Chasing the ghost, the traces of oblivion, and the echoes of what was and no longer is, the book Omen is a revision and reframing of the fraction of the photographic archive of the Farm Security Administration (1935-1944) hosted at the New York Public Library. That program—perhaps there is no need to add—was one of the milestones of modern documentary photography and instrumental on the constructing a hegemonic narrative—one mainly about triumph against adversity, division and catastrophe of the recent history of the United States and their social order.
But stressing the gaze over that monumental set of images, scrutinizing at the corners of the pictures, at the backgrounds and details; in the secondary characters, in what should not be there, on what appears by chance, accident or error, it is possible to discover a different narrative: a more thick, murky, troubled, complex, contemporary and contradictory one. Like both a shatter and an apex: an omen, a premonition of the genealogical continuity of the many, tumultuous, visible and invisible, thunderous and silent, systemic violences that make up the face of the American society.
A book that at the same time serves as a black mirror of the distressing reality of the United States in our days, and as a device for reflection on the way historical and documentary photography is read and understood, taking the editorial eye to its ultimate consequences.
2021
348 pages
17 x 23 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
60 USD
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Fernanda Laguna practices, with the grace of a witch, the creation of spaces. From her realms, unimaginable beings, or chimeric and mundane whatnots, come out. She is a demiurgic gnostic who impulses the void by multiplying the hours and filling them with humble works of anti-art that boast of the wastes of imagination turned into form At the same time, her ethics are ecological and economical. She has traversed the great waters in the same way that someone traverses the incapable Argentinian (meaning human) crisis'. She enjoys the gift of attraction: scenes, contexts, meninas, eras, cats... all gravitate towards her. And with her subtle and light body, she lets herself be attracted too, orbiting, like a lost wanderer, around the cosmic salons. The water within her overflows rivers, with an energy that spreads... Fernanda Laguna doesn't write, she invokes.
2021
72 pages
Spanish
8 cm x 10.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
5 USD
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Available for shipping until March 15th 2021
Fernanda Laguna practices, with the grace of a witch, the creation of spaces. From her realms, unimaginable beings, or chimeric and mundane whatnots, come out. She is a demiurgic gnostic who impulses the void by multiplying the hours and filling them with humble works of anti-art that boast of the wastes of imagination turned into form At the same time, her ethics are ecological and economical. She has traversed the great waters in the same way that someone traverses the incapable Argentinian (meaning human) crisis'. She enjoys the gift of attraction: scenes, contexts, meninas, eras, cats... all gravitate towards her. And with her subtle and light body, she lets herself be attracted too, orbiting, like a lost wanderer, around the cosmic salons. The water within her overflows rivers, with an energy that spreads... Fernanda Laguna doesn't write, she invokes.
2021
48 pages
Spanish
8 cm x 10.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
5 USD
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Available for shipping until March 15th 2021
“It was for the sake of the protection of content tropicalization, so in vogue throughout the seventies (not so much in terms of appropriation, as of revalidation as a place in the world) and, following the traffic policies and representation of the word as a place, or better yet, as a non-place, that I put to work the construction, or destruction, or even better, de-construction of Ladera Este by Octavio Paz. Thinking of France, the other English, and national diplomacy, the last vestige of the great internationalist ilusion sold by the gringos as a result of the bomb, of which we became an extension for better or worse, during a post-war that spread as butter on bread until the sixties. This is the book of an illustrated tourist, a version that extends his submission to the submission of the one next to him: it’s not Rudyard Kipling, but it is as if it were. It´s not coming only from France, but rather from the Mexico that comes from France, seeing the correspondence between two worlds, in which it shines as a satellite of privilege appropriating the other”.
2021
88 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
This book was made with the support of the Sistema de Apoyos a la Creación y Proyectos Culturales (Fonca), through the program Fomento a Proyectos y Coinversiones Culturales, 2019
Guided by reflections on historiography, sexuality and an experimental jewelry fantasy, artists Berke Gold and Isaac Olvera created a visual and written essay, around their casual drifting and coexisting in Nuevo León –a northern state with one of the biggest GDP in Mexico.
Mugres Regias accompanies a set of sticky sculptures to put into your fingers, wore by the artists at all time to collect debris and filth from the environment during their drifts. The usage of the sticky sculptures were a metaphor to a specific Jew literary tradition, as well as a compositional resource to make the images of this book, directly from the ruso graph machine plate.
2021
64 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
This book was made with the support of the Sistema de Apoyos a la Creación y Proyectos Culturales (Fonca), through the program Fomento a Proyectos y Coinversiones Culturales, 2019
Between 2017 and 2020, the Aeromoto public arts library in Mexico City organized a monthly series of bilingual readings. The gatherings, called Salón de belleza (Beauty Salon), brought together more than 70 poets and writers from many generations, contexts, and traditions, predominantly from Mexico and the United States, but also from various parts of Latin America and Europe. In these events, translation was used to bridge linguistic and cultural gaps between poets separated by political borders, and helped to create a space in which literatures of different origins and approaches could coexist. The result of this collective initiative was a unique cross-section of some of the most intriguing writing taking place in the Americas during the second decade of this century. Salones de belleza: Writers in Aeromoto gathers work from these writers—in a completely bilingual edition—many of whom are appearing in translation for the first time.
2021
456 pages
Spanish/English
17 cm x 23 cm
Printed in Offset
In coedition with
Wolfman Books,
Aeromoto
and UNAM
Retail Price
28 USD
ISBN: 978-607-98763-5-7
978-607-30-3920-8
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“I made these pictures last May (2014) during a drive around rural northeastern Indiana, near where I was born. I stopped at the cemetery where my grandparents on my mother’s side are buried, and where my (still living) parents already have headstones with their names and dates of birth on them. It’s a pretty remote location, surrounded by a lot of farmland. All around the cemetery are these manicured evergreen shrubs. I’ve always been amused by their intense presence — comforting and watchful, but also mysterious, impenetrable, and dark. I spent about 90 minutes quickly photographing as many of them as I could (trying not to draw attention to my behavior). Looking at them later, they seemed like a twist on Sontag’s comment that ‘all photographs are memento mori.”
2021
56 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
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Monoblock, Poems and texts without eloquence by Juan José Gurrola constitutes the first installment of a series of five volumes that will compile a selection of the poetic production of Gurrola. Although his contributions to the dramatic world are widely recognized, his poetic work has been little investigated and little disseminated, despite being vast and prolific.
2021
76 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
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In Pleasures, Mario Bellatin interweaves fiction and poetry, mysticism and corporeality, death and the pristine. Both visceral and surreal, Pleasures explores a world inhabited by death, a spotless world dominated by liquids, where cleanness reigns supreme. Narrative threads emerge from the sea of images—a young philosopher in search of a sacred dog, Pedagogue Boris and Teacher Virginia, in charge of a school that children attend to die, a tour guide who steals from her clients, a paraplegic dog trainer devoured by his subjects. In its depths, Pleasures investigates the necessity to write and the possibility of a new form of writing that can redeem this world. With his masterful touch, Bellatin builds a literary universe that is both connected to his previous work and radically original.
2021
108 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
ISBN: 978-607-98763-6-4
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En Placeres, Mario Bellatin entrelaza ficción y poesía, misticismo y corporeidad, la muerte y la pulcritud. Tanto visceral como surreal, Placeres explora un mundo habitado por la muerte, un mundo impecable, dominado por lo liquido, donde la limpidez es suprema. Del mar de imágenes surgen hilos narrativos —un joven filosofo en búsqueda de un perro sagrado, el Pedagogo Boris y la Maestra Virginia, custodios de una escuela donde acuden los párvulos para morir, una guía turística que se roba las pertenencias de sus clientes, un entrenador de perros parapléjico devorado por sus sujetos. Las identidades fluyen, las realidades se mezclan, las historias desaparecen y vuelven a aparecer. En su fondo, Placeres investiga la necesidad de escribir y la posibilidad una nueva escritura que pueda redimir este mundo. Con su toque magistral, Bellatin construye un universo literario a la vez conectado con su obra previa, y radicalmente original.
2021
108 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
ISBN: 978-607-98763-7-1
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Desde que, según dicen, la “palabra se liberó” —como si las mujeres hasta ahora hubiéramos sido extraños animales que no estábamos dotados de lenguaje y que hubiéramos aprendido a hablar de repente, váyase a saber por qué— los representantes del antiguo régimen sexual están nerviosos, tan nerviosos que ahora son ellos los que se van quedando sin palabras. Quizás por eso, los señores del patriarcado colonial han decidido echar mano de su libro de historia necropolítica para arrojarnos a la cara el insulto que —qué curiosa proximidad— siempre tienen más a la mano: ¡nazis!
2021
64 pages
Spanish
8.5 cm x 10.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Coedition with miau ediciones
Retail Price
5 USD
ISBN: 978-607-98763-3-3
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Miau ediciones 🔥️💥️💚 is an editorial Spin-off of Gato Negro Ediciones, an independent feminist publishing project that will work mainly with women and non-binary artists, writers, illustrators, editors and creators. This project will be focused on various spectra such as theory, political and social situation, graphics, photography and artist’s books, among others. We believe it is urgent to fight for equality and the eradication of violence against women, trans people, genderqueer and non-binary identities
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Ever since, or so they say, “language was liberated”—as if we women had always been strange animals unequipped with the faculty of speech and then we’d suddenly learned to talk; who knows why— the representatives of the old sexual regime have been nervous, so nervous that they’re the ones who are now being left at a loss for words. Perhaps that’s why the lords of the colonial patriarchy have turned to their book of necropolitical history for the insult they always have most readily at hand—what a curious proximity—so they can hurl it into our faces:
Nazi!
2021
64 pages
English
8.5 cm x 10.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Coedition with miau ediciones
Retail Price
5 USD
ISBN: 978-607-98763-4-0
*This edition has multiple covers.
