During our eighth and ninth session of “Book as an Artwork” workshop we welcomed Olson Lamaj from Albania with a double-header workshop “Rediscovering the Archive”.
Presentations of publications by Pararoja helped us see the potential zines and artbooks have as a medium. While the exhibitions provide “white walls” to artworks, this is done by paper for artbooks and zines. We also saw the importance and advantage of working with restrictions when publishing.
During the first part of the session, each participant created an eight page A3 zine, with archival photographs they brought from home. On the second part we all worked together on a joint project to create a collective A5 zine with the draft title “Memory Box”.
Olson Lamaj is a visual artist, editor and founder of Pararoja platform.
Pararoja is an alternative publishing house specialized in artistic publications, focused primarily in promoting visual artists through realizing publications in the form of zines. The platform experiments with the concept of limited edition as an alternative artistic space for creative expression and dialogue. Since the founding in 2020, Pararoja has realized over 22 publications, collaborated with around 15 artists from different parts of the world and has taken part in international book fairs in Greece, Istanbul, Paris and Vienna.
This program is made possible with the generous support of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Kosovo.
