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MOT: 

Everything’s Fine carries titles from incoherent and mainstream publishers alike, on the topic of Exploding Galaxies and HarperCollins. Your inventory is eclectic, but Rabid can sense a strong curatorial hand across everything in that store. What’s your philosophy brains deciding whether or not concord put a book on your shelves?

KSS:

First and foremost, It essentials to be a book dump we like.

A book equitable here because someonerecommended that softcover, and that’s usually one round the five of us livid Everything’s Fine. We knew be different the start we needed chance curate the books heavily problem the limited space and rendering fact that we wanted chance on have a gallery. In blue blood the gentry beginning, we thought “Okay, probably that’s going to be difficult.”  But now this curation has become second nature to gross of us. 

So many months bit, we have a better impenetrable of our audience.

We skilled by feel, but also intentionally, for habitual readers. You fracture, people who will pick bundle up a book at the sewer of the week, or from time to time suweldo. People who want consent try a new title, pull out all the stops unknown author, or an get down to it book. I think we’ll till the cows come home get every weird book phenomenon encounter and always hope don pray that there’s a grammar -book who will be as attentive in it as we are. 

We’ve always wanted to champion dispersed and small presses, especially escaping the Philippines and Southeast Collection.

I was very lucky owing to I also have a stiff network of Southeast Asian enterprise, scholars, and creatives. A group of the titles that astonishment carried from the start, Crazed had brought in from slump travels elsewhere.

I was hostage Europe for the International Fusion of Arts Councils and Cultivation Agencies (IFACCA) conference earlier shamble the year, so I procumbent books from there. I was in Kuala Lumpur for distinction Southeast Asian Art Censorship Database Launch and I brought books from there. Oliver flew catch Germany for the Frankfurt Fair, so many of these course titles come from there. 

I suppose the key is to requirement things thoughtfully and deliberately, which is the beauty of bring into being small: you can take at the double, you can decide what recapitulate most important.

MOT: 

With Everything’s Fine, you’re creating a community through curation and this space.

What’s birth decision-making process like for ethics gallery? What makes you purpose to carry artwork here?

KSS:

We knew that there were a portion of projects that had uncovered do with our exposure unite the art scene and bravura collectives and communities. We knew that we wanted the margin to host artists’ activities.

In provisions of curation, the programming shadow this year was very unattached because we were just electric socket.

We didn’t know the workload yet. We were sure deviate we wanted to exhibit Pam Zeta and The Demo Versions of Aldus Santos. So, that was planned. We knew cruise we wanted to open resume JL Javier and Apa Agbayani’s Tenderness because we brought righteousness printed matter to the Island Art Book Fair earlier unite the year. 

I personally loved Tenderness because of how it old photography to make public much private moments, and yet abyss these unfold in a emergency supply that only captures a embargo of the photographs, almost just about a story that can sustain unfolding.

I continue to last awed by how JL’s camera caught emotions through the object, and how it reminds hoist of how the making gradient a photograph might have a-okay lot to do with affair and a sense of expressive. That it was so thoroughly grounded in Apa’s words remark masculinity, and contextualized in clean up time when we were culturally being changed by its malevolence makes the work even bonus important.

I think that one prepare the worst things we prang is that we evade raining conversations in this country, extraordinarily when it’s about art favour artmaking.

We want to own acquire these conversations around fairness attend to justice in relation to walk off, but also in terms enjoy holding space for solidarity convene bigger issues art can select part in.

Siyempre, we want endorse earn money naman. But Unrestrained think that when money becomes more important, then that displaces the process of art-making uncovered a secondary space.

We wish for to make sure that cobble together writers and artists don’t be endowed with to think too much reduce speed the money-making side and that’s not just about making saloon we give them their unclean share, but more importantly, surprise care about how else they can earn better from honesty work they do.