18 & 19 May 2024

This special weekend will showcase artists’ books and the work of specialist publishers or booksellers, in a festive and convivial atmosphere.

Rue des Croisiers, 1 / 4000 Liège (BE)

FREE ADMISSION

Co-organised by the Liège Photobook Festival and BIP.

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SATURDAY 18 May 2024

Book market (11:00 — 18:00)

11 booksellers and other book professionals present the best of independent publishing: classic, self-published, handmade, conceptual, experimental books, documentaries, magazines, zines…

with 

Tipi Bookshop (BE) @tipibookshop
Corinne vend des trucs + Actes Nord (BE) @corinne_vend_des_trucs @actesnord.editions
Comptoir du livre (BE) @lecomptoirdulivreliege
Ici sont les lions (BE) @librairie.ici.sont.les.lions
Tropical Stoemp + Mulet (BE) @editionslemulet
La Nombreuse (BE) @lanombreuse
La grande Ourse (BE) @la_grande_ourse_liege
Malenki (DE) @malenkinet
Librairie Lame (FR) @librairie_lame
Ateliers du Toner (BE) @ateliersdutoner
Limestone (NL) @limestone_books_maas

Bring Your Photobook (11:00 — 18:00)

You are invited to drop off a mock-up or your unpublished or self-published book in the “Bring Your Photobook” area to show it off to the public and professionals attending the event.

A jury of professionals will award two prizes at the end of the weekend.

All details of the call — here 

BIP 2024 exhibition “Mutant(x) » (11:00 — 18:00)

MUTANTX, the 2024 edition of the Biennial of the Possible Image is hosting the festival. All the exhibitions will be accessible at BIP prices.
The full programme and all the information — here

In particular:

The artist Mikaïl Koçak activates his Minör Depresyon installation by cooking and selling his kebabs. Halal meat, crudités, homemade sauce, regular and gluten-free bread, all local and organic, €5/piece.

Presentations (12:00 — 19:00)

Conferences, meetings and round tables on independent publishing.

12:00 – Malenki / Anne Penders – Video and presentation (fr)

12:45 – Malenki / Romane Iskaria – Video and presentation of her book Assyrians (fr)

13:30 – Malenki / Vincen Beeckman – Sharing his books (fr)

14:15 – La Grande Ourse / Photography and children’s books, by Claire Nanty (fr)

15:00 – Atelier du Toner / What’s a Toner? (fr)

15:45 – Comptoir du livre / Koalath Éditions –  sites en mutation – archives mémoires // dispositif d’édition (fr)

16:30 – Malenki / Self publishing now (en)

17:30 – BIP / Round table “MUTANTX? Why, how” (fr) : various artists of the MUTANTX exhibition (Elie Bolard, Chloé Malcotti, Mikaïl Koçak, Loïs Soleil and Benjamin Huyhn) discuss their work and how it evokes the question of mutation.

Book Jockey (19:30)

No Sovereign Author (BE) @nosovereignauthor

The artist duo No Sovereign Author propose a bookjockey with the various books they have selected during the fair. Instead of records, they will mix these books with important books from their library, in an improvised choreography, and to a soundtrack by Jeroen de Wandel.

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SUNDAY 18 May 2024

Book market (11:00 — 18:00)

12 booksellers and other book professionals present the best of independent publishing: classic, self-published, handmade, conceptual, experimental books, documentaries, magazines, zines…

with 

Tipi Bookshop (BE) @tipibookshop
Corinne vend des trucs + Actes Nord  (BE) @corinne_vend_des_trucs @actesnord.editions
Comptoir du livre (BE) @lecomptoirdulivreliege
Ici sont les lions(BE) @librairie.ici.sont.les.lions
Joseph Hogan – Primitive Press (BE) @joseph.hogan_primitivepress
Tropical Stoemp + Mulet (BE) @editionslemulet
La Nombreuse (BE) @lanombreuse
La grande Ourse (BE) @la_grande_ourse_liege
Malenki (DE) @malenkinet
Librairie Lame (FR) @librairie_lame
Ateliers du Toner (BE) @ateliersdutoner
Limestone (NL) @limestone_books_maas

BIP 2024 exhibition “Mutant(x) » (11:00 — 18:00)

MUTANTX, the 2024 edition of the Biennial of the Possible Image is hosting the festival. All the exhibitions will be accessible at BIP prices.
The full programme and all the information — here

In particular:

14:00 – 16:00 : guided tour of BIP by Anne-Françoise Lesuisse, artistic director

16:00 : performance by Werner Moron, in his installation (text and voices by Boram and Werner Moron, with musical accompaniment by Erno le Mentholé).

to be confirmed: throughout the day, random interventions by Camille Lemille in the exhibition space in the form of readings/performances of her text “les petites mains de la biennale”.

Presentations (11:15 — 18:00)

Conferences, meetings and round tables on independent publishing.

11:15 – TBA

12:00 – Primitive press – Presentation of Pierre Toussaint’s new book (fr)

12:45 – Le Mulet / Tropical Stoemp and publishing practices (fr)

13:30 – Tipi Bookshop / Presentation of the results of a workshop with students from ESA Saint-Luc Liège (fr)

14:15 – Librairie Lame / Diffusion and other questions about the book, with Pierre Geurts (fr)

15:00 – Limestone Maastricht / Presentation of Tropical Reading: Photobook and Self-Publishing 2nd Edition (en)

15:45 – TBA

16:30 – La Nombreuse – Presentation of the collective (fr)

17:15 – Eva Mancuso – Presentation of her book: Je n’arrive pas à parler et à dire des choses en même temps (ed. L’arbre de Diane) (fr)

Bring your photobook (18:30)

Presentation of the “Bring Your Photobook” prizes by the members of the jury.

All details of the call — here