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...
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...
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...
‘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...
'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...
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,...
In Cyberfeminism Index, hackers, scholars, artists, and activists of all regions, races and sexual orientations consider how humans might reconstruct themselves by way of technology. When learning about internet history,...
Writer Conversations offers a lively and engaging analysis of the practice of writing on photography. Composed as interviews with highly distinctive writers at the forefront of discourses and debates around...
In this collection of idiosyncratic lessons, architect and teacher Pier Paolo Tamburelli engages with the very foundations of architecture, proposing a series of new and open-ended perspectives on how we...
'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....
Where, the Mile End is Irish poet Julie Morrissy’s debut collection, embodying an energetic lyricism that whips through Europe and North America with humour, curiosity and distinct edginess. A subtle...
It has been said that we live in the golden age of the personal essay. Under the Influence extends the personal/critical essay form in terms of style, structure and approach....
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...
Site Report is a collection of poetry in prose, verse and screenplay, where windows are a lot more than panes of glass, tables have minds of their own and sinks...
Emerging from a lifelong relationship with Pieter Bruegel’s sixteenth-century painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, artist Adam Chodzko’s extensive new writing weaves a path through a vast ocean of associative...
Challenging the colonial narratives surrounding the Netflix film Against the Ice, this personal, editorial project by a present-day descendant opens-up to cultural and historical inclusion by broadening the storytelling. The...
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...
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,...
Monolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across musical, religious and subcultural frontiers. It traces the line from ancient traditions to the modern underground, navigating archaeoacoustics, ringing feedback, chest plate sub-bass,...
Dust Sucker is a remarkable new book-length poem by writer and translator Jen Calleja. Clear-eyed, expansive, and intoxicating, this exhilarating work deftly blurs disparate themes including time and mortality, communication...
The undead of contemporary painting, avant-garde populism, photography courting stupidity, fraught networking, synthetic atmospheres, displaced abstractions, and the mediation of pain: these are among the subjects treated in this collection...
A powerful intervention roundly debunking the myth of progress in racial equality - particularly in the workplace - and offering a blueprint for the future. Have you ever wondered why,...
In just half a century of growth, the art fair industry has transformed the art market. Now, for the first time, art market journalist Melanie Gerlis tells the story of...
For too long, artists have been told that they can't have both motherhood and a successful career. In this polemical volume, critic and campaigner Hettie Judah argues that a paradigm...
The private collector’s museum has become a phenomenon of the 21st century. There are some 400 of them around the world, and an astonishing 70% of those devoted to contemporary...
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...
PUNKS LISTEN is the third in a series of ‘benefit books’ from the Hope Collective, Dublin’s punk/Do-It-Yourself group. Release Date October 16 It is designed to raise funds for the...
‘In the mid-1930s, Walter Benjamin posed the question of the relation of art to the dominant representational technology of his time: photography and film. To return to the artwork essay...
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...
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...
HYBRIDS: Forging New Realities as Counter-Narrative aims to explore the new atmosphere of trans-disciplinary experimentation across divergent fields and sectors in the arts. We asked ourselves this: how is the...
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...
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...
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...
Off-the-grid from commercial galleries – selling visuals – and canonical institutions – there to support the often static national or regional identities– artists instigate grassroots cultural safe havens in order...
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...
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...
This collection of essays explores digital art in Ireland. Comprising contributions from scholars and practitioners, it examines how new media technologies are shaping the island’s contemporary artistic practices. As one...
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...
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...
Sally Stein reconsiders Dorothea Lange’s iconic portrait of maternity and modern emblem of family values in light of Lange’s long-overlooked ‘Padonna’ pictures and proposes that ‘Migrant Mother’ should in fact...
A History of Head Trauma is an experiment in short story making and presented as part of RHA FUTURES, Series 3, Episode 2. The beginning section of the book was...
“Dear Brian O’Doherty,Here is my article, short enough and I apologize; I hope you can accept him [sic] and it will be in a sufficient harmony with the issue you...
An economic and cultural revolution has shaken the photobook world in the last five years: self-publishing. An army of photographers operating as publishers have had an instrumentalrole in today’s photobook...
