Amelia Bywater, Eric Timothy Carlson, Lewis Chaplin, Milano Chow, Rob Churm, Michael Crowe, Fiona Curran, Jonas Delaborde, Jen Delos Reyes, Grace Denis, Chris Dorland, Jesse Draxler, Malcy Duff, Albert Elm, Phil Elverum, Roope Eronen, Hugh Frost, Zoe Giabouldaki, Sara Glahn, Laetitia Glenton, Sayre Gomez, Jason Gowans, Grant Gronewold, Lola Halifa-Legrand, Amy Hancock Martin, Kevin Stanley Harris, Alex Heilbron, Jessica Susan Higgins, Jesse Hlebo, Misha Hollenbach, Dylan Hughes, Alex Humphreys, Craig Jackson, Johanna Jackson, Chris Johanson, Faye Coral Johnson, Lucy Jones, Heather Faye Kahn, Jeffrey Kriksciun, Patrick Kyle, Maggie Lee, Tao Lin, Alex Lukas, Israel Lund, Nick Lynch, Noah Lyon, Neil McGuire, Aaron McLaughlin, Emilia Muller-Ginorio & Julia Scott, Jesse Untracht-Oakner, Soner On, Anna Peaker, Olivia Peebles, RL Perry, Megan Plunkett, Louis Porter, Ray Potes, William Powhida, Stephane Prigent, Pure Fun Skate Zine, Ted Pushinsky, Mike Redmond, Owen Richards, Brian Roettinger, Em Rooney, David Rule, Leon Sadler, Jamie Shaw, Mark Simmonds, Jesse Spears, Edwin Stevens, Jonathan Ryan Storm, Lloyd Stubber, Sumi Ink Club, Peter Sutherland, Ethan Swan, Panayiotis Terzis, Cali Thornhill DeWitt, Jenna Thornhill DeWitt, Ben Charles Trogdon, Eric Veit, James Walkerdine, Matthew Walkerdine, Fritz Welch, Jessica Williams, Grant Willing, Kurtis Wilson and Daisuke Yokota.

COME SUNDAY Book Launch
Thursday, 4 April, 6.30 – 9.30 pm

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

J.B. Priestley, ‘The Good Companions’, 1928

We’re pleased to launch COME SUNDAY, a self-published artist’s book by George Nelson.

Italian roots in Clerkenwell date back to the early 1800’s. St Peter’s Church on Clerkenwell Road was also established in 1883 and became a central focus for Italians in London, becoming a place for ‘labour exchange’ on Sundays, after mass. Clerkenwell’s post-mass focal point is C’asa Italiana San Vincenzo Pallotti. Residing on the shoulder of St Peter’s Catholic Church, C’asa Italiana is comprised of St Peter’s Youth Club, St. Peter’s Italian Catholic Social Club and Internationale Club London.

Although the Azzurri did not enter Euro 2012 as favourites of any kind, their following were as expectant as ever. For three successive Sundays that summer, Clerkenwell and C’asa Italiana specifically, reclaimed it’s Little Italy status. Printed by Ditto Press and self-publsihed in a small edition of eighty copies, COME SUNDAY presents documented narrative of these events in pictures.

Please join us and the artist for a reception on Thursday, 4 April, 6.30 – 9.30 pm at Ti Pi Tin.

Justified Two Launch
Friday, 8 February, 6.30 - 9.30 pm

Ti Pi Tin invites you to celebrate the launch of Justified Two.

Justified Magazine provides a breather to the blogging culture. Editors acknowledge the power and shareability of the internet, but feel work becomes lost within the vast online community. The printed format refines magazine’s online presence to give a concise insight into contemporary design and photography, celebrating creative individuals who are at the forefront.

The second issue offers an invitation into the studio of Two Times Elliott, as well as words from Mat Dolphin. Coupled with this is a selection of some of the most influential imagery that is helping to shape expanding visual culture.