BERLIN RISOFEST | Off The Record

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RISO FEST BERLIN

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The Berlin Risofest is the first event to bring together the city’s top Risograph printers, artists and studios, in a day of exhibitions, workshops, performances, booklaunches, DJs and live music.

What is RISOGRAPH?

The Risograph printer is at the forefront of a new creative revolution. Artists and designers all over the world are using this stencil duplicator to spark a DIY renaissance in analogue printing. As a printing method, Riso sits somewhere on the spectrum between screen print and offset lithography, but what sets it apart is the unique aesthetic and highly tactile finish of the prints.

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Featuring:

A showcase of the work of:

Blink Blink
Colorama
Drucken 3000
Die Brueder/Lucky Punch Press
Inkwell Press
Outer Space Press
Pogo Books
Riso Club Leipzig
We Make It
Zirkumflex

– a Riso-printed wallpaper installation curated by Bogoni Design Studio, with guest artist Bene Rohlmann and more TBH
– the launch of the English-language version of the book RISOMANIA, a Vetro Editions project, published by Niggli Verlag
– live mimeograph printing/reading by poet Martin Jackson, among many other things the author of what may be the only poem ever written about the Riso
– DJ sets from Stella Zakri and DJ Die Soon, and a live performance from Infinite Livez.
– Finally, we are delighted to announce that BERLIN RISOFEST will be hosting a charity auction to raise funds for the wonderful SOURCE project, which aims to help refugees find employment in the restaurant industry: https://www.facebook.com/sourcebln/.