A centre for the artist book, DABF is a focal point to artists, designers, writers, and collectives to make, sell, and platform their publications. It champions creative, small and independent publishers; Irish and international.

In 2024, DABF Guest Curator Adrian Duncan presents his theme Fictions: The makings of other worlds; he offers ways to explore the theme through a selection of nominated books and a series of talks with invited guests.

Adrian’s curated programme considers different ways stories can be told; the images, spaces, objects, figures, feelings that emerge while doing so; and the sorts of truths they propose. He opens the Fair with a walk-through of his selected books and a reflection on his chosen theme. He introduces Possible Truths, a conversation between acclaimed journalists and writers Peter Geoghegan and Susan McKay to discuss technology, truth-making, and journalistic storytelling. Artist Sean Lynch and Adrian explore—through a series of objects—the fascinating relationships between reality and fiction in Lynch's practice. Adrian’s final event invites poet and fabulist Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe to explore the ways single words can create narrative direction, sense, shape and form within poetry.

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