FRIENDLY FIRE, a curated section of the Fair featuring thirty-one independent artists and art collectives in three galleries, including a video room programmed by Deep Dish TV, Paper Tiger Television and Not an Alternative. QUEER ZINES, from Straight to Hell to BUTT Magazine, an inclusive historical survey of over 100 publications that examines the continuing transgressive potential of queer and punk zines. Curated by Philip Aarons and AA Bronson, with Alex Gartenfeld. A comprehensive catalogue is available for purchase. AND MORE: - mfc-michele didier presents I MET, I WENT and I GOT UP, the trilogy by ON KAWARA, and a retrospective of Robert Barry's artist's books from 1970 to the present, including his new work, ONE BILLION COLORED DOTS. (Gallery H) - Peres Projects/DADDY THE MAGAZINE presents new publications and artist editions by Dash SNOW and Dean SAMESHIMA. (Gallery K) - Electronic Arts Intermix presents a new video program "OUT OF PRINT." (Gallery S). EVENTS Thursday, October 23 8pm - Jonathan Monk performance Friday, October 24 2pm - Trinie Dalton discusses and shows images from her new book from Picture- Box, Mythtym 3pm - "The Happy Hypocrite: Spit and Letters." - a reading by editor Maria Fusco (Book Works) 4pm - Queer Zine Programming 6pm - Performances by Brendan Fowler and Kayla Guthrie Saturday, October 25 12pm - Saturday@Phillips Auction - Contemporary & Urban Art / Photographs / Design / Jewelry / Toy Art 4pm - Artist Xu Tan discusses his project "The Keywords School" at Vitamin Creative Space's Project Space (Gallery V) 6pm - Showpaper presents the Muggabears and G.Lucas Crane vs. Nonhorse Sunday, October 26 12pm - Free book binding Workshops led by Center for Book Arts, Purgatory Pie Press, and Susan Happersett 1pm - a performance and reading by Josef Strau and friends (Malmo Konsthall) 2pm - Melissa Brown presents her new set of silkscreened celebrity tarot cards (Picturebox) 4pm - Performance by Erik den Breejen (Freight + Volume) Artists Book Signings Friday, October 24 12pm - Gary Panter signs his new book Gary Panter (Picturebox) 1pm - Matthias Herrmann signs Toscano 2 (Printed Matter, Inc.) 2pm - Henrik Olesen signs his new book (JRP) 3pm - Marina Abramovic signs 100 PISAMA / 100 LETTERS 1965-1979 (onestar press) 4pm - Jesse Burke signs Intertidal (DECODE BOOKS) 4pm - Carlos Motta, Duke Riley, Chris Stain, and Steve Lambert sign copies of A Guide to Democracy in America, and Creative Time launches Hey Hey Glossolalia (BEFORE) and (AFTER), and a new paperback edition of Creative Time: The Book 5pm - Derek Sullivan launches and signs Persistent Huts (Printed Matter, Inc.) 5:30pm - Dan McCarthy signs copies of his self titled book, recently published by The Journal Books and Anton Kern Gallery (the journal, Booth O5) 6pm - Michalis Pichler signs Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant To Be Viewed (Printed Matter, Inc.) Saturday, October 25 12pm - David Krut Publishing launches Art and Justice: The Art of the Constitutional Court of South Africa 1pm - Artists Fia Backstrom, Andrew Dadson, Matthew Higgs, Colter Jacobsen, and Frances Stark will be on hand to sign their 5-poster edition (Fillip) 2pm - Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson sign their new book Fallen Books (onestar press) 3pm - Slava Mogutin signs Lost Boys and NYC Go-Go (PowerHouse) 4pm - Jason Fox signs The Studio of Dr. Mabuse (Regency Arts Press Ltd.) 5pm - AA Bronson signs the new reprint of File Megazine (JRP) 5pm - Terence Koh signs the journal, entry 24, supplement "Moby Dick" (Booth O5) 6pm - Terence Koh signs his new book, A Beaver Tail (Art Metropole) Sunday,October 26 12pm - William Powhida signs his collaboration with Jeff Parker, The Back of the Line (DECODE BOOKS) 1pm - Micah Lexier signs Two Equal Texts, his collaborative book with Christian Bok (Fillip and Artspeak) 2pm - Ron Jude signs Other Nature and Charles Gute signs Revisions and Queries (The Ice Plant) 2pm - Leigh Ledare signs the journal, entry 24, for which he contributed a series of new work (Booth O5) 3pm - Matt Keegan launches his new book AMERICAMERICA (Printed Matter, Inc.) 4pm - Michel Gondry signs his new book You'll Like The Film Because You're In It (Picturebox)