THE CARL WAGAN BOOKMOBILE is a traveling campervan of cosmic proportions. It is a gallery, printshop, studio, library, reading room, classroom, and community project—all contained within a 1988 VW Westfalia. CARL WAGAN promotes active engagement with book-based cultural activity such as self-publishing, zine-making, screen-printing, and bookbinding. Subtitled “The Spaceship of the Imagination,” CARL is partly a loving homage to the innovation of astronomer Carl Sagan whose passion for dreaming continues to inspire generations of thinkers. CARL WAGAN is an experiment in radical pedagogy—bringing the strategies, materials, ideas and dialogues of independent publishing to a wide variety of audiences.
CARL WAGAN is the project of artist Shannon Gerard and first developed as an extension of her Nano Publishing course at OCAD University.
Carl Wagan has been generously supported by Aboveground Art Supplies
CARL WAGAN is the project of artist Shannon Gerard and first developed as an extension of her Nano Publishing course at OCAD University.
Carl Wagan has been generously supported by Aboveground Art Supplies
My Nano Publishing students had work up at the OCADU Student Gallery last month. The exhibition was set up like a campgrounds, divided into three sections: The Campfire, The Campsite, and the Infirmary. Gallery visitors could sit in each area and read zines and artists’ multiples in situ. Information placards listed the names of student work in that area.
Below are a selection of works from the Campsite:
30th July 2012
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