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Miau ediciones 🔥️💥️💚 is an editorial Spin-off of Gato Negro Ediciones, an independent feminist publishing project that will work mainly with women and non-binary artists, writers, illustrators, editors and creators. This project will be focused on various spectra such as theory, political and social situation, graphics, photography and artist’s books, among others. We believe it is urgent to fight for equality and the eradication of violence against women, trans people, genderqueer and non-binary identities
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Lo que caracteriza al arte masculinista y a los hombres que lo hacen es la misoginia
—y de cara a la misoginia, alguien tiene que reinventar la integridad—. […] Renuncio al arte masculinista.
2021
68 pages
Spanish
11.5 cm x 16.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Coedition with miau ediciones
Retail Price
15 USD
ISBN: 978-607-98763-2-6
*This edition has multiple covers.
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Miau ediciones 🔥️💥️💚 is an editorial Spin-off of Gato Negro Ediciones, an independent feminist publishing project that will work mainly with women and non-binary artists, writers, illustrators, editors and creators. This project will be focused on various spectra such as theory, political and social situation, graphics, photography and artist’s books, among others. We believe it is urgent to fight for equality and the eradication of violence against women, trans people, genderqueer and non-binary identities
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On October 18, 2019, the Chilean people woke up and took to the streets to claim for 30 years of injustices and for profound changes to recover their dignity. The posters of this revolution begin to circulate around the world. Artists who have chosen anonymity to work today are mobilized for a change, printing and pasting their work in the streets of Chile. Today in our country printing is resisting.
This publication
includes works of:
Acabsuki
Accelerationism
Editorial Warehouse
Aribel Gonzalez
Bestiary
Camil Barral
Owners
Echiza
This is a fanzine
Great black
Hail
Editorial Hunger
José Luis Artigas
Heavy Metals
Nico Gonzalez
Nicolás Hormazabal
Graphic Offensive
Overalls
Terrible service
Thyme
Total 90
Zuni Zines
2020
98 pages
Spanish
41.5 cm x 26.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
50 USD
Two chains of portraits that are read in the opposite direction; on the one hand, famous Mexicans who flood the press with their faces; on the other, portraits taken at random of countless disappeared in Mexico that flood their posters, posts and street walls. It seems that some are made to make others invisible.
2015, 2020
96 pages
17 cm x 23 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
100 USD
You make rock candy by supersaturating boiling water with sugar, dropping a string into it, and letting it cool. This is what Jerónimo Rüedi (known best as a painter) has done in his books, but by dropping his mind into our world supersaturated with images and information. And instead of candy we get something sweeter than those crystals of pure sugar: books that —in how they shit on false prophets; in how they weaponize dark humor against globalism’s fatally accelerating greed; in how they damn the very foundations of how we make sense of our world— remind us to ground our lives in the parts of the world that haven’t been sold off yet, that still, in the face of it all, prioritize real attention. Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously is a primer on how to break apart the platitudes of one’s time in order to piece them together again in a radically new vision, based on personal convictions rather than passive consumption. Whether you’re Steve Jobs or Aristotle, sleep with one eye open: you’re not making the sense you think you are.
— Kit Schluter
2020
96 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
20 USD
Mother, We All Have Been Lonely and Lovely Places serves as a trajectory of personal history, narrating the various stages of female dependency in a patriarchal landscape. As the book intimately examines emotional and sexual behavioral patterns of relationships that (re)formulate in accordance to the inevitable process of aging, its readers not only witness adopted gender performativities within society, but gradually begin to notice the universal longing to unearth purpose in hopes of outgrowing human loneliness.
What does it mean
to cum on my face
in the name of love?
Second Edition, 2020
First Edition, 2018
112 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Offset
Retail Price
20 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97969-0-7
Written in braille, Tercera Persona is a discussion that takes place between ‘him’ and ‘her.’ The reader witnesses a conversation of misunderstandings, the impossibility that is communication and everything quotidian.
Veronica Gerber Bicecci (MexicoCity, 1980) reduces language into a less complex framework, so everything we cannot understand — but that which haunts us everyday — becomes again what it actually is and always was.
2014, 2019
32 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Will Antonewsky get away from the clutches of the terrible Zetas? Will he find young Arthur?
But first, what is the role
of the enigmatic Mme. Belmont in this Machiavellian entanglement?
2019
96 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Special edition of 20 copies. Produced during a residency at the Frans Masereel Centrum as part of the Logocide, Logotomy, Logophagy project: Creation, experimentation and reflection of nonsense: Logocide as a subversion tool.
Parts of the contents of this publication were taken from the works and art of our dear friends, authors and collaborators:
Eduardo Arias
Julián Barón
Alejandro Cartagena
Andrea García Flores
David Horvitz
Arturo Hernández Alcazar
Gabriela Jauregui
Juan Pablo López Quintana
Phyllis McGibbon
Jerónimo Ruedi
Alfonso Santiago
Candela Sotos
Sara Uribe
Dani Zelko
Alice Zukofsky
Also words and poems were borrowed from the work of:
Marcel Broodthaers
Hanne Darboven
J. E. Eielson
Roberto Juarroz
Oswaldo Lamborghini
César Moro
Octavio Paz
Logocide:
Process of creation, problematization, production, questioning speculation, definition and indefinition around this series of premises. Destruction of the nonsense of logocide as a subversion tool. Speculative exploration of the possibilities of nonsense, visual, textual, printed exercises, etc.
2019
164 pages
Spanish / English
40.5 cm x 26.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
400 USD
"Since the early 2000s, I have been making daily photographs with digital cameras. Each day this archive of digital files would grow bigger. I had no intention to exhibit these.
In 2018, in a culture over-inundated and amassed with photographs (mostly digital) and with eroded attention spans, I decided to start erasing my photo archive. This erasure became an art-work I titled it NOSTALGIA. The passages in this book are descriptions of a selection of digital photographs that have
been deleted."
—David Horvitz
Erasure. Memory. Forgetting.
Data. Archives.
2019
120 pages
English
23 cm x 17 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
40 USD
New Edition!
The photographs in this book are part of the photographer Alberto Flores Varela's archive and most of them were taken at the request of the Cuahtémoc y Famosa Society, an institution created in 1918 by Cervecería Cuauhtémoc, founder of the modern Monterrey. It should be remembered that the context of those years was one of revolution. The business elite was totally threatened by the addition of labor rights contained in the new constitution of 1917, and which included the right to strike.
2019, 2021
72 pages
English-
Spanish
23 cm x 17 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
20 USD
*Available for shipping May 15th
In 1972, Ulises Carrión produced his first artist’s book SONNET(S) which consists of a 44 variations of a sonnet by Dante Gabriel Rosetti titled “Heart’s Compass”. Using the language as a material, Carrión writes Rossetti’s poem over and over again on a typewriter, in slightly different versions. This book today is considered Carrión’s first ‘artist’s book’, where he still uses language, but quite differently. In 2009 Michalis Pichler, in a similar approach but using a computer, mostly Word or Open Office, created 44 new variations and published a book titled SOME MORE SONNET(S).
UNCANNY SONNET
2019
96 pages
English
23 cm x 17 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
20 USD
ISBN: 978-3-86874-024-0
My name is Rommel Jaimes Mendoza, I am a public writer in the Plaza de Santo Domingo and I was invited by Centro de la Imagen to do a work of writing sentences that evoke experiences of violence.
The participants of this event, coming from different cities of Mexico and Colombia, were: Abril Martínez, Aldebarán Solares, Antonio Falcón Villalobos, Bruno Bresani, Cynthia Grandini, Diana Cortés, Estefanía Pecero, Jazmín Calvillo Palomino, Julián Barón, Juliana Andrea Henao Alcaraz Kendy Rivera, Laura Castellanos, Luis Andrade, Luis Daniel Saldaña Alvizo, Natalia Lopera, Omar Zambrano Guevara, Rodrigo Ramos, Tom Griggs and Viridiana Florentti.
This publication is the result of the International Workshop Being a book taught by Julián Barón, as part of the activities of E.FOLIO.002, Second Meeting around the Contemporary Photobook at the Image Center.
2019
80 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
*This edition has multiple covers.
Check the images slidehow to the left.
Compendium of images in open confrontation: politicians placing first stones facing people protesting, throwing stones. An exercise on the constant erosion of solids as materialization of power and stone as the first and last tool.
Second Edition, 2019
First Edition, 2014
72 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
*This edition has multiple covers.
Benjamin’s arguments against the reproducibility of image retake the importance of digitalization that exists today. “It would therefore be wrong to underestimate the value of such theses asa weapon. They brush aside a number of outmoded concepts, such as creativity and genius, eternal value and mystery” —WalterBenjamin.
#Foreword
#DigitalReproducibility
#Limitation
#DemolitionofCommodity
#MarketandPolitic
#ExchangeValueandUseValue
#DataFile
#DataFileandInternetasArt
#InternetandTestPerformance
#TheOnlineUser
#ClaimtobeOnline
#OldAuthorandNewAuthor
#ReceptionofPaintings
#MickeyMouse
#Conceptualisms
#TactileandMental
#AestheticsofWar
2019
34 pages
English
10.5 cm x 8 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
5 USD
*Available for shipping until May 15th
David Horvitz lists 80 ways of how to steal a book. Every method supposes a new poetic adventure: from the very practical, to the witty, to the imaginative and romantic. In collaboration with Edition Taube, this project is a work of translation that documents the process of publication. It has been published in eight languages; each publication received its corresponding language-editor.
Hide the book inside a fake rock.
