Workshop "Nach:Leben – Printed Matters"

The Library is an Event: Print as Monument

You are invited to contribute, read, and spend time in the safe space of a mobile reading circle!

The Lady Liberty Library is a living monument, now visiting Munich with the Lady Liberty Library Reader. This hybrid format combines elements of an independent magazine, a theoretical reader, and a visual archive. The reader documents and celebrates highlights from ten years of work undertaken by Austrian-American artist Nina Prader under the label Lady Liberty Press. Libraries, archives, and monuments constructed from printed matter serve as the arenas for her artistic practice—a practice in which the individual and collective creation (both text and graphics), publishing, and printing of zines, pamphlets, and artist’s books (primarily via Risograph) occupy a central role. For the first time, the reader brings together resources, collaborators, and seminal texts within a single bound volume. A call to found libraries—everywhere!

Nina Prader, a.k.a. Lady Liberty Press, is an artist, author, curator, mentor, and independent publisher. In short, she is an “Artist-Librarian” for the Lady Liberty Library project—operating between Vienna, Berlin, and the wider world—guided by the motto: “The Library is an Event.” Born in Washington, D.C., she studied at the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston (Tufts University) and at the Slade School of Fine Art in London (UCL). She earned her Master’s degree in Critical Studies from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her work focuses on independent publishing—specifically artist’s books and magazines—as well as on social justice within the realms of community, education, and the arts. She recently published her Lady Liberty Library Reader with SCHLEBRÜGGE.EDITOR.