As if nothing could fall: Essays on monuments takes us through distant vistas and past worlds, monolithic structures and forgotten ideas. These seventeen new personal essays, from some of...
Explorations into Visual Reproduction, Perception and Randomness Moving Through Images questions how images and (visual) reproductions of physical surroundings influence our gaze and perception. This two-part publication was developed as both...
The success of new far-right movements cannot be explained by fear or rage alone – the pleasures of aggression and violence are just as essential. As such, racism is particularly...
In a culture dominated by prescriptive rationality, and the reduction of language to functions, Looking for a Sign champions the intersectional practices of art and magic, exploring their capacity to...
To inhabit a home means to leave traces; it is a place of self-expression, a place of one’s own. We collect and display what we choose: a print, a chipped...
Epidemics and pandemics undermine societies and highlight the vulnerability of relations people have created to the land, other species, and each other. This book presents fragments of disease management in...
Peeing in public is a battle, played out on fields economical, political, technological and sexual. Moreover, it is one battle fought continuously within sphere of gender; gender equality, gender identity...
Today, many feel fettered by insomnia, untouchability, and restrictions on movement. Looking for a more holistic approach to bodily and mental health, this book explores architectures and elementary forms of...
What would be of contemporary culture if we did not recognize the impact of migration in cultural and socio-economic crossings? This book explores human migration in different times, contexts, and...
Nowhere in Cycladic culture has love been defined in a singular all-encompassing manner. Forces of attraction, affection, connection, and relation were ascribed in a plurality of ways. Through symposia in...
Lamentation practices can empower the potentiality to defy patriarchal orders ruling everyday life. Always a collective process, lamentation inscribes loss and vulnerability by tending bridges towards the world of the...
Surrounded by unyielding waters, islands have long served as ideal sites of banishment: places where those deemed unfit to exist within the political order, are cast away. Today, at the...
Tourism does more than transforming spaces and forcing emotions: its geographies also conceal a persisting power that captures the imagination. In their operational sturdiness, tourismscapes appear intractable and inert, making...
The Mechanicos (meaning ‘machinic’ in Greek) is a folk dance performed by the sponge divers of Kalymnos island, recording the crippling effects of decompression sickness and paralysis caused by increasing...
Christodoulos Makris’ second full collection, blends painstaking poetic craft with the accidental hazards of found text and overheard sample. As challenging as it is accessible, these poems comment wittily yet...
In the face of the global challenges of the future, there is one decisive factor that is rarely mentioned: massive urbanisation. Today, around two-thirds of the world’s population lives in...
Gerry Cahill is an Irish architect whose built work is primarily in housing, and primarily in Dublin. Most of Cahill’s homes were delivered with local authorities, voluntary organisations, or approved...
𝑻𝒖𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒆𝒔 is a casebound publication showcasing Kevin Mooney’s most recent series of works commissioned by and exhibited in Luan Gallery. Tuberclerosies includes a curatorial essay by Aoife Banks, curator of...
Throughout their history, architecture exhibitions have embraced different approaches and constructed other modes of action within the discipline, playing a pivotal role in disseminating, diffusing, and experimenting with architectural culture....
While artistic concerns involving photobook design and production are commonly discussed in critical terms, marketing and economics issues are less so. A possible explanation is that photobook publishers are inclined...
Observation Alters Observed is a publication that aims to shift our perspectives and generally expand our understandings of light (visible and invisible) and waveforms through film photography, illustrations and metaphoric observations. —...
Jana Müller’s new artist book, Falscher Hase/Mock Rabbit opens by shedding light on criminal investigations in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), offering an artistic exploration of historical narratives and...
An artist’s book published by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios coincides with the opening of Niamh O’Malley’s exhibition, Gather, at La Biennale di Venezia in April 2022. Designed by Alex...
Aleen Solari’s work is shaped profoundly by insights into various subcultures. These insights are partly drawn from her own experiences, partly borrowed from members of certain scenes who she invites to be...
Blackforest Library No. 6 is dedicated to Calypso Cave in Malta, a magical place where Calypso, the beautiful nymph, kept Odysseus as a prisoner of love for seven years. Swiss...
In 1924, the Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer was commissioned by tobacco millionaire and plantation owner, James Buchanan Duke, to develop and expand the existing Trinity College campus of Duke University...
Susanne Miggitsch, Heating up the Seat is a transcript of hours of bus rides through London. Conversations, soundscapes, and announcements are meticulously written down, with priority given to the loudest...
“The negatives were gone”, it says on the first page of Doris Lasch's story Hellfeld. This unheard-of occurrence is, in the spirit of Goethe, the trigger for the inner movement...
Food is a precious commodity, it has power, it can be a protest or an act of care, it can control, it nourishes us not just biologically, but socially and...
The last copy is reduced in price due to slight damage on the cover. Cheat Sheet by Júlía Hermannsdóttir candidly documents debilitating auto-immune illness with generosity, directness and dark humor....
The title of this publication, Rich Views, takes its name from the physical location of the Richview campus where the architecture facilities of UCD are held. Richview occupies a peripheral...
