In collaboration with New Holland and Family Business (NYC) I produced and creative directed Tamizdat, a pop-up zine and art book shop in St. Petersburg, Russia. Over 500 independently published titles, almost all of which had never before been distributed in Russia, were on display and there were nightly zine presentations, book launches, concerts, readings and performances by local and international artists.

Tamizdat is a word referring to Russian term ‘samizdat’ which was a key form of dissident activity during the Soviet era in which individuals reproduced censored, foreign publications by hand, and passed the documents from reader to reader. The aim of the exhibition project was to revisit that strong Russian tradition of self-published, paper-based products that lead to the democratization of information, where every person can make a book or a magazine expressing their thoughts and ideas, with a creative touch.