2019
34 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Offset
Coedition with Edition Taube
Retail Price
10.99 USD
ISBN: 978-3-945900-22-2
Reunion are various acts that involve conversing, reading and writing; quotidian yet strange acts that always implicate being next to one another. Zelko writes down poems that others dictate to him. After completing his homework of how to listen and how to write, he edits the books within the next coming days. In a round of nine people, the writings are presented to the author’s neighbors, friends, and family. The writer reads his poems; he listens to himself while he is being heard by others.
The second part of the project consists of an extension of the first project, in other places. In a round of nine chairs, the writer’s poems are read by spokespeople, emissaries who lend their bodies, eyes and voices. It is a chain of situations and encounters: subjects dictating and reading, reading and writing; books and poems. All these are actions and proceedings in order to be together.
This edition, titled North Border, was realized between September 2017 and October 2018, taking place in Mexico, USA, and Canada (Tijuana, Veracruz, Texas, Florida, New York, Princeton and Toronto). The cover’s photograph was taken just before the presentation of Maritza’s book. Maritza read her poems aloud to her caravan friends. Then they gave away some books to people who passed by, and walked to the USA in order to seek political asylum.
2019
204 pages
English
23 cm x 17 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
20 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97969-9-0
Reunión son varios actos que involucran conversar, leer y escribir; actos cotidianos y a la vez extraños, que implican siempre estar junto a otro. Zelko escribe los poemas que otros le dictan. Después de cumplir su tarea como escucha y como escriba, edita los libros en los días siguientes. Los libros son presentados ante los vecinos, familia y amigos del escritor en una ronda de nueve personas. El escritor lee sus poemas, se escucha y es escuchado por los demás.
La segunda parte del proyecto consiste en una extensión de los primeros actos en otros lugares. Los poemas de los escritores son leídos por portavoces, emisarios que prestan su cuerpo, ojos y voz para leer en una ronda de nueve sillas, los poemas de los ausentes. Una cadena de situaciones y encuentros, sujetos dictando y leyendo, un escriba y un escucha, libros y poemas. Acciones y procedimientos para estar con los otros.
Esta edición, titulada Frontera Norte, fue realizada entre septiembre de 2017 y octubre de 2018, en distintos lugares deMéxico, Estados Unidos y Canadá, entre ellos Tijuana, Veracruz, Texas, Florida, Nueva York, Princeton y Toronto. La fotografía de la portada expone la presentación del libro de Maritza, realizada el 29 de abril en “La Línea”, paso fronterizo entre Tijuana y San Diego. Maritza leyó su libro junto a sus compañeras de caravana, luego regalaron ejemplares a las personas que pasaban por ahí y caminaron hacia Estados Unidos a pedir asilo político.
2019
204 pages
Spanish
23 cm x 17 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
20 USD
Buildings are not empty containers awaiting their inhabitants. They are composed of a large and ever-changing array of objects. During construction, prioritizing certain objects — like walls, floors, roofs, etc. — limits appropriation itself. In order to increase the opportunities of appropriation, objects that are traditionally dealt with by architects to encompass the possibility of object — such as a wall, sink, chair —would need to be augmented.
2019
44 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97969-5-2
Chronicle of a long night.
2019
168 pages
English
17 cm x 23 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
40 USD
This sampler set from Ithaca Press are books of experimental writing and cross-disciplinary work from Ithaca University’s MFA program. The Image Text Ithaca initiative at Ithaca College brings together an independent press, ongoing workshops and symposia, and a low-residency MFA program at the intersection of writing and photography. Integrating theoretical and conceptual studies with intensive creative practice, the program seeks to create a community that brings photography and writing into a shared arena of discussion, including, but not limited to, cross-disciplinary and collaborative work. This approach evolves out of the intensive creative interactions featured in our previous ITI Workshops, where writers and photographers, both emerging and established, gathered to share and make work in an open, experimental and playful environment.
Coedition with Ithaca Press.
2019
32 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
10 USD
This sampler set from Ithaca Press are books of experimental writing and cross-disciplinary work from Ithaca University’s MFA program. The Image Text Ithaca initiative at Ithaca College brings together an independent press, ongoing workshops and symposia, and a low-residency MFA program at the intersection of writing and photography. Integrating theoretical and conceptual studies with intensive creative practice, the program seeks to create a community that brings photography and writing into a shared arena of discussion, including, but not limited to, cross-disciplinary and collaborative work. This approach evolves out of the intensive creative interactions featured in our previous ITI Workshops, where writers and photographers, both emerging and established, gathered to share and make work in an open, experimental and playful environment.
Coedition with Ithaca Press.
2019
32 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
10 USD
This sampler set from Ithaca Press are books of experimental writing and cross-disciplinary work from Ithaca University’s MFA program. The Image Text Ithaca initiative at Ithaca College brings together an independent press, ongoing workshops and symposia, and a low-residency MFA program at the intersection of writing and photography. Integrating theoretical and conceptual studies with intensive creative practice, the program seeks to create a community that brings photography and writing into a shared arena of discussion, including, but not limited to, cross-disciplinary and collaborative work. This approach evolves out of the intensive creative interactions featured in our previous ITI Workshops, where writers and photographers, both emerging and established, gathered to share and make work in an open, experimental and playful environment.
Coedition with Ithaca Press.
2019
32 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
10 USD
This sampler set from Ithaca Press are books of experimental writing and cross-disciplinary work from Ithaca University’s MFA program. The Image Text Ithaca initiative at Ithaca College brings together an independent press, ongoing workshops and symposia, and a low-residency MFA program at the intersection of writing and photography. Integrating theoretical and conceptual studies with intensive creative practice, the program seeks to create a community that brings photography and writing into a shared arena of discussion, including, but not limited to, cross-disciplinary and collaborative work. This approach evolves out of the intensive creative interactions featured in our previous ITI Workshops, where writers and photographers, both emerging and established, gathered to share and make work in an open, experimental and playful environment.
Coedition with Ithaca Press.
2019
32 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
10 USD
This sampler set from Ithaca Press are books of experimental writing and cross-disciplinary work from Ithaca University’s MFA program. The Image Text Ithaca initiative at Ithaca College brings together an independent press, ongoing workshops and symposia, and a low-residency MFA program at the intersection of writing and photography. Integrating theoretical and conceptual studies with intensive creative practice, the program seeks to create a community that brings photography and writing into a shared arena of discussion, including, but not limited to, cross-disciplinary and collaborative work. This approach evolves out of the intensive creative interactions featured in our previous ITI Workshops, where writers and photographers, both emerging and established, gathered to share and make work in an open, experimental and playful environment.
Coedition with Ithaca Press.
2019
32 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
10 USD
This sampler set from Ithaca Press are books of experimental writing and cross-disciplinary work from Ithaca University’s MFA program. The Image Text Ithaca initiative at Ithaca College brings together an independent press, ongoing workshops and symposia, and a low-residency MFA program at the intersection of writing and photography. Integrating theoretical and conceptual studies with intensive creative practice, the program seeks to create a community that brings photography and writing into a shared arena of discussion, including, but not limited to, cross-disciplinary and collaborative work. This approach evolves out of the intensive creative interactions featured in our previous ITI Workshops, where writers and photographers, both emerging and established, gathered to share and make work in an open, experimental and playful environment.
Coedition with Ithaca Press.
2019
32 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
10 USD
This sampler set from Ithaca Press are books of experimental writing and cross-disciplinary work from Ithaca University’s MFA program. The Image Text Ithaca initiative at Ithaca College brings together an independent press, ongoing workshops and symposia, and a low-residency MFA program at the intersection of writing and photography. Integrating theoretical and conceptual studies with intensive creative practice, the program seeks to create a community that brings photography and writing into a shared arena of discussion, including, but not limited to, cross-disciplinary and collaborative work. This approach evolves out of the intensive creative interactions featured in our previous ITI Workshops, where writers and photographers, both emerging and established, gathered to share and make work in an open, experimental and playful environment.
Coedition with Ithaca Press.
2019
32 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
10 USD
This sampler set from Ithaca Press are books of experimental writing and cross-disciplinary work from Ithaca University’s MFA program. The Image Text Ithaca initiative at Ithaca College brings together an independent press, ongoing workshops and symposia, and a low-residency MFA program at the intersection of writing and photography. Integrating theoretical and conceptual studies with intensive creative practice, the program seeks to create a community that brings photography and writing into a shared arena of discussion, including, but not limited to, cross-disciplinary and collaborative work. This approach evolves out of the intensive creative interactions featured in our previous ITI Workshops, where writers and photographers, both emerging and established, gathered to share and make work in an open, experimental and playful environment.
Coedition with Ithaca Press.
2019
32 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
10 USD
In a landscape where the technologies governing our lives are increasingly obscured, this publication aims to reveal the underlying processes of a machine learning program. It seeks to mediate the “gaze” of the machine and human comprehension. The book documents the technical capabilities of an algorithm trained to analyze the formal patterns of the alphabet while it imagines other letters from that knowledge.
The resulting outputs — letters without semantic value — embraces and emphasizes the meaningless results of the machine: it is the human input and framework that imbues “sense” to these forms. Combining expository exercises with surreal typographic characters, Latent Space: Notes on Seeing Letters Like a Machine is a grounding text on the mechanics of machine learning and a visual celebration of formal possibility.
2019
140 pages
English
23 cm x 17 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
30 USD
Domestic Orbits is a speculative essay that explores how the domestic space is configured around orbits of exclusion that shape the trajectories of domestic workers. How is the space articulated according to gender, class, or race? Organized through a series of case-studies that range from 1950s until today’s Mexico City, the book looks at the different scales in which domestic labor gets erased by architects and planners.
It reads the architectural plans of five well-known projects, giving a perspective that aims to highlight social and economical relationships. Domestic Orbits sketches a counter-history of modern architecture, questioning the duality that exists between the visible and invisible — those who count, and those who don’t.
