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The second edition of Fair Enough Art Book Fair will take place from 10 to 11 May 2025 in The Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design. The opening event will take place 9 May 2025 in ETC, Niine 8a. Fair Enough Art Book Fair was initiated in 2024 to support independent publishing in Estonia. Our focus is on small scale publishing varying from student work to artist books to hosting public events. Last year we welcomed over 30 publishers, showcasing publications from all over the world. This year, we're excited to once again provide a space for fresh publishing ventures from students, collectives, and individuals.

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Fair Enough Art Book Fair 2025

PUBLISHERS

51 Personae (SH)
A Shade Colder / KKEK (EE)
Aalto VCD (FI)
Archive Books (GE)
Art School Maa Collective (FI)
Catalog (EE/BE/NL)
EKA GD BA (EE)
EKA GD MA (EE)
EKKM (EE)
Ei Mainoksia, Kiitos! (FI)
ENKKL (EE)
Fair Enough (EE): Mania Grandiosa (EE), Kunstverein (NL), Milda (CEE), Kajet (ROU) ja Local Stickerbook (UA)
Garg (IS)
Halifax Art Book Fair (CA)
Helena Minerva Tihkan, Nora Pelss, Hõbe-Ann Rooste ja Elina Adamson (EE)
Julia Syrzistie, Monica Celeste, Aziza Lo ja Alejandra Alarcón (FI)
Knock! Knock! Books (EE/NL)
Kuš! (LV)
Laura Merendi (EE)
Lesbianas Concentradas (GE)
Ljubov Terukova (EE)
Luca Lange (GE)
Mesimagus (EE)
Precious Liquid (FR)
OPA! (EE)
Pläsnt Dschörnie (FI/GE)
PNPress (CA)
Pseudo Press (GE)
Rab-Rab Press (FI)
Rong-Ci Zhang (FI)
Sayoo Senoo (FR/JP)
Silly dogs brunch club (UK)
starter_KIT (EE)
Utu Press (FI)

FRIDAY 09.05.

Opening • 19:00–22:00 • ETC, Niine 8a 10414 TLL
19:15–19:45
Talk
Välis-eesti
Andrew Hill (CA)
Välis-Eesti is a research project by Andrew Hill that traces the cultural connection between Tallinn and Halifax through archival correspondence within the Estonian artist network, highlighting the diaspora’s role in shaping the conceptual art movement.
20:00–20:30
Magazine launch
A Shade Colder Issue 9
Keiu Krikmann and Kaarin Kivirähk,
CCA (EE)
Editors of A Shade Colder, Keiu Krikmann and Kaarin Kivirähk will introduce the new issue of the magazine, titled Uncertain Territories and discuss the role of publishing an English language magazine covering art both in Estonia and in the near region in the current political climate.
20:30–21:00
Book launch
Radical Runosong
Vaim Sarv (EE),
published by OPA! (EE)
This book is about land and kin, dispossession and desire, solidarity and silence. It is a critical celebration of the oral tradition of runosong, a style of singing which has been practiced for centuries by Baltic Finnic peoples on the land now called Estonia and elsewhere. By drawing upon the wealth of alternative vocal and somatic practices embedded in runosong, the compiled texts enact a fugitive search for historical consciousness against the grain of Estonian nationalism and its Eurocentric tendencies.
 
 
 
21:00–21:30
Book launch
starter_KIT_2
starter_KIT (EE)
Do you believe in love at first sight? starter-KIT collective will launch their long-awaited second issue called Love is Diesel on 9th of May. starter-KIT is an annual contemporary Estonian photography publication that consists of an essay and works from 10 different artists.

SATURDAY 10.05.

