Accompanying the exhibition, we organised a two-day event with the participation of 25 cartonera actors, writers, poets, thinkers and academics from Mexico, Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, the UK and the US....

Cartonera is a social, political and artistic publishing movement that began in Argentina in 2003 and has since spread to countries throughout Latin America and, more recently, to Europe and Africa. In this video, Maria Aparecida Dias da Costa of Dulcinéia Catadora in São Paulo, Brazil, shows us how to make a cartonera book from scratch.

In this short clip, the ‘cardboard publishers’ Dany Hurpin and Nayeli Sanchez from Cuernavaca, Mexico, show us how to make books using recycled cardboard for covers.

In this short clip, the ‘cardboard publishers’ Dany Hurpin and Nayeli Sanchez from Cuernavaca, Mexico, show us how to make books using recycled cardboard for covers.

Curated by Alex Flynn and Beatriz Lemos, the exhibition ‘Cartonera’ is based upon an ethnographic collaboration between the AHRC research team and diverse cartonera publishers from Brazil and Mexico and beyond. To be held at the Casa do Povo, São Paulo from 27th October 2018 - 15th January 2019, the exhibition will present a panorama of the cartonera phenomenon, presenting over 100 books from different cartoneras across Latin America, and contextualizing the rapid growth of this movement.