When I had my daughter, I asked my boss if she could live with me and she said no because the house isn’t big enough. The room we sleep in is very small, so I haven’t been lucky enough to live with her.
2019
36 pages
English
40.5 cm x 26.5 cm
Printed in Offset
Coedition with instituto de investigaciones independientes and IF Publications
Retail Price
15 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97969-7-6
In 1984, when Jean Genet was preparing the edition of his most important articles, he chose to start with a text that did not belong with the rest of the collection. The Declared Enemy — which would become the title of Albert Dichy’s reference edition of Genet’s articles and interviews from 1964 to 1986 — was written in Tangiers the same year that Genet was invited to encourage support and bear witness to the repression suffered by the Black Panther Party (1970). Bouchra Khalili’s The Radical Ally is a visual and textual investigation on the work she undertook in Twenty-Two Hours (2018).
She follows Genet’s traces during his stay with the Panthers, and questions what remains of the party’s political memory. Through other important voices, Bouchra interrogates the different layers of history that have engulfed the struggle for liberation to which the characters in her video have committed their lives to. In this publication, we explore the position of the radical ally as the reverse of the declared enemy. To become the radical ally, as Khalili reminds us in her interview with Jackie Wang, Genet had to destroy the white man in him.
It is a form of resistance,
reclaiming history from the power.
2019
84 pages
English
40.5 cm x 26.5 cm
Printed in Offset
Retail Price
15 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97969-6-9
Nonverbal is a book of drawings in which animals, everyday objects and parts of the body serve as short narrations that communicate physical sensations without words. Employing a similar economy that is writing, the content considers the lyrical genre, paralinguistics and the overall language of cartoons. Due to such close proximity to literary creation, the drawings are read as poems, jokes or refrains.
2019
72 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
2016-2019
48 pages
10.5 cm x 8.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
5 USD
Imagen divina, by Chilean photographer Toro Goya, presents twenty images as allegories of different Latin American countries; each transvestite nation is exhibited as the portrait of the maiden of the family, locked in the midst of the symbols and historical conflicts that has characterized it.
2018
20 pages
40.5 cm x 26.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
50 USD
In La manzana no espera, the Argentinian poet and artist Ricardo Carreira (1924-1993), member of “Tucumán arde” collective, experiments with the boundaries of words— a space that escapes common language so it may liberate sound; where purpose and image get to be experienced as if it were the very first time; but as well as space that demonstrates a game’s mechanism — the active margin that opens like a semantic whole in-between them.
2018
72 pages
Spanish
23 cm x 17 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
20 USD
*This edition has multiple covers.
The Spanish neologism “Pocha Nostra” can be translated into “our impurities” or “the cartel of culturally-betraying bastards”. It is an attitude against art and society: interracial, cross-trans-or-post-national, polygendered, post-ultra-retro-experimental, neoindio, or a remix of the same or nothing. And so what? What’s the problem? After all, national states are dysfunctional and outdated.
We claim a border/less America in
the largest sense of the term. We
live in the South of the North,
and in the North of the South.
2018
48 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97599-8-8
Songs of Songs by the Mexican artist Frosh Samo, is a new illustrative version of the Old Testament which intends to reinterpret the games given to King Solomon, King David, and his friends.
2018
36 pages
English
23 cm x 17 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
25 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97969-4-5
The line, the lie, and the lice is a book of divination that is governed by one idea: all complex ideas are composed of simple ideas. Two ideas: if everything can be reduced to a simple idea, why do I understand less and less every time? Three ideas: due to distraction, refraction or hyper simplification. Four ideas: error — neither the one or the other, but something much worse.
2018
74 pages
10.5 cm x 8.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
5 USD
The book collects unpublished photographs that the American artist Zoe Leonard has taken along the Rio Grande (or Río Bravo) in 2017. As well, it includes commissioned texts by the Mexican poet and activist, Dolores Dorantes, who has been exiled to the UnitedStates for years.
It is an immersion into the physical context, the actual barrier; the very heart of the border between Mexico and the US: the waters of the Río Bravo or Rio Grande. A number of figures appearing in the water recall something else though: skin, scars, wrinkles, genitals, the writing of an unknown language.
It is a visual-textual attempt of conversationthat explores the tensions between thesimple, ever-changing but continuously-fluidflow of water, and all the terrible complexitiesaround, above and beneath it.
We were power, or we were once.
The water isn’t an attribute of your
circumstances. Crossing over isn’t
an attribute of your circumstances.
2018
156 pages
English-Spanish
23 cm x 17 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
50 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97969-3-8
Already by nature, manifestos are necessarily tied to time. For Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, time is a raw material that can only be released from its obligations and contracts by means of acceleration. If Newton lived in these dark times, he might have reformulated his laws based on the concept of accelerationism.
2017
60 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97450-4-2
In more than 1400 laconic arguments, the Argentinian Malena Pizani describes an artist’s process of becoming. The statements— lacking verb in each sentiment — depict an artist that is petrified between two moments that for now does neither act, nor do, nor execute, nor intervene. It only thinks of itself, or sees itself through the gaze of the other.
An artist who looks out of the corner of his eye / An artist who looks out of the corner of his eye and also eavesdrops / An artist who looks out of the corner of his eye and makes comments in passing so that everyone else will hear / A mean-spirited artist / A dark energied artist / A dark-energied who has power / A dark-energied artist who has power and distributes it among other dark-energied artists.
2017
112 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Offset
Retail Price
15 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97599-3-3
Written as an essay, An Attempt at a «Compositionist Manifesto» points toneeding a manifesto in form of genre and contemporaneity. Using The Communist Manifesto as a model, Latour constructs a manifesto using the different meanings of the word “compose” in order to think about a new world: one that is composed and decomposed into heterogeneous elements. For the author, the manifesto is the world’s composition that we need to imagine.
2017
60 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97450-5-9
The alphabetical order implies an act of reinvention. Abraham Cruzvillegas recuperates the alphabetical order in order to organize a series of projects that otherwise would cause confusion.
Brief
Works of art are moments in the long-term development of ideas and production. Exhibitions and projects are reports on this development.
2017
44 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97450-2-8
In this book, Doris Sommer, Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University, proposes an array of semantic neologisms in order to understand the new dynamics of our world that is in constant acceleration; how to create new ideas and new construction tools. It is a double invitation: on the one hand, it develops definitions that articulate an interdisciplinary lexicon. On the other, it suggests missing words. It is vital for the new lexicon’s intuitions to move into public discourse.
Color
Structural element in the Renaissance of Tirana, Albania, Edi Rama.
Common sense
Intersubjective agreement based on aesthetic judgment, Immanuel Kant.
Connectionist
Agent who fosters collaborations, Pedro Reyes.
Constraints, hard and soft
Imposed and also chosen conditions of rational choice, Jon Elster.
Distribution of the Sensible
Range of access to and production of art, Jacques Rancière.
2017
36 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97599-5-7
Written in 1992, Zoe Leonard’s I Want a President enunciates a revolutionary manifesto. She demands “a dyke for president / a person with AIDS / a fag for vice president”. We really hope it happens someday. Above all, we are convinced here is where it starts.
[…] and layed off
and sexually harrassed
and gaybashed and deported.
2017
32 pages
English
10.5 cm x 8.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97450-8-0
In her manifesto, the young Mexican author Gabriela Jauregui thinks about the blood-soaked war of drugs. Simultaneously, she proposes a communal organization, a resistance against individualism and isolation. As a type of game, Jauregui borrows words from other manifestos. The result is a manifesto-remix, unleashing a different and new political potential.
Call out loud
Vivid and violent ideas
To your blushing
We shout the
obscenities
2017
36 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97599-6-4
Combahee River Collective, an African-american feminist collective, presents a testimony of the reflective work since the1970s in the United States. The book discusses four major topics: the genesis of contemporary black feminism and the particularity of this very policy; the problems and the history of the collective; the black feminist practice and their issues. As feminists and lesbians, they know that sexual politics under patriarchy is pervasive in black women’s lives, as well as the politics of class and race.
We will discuss four major topics in the paper that follows: (1) the genesis of contemporary Black feminism;(2) what we believe, i.e.,the specific province of our politics; (3) the problems in organizing Black feminists, including a brief her story of our collective; and (4) Black feminist issues and practice.
2017
44 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97599-1-9
Autoerotism Exercise:
1) Subjects were visited at the location they have chose to take the photographs.
2) The camera was mounted on a tripod and synchronized to work remotely: the camera shot photographs at fixed intervals of time.
3) Subjects were left totally alone with the camera and thus were able to direct, select wardrobe and choose the duration of their sessions. They also had the choice to stop the sequence and restart it as many times as they required.
4) When they were finished, the equipment was recovered.
2018
84 pages
17 cm x 23 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
25 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97969-1-4
Ciudad sin nombre does not designate a specific problem in a particular city, but rather a condition of the megalopolis: indefinable spaces that challenge any possibility of delimiting, defining or limiting them. Images and abysmal landscapes of the margins of Mexico City..
2018
48 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Sample of the following Latin American fruits: avocado, banana, banana sandwich, zucchini, carabolo, curuba, date, peach, granadilla, guatila, ginger, kiwi, lemon, lulo, tangerine, common mango, flip flop handle, passion fruit, melon, orange , papaya, banana, cucumber, sanagua, watermelon, tomato, tree tomato, grape and carrot.
2018
48 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
A riddle book searching for answers in a hidden world defined through architectual landscapes in our mind. There are roads leading to secret treasures, inquiring the ultimate philosophical question of our origin and the self. Square by square, word by word, page by page, we are left to solve the riddle and its mystery. Or are the diagrams architectual maps of long forgotten places?