Book Fair • 11:00–17:00 • ETDM, Lai 17, 10133 TLL
11:00–17:00
Front Room
Installation
Ink
Heu Hsu (FI)
Ink — listening to the bookshelf. Once printed, there’s no longer Cmd+Z. Ink (sound installation) explores the permanence of printed matter and the temporality of digital media. Discarded risograph tubes and recycled pipes reveal the unheard sounds of the book making process, resonating and murmuring softly.
11:15–13:15
Programming Room
Workshop
Excel Poetry Zine Station
Muj Abdulzade (GE)
This hands-on workshop transforms Microsoft Excel into a tool for spontaneous poetry generation and zine-making. Participants will input words and phrases into a live spreadsheet, which reshapes them into poetic forms. The resulting poems will be turned into DIY zines through cutting, pasting, and remixing, encouraging playful interaction with language and publishing. This workshop has a limited number of spots (15) for the first people to arrive.
12:00–13:00
Courtyard
Conversation
Cream Pie and Bookmaking: A gossip session meets picnic on queer publishing practices
Precious Liquid: Nino Cadeau (FR) and Seppe-Hazel Laeremans (BE)
Attired in apron and oven mitts, and seated on a checkered picnic blanket, we will talk through the process of making the second issue of Precious Liquid Magazine and other instances of queer publishing, while sharing fresh fruit, juice, and vegan cream pies.
 
 
 
13:00–14:00
Big Room
Radio programme
High Quality Information
(Broadcast Division)
Haron Barashed (BE)
1) On the occasion of the Fair Enough Book Fair 2025 the High Quality Information Broadcasting Division will air two lunch-time broadcasts. 2) The program will concern itself with two themes that are central to our host event – “the Book” (Day 1) and “the Fair” (Day 2). 3) The program will also be broadcasted live on EKA GD MA’s very own oH radio at https://oh.eka-gd-ma.ee/. If you have any ideas or wish to contribute to the broadcast (keeping the central themes in mind), feel very welcome to reach out to haron@highqualityinformation.org! Stay tuned!
14:00–14:45
Programming Room
Presentation and discussion
Spinster, Spinner, and Fisherwoman
Mia Tamme (EE)
I invite you to listen to the twisted queer tales of 3 women: full of cheeky silent resistance to gender and state politics. I desire to discuss what types of publishing feel right for orally transmitted and locally kept heritage knowledges, and how to portray the lives of those who are often depicted as passive carriers of songs, patterns, or knotting skills.
15:00–15:30
Programming Room
Presentation
Publishing as Scaffolding
Sezgin Boynik, Rab-Rab (FI)
The project's working hypothesis, tentatively titled 'publishing as scaffolding', is based on the idea that transitory, fluid and improvisatory publishing practices can introduce new forms of organisation. This transient, temporary and collective nature of scaffolding will serve as a metaphor for the project. The aim of the project is to show that independent publishing practices introduce completely new forms of printing, typography, design, distribution and content.
 
 
 
15:00–16:00
Hallway
A live distribution
Big Time Choices
(but who are we to say)
EKA GD MA 1st year students (EE)
Big Time Choices (but who are we to say) — a temporary publishing platform created by EKA GD MA students — becomes a performative printing installation that reflects on a month-long on-line publishing endeavor. A human-sized printer hands out randomized essays, interviews, diagrams and other resources relevant and adjacent to contemporary graphic design practices.
16:00–16:30
Courtyard
Publication launch
1. Making Thought: an interview with Hélène Smith, Carlo Canun (MX)
2. Incomplete List of Heteronyms, Orthonyms, Autonyms, Semi-heteronyms, 3.v Proto-heternonyms, Para-heteronyms, Meta-heteronyms, Pseudonyms, Aliases, Characters and Their Brothers, Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa, Eva Claycomb (US)
3. People are saying it, Laura Pappa (EE/NL)
Publication series “Exercises in Practical Mischievery” documents the ventures and chronicles the stories of notable individuals who have implemented out of the ordinary forms for the distribution of word and thought, without putting much emphasis on the content of the message.
16:15–17:00
Programming Room
Performance
TO THE ABSENT HERMIT
Haiyun Yu (FI)
A travel between time and space, this poetry-concert presents music rediscovered from a 12th century Chinese poetry manuscript and poetry discovered from a new guitar composition: White Stone Taoist – “Nine Songs of Yue” (arranged by Haiyun Yu for adapted 12-string guitar)
Mark Reid Bulatović – “33 lines” (for adapted 12-string guitar)
 
 
 
Bar Night • 19:00–00:00 • EKKM, Kursi tn 5, 10415 TLL
19:30–20:15
Book launch and discussion
MANIA GRANDIOSA
Karl Joonas Alamaa and Lisette Sivard (EE),
published by Fair Enough Art Books (EE)
MANIA GRANDIOSA is a fashion-focused essay collection that grew out of the world’s longest fashion runway, MANIA GRANDIOSA. From Tallinn to Paris, which took place in the summer of 2023. It is one of the first Estonian-language publications to critically examine fashion, along with the culture of achievement and the issues surrounding it.
20:30–23:30
Music Programme
Mark Kokotov (EE)

SUNDAY 11.05.

