BOOK LAUNCH AND CARTONERA WORKSHOP WITH PROFESSOR
JOHANNA DRUCKER AND CARTONERA SANTANERA AT UCLA







Tuesday, May 30, 2023 
4 - 6 pm PST 

I’m super excited to organise a book launch and cartonera book making workshop for ‘Taking Form, Making Worlds’, recent recipient of the LASA 2023 Best Book in Latin American Visual Culture Studies Prize.

A publishing phenomenon and artistic project, cartonera was born in the wake of Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis. Infused with a rebellious spirit, cartonera has exploded in popularity, with hundreds of publishers across the Americas making colorful, low-cost books out of cardboard salvaged from the street. ‘Taking Form, Making Worlds’ is the first comprehensive study of cartonera. At this event, held outdoors on the UCLA campus, Prof Johanna Drucker, author of the seminal ‘The century of artists' books’ will offer her perspective on cartonera publishing and the relations it inspires. The launch, supported by UCLA’s Latin American Institute, will take place together with a cartonera book making workshop, led by the Santa Ana based Cartonera Santanera. 

Come along on what promises to be a sunny afternoon, create, bind, and decorate your own cartonera book,taking away a copy of the introduction to ‘Taking Form’!











auflynn [at] arts.ucla.edu



Alex Ungprateeb Flynn is an Assistant Professor at the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, University of California, Los Angeles. Working as an anthropologist and curator, Alex’s practice explores the intersection of ethnographic and curatorial modes of enquiry. Researching collaboratively with activists, curators and artists in Brazil since 2007, Alex explores the prefigurative potential of art in community contexts, prompting the theorisation of fields such as the production of knowledge, the pluriversal, and the social and aesthetic dimensions of form.