Magma
Woman
Place
God
Nature
Musical
2018
64 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
The deliberate use of merchandising strategies in presidential campaigns and governmental communications have in the past decade sought out ways to close the gap between the people and their candidates or government officials. The epitome of such strategies can be found in one section of the official web site of the Mexican presidency entitled “My picture with the President”. Now six years into his devastating presidency, it seems clear that the only thing president Enrique Peña Nieto has been interested in all along was looking his best with his fans.
Militares ejecutaron a los 22 civiles de Tlatlaya, acepta PGR; pero sólo 3 de 8 van a juicio
2018
60 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Coedition with Chaco Books
Retail Price
15 USD
On June 19th 2016 in the Nochixtlán community in Oaxaca, Mexico, a confrontation happened between the federal police and a group of people protesting against the educational reform deployed by the government of Enrique Peña Nieto. This confrontation left 8 people dead and over 108 people injured. Specialists concluded in their opinion that most of these deaths were caused by firearms.
Utilización de armas de fuego
o de fuerza letal:
A efecto de controlar la resistencia violenta agravada de una persona, siendo la última y extrema posibilidad cuando no sea factible la utilización de otro nivel de fuerza o en su caso que hayan sido inoperantes los anteriores niveles.
2018
32 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Coedition with Chaco Books
Retail Price
15 USD
This visual archive is shaped by photographs taken since the year 2010 from the evening newspaper P.M., published in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The brutal images of corpses and dismembered bodies have been meticulously eliminated with a rubber eraser, generating an accumulation of waste that alludes metaphorically to the ashes of a life that is no longer here.
GRACIAS A LA SANTA MUERTE
POR FAVOR CONCEDIDO
2018
64 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Coedition with Chaco Books
Retail Price
15 USD
On November 3, 1995, the population
de Río Tercero had breakfast with a series of powerful explosions from the military factory established in that town in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, which generated a shocking shock wave and a rain of thounsands of burning war materials over the entire city.
2018
32 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Coedition with Chaco Books
Retail Price
15 USD
This is the diary of a curious, unsettled Athenian. The daily register of an overworked documenta employee. The notes of a bewildered art enthusiast. This is a memoir—a documentary—an anecdote—a flashback. And a dissonant guide to a so-called «hot» city and its residents, as they encountered or reacted to a major art event. All photos and quotes presented in this book were found and collected from documenta 14 press material, exhibition reviews, online blogs, social media, and the streets of Athens and Kassel.
Documenta dares to paint sheep with the blue colour of our homeland.
—Zoe Konstantopoulou
2018
64 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
A Dangerous Obsession - A dangerous obsession is the result of a meeting in Los Angeles between several Mexican and American artists, conducted by the Bikini Wax collective; a book that gives an account of the current problematic relations between both countries and the consequences of the commercial opening, by means of thorough texts about anecdotes and daily practices. Free writings under very diverse genres (chronicle, poetry, essay, story) composed following the experimental method that distinguishes Bikini Wax.
The form of this writing is recovering traumas.
2018
48 pages
Spanish-English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
"Something is moving beneath the surface of the land. It´s a rabbit digging rapidly a hole along the countryside. The bunny gets out of the hole and opens up a map to check his whereabouts. He says to himself: “Let´s see now. Through Azusa, turn left at Cucamonga… till you hit Los Angeles. The straight out Wilshire Boulevard to the La Brea Tar Pits. I knew I should of taken that left turn at Albuquerque.” It´s a Warner cartoon form the nineteen forties seen once too often in my childhood, dubbed in Spanish. The left turn at Cucamonga, or more precisely, the word Cucamonga scintillated like a strange jewel, pronounced once and again, nonsensical and bombastic. I didn´t know then that it was a valley in San Bernardino. It also explains why it was used in a Warner cartoon. You´re driving down a highway in southern California and you read a sign of the next exit. You read it out loud: “Rancho Cucamonga”, you use it in a Warner cartoon, you used as a title for a concrete poetry book as nonsensical and bombastic as the word. You say the word, you inhabit the word, you make a habit of the word -any word- you choose it at random, then you choose another and another, making a sound pattern that means one thing and the next. Words run along –never moving, never standing still- between content and expression, between Deleuze and Guattari: an abstract machine, an abstract monster, an abstract."
Sense sei (mei wei)
rei -me like it ray (mondo)
belle (mondo)—el blueberry
de giraudel blue rondo la llave turca (la batería de morello el parking en bateríala pila)
2018
56 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Composition that shows the investigation and persecution of a disappeared woman by means of her hair.
The medium slips his hands inside the dress, making them come under the skirt. He takes off the stilettos from his feet and puts them on his hands. He delivers his speech like if he was remembering his own past
2018
40 pages
English
23 cm x 17 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
25 USD
In the author's eyes, the use of David Alfaro Siqueiros's mural “From Porfirism to the Revolution” in the commemorative edition of the Mexican Revolution on the one hundred peso bill represents another stage in the history of muralism. Essay on the meaning of printing a mural on a ticket.
El que reina más allá es el dinero; es este el que se comunica, y lo que falta en la actualidad no es, por cierto, una crítica del marxismo, sino una teoría moderna del dinero que sea tan buena como la de Marx y la prolongue.
2018
80 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
The act of walking always has a specific purpose: whether for work, for leisure or to save life. Detailed chronicle of different walks of the artist narrated by the strokes left by the pen on paper while she was traveling: 103 steps on Wednesday, July 27, 80 steps on Friday, July 15, 153 steps on Wednesday, July 27, 33 steps Monday, July 25 ...
2017
32 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
25 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97599-3-3
Photographs in 35 mm. in black and white, misty and blurred as the title of the libo. Manipulated images of skateboards performing stunts in large urban centers around the world.
2017
60 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
25 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97599-3-3
Traducción de Paula Abramo.
porque una mujer buena
es una mujer limpia y
si es una mujer limpia
es una mujer buena
hace millones, millones de años
se puso sobre dos patas
la mujer era brava y sucia
brava y sucia y ladraba
porque una mujer brava
no es una mujer buena
y una mujer buena
es una mujer limpia
hace millones, millones de años
se puso sobre dos patas
ya no ladra, es mansa
es mansa y buena y limpia
2017
16 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
3 USD
Chacal, by the young Mexican photographer Zuriel Bustamente shows the intimacy of the sexual relations between different young people that cross to the exit of the subway; images of desire and craving of the body in the secret.
2017
32 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97599-3-3
Exhaustive list of all causes of death registered by the Ministry of Health of México. Meticulous and exhaustive taxonomy of decease; classified by type, gender, family and circumstance. Instruments usually employed to produce a death certificate, an eloquent part of the bureaucratic codification of life and death, are here subordinated to a different aim. A critical purpose of denunciation in the context of a country, México, where over the last years people disappear by thousands —mainly as victims of necropolitical agents, corruption networks and necroeconomical agents— For these people, a registered cause of death is another stolen Right, and this book is a humble form of vindication and homage.
A00 Cólera
A000 Cólera debido a Vibrio Cholerae 01, biotipio cholerae A001 Cólera debido a Vibrio Cholerae 01, bitipo el Tor
A009 Cólera, no especificado
2017
416 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
En Obra it is a graphic memory of Mexico City that portrays the rise and decay of its modernization project until the democratic and citizen awakening through the collection of the Museo Archivo de la Fotografía. What we see here is the material of a little explored, almost unpublished file, which was protected for several decades. In it you can find images that go from the registration of infrastructure works such as water, drainage, paving, and lighting, to the transformation of public markets. It offers a look at reformatories, prisons, hospitals, fire stations, driver education programs and traffic police actions. It also shows many of the symbolic elements of power, its monuments and civic rituals. This book thus constitutes a self-portrait of the State and in it the history of the governments of the city, the birth and evolution of the urban trace intersect with the transformation of the daily life of its inhabitants.
2017
248 pages
Spanish
18 cm x 21 cm
Printed in Offset
Retail Price
30 USD
ISBN: 978-607-7611-73-8
Financial poetry created with all the author's account statements during fiscal year 2017. The poems includes all corresponding digital stamps.
COMPORTAMIENTO DE SU CUENTA SALDO INICIAL DEPOSITOS/ABONOS(+) 2 RETIROS/CARGOS (-) 6 SALDO FINAL INVERSIONES 12,550.39
2017
64 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Compilation of the messages left by the followers of President Enrique Peña Nieto on his Facebook profile after he obtained the presidency in 2012. Collection of screenshots organized in six major chapters: Greetings and congratulations, Mr President, The most Handsome President in History, A very Beautiful and very Mexican Country, The wonderful invincible PRI and A very Special Request.
“Sr. Presidente se ve bien, pero por favor resuelva todos los problemas en México, sería lo justo!”
2017
96 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Reunión is composed of various acts that involve conversation, reading and writing: daily actions –though at the same time out of the ordinary- that always involve being face to face. Dani Zelko writes down poems that others dictate to him. They dictate to him as the conversation develops and then finally ceases. After fulfilling his task as a listener and copyist, he edits and prints the books the following day. The books are presented to neighbors, family and friends of the writer in a circle of nine people. The writer reads his poems out loud, he listens to himself and the others hear him for the first time.The second part of the project consists of an extension of the first acts in other places. Writers’ poems are read out loud by spokespersons, emissaries and people who lend their body, eyes and voice to read in a round of nine chairs the poems of people who are absent. A chain of actions, subjects dictating and reading, a scribe and a listener, spokesmen and listeners, books and poems. Actions and procedures for being with others.
Una primita que nació muerta ahora tendría 9 años.
Mi tía estaba muy mal
pálida
me acuerdo cuando nos trajeron
la noticia
nos sentamos con mi mamá
debajo de un árbol
y lloramos mudo.
