{"id":7892,"date":"2023-09-24T15:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T15:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fanzine.pt\/portfolio-items\/the-universe-of-cartonero-books-aveiro\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T18:10:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T18:10:23","slug":"the-universe-of-cartonero-books-aveiro","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/fanzine.pt\/en\/portfolio-items\/the-universe-of-cartonero-books-aveiro\/","title":{"rendered":"THE UNIVERSE OF CARTONERO BOOKS \u2013 AVEIRO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DATE:<\/strong> October 10 to November 17, 2023
\nLOCATION:<\/strong> Aveiro Fanzineteca \/ Jos\u00e9 Est\u00eav\u00e3o Secondary School Library
\nCURATION:<\/strong> Vento Norte Cartonero
\nLOCAL ORGANIZATION:<\/strong> Aveiro Fanzineteca \/ UV Editions \/ Miguel Correia
\nNATIONAL ORGANIZATION:<\/strong> CES \u2013 Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra \/ Animar
\nPARTNERS:<\/strong> Jos\u00e9 Est\u00eav\u00e3o School Group \/ National Arts Plan \/ Ultra Violenta Fanzine \/ Caf\u00e9 Amizade<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\u201cTHE UNIVERSE OF CARTONERO BOOKS\u201d<\/strong> – AVEIRO<\/p>\n

The Fanzineteca of Aveiro is hosting a literary exhibition of “cartonero” books, which is touring around Portugal.<\/p>\n

It is a collection of handmade books from all over the world that carry messages from writers and artists who practice outside conventional publishing circuits.<\/p>\n

In this collection of publications, we find vehicles for political, social, and creative intervention that give a voice to those who usually do not have one. They represent valuable and active statements by their creators and open doors to the democratization of the acts of writing and publishing.<\/p>\n

Having emerged in South America during times of great social unrest and within already vulnerable segments of society, these initiatives found in this medium a way to improve their skills through writing and graphic creation.
\nThey are, therefore, editorial proposals born out of precarious conditions, but which provide their creators with a new personal and creative dimension.<\/p>\n

There is also an important ecological dimension in this approach, as it discovered a way to value common materials like cardboard, which here gains a new life cycle with added artistic and economic value.<\/p>\n

This initiative fits within the philosophy of the Fanzineteca de Aveiro, as it shares an alternative and irreverent editorial attitude that Cartonero Books have in common with Fanzines.<\/p>\n

PROGRAMME:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 – Exhibition \u201cThe Universe of Cartonero Books\u201d<\/strong>, Dates: October 10 to November 17 (Mon – Fri: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM), Location: Fanzineteca de Aveiro \u2013 Library of Escola Secund\u00e1ria Jos\u00e9 Est\u00eav\u00e3o<\/p>\n

2 – Presentation of the documentary “Carretera Cartonera”<\/strong> by Marta Mancusi and Anna Trento, with online commentary by Gaud\u00eancio Gaud\u00e9rio (Vento Norte Cartonero Publisher), Date: Wednesday, October 18, from 2:20 PM to 4:45 PM, Location: Multipurpose Amphitheater of Escola Secund\u00e1ria Jos\u00e9 Est\u00eav\u00e3o<\/p>\n

3 – Workshop for making Cartonero Books<\/strong>, Date: Wednesday, October 25, at 2:20 PM (For high school Visual Arts students), Location: Escola Secund\u00e1ria Jos\u00e9 Est\u00eav\u00e3o<\/p>\n

4 – Poetry Reading<\/strong>, Date: Saturday, October 28, at 4:00 PM, Location: Caf\u00e9 Amizade \u2013 Aveiro<\/p>\n

5 – Mini-Exhibition “The Universe of Cartonero Books”<\/strong>, Dates: October 10 to November 17 (Tue – Sat: 11:30 AM – 1:00 AM \/ Sun: 4:30 PM – 1:00 AM), Location: Caf\u00e9 Amizade, Aveiro<\/p>\n

Location: Fanzineteca de Aveiro \/ Library of Jos\u00e9 Est\u00eav\u00e3o Secondary School<\/strong>
\nE-mail: fanzinetecadeaveiro@fanzine.pt
\nDates: October 10 to November 17, 2023 (Soft opening on October 10 at 3:00 PM)<\/p>\n

Curatorship: Vento Norte Cartonero
\nLocal Organization: Fanzineteca de Aveiro \/ Edi\u00e7\u00f5es UV \/ Miguel Correia
\nNational Organization: CES \u2013 Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra \/ Animar
\nPartners: Jos\u00e9 Est\u00eav\u00e3o School Group \/ National Arts Plan \/ Ultra Violenta Fanzine \/ Caf\u00e9 Amizade<\/p>\n

CONTEXT<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe story of cartonera publishers begins with a touch of tragic fable.
\nOnce upon a time, there was a country below the famous Equator line, plunged into yet another of its habitual cyclical crises.
\nIt is in this context that the world\u2019s first cartonera publisher emerged; today, it is estimated that more than 150 operate across the globe. Created by small groups of people connected to literary and cultural production, and in some cases by collectives with political and social concerns, cartonera publishers often function as interventionist initiatives to give voice and language to those who have long been silenced, and to make writing and reading practices more present in everyday life \u2014 especially among groups historically marginalized from literate culture.\u201d
\nIt can be said that the originality of the cartonero book lies in the material used for the covers and the artistic work they receive, because by employing cardboard (cart\u00f3n in Spanish), the typical fate of this material in consumer society \u2014 ending up in landfills or recycling companies \u2014 is reversed through creativity, transforming it into part of an object that aims to be integrated under a different logic within the realm of symbolic goods.
\nIn this sense, the choice of cardboard is linked to an act of ecological awareness in today\u2019s struggle for the planet\u2019s sustainability\u2014a gesture that is also, in itself, a political stance.
\nAdditionally, the result of the artistic interventions on the covers, using different techniques, gives the cartonero book a certain \u201caura,\u201d as each copy becomes unique due to its singularity.
\nThe exhibition presented here is just a small sample of the diverse universe of cartonero books. Visitors will be able to see what publishers from various countries in Latin America, Europe, and Africa produce, and the unique way they create their books. The guiding spirit is to enable the Portuguese {and Aveiro} public to discover this publishing approach, which was born out of hardship and has now spread across different remote regions of the world. <\/p>\n

[Excertos de um texto de Gaud\u00eancio Gaud\u00e9rio, Vento Norte Cartonero]<\/p>\n

DETAILS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Publishers: 69
\nCountries: 18
\nBooks: 194
Plus 25 additional books created in the territories where the exhibition traveled.<\/p>\n

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