18In the work of Erica Van Horn, books collect and transform remnants, remembrances, remainders and reminders. From fragments that might otherwise be forgotten, she makes new inventories and series in...
The Printed Performance Brian Lane Works 1966 – 99 Brian Lane’s unique contribution to small-press publishing began in the mid 1960s at Gallery Number Ten in Blackheath, South East London....
Play Book is the new collection of poems by Irish poet, Maurice Scully. His writing began in the early 1970s, and since 1981 he has published 10 books of poetry...
An assembly of speculative essays, reviews, interviews and collected statements, its concern is with the recent history of the book and the idea of publication arising from its occurrence in...
Papers of Susan Howe, American poet. The collection consists of Howe's literary correspondence, poetry manuscripts, notes and typescripts for readings and talks, personal and working journals, recordings, research files, and...
Living Locally No.12 With age, Tom Browne has given up his building jobs. Now he works on small houses in his shed. He uses real building materials whenever possible, as...
A collection of more of Living Locally, some seen as postcards, from the ongoing series which continues as a translation of the vernacular speech of where the author lives. Published...
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...
William O’Neill is a visual artist living and working in Meath, Ireland. He graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Art Painting from the National College of Art and Design in...
Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage? is the fourth book in the annual series A Series of Open Questions published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and Sternberg...
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...
Broken English Goodbye brings together ES Kibele Yarman's illustrations and poems on departure and detachment, produced between the years 2015-2020. 'Broken English Goodbye is an assemblage made up of 20 fragments of a...
E.S. Kibele Yarman’s new book invites the reader for a serene and calm read, or should we say, “an afternoon nap.” The poems in the Paperwork Hotel are presented with...
'There are many good reasons to disappear from society. There are many bad reasons to want to. There are many good ways to disappear from society and there are many...
The Beginning The End is a collection of quotes taken from 212 classic and b-fiction books, and involves writing one book with two parts: The Beginning and The End. The...
'The title AsemiQuads can be seen as a contraction of 'quadratic drawings with short asemic statements'. The series was created in the period between October 2021 and June 2022. My asemic writing...
EVER GIVEN by Rindon Johnson is the artist’s latest collection of poetry and visual art, examining the contentious relationship between work and title. Johnson’s titles, which range from paragraph-long philosophical investigations...
Unpayable Debt offers a black feminist reading of the political architecture of the global present. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s novel Kindred, in which an African American writer is transported...
In 2021, Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal recorded an intimate conversation about the Mediterranean at their Parisian home: “There are many Mediterraneans: the geographical, the historical, the philosophical... the personal,...
Our present is defined by contemporaneity—the interconnection of heterogeneous times, histories, and temporalities. These many and various times do not merely exist in parallel with one another, simultaneously. Rather, they interconnect...
Titled after Soft Cell's version of the original 1965 Gloria Jones track, Tainted Love is the first book-length inquiry into the subject of the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense...
Dan Graham was a contrarian. His art confronted viewers with a multiplicity of possible perceptions and intersubjective experiences. Some Rockin’ was his last project and—through conversations with friends, artists, architects, curators, and former assistants—articulates his sensitivity...
Roee Rosen’s film Kafka for Kids is set as the pilot episode for a TV series that perversely aims to make Kafka’s tale “Metamorphosis” palpable for toddlers. In its title,...
With a long-term commitment and an open-minded approach, Belgian artist Vincen Beeckman challenges norms. Through personal conversations, this book offers a deeper understanding of Beeckman’s creative process and takes you...
Santiago Sierra is perhaps best known for his infamous ‘remunerated actions’, in which he hires the poor and desperate at minimum wage to undertake pointless and degrading tasks. They include prostitutes...
This essay examines the ubiquitous presence of Venus in the archive of Atlantic slavery and wrestles with the impossibility of discovering anything about her that hasn’t already been stated. As...
We have entered a phase of radical reconfiguration of our methods of learning, of perceiving history, of sharing knowledge. manuel arturo abreu, a LatinX artist and writer of Dominican descent,...
Cassandra Press was founded in 2016 by artist Kandis Williams as an independent publishing project. At its core, Cassandra Press examines tools of perception and racism, and their dominant role...
Cassandra Press was founded in 2016 by artist Kandis Williams as an independent publishing project. At its core, Cassandra Press examines tools of perception and racism, and their dominant role...