2017
112 pages
Spanish
23 cm x 17 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
20 USD
Reunión is composed of various acts that involve conversation, reading and writing: daily actions –though at the same time out of the ordinary- that always involve being face to face. Dani Zelko writes down poems that others dictate to him. They dictate to him as the conversation develops and then finally ceases. After fulfilling his task as a listener and copyist, he edits and prints the books the following day. The books are presented to neighbors, family and friends of the writer in a circle of nine people. The writer reads his poems out loud, he listens to himself and the others hear him for the first time.The second part of the project consists of an extension of the first acts in other places. Writers’ poems are read out loud by spokespersons, emissaries and people who lend their body, eyes and voice to read in a round of nine chairs the poems of people who are absent. A chain of actions, subjects dictating and reading, a scribe and a listener, spokesmen and listeners, books and poems. Actions and procedures for being with others.
Los que dicen que hay igualdad acá en Cuba es porque sólo existe entre ellos, entre los que lo dicen. Viene de arribala orden de decirlo, viene del gobierno y de los ricos, no del pueblo.
Pero son sólo palabras.
Sólo hay igualdad entre los que dicen que hay igualdad por eso ellos pueden decir que hay igualdad y nosotros
no podemos decir que no la hay
2017
114 pages
Spanish
23 cm x 17 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
20 USD
A book about everything but soil; silence, noise, memory, oblivion, mathematics, labyrints, quantum physics; the channel of the rivers and the memory of its music: the evaporation of things and the Solar System; the migration of seagulls and the broken relationships…
2017
60 pages
Spanish
17 cm x 23 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
25 USD
There is a physical city and a lived city, transited. Each step in it names the individual as a plural being, A wall, a camera, and a gaze inhabiting the space. Between public and private is the description of those who set up and shape a city. That transit reveals the individual states of who in front of the camera tells us about himself and who looks at them, selects and builds his own narrative of the city. Series of photographs taken in 2007 in front of the wall of the Supreme Court of Justice, Mexico City.
2017
96 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
25 USD
The Mexican photographer based in Berlin, Dante Busquets, has traveled the around the world doing, among other things, portraits of mannequins. The dummies. Who are these people? How did they end up like this? Are they our friends or our enemies? Whatever it is, many of these subjects?, objects?, reveal to the camera an inner life that is deeper, more intense and complex than that of many humans...
2017
36 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
It is not a reflection is a setting
the territory of continuity of meaning
broken (depending on whether it is one or the other) by chance that it is also destiny
the white of the dice and the squares
the rest of the plot
(The board
the dice in ancient times
were teeth
they were relatives
so small)
2017
56 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
A photo essay about the ecology of evil in contemporary Mexican cities and, by extension, in the cities of the underdeveloped world. A road movie turned into a massive book that portrays the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez, the industrial city bordering the United States, which became one of the most dangerous places in the world. A portrait, maybe not of one of the unintended consequences of the neoliberal globalization project, but perhaps the portrait of the project itself.
Each Muñoz Santini’s image documents in an excellent way the disaster and the extreme of a State of Things: modest houses that are built as a bunker (with windows painted on the walls to evoke another way of life); Constructive projects made beforehand to be abandoned; Ghosts of the victims of feminicide in the evocation of the leaflets that pray for them in the posts; Car graveyards and junk in both degraded art; Desolation of ruins, irons, monuments, tires, bricks that constitute open-air questions that nobody answers.
—Sergio González Rodríguez
2017
406 pages
17 cm x 23 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
50 USD
On September 19, 2017, a 7.1-magnitude earthquake occurred on the Richter scale at 1:14:40 p.m. in Mexico City. The epicenter of the telluric movement took place in Puebla-Morelos, 120 kilometers from the city. The earthquake occurred the same day as that of 1985. Some of the people who are part of the book lived the previous one; others were not yet born.
Luego estamos acá de nuevo
y fue el temblor y niu niu niu niu
y se movían las casasy al bebé lo cargaron
y no lloraba.
Él sólo llora
cuando tiene hambre.
2017
100 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Mexico is jazz, taxi rides, museums known as glass pyramids, shopping, the men of our race: progressive jazz with a Brazilian constructivist batuque. Horácio Costa, Antipepinismo's first sword, is also a poet, translator, essayist, and university professor.
2016
32 pages
Spanish, Portuguese
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
The proliferation of internet cafes seemed at one time a necessity, however, as they were built, they quickly showed the contradictions that the private use of the internet and the exhibition of being in full view posed. Henry Osman, a young American writer, was surprised by this activity that still exists in Mexico, which has a certain connection with the public desks of yesterday.
HOW DOES IT FEEL
TO BE WATCHED?
2016
32 pages
E
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Selection of all the definitions about the Mexican that appear in The Labyrinth of Solitude, one of the most popular books on the subject. An enumeration of all the theses on the Mexican in that book, which on many occasions remained unproven.
El mexicano no solamente postula la intrascendencia del morir, sino la del vivir.
2016
68 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
A poster portrait of the six-year term of Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) through all the covers of the magazine Proceso, which documented the war against drug trafficking and the consequent evolution of violence; a characteristic condition of Mexican institutions, just like the National Anthem that accompanies the publication.
Mexicanos, al grito de guerra
El acero aprestad y el bridón
Y retiemble en sus centros la tierra.
Al sonoro rugir del cañón.
2016
12 unfolding posters
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Intrusive thoughts are unwanted, involuntary thoughts, unpleasant images or ideas that can become obsessions that are difficult to manage or eliminate. The life plant cycle starts all over again is a two-voiced reading exercise where these thoughts are interrupted, meet, disappear and at the same time desperately seek meaning. Life, death and what's left in between. With illustrations by Andrea García Flores.
The planRigorts store the sugar in the romortisots anstartsd stem. The rotoot systsetem continuesin to deThevelop, anpurplingchoring theof planthet intskino andthe gropoolingund aofnd growblooding root hacontinueirs.
2016
48 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Criminal process of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, against Don Carlos, main Indian of Tezcuco. Historical document written just eighteen years after the conquest of Tenochtitlán, in which the grandson of Netzahualcóyotl addresses the newly born nobles of New Spain as if they were macehuales, among other important things.
En 1539, 18 años después de la destrucción de México y en el mismo año que llegó la primera imprenta, fue juzgado por idolatría Don Carlos, cacique de Tezcoco, hijo de Netzahualpilli y nieto de Netzahualcoyotl. El juicio que presentamos le costó a la Santa Inquisición, por orden de la corte imperial de Carlos V, la expulsión temporal de México durante el siglo xvi. ¿Qué fué lo que tanto le molestó al primer obispo de la Ciudad de México e inquisidor apostólico, Fray Juan de Zumárraga? ¿la idolatría del acusado o su rebeldía frente a la iglesia? ¿y cuál era la prisa por dictaminar un juicio sin darle una nueva oportunidad de defensa?
2016
108 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Novel.
(from it. novella, news) 1 f. Literary work in prose in which imaginary but plausible events are narrated, linked in a single action that develops from the beginning to the end of the work. Bulletin, bulletin.
Antinovel. *Literature. Literary genre that constitutes these works.
2016
80 pages
17 cm x 23 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
25 USD
Extracts and gathers all the questions that appear in the works of the Argentine writer Osvaldo Lamborghini. Inquisitive questions to exasperation that just like a modern Socrates end up leaving us devoid.
¿De quién son estas manos?¿Cegarme?
¿Pero es que estamos en Grecia, acaso en la Inglaterra Isabelina, acaso con todos los ecos, las resonancias melo melodías de la poesía de Shakespeare y de Donne, o es que acaso éramos tiernos niños de pecho?
¿Qué fecha es hoy?
2016
64 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Photographs of linked bodies, portraits of one skin tied to another, gestures of folds, expression of the desires occupied in holding on to another, accompanied by poems by Juan Pablo López Q.
2016
24 pages
Spanish
41.5 cm x 26.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
50 USD
In front of the cul-de-sac of reality, some find roofs, but others dig a tunnel, a hole, a conduit, a hole, a hole, an opening, a gap, an access, a hole, a loophole, a ditch, a furrow or a pit to escape.
2015
32 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Sequence of snapshots stitched together as ancient metaphysical reflections on man's place in the world. Observation of handprints.
2015
32 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Sequence of snapshots stitched together as ancient metaphysical reflections on man's place in the world. Scrutiny of the sky, the stars, the stars and destiny.
2015
32 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Sequence of snapshots stitched together as ancient metaphysical reflections on man's place in the world. Inspection of the forest, jungle, branches, leaves and foliage.
2015
32 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Study on the condition and disappearance of monuments in the city. How does that which exists intentionally to be seen become invisible? How can something be visible and invisible at the same time? To remain is to disappear?
2015
36 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Saturated photographs of couples dancing or hugging like burning coals amid apocalyptic landscapes. Current versions of "constant love beyond death", baroque snapshots of modern cities in ruins or already in the process of destruction.
2015
24 pages
17 cm x 23 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
25 USD
With The Book of Pleasures, Vaneigem puts before himself, by means of the notion of pleasure, the old idea that usury destroys man and, from joy, builds a devastating text of our society erected at the opposite extreme. This essay shows a much more propositional side of situationism, which is dissipated by means of a less judgmental style before an a priori: pleasure.
Intense pleasure means the end of exchange in all forms
2015
52 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Meteorite's main and last mission is to reap tremors. Taking ownership of the cabañuelas, an ancient method of predicting the agricultural cycle, a group of personalities never assembled and scattered across the globe, build from observation and reflection on the environment, a calendar of omens that points out and foresees collisions criticism in some cases, seasons of tremors in others, violent revolutions or migrations of birds and capital. Meteorite is mutant, seasonal and each number corresponds to the seasons of the year. The number of members participating in it is as uncertain as their identities. Meteorite is adherent to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle and has proven affiliation with Pataphysics.
