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...
Between 1970-73 tenants throughout Ireland stopped paying rent in protest against rent increases, poor housing conditions and a rising cost of living. Their eventual victory was described in The Irish...
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...
Upping the Anti is a radical journal of theory and action which provides a space to reflect on the state of political organizing in Canada. It is a volunteer-run movement...
This second publication in the Exchange Series, Dublin Exchange responds to a specific moment in the city’s architecture history. In 2021, architect Niall McCullough (1958–2021) died. McCullough was one of...
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...
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...
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...
The photograph is not just an image but an event, one in the longer sequence of a photographic moment. Challenging given definitions of photography and of the political, Ariella Aïsha...
This publication was conceived on March 15, 2021, when more than one hundred thousand people marched across Australia in a series of March 4 Justice protests calling for gender equality...
During the past half-century, contemporary art practices, theories and criticism have engaged intently with notions of the postnational. Nonetheless, the presence of the nation-state and nationalisms in art history remain...
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 It borrows its title from an unpublished story by Samuel Beckett...
Who decides what happens after sex? The last decade has seen many significant changes to the laws governing women’s reproductive rights around the world, from liberalisation in Ireland to new...
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...
The act of translation is concerned with the slippages, peculiarities, and mysteries of language. Particularly with poetry, readers are invited into a whole new world of meaning and possibility, and...
Radical! Women and the Irish Revolution is a pamphlet of poems, images, translation, and research notes created by Julie Morrissy. The pamphlet is a result of Morrissy’s time as the...
Lighting the Archive, which went online in 2020, is an open-ended series of conversations with artists like Annette Kelm, Elfie Semotan, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Ulrich Wüst about photographic techniques, structures...
In this groundbreaking work, Ariella Azoulay thoroughly revises our understanding of the ethical status of photography. It must, she insists, be understood in its inseparability from the many catastrophes of...
Open your eyes to a new world view with 100 women and nonbinary photojournalists’ stories from behind the lens. 85% of photojournalists are men. That means almost everything that is...
Curator Conversations is a collection of interviews with leading curators working within contemporary photography today. It offers precious insights into key modes of thinking behind the curatorial practices that have...
The augmented reality work "Mixed Signals" consists of scannable watercolors that unfold a lively dimension on the mobile phone. The thick cardboard pages of the book are perfect for this....
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....
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...
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...
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...
In 1896, at the age of 35, Henry Howard Holmes, whose real name was Herman Webster Mudgett, became the first serial killer in the United States, confessing to dozens of...
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 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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
What is the future of the book? And, specifically, what is the future of books on art, design and architecture, and cultural-critical publications? We asked a large number of international...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Cheat Sheet by Júlía Hermannsdóttir candidly documents debilitating auto-immune illness with generosity, directness and dark humor. Júlía was just 22 years old and still in university when her body mysteriously...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This booklet, published in 2023 by Common Ground, Create and Half Letter Press, traces the richness and diversity of artist Kate O'Shea's response to the Just City Counter Narrative Neighbourhood...
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,...
This handful of interviews originated at A Corunha (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico. In 2012 the festival directors asked me to accompany Peter Kubelka during his time at the festival,...
A lot of people think that for a good picture it is enough to buy an expensive camera and then success will be guaranteed but without careful studying and many...
Commissioned by Clare Gormley for TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and edited by Stephen Connolly, The World Was All Before Them features new work by seven writers: Simon Costello, Dane...
This toolkit is a guide for photographers who would like to make photographic projects for young people or simply just consider them in the making. There are 10 considerations listed...
This limited edition publication has been produced on the occasion of the 2021 TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, curated by Eoin Dara. The publication comprises a small folio of intimate...
In the Black Fantastic assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora that embraces ideas of the mythic and the speculative. Neither Afrofuturism nor Magic Realism, but inhabiting its...
Foreign Exchange: Conversations on Architecture Here and Now presents new nine new essays that respond to the online conversation series, which took place during one of the most turbulent periods...
Presenting a diverse geographic and ethnic selection, the What They Saw anthology interprets historical photobooks by women in the broadest sense possible: classic bound books, portfolios, personal albums, unpublished books,...
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...
Figure-ground perception is the cognitive mechanism through which we apprehend our surroundings, isolating the figure – the words on the page, the features of a face, the lines on a...
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...
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...
Kitty, the cute and mute cartoon protagonist of Hello Chaos, a Love Story: The Disorder of Seeing and Being Seen, embarks on an ill-fated endeavour to win the eyes of her estranged...
We know that celebrities can make great muses: think of the work of Richard Phillips, who has painted an entire series of works inspired by Lindsay Lohan, Robert Pattinson, and...
Back to Basics: A Guide to Ecological Photo Chemistry marks a pivotal moment in photography's journey towards sustainability. Crafted with meticulous attention to environmental impact, it's not just a guide...
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...
Reduced due to water damage on cover An essay on the specificity of its subject. In order that Les Nymphéas might be accommodated in the Musée de l’Orangerie in 1927,...
A text describing a scene for an imaginary film set on the Aran Islands
Published by Coracle PressEdition of 300Letterpress wrappers inserted in plastic sleeve8 pages145 x 90 mmISBN 0906630126
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...