Commissioned by Kandis Williams’ Cassandra Press for its Artist Zine Series, this work is the written component of Penance for the Hound of Gubbio. Through the parable of Saint Francis...
Cassandra Press was founded in 2016 by artist Kandis Williams as an independent publishing project. At its core, Cassandra Press examines tools of perception and racism, and their dominant role...
Cassandra Press was founded in 2016 by artist Kandis Williams as an independent publishing project. At its core, Cassandra Press examines tools of perception and racism, and their dominant role...
Published in 2021 on the occasion of LAXART’s 'The Absolute Right to Exclude: Reflections on and Implications of Cheryl Harris’ “Whiteness as Property”', a Cassandra Press exhibition. Cassandra Press was...
A poetry zine by queer Black authors & Collective X on the occasion of Cassandra Press' LUMA exhibition in 2021. Cassandra Press was founded in 2016 by artist Kandis Williams...
Published in 2021 on the occasion of California African American Museum’s An Unfolding, a Cassandra Press exhibition. Cassandra Press was founded in 2016 by artist Kandis Williams as an independent...
Cassandra Press was founded in 2016 by artist Kandis Williams as an independent publishing project. At its core, Cassandra Press examines tools of perception and racism, and their dominant role...
Featuring… The Effects of Blackness: Gender, Race, and the Sublime in Aesthetic Theories of Burke and Kant, Meg Armstrong, The Blackness Within: Early Modern Color-Concept, Physiology, and Aaron the Moor...
Featuring... Notebook scans, Romantic Webs, Suffering, Emotional Fields, Emotional Capital, Eva Illousz, Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism, Virality and Promiscuity, Robert Payne, What Makes Online Content Viral? Jonah...
Including submissions from: Mandy Harris Williams @idealblackfemale Devin Kenny Calvin Warren and excerpts from texts by: Stuart Hall, Laura Portwoodstacer, Nicole Holliday, Hortense Spillers and more. Cassandra Press was founded...
Last copy is reduced in price due to damage on the cover.RE: The Furies, on the subject of feminine rage. With submissions from: Guerrilla Girls, Cassie Thornton, Rozsa Farkas, Roula Nassar,...
Daphne is the third chapter of the project Opium for Ovid, published by Stereoeditions in a collection of 22 separate books. 'Yoko Tawada wrote Opium für Ovid: Ein Kopfkissenbuch von 22...
'Yoko Tawada wrote Opium für Ovid: Ein Kopfkissenbuch von 22 Frauen in 2000. She then released the Japanese version of the text, 変身のためのオピウム, in the fall of 2001. The German...
Artist Christiane Geoffroy’s work addresses the many ways in which scientific knowledge and plastic sensibility come together, reverberate and nourish each other. We now know the extent of the multiple...
For this eleventh title in the Digressions series, Baptiste Brévart and Guillaume Ettlinger discuss with Julie Sicault Maillé their artistic practice as a duo and their installation La vallée aux...
The Digressions series welcomes its tenth opus with A Staged Exhibition, which finds curator Mathieu Copeland delving into “choreographing exhibitions” in conversations with curator Marie-Hélène Leblanc, choreographer Jennifer Lacey and...
To mark the exhibition La Bibliothèque grise – ch. 4, “Objets parlants”, the Digressions series is welcoming a presentation of the exhibition via transcription of a record of conversation between...
In this eighth title in the Digressions series Marie Preston speaks with Nora Sternfeld and Julie Pellegrin about her practice as a crossroads for art, education and cooperative working.Marking Marie...
Devoted to Myriam Lefkowitz, Digressions 07 is a follow-up to a research project carried out simultaneously at La Ferme du Buisson and If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to...
In the course of a four-way discussion Béatrice Balcou talks about the creation of her Untitled Ceremonies – low-key performances presenting works by other artists – and her Assistance Pieces...
This fifth number of Digressions finds Céline Ahond returning to her driving obsessions – presence, dexterity, movement, interpersonal encounters – and the challenges posed by the composition of an exhibition....
In this third title in the Digressions series Alex Cecchetti and curator Julie Pellegrin look into the genesis of the exhibition Tamam Shud, in which the artist invites us to...
This second title in the Digressions series finds artist Benjamin Seror discussing with Keren Detton, Julie Pellegrin and Eva Wittocx the origins of his performance The Marsyas Hour and the...
In a singular career leading from anthropology to the visual arts, Kapwani Kiwanga has brought to light unexplored interspaces between fiction and documentary, science and magic, politics and the poetic,...