2015
96 pages
English /Spanish
12.5 cm x 18 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
100 USD
Meteorite's main and last mission is to reap tremors. Taking ownership of the cabañuelas, an ancient method of predicting the agricultural cycle, a group of personalities never assembled and scattered across the globe, build from observation and reflection on the environment, a calendar of omens that points out and foresees collisions criticism in some cases, seasons of tremors in others, violent revolutions or migrations of birds and capital. Meteorite is mutant, seasonal and each number corresponds to the seasons of the year. The number of members participating in it is as uncertain as their identities. Meteorite is adherent to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle and has proven affiliation with Pataphysics.
2015
96 pages
English /Spanish
12.5 cm x 18 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
100 USD
Meteorite's main and last mission is to reap tremors. Taking ownership of the cabañuelas, an ancient method of predicting the agricultural cycle, a group of personalities never assembled and scattered across the globe, build from observation and reflection on the environment, a calendar of omens that points out and foresees collisions criticism in some cases, seasons of tremors in others, violent revolutions or migrations of birds and capital. Meteorite is mutant, seasonal and each number corresponds to the seasons of the year. The number of members participating in it is as uncertain as their identities. Meteorite is adherent to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle and has proven affiliation with Pataphysics.
2015
96 pages
English /Spanish
12.5 cm x 18 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
100 USD
María Sabina is an art book that consists of three parts: the photographic series that Gusmano Cesaretti made in 1982 during his ten-day stay at the curandera's house; a testimony in which he narrates his experience with entheogens known as holy children and a selection of photographs from said series intervened by the artist that convey aspects of an experience that is difficult to communicate with words. In this account, the rich images of the Italian photographer help to fill empty spaces in the myth of the wise old woman.
La mujer águila dueña
mujer de pensamiento
¿lo que mira hacia dentro
es distinto de lo de afuera?
¿O distinto es el modo de mirar?
2015
48 pages
Spanish
18 cm x 24 cm
Printed in Offset
Retail Price
30 USD
ISBN: 978-607-516-690-2
"I am like an waiting apple." In this indolent tone, Kayal Ahmal recalls the history of her wandering nation, which she compares to Adam before Eve's arrival. The memory of the Kurds, in his opinion, is rocky, it seems to have never begun; However, she talks about what a woman, in the midst of a history of spoil and massacre, feels; feels after giving birth, after falling in love or in the middle of a divorce, to be able to think of something different.
¡Tú, extraña!
Estoy segura de que eres una sandía.
No sabré cómo eres realmente
hasta atravesarte como un cuchillo.
2015
36 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
"At dusk, an angel dressed in black / came towards me / my poetic world, and said to me: […] —to be silly!, Write your letter in Arabic, nobody speaks Kurdish here / and so we will not pass it on to God ”-. In Marea de tormentas Shirko Birkas builds a world where the pagan elements of nature are desired, pursued and seduced, while men contemplate their objects and remember that life begins and ends on earth: the rest is a testament .
Si quitas las flores de mis poemas, una de mis cuatro estaciones morirá.
Si les quitas el viento, dos temporadas morirán.
Si quitas el pan, tres temporadas van a morir.
Si les quitas la libertad, todo el año morirá y yo también.
2015
36 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Excursion through Los Licenciados, a neighborhood in the suburbs of Ciudad Juárez, where each street humiliatingly bears the name of some political representative with a bachelor's degree. The landscape replicates from street to street, abandoned, demolished, impoverished and dismantled houses that exhibit the bullshit of the administrators and leaders of a city destined for the assembly of large foreign industries.
2015
24 pages
40.5 cm x 26.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
50 USD
Misery villas with names of renowned Mexican politicians surround Mexico City and spread throughout the territory. A panoptic display of modernity made of cement, a monoblock and a gray partition, poverty and the cradle of misfortunes, Lic. Colosio makes an almost non-stop tour of these marginalization satellites, a product of bad modernity. Open signs of the architecture of corruption that operates in that country (does it still exist?) called Mexico.
2015
32 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
50 USD
*Last 7 copies
Contemporary interpretations of the ancient postural art, as many ways to enjoy, variants of dominating or being subdued as in the arena of a stunt circus; Contortions and recognizable home customs for everyone, except for the history of ideas.
Aunque me cueste la vida
2015
32 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
With texts by Luis Ramaggio, a visual investigation around the huacal, a very popular instrument that by its use and structure contains and exhibits principles of Mexican identity and culture ... "The cosmogony of Mexicans is the conclusion of agglomerations. Each element is there, not as the product of an ontological progression or the result of a conceptual evolution; almost everything ‘got there.’ ”
Miro el huacal; formulo la pregunta: ¿qué hiciste con la memoria?
2015
48 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
8ez Steps by renowned artist and photographer Gusmano Cesaretti, is a reprint of a book he originally published in 1972 with Art Povera, LA Photo Book. In the style of the conceptual works of the seventies, this work takes as its pretext the process of depilation told in eight steps to reflect on the relationship between man and his tools.
By creating a series of eight images that reveal a progression in time (six photos of the mons veneris of the model from the moments prior to shaving to fully shaven, and two photos of the instruments used: shaving brush, razors, and scissors) Cesaretti’s sequence generates a forward temporal movement in its successive depiction of stages of a process.
–Drew Hammond
2015
24 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Limited edition of eight copies of a selection of the waste used in the printing of the more than one hundred books of Gato Negro Ediciones.
2015
96 pages
Spanish /English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
50 USD
Series of photographs taken from the press of fallen monuments, fallen heroes, withered periods, vandalized colossi; statues of a history inscribed in the cities as a cemetery of impositions.
2015
32 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Talk about the disappearing faces; adolescents from the long and wide Mexican territory.
2015
32 pages
40.5 cm x 26.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
50 USD
Everything burns. The cultivated fields, the mountains, the dead scattered everywhere, the buildings. Oil wells and plains burn, raising a building like plumes of smoke. Bonfire geology, geopolitics of what nothing remains.
2015
32 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
150 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
Set of five essays written with the distinctive speed of the author, who does not seem to stop to consider philosophical minutiae or fine literary details, but everything that his writing can distinguish. Using five specific themes: horses, cities, soft drinks, measures or the Mediterranean, judge history as if today were the last day.
Ruidoso y agradecido el perro: el escalofrío de esas miradas húmedas, casi humanas, de un perro agradecido. Haragán y cínico el gato: horror de su alma de sombra y de sus pasos que no hacen ruido. Y la sensación viscosa de la piel floja. Si no fuese por el caballo, no sabríamos lo que es amor de animal.
2015
64 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Selection of proverbial thoughts in El hijo del Ahuizote, a satirical newspaper from the beginning of the 20th century that denounced the abuses and injustices of the Porfirio Díaz government. More than a century away, there are calls still in the air against reluctant Mexican politics.
Volvemos al combate como siempre hemos vuelto después de cada golpe.
2015
24 pages
Spanish
10.5 cm x 8.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
5 USD
Counting of objects and words, associations created by the coincidence of private life with public life; transitory encounters of things and concepts that might go unnoticed but worth re-observing and rethinking to deduce other principles.
2015
32 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
University poems without a degree or diploma, research hypotheses, work plans, ideas, notes, machinations and entanglements of speculative intrigue.
Toco la puerta
y no abres la puerta
—toco y no abre la puerta
tocando
toco y no abres la puerta.
Abro la puerta y no estás
2014
48 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Why did you shoot me? it is a sculpture in the strictest sense of the term. A solid question impacted by the firing of a medium caliber weapon. It is, perhaps, a hard and forceful statement about fear and about the loss of the freedom to ask, to know. It is a book about the vulnerability of the book itself and the possibility
–nullified– of being replicated.
Why?
2014
48 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
50 USD
Mexico is jazz, taxi rides, museums known as glass pyramids, shopping, the men of our race: progressive jazz with a Brazilian constructivist batuque. Horácio Costa, Antipepinismo's first sword, is also a poet, translator, essayist, and university professor.
Nossas casas individuais
Nossas vidas
Ah, imprecisas
Nossas memórias
2014
48 pages
Spanish, Portuguese
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
The hair: the focus, the obsession, the axis, the point, the whole and the nothing. What if I loose, collected, the braid, the ponytail, the ponytail, the chongo, the height, the hanging curl ...
2014
24 pages
S10.5 cm x 8.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
5 USD
Mladen Stilinovic is one of the most notable Croatian artists of the second half of the 20th century. Actions, photographs, drawings, installations, sculptures, objects, groups, texts and meetings are part of the repertoire of his work. In this short text, The Praise of Laziness, which is nothing more than a minimal sample of his anti-systemic, revolutionary and political-aesthetic legacy, Stilinovic leaves us a manifesto-reflection on laziness and the universal right to it, as a form creative, revolutionary and anti-capitalist. A text that many contemporary artists–given heart and soul and credits to excessive productivity and efficiency– should have in mind before continuing on their stubborn path to well-behaved success.
Laziness is the absence of movement and thought, dumb time - total amnesia. It is also indifference, staring at nothing, non-activity, impotence. It is sheer stupidity, a time of pain, futile concentration. Those virtues of laziness are important factors in art.
2014
24 pages
English
10.5 cm x 8.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
5 USD
With The Book of Pleasures, Vaneigem puts before himself, through the notion of pleasure, the old idea that usury destroys man and, from it, builds a devastating text of our society erected at the opposite end of joy . This essay shows a much more propositional side of situationism, which is dissipated by means of a less judgmental style before an a priori: pleasure.
Intense pleasure implies the end of all forms of work and of all restraint.
2014
48 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Perhaps Liz Mevill is very angry, perhaps Cioran realized too late how terrible her affiliation with Nazism and nationalism, but the fact is that this compendium of portraits of enraged, rabid and almost diabolical Chihuahuas puppies, paired with sentences of the philosopher of the Carpathians, translated into Albanian, results in...
