Public lecture
Thursday, 11 September 2025, 6 pm
DobraVaga, Adamič-Lundrovo nabrežje 5, Ljubljana
What is the relationship of artist libraries to curating and independent publishing cultures such as zine cultures?
“The Library” has been a methodology and applied case study generator for Prader’s interdependent publishing practices. In light of book bans and often toxic digital worlds, analog spaces for reading and discussing in non-consumerist ways remain a vital humanist resource. The Lady Liberty Library project explores independent publishing as an art form through the lens of the library as an event. Lady Liberty Library & Showroom is the physical and conceptual manifestation of some initial key ideas from various projects finally finding physical form. It connects years of independent artistic research, curating, and publishing on independent printed matters.
The event will be held in English.
Free entry.
This year, the focus of World of Art’s series of public events is contemporary zines at the intersection of art and community.
- Wednesday, 10 September, DobraVaga
7 pm – ZINE VITRINE | Nina Prader: Plant Libraries – Here to Express!, exhibition opening
- Thursday, 11 September, DobraVaga
3 pm – Nina Prader: Community Zine Ships – Ahoy, Power Lines!, workshop
6 pm – Nina Prader: The Library Is an Event – Enter the Reading Ring!, lecture
7 pm – Glasgow Zine Library: The Radical Present of Self-Publishing, lecture
Nina Prader a.k.a. Lady Liberty Press is an artist, writer, curator, mentor, independent publisher — or in short, an artist-librarian at large between Vienna, Berlin, and the world. Born in Washington, DC, she studied at the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston in affiliation with Tufts University and at the Slade in London in affiliation with UCL. She received her MA in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She has exhibited and written internationally in Boston, New York, Vienna, Salzburg, Berlin, and London. Her most recent projects include graphic novel artist books, printed by Risograph, and directing the Lady Liberty Library project. This year, she celebrates 10 years of Lady Liberty Press & Library activities on printed matters. (Photo: Malte Spindler)
Original text: Nina Prader
Organised by: World of Art/SCCA-Ljubljana, DobraVaga/Kino Šiška
Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana – Department of Culture
