Looking at internal questions such as editorial process and design alongside more external issues of funding and distribution, Petrovich will describe how he and fellow artist Roger White developed the structure for Paper Monument, and how their ideas were implemented in titles such as I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette and Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment. Special attention will be given to their most recent book, Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000-2015, where they anthologized an especially expansive period in artists’ writings. Petrovich will also discuss the divergent approach he has taken with DME, the imprint behind Adjunct Commuter Weekly and The Daily Gentrifier. Custom-making publications for various demographics to which he belongs, Petrovich has embarked on a multipart investigation of publishing’s relationships to visibility and community. In addition to presenting the periodicals themselves, Petrovich will outline how they engage with existing systems of collaboration, distribution, and reception.
Dushko Petrovich is Assistant Professor and MA Program Director in New Arts Journalism at SAIC. A founding editor of Paper Monument and former board president of the n+1 Foundation, Petrovich has written for Slate, the Boston Globe, ArtNews, Bookforum, and Modern Painters, among many others. With his imprint DME, Petrovich has published Adjunct Commuter Weekly, which debuted in 2015 to widespread critical acclaim including profiles the in Wall Street Journal and the New Yorker, and The Daily Gentrifier, which came out in September.
