Paris Ass Book Fair

The sixth edition of Paris Ass Book Fair will take place 17-19 May 2024 at Palais de Tokyo. Creators, authors, art lovers and collectives coming from all over the world will come together to present books, zines and every kind of editions.

Paris Ass Book Fair was born from the desire to give an important place to marginal and untimely sensibilities, desires and aspirations, and to affirm a joyful approach to art and publishing, a taste for provocation and the absurd, a joy in stimulating minds and bodies.

Every year since 2017, the fair has brought together dozens of artists, booksellers, publishers and zinesters around this commitment: to show printed matter as a medium in its own right, a vehicle for creativity, individual and collective expression. The publications and projects presented at the fair adopt formats at the crossroads of many fields: fanzines, artists’ books, magazines, clothing, multiples, novels, essays, posters, etc.

The fair is curated with the constant concern of privileging those who have limited access to the market and whose creations are not found in the usual distribution circuits; as well as those who give voice to experiences, questionings, desires, which go against the majority norms, and which can open our eyes. As a consequence, the fair gives a very large place to LGBTQI+ people and offers a platform to their questioning and expressions. It is about contributing to making our society more fair and inclusive—while having fun.

A place for sharing tastes and ideas, the fair proposes a programme of talks and performances, as well as special projects.

Info


Paris Ass Book Fair

17 – 19 May 2024


Friday 17 May, 5 PM – 9 PM
Samedi 18 May, 12 PM – 8 PM
Sunday 19 May, 12 PM – 8 PM

Free entrance

Palais de Tokyo
13 Avenue du Président Wilson
75116 Paris

Exhibitors

@nd Aaron Krach
16b éditions
3 fois par jour
476
A4xX
After 8 Books
aime-aime éditions
Aimé Dabbadie
Anna Maconi – Makvol Projects
arapesh
Arcane press
Area Books
Ash Allen – Soft Shade
Balam
Birthday, Felony & Fuss
bodiless editions
bog bodies press
Callum Leo Hughes
Céline Ruault – Doctora Corazon
Cheryel
CLASSIC Paris
Clélia, Anaïs, Lou & Anna
Club de Bridge
Club del Prado
Club d’Histoire Locale
CONNOISSEURS + PAINTING FOR LIVING
Debris Magazine
delpire & co
Dmitry Kostyukov
Editions de la Hyène
éditions mother
ÉDITIONS TROUBLE – CENSORED MAGAZINE
EgonSchönÉ
Envie Pressante
EROS•MACHINE EDITIONS
Erwan Roussel
FAGGOT FAMILY
FAGHOOD
Falgoush
Fluffer Everyday & The Dreamer
FORMA Editions
FSTD, Augustin Puzio & Antoine Ferreira-Mendes
Gabès Gabès
Gabriel Mafféïs
GAFFA
Garçons Précieux
GayKitschCamp
Goswell Road
Griet Menschaert
GRRRR
Handshake
IN MY HANDS
Inés Cardó
Ivy Zheyu Chen – UPON
Jacques Merle – Des jacqueries
James Robinson – Craic Magazine
James Unsworth
JOY
KERMESSE
Kill Your Boyfriend
Kink Ediciones – Paco y Manolo
La Caverne
LA MORINA
LADYCOTTON
Laurent Pellissier
Lazare Lazarus
LE SASS
Léa Scheldeman
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE
MAISON COMMUN
Manu Blázquez
Masala Noir
MASOTO & giuliva
Michele Baron
MonoRhetorik
Nino Cadeau & Corentin Garrido
Pâme
PARC
Paulette éditrice
PEPO MORENO
POL ANGLADA
posh arthur
Possessed Planets
Pour toi magazine
Printer Fault Press
Quentin Chevenet
Rakav Studio
Rotolux Press
Rue du Bouquet
Sabir
Sayo Senoo
Schnapside
Sergio Pontillo
Shmorévaz
Simple Pied
SMUT Press
SOCCOCHICO
Surfaces Utiles
the edible woman
THE SHY GUY
Tom de Pekin
Tout e(s)t n’importe quoi !
Triangle Books & Dreieck Bücher
TTTLAX
Viaindustriae Publishing
Volker Renner
Wendy’s Subway
Woman Cave Collective
Yvon Lambert
Zoopark Publishing
Zzz – École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy – ENSAPC

Exhibition

Alice·x in the land of LGBTQI+ archives

by the Centre d’Archives LGBTQI+ Paris IDF

Events

7pm, Friday, 17th May

DIVINE PORTRAITS by BOHOVEE & MARTIN (feat. T33g33)


2pm – 4pm, Saturday, 18th May

Discourses 1

Queer Forms in Art and Literature

Curated by Andrew Hodgson
with Cécile di Giovanni (Paris, FR), Hadrien Jacquelet (Paris, FR), James Unsworth (Salford, UK), Roy Claire Potter (Manchester, UK)


Saturday, April 18, 5-6 PM

Publi Fluor : Tu me fais me sentir (très très réel)

[You make me feel (mighty real)]

By Olivier Bertrand and David Le Simple (Brussels, BE)


2pm - 4pm, Sunday, 19th May

Discourses 2

Radical Forms in Printed Matter

Curated by Andrew Hodgson
with Karen Di Franco (London, UK), Luis Juárez (Buenos Aires, AR), Matt Plezier (The Hague, NL), Stewart Home (London, UK)


5pm – 7pm, Sunday, 19th May

Desire for archives: the living archive revolution

Round table hosted by the Paris IDF LGBTQI+ Archive Centre
With Morgane Vanehuin (Paris, FR), Rachele Borghi (Marseille, FR), Sam Bourcier (Paris, FR), Alix Juif (Paris, FR)