Shop Talk: Books & Their Margins
Fri, 9 Oct 2026, 22:00
Philadelphia, United States
Free
Originally organized by FORTUNE .. A panel on bookshop biz — how 3 bookshops have been able to operate, and the kinds of spatial, curatorial, and programming decisions they make, to reach you. Featuring Shisi of Bungee Space (NYC), Ricky Yanas of Ulises, and Geoffrey kixMiller of Tomorrow Today. Tomorrow Today is a new and used bookstore and rapid response press with a focus on radical histories & possible futures. Geoffrey kixMiller is an artist and designer whose main current practice is running Tomorrow Today, a bookstore and publishing project founded in Los Angeles and now located in the Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia. Ulises is a bookshop and project space dedicated to artists’ books and independent art publications that explores the relationship between publics and publications. We provide an inventory of titles not widely distributed in the United States on contemporary art, graphic design, art theory, architecture, criticism, curatorial practice, and adjacent fields. We support people who make books and expand the boundaries of what art publishing can be. Ricky Yanas is a Mexican-American artist, curator and cultural organizer living in Philadelphia. Working within a pragmatic tradition of problem finding, his work extends through a variety of disciplines (photography, documentary film, installation, archival investigation, and place-making) with the aim to create inter-sectional/inter-historical spaces of inquiry, mutual engagement, and collaboration through collective art making. What (MORE) can a bookstore do? - A question we must constantly propose. Bungee Space, the New York space of 3standardstoppage studio, is an image study- and image criticism-focused art book store, which also sells coffee, wearable designs, and works as an artist-run space & publisher. Rooting in where we come from, our ways of working, and means to survive, we simultaneously try to pursue independence and sustainability to provide a valuable space for emerging contributors to our art ecology. Standing beyond conventional definition of a bookstore, we involve, form, and transform community, intervene social, political, and cultural lives, creating chaos. … Venue: Icebox Project Space, 1400 N American St, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA. Registration is handled by the original organizer. Original event and organizer: https://luma.com/hpfo6gji