Book Fair • 11:00–17:00 • ETDM, Lai 17, 10133 TLL
11:00–17:00
Front Room
Installation
Ink
Heu Hsu (FI)
Ink — listening to the bookshelf. Once printed, there’s no longer Cmd+Z. Ink (sound installation) explores the permanence of printed matter and the temporality of digital media. Discarded risograph tubes and recycled pipes reveal the unheard sounds of the book making process, resonating and murmuring softly.
11:15–12:15
Programming Room
Book launch
Circa 7 Celsius Anthology of Young Baltic Writers
Mette Mari Kaljas, Lauris Bēržiņs, Mia Maria Rohumaa and Kristel Zimmer (EE)
Anthology of Young Baltic Writers! How we made a Baltic book? Talk, reading, and a surprise in the end.
 
 
 
12:30–14:00
Programming Room
Poetry and book club
Helena Minerva Tihkan (EE)
Who's afraid of sex? the feminist bible: king kong theory

An open gathering of the poetry and book club “kes kardab minervat?’ dead poets society: books to cherish & devour”, which is intertwined with classical literature, poetry and intersectional feminist works.

The discussion will center around our newly launched academical and feminist digital zine, specifically focusing on the exclusive print on sale “kes kardab seksi?’” (who’s afraid of sex?’), drawing parallels from the feminist bible — Virginie Despentes’ “King Kong Theory”. Together, we will read selected excerpts to facilitate an inclusive conversation on the sociopolitical and cultural dimensions of the sex industry.
15:00–16:00
Hallway
A live distribution
Big Time Choices
(but who are we to say)
EKA GD MA 1st year students (EE)
Big Time Choices (but who are we to say) — a temporary publishing platform created by EKA GD MA students — becomes a performative printing installation that reflects on a month-long on-line publishing endeavor. A human-sized printer hands out randomized essays, interviews, diagrams and other resources relevant and adjacent to contemporary graphic design practices.
 
 
 
14:00–15:00
Big Room
Radio programme
High Quality Information
(Broadcast Division)
Haron Barashed (BE)
1) On the occasion of the Fair Enough Book Fair 2025 the High Quality Information Broadcasting Division will air two lunch-time broadcasts. 2) The program will concern itself with two themes that are central to our host event – “the Book” (Day 1) and “the Fair” (Day 2). 3) The program will also be broadcasted live on EKA GD MA’s very own oH radio at https://oh.eka-gd-ma.ee/. If you have any ideas or wish to contribute to the broadcast (keeping the central themes in mind), feel very welcome to reach out to haron@highqualityinformation.org! Stay tuned!
15:15–15:45
Programming Room
Book launch
Exploring Edible Ecologies and foraged drinks
Alejandra Alarcón (FI)
Publication presentation of Exploring Edible Ecologies, an experimental inquiry into foraging practices in Finland. The publication weaves together local plant knowledge, relational ecologies of belonging, and the seasons as rhythms—unfolding as a collage of writings, drawings, photographs, recipes, and more.
16:00–16:30
Programming Room
Book launch
Memory of a Day I wasn’t There for
Hanan and Saara Mahbouba (FI), published by Pirate Papers (Knock! Knock! Books) (EE/NL)
Memory of A Day I Wasn’t There For is a book by Hanan and Saara Mahbouba, siblings, exploring intergenerational memory, post-migration, and informal archiving through their family history. The book is structured around an artistic mapping of their parents’ childhood homes, one in Talluskylä, Finland from 1961 to the present, and the other in Baghdad, Iraq from 1958 to 1972. The texts, drawings, and photographs in the book revolve around these two maps, with memories and stories paired with physical landmarks. Graphic Design by Else Lagerspetz, Published by Pirate Papers.
 
 
 
Published after the art book fair!
Podcast
ENKKListen
ENKKListen is the alternative art voice of the Estonian Youth Contemporary Art Union (ENKKL), whose creators are the new generation of cultural activists. The podcast aims to give ground and a voice to artists and designers who are at the beginning of their creative path. https://soundcloud.com/enkklisten