2014
32 pages
Albanian
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Adolf Loos proposes in this sharp and critical (sometimes a bit totalitarian) discourse a return to simplicity, to the essence, to the elemental form and function of design and architecture, against the ornamental excesses of Art Nouveau.
Even greater is the damage done by ornament to the nation that produces it. Since ornament is no longer a natural product of our culture, so that it is a phenomenon either of backwardness or degeneration, the work of the ornamentor is no longer adequately remunerated.
2014
72 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Hal Foster extends, with this essay, the discussion started by Adolf Loos in 1906 in his text on Art Nouveau entitled Ornament and Crime. Foster explains the current uber domination of design, incorporating, into the confusion between genres foreshadowed by Loos, the dehumanization advocated by Musil in Man without attributes, that is, the objectless subject. To understand the path that has led us from Guimard to Steve Jobs it is essential to read Design and Crime.
A world of qualities without man has arisen, of experiences without the person who experiences them, and it almost looks as though ideally private experience is a thing of the past, and that the friendly burden of personal responsability is to dissolve into a system of formulas of possible meanings. Probably the dissolution of the anthropocentric point of view, which for a such a long time considered man to be at the center of the universe but which has been fading for centuries, has finally arrived at the “I” itself.
2014
32 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Two bodies hang on a large paper surface. Armed with graphite bars, they draw what their momentum, in constant struggle with the force of gravity, traces as a circular, rough and at the same time fluid route. A choreographic, graphic and editorial work that turns logic upside down.
2014
72 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Meteorite's main and last mission is to reap tremors. Taking ownership of the cabañuelas, an ancient method of predicting the agricultural cycle, a group of personalities never assembled and scattered across the globe, build from observation and reflection on the environment, a calendar of omens that points out and foresees collisions criticism in some cases, seasons of tremors in others, violent revolutions or migrations of birds and capital. Meteorite is mutant, seasonal and each number corresponds to the seasons of the year. The number of members participating in it is as uncertain as their identities. Meteorite is adherent to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle and has proven affiliation with Pataphysics.
2014
96 pages
English /Spanish
12.5 cm x 18 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
100 USD
Through the cracks of our times, the contemporary curse was dictated by a whispering voice before the creepy becoming. It was years ago when it began to take shape and be slowly dictated like the groan of a monster buried in a mountain about to explode.
Silent, enormous spread among us, a curse dedicated to all those authoritarian and neoliberal regimes that only bring destruction and restlessness: The Others is our revenge.
We will remember you as what never should have been.
We will
completely forget you afterwards.
You are
forever damned.
2014
72 pages
Spanish, English, Portuguese
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Thought as a single poem, Espejos by Tania Carrera pursues, through fragmentation, the latent construction of an identity in equivalence: the formation of the two sides of the mirror runs parallel in time, in and out. The zero point, the point at which both sides should intersect, seems to meet and contract in the multiplicity of the broken, gnawed, fragmented, multiplied, and broken mirror.
-2
El génesis está dibujado en las pupilas,
Las tuyas, Madre, fueron mi primer espejo.
2014
48 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Manuel de Landa, is an artist, academic, writer and, in his own words, "street philosopher without credentials". Concepts such as self-organization, anti-markets, artificial life, the internet and non-linearity are so new that it is just beginning to see what they are able to show about our behaviors. A light but deep talk of the ideas that build the author's thinking of Mil años de historia no lineal.
The lines are fuzzy but only when you compare viruses with, let’s say, crystals. Crystals also grow by replication, viruses also grow by replication. In a way, a virus is just a fancy crystal. But when you compare creatures farther away from the border, say, what we call higher animals like ourselves, you can see the difference with hurricanes. The command component in the mixture increases with evolution and the higher you get in the evolutionary tree the command component increases. We call it “higher” but we are not any higher than bacteria, we just happen to believe we are special. So to use the organism as a metaphor is wrong.
2014
56 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Abdelmadjid Benjelloun, Moroccan writer, poet and historian, presents in his Aforismos, brief definitions that go to the point or that go to the neck; they leave nothing out, nothing unexplained, following the old arrangement of geometry that warns that the shortest distance between two words is happening. The whole universe fits in one word; understanding its complexity is a matter of conjugating and arguing it, alone and dry, with the stone, the sky, the streams, the men, the silences, the women, the shadow, death and the sea.
Mi muerte es un asunto entre el silencio y yo.
2014
44 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
This title has multiple covers designs.
One morning, the city of Paris wakes up and the Louvre museum is no longer there. In its place is a mountain of rubble, broken works, pieces from the museum's collection: gravel of the modern mixed with the old. The theater-performance piece by the Catalan artist Oriol Vilanova is a monologue that challenges the viewer and the bourgeois idea of culture and heritage. A long accusatory sentence dictated by a girl, by the museum itself and by Hubert Robert, who saved his head from the guillotine and after the French revolution became the first curator of the Louvre.
You are sorry.
Recordar es siempre olvidar.
Ya no vas nunca al teatro, de hecho ya estás allí.
2014
48 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
What can be after Youporn, but a trail of wonderful images: a micro world full of petit morte that parade between erect, winged and equine totems through the meadows of these small antigravity gomorons inhabited by pussy cats with round and soft buttocks, flying horse-penises and rivers of semen and slime. Choreographic vaginas wide open and a sexual-porno-erotic animalario misbehaved but delicious fruit, from the perverse hinge and the bold and delirious eye of Andrea García.
2014
40 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Wondering Where does poetry go? it involves unfolding the writing back and forth, to its future and its past; it implies reflecting on the destiny that lies ahead but also looking for the “missing link” between prose and verse, between linearity and verticality and between mouth and hand. Bernard Nöel traces this brief history from the disposition of poetry on the page, less as an anthropology of writing than as an archeology of mental spaces, place and surface of creation and perpetual emancipation.
2014
48 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Expressionist portraits drawn with nervous strokes of anxious teenagers, sorry darks, dark, enigmatic, esoteric, languid friends from the unlikely world of Carnicienta, artist, and punk maiden.
2014
32 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
A short Mexican poem, malhora, panzón
and jacaranda. A fucking Mexican poem from
a fucking Mexican poet. A poem to match the circumstances.
un poema
que ronque
que se canse
que putee
que haga algo
2013
64 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
The voice in inner exile, in metaphysical introspection, in the undulating fluidity of the words: revolving around love, daily life and the hope that rises even when the tower falls. Mahmoud Darwish, is considered the Palestinian national poet and one of the most significant contemporary Arab writers.The first lines of this book say “Write that I am Arab, and the number of my card is fifty thousand: the references and the feelings are palpable”, with this image one can clearly imagine the situation in some border. Palestinian, Mahmoud Darwish manifests, in eleven poems, his condition of exile, and from there, in the confines and at a distance, the horizon folds between absence, despair and some hope recovered.
Escribe que soy árabe,
y con mis camaradas de infortunio trabajo en la cantera.
Para mis ocho hijos arranco,
de las rocas, el mendrugo de pan, el vestido y los libros.
No mendigo limosnas a tu puerta, ni me rebajo ante tus escalones. ¿Te enfadarás por ello?
2013
52 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
A reflection on what it means to write and breathe in exile: flight, search, his position in the world, fantasy, writing as a weapon, as a defense, as a construction.
¿Por qué el escritor exiliado tendría que valerse de cualquier otra cosa, por qué habría de molestarse en vislumbrar el futuro de otra manera si a final de cuentas éste seguirá siendo impredecible? Aquel viejo caldo de cultivo le sirvió de algo por lo menos una vez: le ha ganado el exilio. Y el exilio, después de todo, es una clase de éxito. ¿Por qué habría de ser de otra forma? ¿Por qué echarle un poco más de agua al caldo?
2013
40 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
This title has multiple covers designs.
In Memorias del futuro, María Cerdá Acebrón displays in the form of a visual essay a sort of critical collage that she uses to carry out a reflection on how the historical memory of a people is kept or modified from the power and from the media; in this case that of Franco and post-Franco Spain.
2013
40 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
$150 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
A catalog of impostors and simulators to choose the one who helps fulfill a commitment, exercise the gift of ubiquity or simply get out of trouble.
Welcome to our famous School of Imposters and Supplanters. I can assure you that here you will find what you are looking for.
2013
36 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Love between women and men, thought of as a struggle, requires weapons and a strategy. Leaving her devoid of formation is as much as abandoning them to their fate in the face of an enemy that seems well prepared. Through famous couples taken from greek mythology, Ovid’s advice seeks to remedy this disadvantage, not only to seduce them, but also to enslave and deceive them; because only a woman educated in these arts will be able to find a cultivated and non-gross man who continues to fight his Iliads.
Ovidio ha dado armas a los hombres para que, en amor, luchen con las mujeres; ahora las dará a éstas para que se defiendan y, a su vez, puedan combatir contra ellos. Así, la batalla se empeñará con medios iguales, y vencerán quienes fueren alentados por Venus y Cupido.
2013
36 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Portraits of famous Mexicans that flood the press, familiar faces that seem close to us, faces built by the values that the media need: celebrity, prestige and admiration.
2013
120 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Temperamented comic: resigned child-minded characters surrender without remorse to the fight between scruples and amorality.
2013
32 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
Amapola's flowers from which opium and heroin are derived and a collection of portraits of drug traffickers adorned with mustaches. The former are sought to be transformed into illegal substances, the latter sought by the world police for their equally illegal business. What will be the relationship between flowers and mustaches? It is perhaps probable that none, however, in the landscape of the war against drug trafficking in Mexico, those with the mustache appear more times on the covers than the beautiful poppy flowers. The relationship between these two species is one: in both cases they are the most wanted.
2013
32 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
The outcome of each publication is a dialogue between reader and creator — an ecological construction of selfhood that distills collective contemplation while all we do is live.