Publication Scaffold 22-23 November 2019, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
Renata Pekowska presents a 'Dialogue between Dublin streets and an artist's book'

Image: John Carson, Evening Echoes, 1993

Gene Beery / Gareth Bell-Jones / Elisabetta Benassi / John Carson / Adam Chodzko /

Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty / Wayne Daly / Emanuele De Donno & Viaindustriae /

Barry Flanagan / John Hutchinson / Ramon Kassam / John Latham /
Vukašin Nedeljkovic of Asylum Archive / Renata Pękowska / Cesare Pietroiusti / Juan Sandoval / Dan Starling

Curated by Jo Melvin, Michele Horrigan & Sean Lynch

Temple Bar Gallery  + Studios presents Publication Scaffold, a series of events, performances, installations

and discussions held during 2019’s Dublin Art Book Fair.  Publication Scaffold finds practical and
metaphorical ways of envisaging the process of publishing. It points to books not solely as objects, but as
conversation and encounter, as discursive notions surrounding their own existence. Pages turn, words are
uttered, platforms for communal discovery emerge. Juxtaposition and serendipity are fundamental to these
investigations, leading to new ways of thinking about the portable, malleable exhibition format as a
publication itself.

https://www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/events/publication-scaffold

Full programme: https://www.templebargallery.com/content/files/Publication-Scaffold-programme-final.pdf

Inspired by the dialogues of 19th century Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, Renata Pękowska’s performance imagines a casual exchange of views between disgruntled Dublin streets and an artists’s book caught in the midst of an identity crisis.

Attention-seeking utterances end up as a series of monologues and allude to books that are more than the sum of their pages, as well as their value as tactical encounters, and the role of city structures as message bearers.