Bookshelf Residency: GenderFail
October 5, 2024–March 2, 2025
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

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ICA LA’s Bookshelf Residency program invites local booksellers and independent publishers to expand their footprint with a residency on the museum’s bookshelves. Unique titles are available for sale and each partner works with the museum’s Learning & Engagement department to produce a series of public programs. 

Bookshelf Residency: GenderFail
October 5, 2024–March 2, 2025

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For ICA LA’s Bookshelf Residency, GenderFail will feature 80+ projects published throughout the history of the project, such publications as Textdemic: A Retrospective on Jenny Holzer’s Laments (edited by A.L. Steiner); The Metaphysics of Self-Immolation by FT and Riley Hooker; An Incessant Unknowability: An Archive of Protest Inspired Typography and it’s Open Source Uses, and many other titles from their inventory. 50+ publications, prints, stickers, and tote bags will be on sale for the entirety of the residency in person at ICALA.







Imperfect Publishing: 10 years of putting everything I have into GenderFail
Published on the Occasion of the Bookshelf Resdiency: GenderFail at ICALA
Edition of 1,000
Printed by Newspaper Club
Funded by ICA LA’s Fieldwork Counci
6 - 15 in x 22.75 in pages



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The Bookshelf Residency serendipitously coincides with the 10th Anniversary of GenderFail. A special broadsheet newsprint publication will commemorate this milestone, which was printed by the Newspaper Club in the United Kingdom. This broadsheet includes an entire page spread showcasing all 132 editions produced by GenderFail showing the impressive output of this 1-person run small press. This broadsheet includes statistical information about the 10-year history of the project, including that out of those 28,661 books produced by GenderFail, 19,149 were handmade and that these books were once 352,018 pieces of paper that were hand-collated by founder Be Oakley. The broadsheet also includes a spread dedicated to sharing information and GenderFail's commitment to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. With this proudly on display as part of the GenderFail bookshelf residency and printed in the broadsheet is our 2023 print "SOMEONE I LOVE IS FIGHTING LIKE HELL FOR PALESTINE".