The outcome of an extensive archiving project began in 2019, this publication traces the activities of Northern Irish artist John Carson and his life and work in Belfast, Los Angeles,...
“Today, the ecological catastrophe challenges us to rethink the space our societies have assigned to art. Creativity, critical thinking, exchange, transcendence, the relationship to the Other and to History are...
Helen Khal: Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s is a reflective exhibition catalogue; part archive, as well as a living testament to the late Helen Khal (1923-2009). A polymath,...
The accompanying diary entries from Georgs Avetisjans trip to Siberia in 2019-2020. During his journey, he was writing a personal diary and reflecting on thoughts, observations, and the process of making...
Taking off along the grotesque evolutionary curve of the internet, this novel by Mochu brings together Japanese otaku subcultures, Hindu mythology, darknet highways, ultraviolent cyberpunk forums, and renegade university departments...
Compiled here for the first time, the selected writings of Aria Dean (b. 1993, Los Angeles) mount a trenchant critique of representational systems. A visual artist and filmmaker, Dean has...
Scylla is the fifth chapter of the project Opium for Ovid, published by Stereoeditions in a collection of 22 separate books.'Yoko Tawada wrote Opium für Ovid: Ein Kopfkissenbuch von 22...
Scylla is the fourth chapter of the project Opium for Ovid, published by Stereoeditions in a collection of 22 separate books.'Yoko Tawada wrote Opium für Ovid: Ein Kopfkissenbuch von 22 Frauen...
Ten Exhibits presents a body of work dealing with the relationship between language, image and location using the lingo of forensic photography. The project consists of evidence collected at exhibition...
Come per magia is an artist's book about OCD., role-playing, and portals of the unconscious. Nan Tarpey Heyneman is a lens-based artist and writer based in Dublin, Ireland. Their work...
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...
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...
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...
What can a reclining marble sculpture, conceived through a myth in Greek antiquity, tell us today about the fluidity of our gender construction? What has been the role of aesthetic...
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 does it mean to drill deep and interfere with the configuration of tectonic plates? What does it mean to hollow out and alienate islandic undergrounds? How is wealth extracted...
Aggressively rebounding after recessions and the pandemic, sprawling landscapes of tourism in the Mediterranean continue to build upon the iconic spatial typology of sea & sun vacationing: the beach. But...
Cassandra Press was founded in 2016 by artist Kandis Williams as an independent publishing project. At its core, Cassandra Press examines tools of perception and racism, and their dominant role...
Klara and the Bomb is a photographical and historical work that charts connecting threads between the invention of modern computers, the history of nuclear weapons and, in particular, the narratives of...
'I had heard that some had been so wrought up by the play as to become temporarily insane, and run about town haunted by wildest hallucinations.' — Joseph Krauskopf, A Rabbi’s Impressions of the...
To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die is a book-length essay about the essential usefulness of the practice of making photographs. Drawing on the writings of Wallace Stevens and...
The American West has been the home of many countercultures. Gay rodeo is one of them. Still marginal and little known even among the gay community it contradicts the prevailing...
This limited edition book is published on the occasion of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, 2020, titled The Law is a White Dog. Curated and edited by Sarah Browne, the...
“Brasil, país do futuro” (Brazil, Land of the Future) is almost an axiom, an automatic enouncing, something like “Paris, City of Light” or “New York, the Big Apple”. Epithets that...
The work of artist Moyra Davey (Toronto, 1958) has traditionally been related to photography, film and video. However, her book Quema los diarios (November 2020) shows how literature and writing...
TACTICAL MAGIC publication edited by Kerry Guinan for TULCA 2019. Included in the publication is a specially commissioned essay by Pádraic E. Moore titled: Art and Magick in the 21st...
XVIII Stories of TULCA is a new publication that marks the 18th anniversary of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and documents its UnSelfing Programme for Galway 2020 European Capital of...
"As I was saying hum, hum was happening. I was saying haw and haw was happening. With a mildly higher voice, my chin a little bit up, eyes staring just above the...
In The View from "No-Man's Land", Shehadeh documents the year 2020 by using online culture's main currency—memes—to tell stories of crashes, depressions, and violence caused by acceleration and the hyper technologies of...
The last copy is reduced in price due to slight damage on the cover. What is the future of the book? And, specifically, what is the future of books on art,...
‘A pacifist is a rare beast in a bomb shelter.’ The war in Ukraine challenged our idea of pacifism. Should Europe take up arms or not? Can it ease its...
