Curated by ABC members Louis Porter and George Gibson, ABC Stampa pays homage to Ulises Carrión’s collectively produced but unfinished Stampa Newspaper. As with Carrión’s original, artists were invited to contribute a design for a rubber stamp and to mark where on a sheet of newspaper paper they would like their stamp to be placed. As a result, two or more artists could request the same space, therefore inviting chance and coexistence to also be collaborators on the project.

Stampa is now part of the «쿵» (Thump) exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, South Korea, from May 3, 2024, to December 29, 2024. The installation includes stamps from several Korean artists and has grown to feature contributions from 41 international artists.

Size 479 X 330mmPaper: Resa Offset Recycled, 80gsm
Original Invite

The first edition of ABC Stampa was launched at Miss Read Art Book Fair 2023, where fair visitors were invited to follow an instruction manual at the ABC table to create their own copy for a fee of five euros, and featured the following artists:

Kaitlin Chan, Shia Conlon, Enrique Doza, George Gibson, Oliver Griffin, Mishka Henner, Jonathan Lewis, Micah Lexier, John MacLean, Irma Marco, (Mocksim) Micheál O'Connell, Rose Nordin, Monika Orpik, Louis Porter, Jonathan Schmidt Ott, David Schulz, Jana Traboulsi, Elsa Werth, Jessica Williams, Duncan Wooldridge, Rahel Zoller, Karla Zorrilla, Claudia de la Torre, Wil van Iersel, MacDonaldStrand, Further Reading Press, Sticky Fingers Publishing, Taxi Cab Industries and Edition Residencies.

ABC OFFICE was an installation by the Artists’ Books Cooperative (ABC) at Filet, London, between 27 – 30 April 2023, which provided an interactive exploration of office culture.

This anonymous work environment inviteds visitors to engage with artist-made pieces that reflect themes such as office conventions, bureaucracy, co-working, and print culture, often referred to as the ‘aesthetics of administration.’

The exhibition features a range of artworks, from paperweights to crushed filing cabinets. Visitors can interact with these pieces, enjoy a drink from the water cooler, practice their golf putt, or relax to ambient office sounds while sitting in a swivel chair.

The project kicked off with the Office Party on April 27, featuring boxed wine, pineapple, cheese, and party anthems.

Staff list: Arnaud Desjardin, Claudia de la Torre, Duncan Wooldridge, George Grace Gibson, John MacLean, Jonathan Lewis , Jonathan Schmidt-Ott, Louis Porter, MacDonaldStrand, Micheal O'Connell/MOCKSIM, Mishka Henner, Monika Orpik, Oliver Griffin, Rahel Zoller, Travis Shaffer and Wil van Iersel.

ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative invited interested and interesting friends, and even frienemies, to contribute to this superb project. Each participant supplied a Certificate of Authenticity (CoA) but with the CoA itself being the artefact. In other words, each document referenced itself. You are advised not to dwell on this conundrum for too long in the interests of your own mental health. Initiator: Micheál O'Connell.

60 loose sheets, A4, 80gsm, non-archival paper and not printed at full-bleed. (Note that ABCOA is produced and shipped in the low-tech spirit or the mail art tradition. The standard envelope may become marked or slightly tattered in transit, and that is seen as part of the project’s charm.)


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Contributors: Aaron Krach, Aisling Roche, Alfred Steiner, Andreas Schmidt, Cadi Froehlich, Carritt and Palmer (Jon Carritt and Dan Palmer), Chengwei (Sunny) Geng, Clare Strand, Claudia de la Torre, Corinne Vionnet, Craig Havens, Dafna Talmor, Daniel Pryde-Jarman, Daniella Norton, David Schulz, Duncan Wooldridge, Edgar Leciejewski, Eric Doeringer, Fiona Winterflood, Greg Allen, Irene Fubara-Manuel, Jan Basarab, Jenny Odell, Joachim Schmid, Joanna Zylinska, Jocelyn Allen, John MacLean, Jonathan Lewis, Jonathan Monk, Jonathan Schmidt-Ott, Julie Samuels, Kenneth Goldsmith, Klara Vith, Lisa Levy, Louis Porter, Lucas Gabellini-Fava, MacDonaldStrand (Gordon MacDonald and Clare Strand again), Michalis Pichler, Micheál O'Connell (Mocksim), Mike Stoakes, Miriam O'Connor, Mishka Henner, Motion Sickness (Denise Kehoe, Eleanor Breeze and Arabella Hilfiker), Natalia Jaffe, Oliver Griffin, Paul Soulellis, Penelope Umbrico, Peter Morgan, Rahel Zoller, Roy Mehta, Sarah Brenneman, Scott Robertson, Susan Diab, Suzanne O'Haire, Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson, Tomasz Madajczak, Travis Shaffer, Wayne Daly and Wil van Iersel.