Working States is an online publication program of Philagrafika designed to
facilitate an international exchange of ideas and encourage new critical theory
on the field of printmaking in what has become a growing cross discipline practice
in contemporary art.
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DOCUMENTS
Johanna Drucker
Johanna Drucker is internationally recognized for her academic expertise as well as her innovative
work as a book artist. She specializes in the theory and practice of typography, visual as well as
concrete poetry, and modern art history.
The following essay is a summary of the remarks Johanna Drucker made during the featured panel discussion
“Command Print” at the Southern Graphics Council Conference in March 2008. By analyzing the valued systems
of production, conception, distribution, agency, and critical discourse that surround printmaking, Drucker
argues that the advent of digital media transforms and expands not only the definitions of what constitutes
printmaking, but also a general understanding of its cultural and artistic significance.
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Luis Camnitzer
Luis Camnitzer was born in Lübeck, Germany in 1937, but was raised in Uruguay, where he studied sculpture
and architecture. He moved to New York in 1964 and a year later he founded the New York Graphic Workshop with
Liliana Porter and José Guillermo Castillo. Besides his career as an artist (he represented Uruguay at the
Venice Biennale in 1988, and was included in the Whitney Biennial in 2000, and Documenta 11, 2002), he is
also widely recognized as a writer and art historian. His texts have appeared in Art Nexus, Third Text
and Art in America and he is the author of New Art From Cuba (University of Texas Press, 1994/2004). He
was the curator for the Viewing Program at the Drawing Center in New York from 1999 to 2006 and was a
co-curator for the VI Mercosul Biennial in Portoalegre, Brazil in 2007. Camnitzer lives and works in New York.
The following text, provocatively titled Printmaking: a Colony of the Arts, questions the segregation
that printmakers often inflict onto themselves, taking Colonization as a metaphor. - J. Roca.
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Oscar Munoz
Learn more about the work of Colombian artist, Óscar Muñoz in this article and accompanying slideshow.
This document by José Roca is based on a presentation Roca did for The University of the
Arts community in July 2007, entitled Imprints for a Fleeting Memorial. This presentation looked at an
important body of work the artist developed exploring the status of the image in relation to memory.
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