Productive Archiving discusses a variety of problems archival organizations. It mainly focuses on the following three issues with archival organizations that are usually overlooked: first, the question of inclusion in...
Effigy hanging and burning, a specific theatrical form of political protest, has become increasingly visible in the news media, particularly in protests against United States military operations in Afghanistan and...
The world today faces overwhelming ecological and social problems and the concern for material existence on earth is more pressing than ever. Making Matters spells out various roles that visual...
The world today faces overwhelming ecological and social problems and the concern for material existence on earth is more pressing than ever. Making Matters spells out various roles that visual...
Sculpture as a specific medium is rarely investigated within a deeply cultural, philosophical context, nor within visual art itself. Whilst discussions about installation art, performance art, or other 3D art...
Henry van de Velde (1863–1957) is a pivotal figure in the history of modern design. His range was prodigious: from furniture, jewellery and dress design to interiors and entire buildings....
Adrian Henri (1932–2000) was a painter, poet, musician and a pioneer of happenings and events in Britain. This book covers his work from the 1960s and 1970s – when it...
The first anthology of its kind, Graphic Design: History in the Writing (1983–2011) comprises the most influential texts about graphic design history published in English. Edited by a graphic design...
Description: Alison Britton’s collected writings review the unstable place of craft in the spectrum of art and design. Now in a second edition, the essays included in Seeing Things reveal that...
Hannah Regel has built a book, a house, a place to escape one's muting duties. A place of scars, write-offs, rags. It’s a dirty lustful pit where domesticity has been exposed...
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...
YOUTH RAGE! YOUTH VIOLENCE! YOUTH ORGASMS! FEAR OF A GAY UNDERCLASS – ARMED – DANGEROUS - SICK FUCKS. Andy ‘Chubz’ Wilson is just another NEET on the street, spending his summer days...
In a series of paintings, female police officers from British television shows such as Happy Valley and The Bill are positioned in an array of apocalyptic settings: freezing, burning, and backdropped by...
An inventory of posters produced by Draw Down Books for art book fairs, workshops, and lectures between 2013 and 2021. Documenting Draw Down's activities throughout the period, the publication also...
Written in response to work by featured designers and artists, Is the Internet Down? weaves together pop culture references and statistical facts about the greatest network of our time. The...
Tom Buckle is an ambitious young moderate Labour apparatchik, rising happily through the party bureaucracy on a diet of bottomless brunches, legitimate concerns and drug-fueled Blairite sex parties. That is until he...
A novel in three parts, Sinkhole: Three Crimes submerges readers in a grotesque and comical world on the edge of collapse – much like our own. Britain is immersed in a...
A book, supposedly by the presumed pseudonymous “Satoshi Nakamoto”, of private musings, poetry, drawings and collage/imageries that expose the interiority of one committed to absence. Published by FUFU PRESSEdition of 15Softcover 66 pages203 × 266...
*aaaaaaaaaaaargh is about the shape of words and how words are shapes and sounds and containers of the struggle in the world. Published by FUFU PRESSUpdated Edition of 15Softcover 108 pages207 × 273...
Since 2009 Slavs and Tatars have published several books covering topics from Uyghur literary culture to satire in the Caucasus, many of which have become collector’s items. They have also...
In an era of climate catastrophe and corporate agribusiness, meat has been decisively made over. Urbanites across the West are called upon to look at the animals we eat, and...
Ari Marcopoulos is an inveterate maker of zines. This project collects in one volume for the first time a selection of zines by Marcopoulos, many never before released, providing a...
'An absolute blockbuster of clear thinking and new angles...the most clear, alliance building, shame removing look at race. Emma is once-in-a generation clever' Caitlin MoranWe need to talk about racial...
Photography has always depended on the extraction and exploitation of so-called natural raw materials. Having started out using copper, coal, silver, and paper—the raw materials of analogue image production in...
In The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion, curator and critic Antwaun Sargent addresses a radical transformation taking place in fashion and art today. The featuring of the...
When Rebecca Perry was growing up, she competed nationally and internationally as a trampolinist. This immersive and compelling book deftly blends memoir and lyrical nonfiction to explore a time she...
'Groundbreaking . . . a scintillating, intellectual investigation into black women and the very serious business of our hair, as it pertains to race, gender, social codes, tradition, culture, cosmology,...