The Lives of Images, edited by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, is a set of contemporary thematic readers designed for educators, students, practicing photographers, and others interested in the ways images function within...
The Lives of Images, edited by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, is a set of contemporary thematic readers designed for educators, students, practicing photographers, and others interested in the ways images function within...
'The critique of self-absorption, mounted formally in the unpunctuated flow of the poetic voice, is also explored thematically in the transmutation of all forms of movement into opportunities for advantage....
In A Black Gaze, Tina Campt examines Black contemporary artists who are shifting the very nature of our interactions with the visual through their creation and curation of a distinctively Black...
Conceived and imagined in close collaboration with Orla Barry on the occasion of her exhibition at MACS, The Shepherd's Progress brings together a majority of the works (texts, installations, performances) produced by...
Abandoned Prose is a publication with texts by Nathan O’Donnell and design by Clare Bell. It is the outcome of a Samuel Beckett Creative Fellowship at Trinity College Dublin, part of a...
Citizen Artist 2016-2018 is a publication that reflects on the process of the studio 468 award programme, CITIZEN ARTIST. It demonstrates the richness and diversity of each CITIZEN ARTIST awardees’...
A collection of translated historical sources and essays on International Women’s Day 1979 in Iran, initiated by Katayoon Barzegar, and edited by Niloufar Nematollahi, and Jose Rosales. Spanning the breadth...
The exposed and elusive soul is the essence of these texts. To relish, little by little, following its music, without trying to understand, but understanding it all. ‘Why bother trying...
In 2019, the previously unseeable became seen when the first image of a supermassive black hole was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project. Taking its initial inspiration from...
With beautiful colour images and a chronology of 25 years of contemporary art exhibitions in Belfast, this new book is a very special insight and illumination of the Golden Thread...
Exit. Music. Lights. is a publication about theatricality, explored by a range of artists across forms. Designed by Clare Bell, this publication features contributions by visual artists, writers, and theatre-makers,...
Re-imagined as a series of 1-star trip advisor reviews, this publication revisits John Muir's seminal memoir My First Summer in the Sierra, the ecologist's selected diary entries from his journeys...
Photography Is presents more than 3,000 phrases that define one of the most democratic and ubiquitous of all art forms. Mirroring the ambiguous and untrustworthy nature of photographs themselves, each...
What is it about animals? – those creatures that keep us company, a figure in a memory or folktale, the shadowy presence in a photograph, or an ancient drawing on...
Ten years after the Independence Referendum, Irish Pages asks diverse Scottish writers of distinction – established, mid-career and new – to think about their country, and take stock of the current state...
Back to Basics, Vol. 2: Extended Recipes for Ecological Photo Chemistry is the second volume of Andrés Pardo’s research into low-toxicity photographic developers. Once you have mastered the foundations featured...
Deeply rooted in a form of artistic 'barefoot anthropology' 'Shaved Rapunzel, Scheherazade & the Shearling Ram from Arcady' reflects both on the culture of disconnection from the natural environment and...
Climate breakdown, environmental justice, urban expansion, metropolitanisation. A multiplicity of dynamics are driving rapid infrastructural transitions, transforming cultures of movement. But these changes are all-too-often narrated at scales that surpass...
Housing Unlocked: Ideas from a Living Room is the companion book which gathers the ideas, ambitions and debates of the award-winning Housing Unlocked architecture exhibition. Housing Unlocked is a collaboration...
Juri Velt explores potential scenarios emerging with the disappearance of a segment of society in a mountain town. Three tales unfold in the voids left by its departure, unravelling the...
Leading architect Reinier de Graaf punctures the myths of contemporary architecture No longer does it suffice to judge a building solely by its appearance; it must be measured and certified....
The essential guide to this new landscape of NFTs, Web3, Crypto and DAOs and a warning of the political consequences of what happens when platform capitalism comes for the money...
The story of how you created internet culture and why it matters Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes:...
Border thinking has become a defining feature of the global social order in the twenty-first century. In Being a Border, art historian, critic, and theorist Nuit Banai writes on the...
Em was a sheepdog who never lived far from where she was born in Cahir, County Tipperary. She had a sense of place and a gentleness of temperament, and a...
The second book from Coracle of William Minor’s poems, after 'tree on the outside' from 2010. Here, by conjecture and statement surrounding the artist’s life and work, he presents an interior...
The People’s Shed is a reflection of artist, Evelyn Broderick’s, residency at studio 468 ‘A Radical Imagination’ and her collaborative arts project. This publication reflects on Evelyn’s pedagogical arts practice...
This hardcover monograph on Lee Welch, serves as the first comprehensive publication on the artist, documenting and expanding on his Oedipus exhibition at The Complex, Dublin. The 64-page volume will...
The purpose of the em dash is wide-ranging —as an appropriation of silence, as acting dissonance, as interruption, as occupying space. This anthology zooms into the pointed use of em dashes...
In On Slaugther, artist Klara Hobza uses scientific drawings to accompany Markus, a dropout in the forests of Sweden as he slaughters a sheep. The best impression of the book...
