Furia del Libro is a book fair for independent and up-and-coming publishers which has been held in Chile since 2009. It is hosted by the Gabriela Mistral cultural centre, one of the most important in Chile, and brings together Chilean and Latin American publishers, readers and writers.
In recent years the trend has been for independent publishers to adopt aesthetic and material innovations in books and to create new business opportunities in the publishing sectors in the current crisis. The fair sets out to foster interaction between citizens and small Latin American publishers, seeking to make a difference to the circulation, promotion and sale of up-and-coming literature in Chile.
Furia is underpinned by the idea of self-management as a means of peaceful resistance (taken to mean a way of furthering the development of writers and publishers), which makes it an open space and meeting place for those who promote and generate another way of producing, experiencing and acquiring art and literature.
AC/E is collaborating with this fair through its mobility programme, currently in its first year, by supporting the writer and literary critic Jordi Corominas, who is taking part in the fair with his project entitled ‘Loopoesía’. This is an experimental poetry show that brings together music, audio-visual projections, theatre, declamation and dance, making it a cutting-edge project with four years of existence that has an established reputation in the current poetry scene and is synonymous with innovation and originality all over Spain.
In recent years the trend has been for independent publishers to adopt aesthetic and material innovations in books and to create new business opportunities in the publishing sectors in the current crisis. The fair sets out to foster interaction between citizens and small Latin American publishers, seeking to make a difference to the circulation, promotion and sale of up-and-coming literature in Chile.
Furia is underpinned by the idea of self-management as a means of peaceful resistance (taken to mean a way of furthering the development of writers and publishers), which makes it an open space and meeting place for those who promote and generate another way of producing, experiencing and acquiring art and literature.
AC/E is collaborating with this fair through its mobility programme, currently in its first year, by supporting the writer and literary critic Jordi Corominas, who is taking part in the fair with his project entitled ‘Loopoesía’. This is an experimental poetry show that brings together music, audio-visual projections, theatre, declamation and dance, making it a cutting-edge project with four years of existence that has an established reputation in the current poetry scene and is synonymous with innovation and originality all over Spain.