Proprietary algorithms, secret data troves, and inscrutable systems rule the day. How is this registered in art? In Poetics of Encryption Nadim Samman explores works that highlight the hidden dimensions...
This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good illustration. The Illustration Idea Book presents 50 of the most inspiring approaches used by masters of the field...
Driving the Human is a catalyst for experimentation, shaping sustainable and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach. This publication documents all...
å falle mellom stoler by Jelsen Lee Innocent is a project that encourages a discourse that surpasses the aesthetic of ethnic integration as proof of racial progress in Norway. In...
Your Lips Are Wet With Venom by Vicente Mollestad reflects on love, intimacy and sex as something inseparable from politics, history, capitalism, class, assimilation, power, colonialism. Dehumanization. Racialisation. Etc. 'These...
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....
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...
'Amongst the millions of palm trees in Los Angeles there is one that stands out: The Exposition Park Palm Tree. Having been moved three times within its lifetime, the palm...
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...
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...
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...
A speculative catalog that shatters the classic genre of artist monograph and embraces interpretation and fiction as an elemental part of an artist's biography. The book has contributions in 6...
The Blood and Body is a collection of poetry by multidisciplinary artist Nubia Yasin. Family photos, surreal illustrations, and Yasin’s own unique voice as a self described First Generation Somali-Southern...
A new anthology bringing together ten artist commissions and twenty-two texts from Autograph’s commissioning programme Care | Contagion | Community — Self & Other.Initiated during the first national lockdown in...
From iconoclastic writer and musician Adele Bertei comes a wholly original hero's journey that wages war on the cliché of the “misery memoir.” Set in a 1960s and ’70s American...
This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to...
What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things? Affinities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is...
In these essays, the acclaimed artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey often begins with a daily encounter – with a photograph, a memory, or a passage from a book – and links...
This is a unique and important collection of interviews with contemporary sound artists who use field recording in their work. From its early origins in wildlife sound and in ethnographic...
Small Press activity arises from the need and resolve for a critical alternative to mainstream publishing. It is a search for its own methods of producing and making available. Often...
What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New York’s thriving underground...
Echo’s Bones is a public art project led by Sarah Browne with autistic young people in North County Dublin. It borrows its title from an unpublished story by Samuel Beckett...
In today’s digital era, women’s voices are heard everywhere—from smart home devices to social media platforms, virtual reality, podcasts, and even memes—but these new forms of communication are often accompanied...
Enfleshed: Ecologies of Entities and Beings brings together practitioners, thinkers, and artists from across Eurasia to collectively explore multispecies ecologies. The volume reflects anthrodecentric and embodied approaches to collaboration and...
A singular achievement, Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes explores, with immense care, profound questions about loss, pain and beauty; private memory and public monument; art; complexity; and the shapes of Black...
Employing the concept of an anarchic organisation of cinematic spaces, the author embarks in this volume on a journey toward an imaginary political trope for the cinema of the present...
Following on the widely read The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, which explored how museums are changing through conversations with today’s generation of museum directors, New York-based author and...
The photobook visually and materially contextualises arrangements of photographs and brings them into a sensually tangible form. The book format, the materiality of the paper, and the type of binding...
'Not just a game of two halves: with half-time, injury time, extra time and a penalty shoot-out included, this long-unavailable, richly detailed account of English soccer does credit to a...
‘Something maybe catastrophic has happened to the relation between the body and language. The body ceases to measure where you are. The body is no longer a matrix of the...
“Aodán McCardle’s language experiments expose the malign purposes of the language of reality-managers, they also seek what the wall of their language makes it hard to express—such as love, what...
'This 8th edition of Bob Cobbing’s 1965 ground-breaking polylingual sonic abecedary unites Jennifer Pike Cobbing’s cover design for its original publication as Sound Poems with the typeset text of later...
Charles Baudelaire explodes with raw noise and pulsating typography into the contemporary metropolis. No other versions in English have achieved the vitality of Sean Bonney's. This new edition features an...
Above the Leaders, written in 2006, is a set of Paris poems -- almost-adventures, visitations, paranoias, the exquisite, outrageous language of l'étrangère. A complicated relation of identity to the city,...
Curating has evolved into much more than creating interesting exhibitions, promoting artists, and caring for artworks: in this millennium, art and business are fused, transforming capitalism from the inside out....
There is widespread consensus that we are living at the end—of democracy, of liberalism, of capitalism, of a healthy planet, of the Holocene, of civilization as we know it. In...
