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LØGÖSTÃSÌS
2021
64 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
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A language is a mountain.
A drilled land is a language that lets itself be spoken. How does the void of a mountain that is no longer sound? What sound does a system makes while it is destroyed? What happens with the languages that are no longer spoken, with the things that it stops naming and the silences it leaves behind?
The immense and intense extractive activity has left us landscapes of holes, sinkholes, and mountains of materials, extracted by extreme force and turned into garbage... Voids abandoned and species that emerge from the detritus, resisting our perception and existing there.
Arturo Hernández Alcázar invites us to reflect on the dispossession and the remains of the languages that we no longer speak and that are probably the languages of the future.
Una lengua es una montaña.
Una tierra horadada es una lengua que deja hablarse. ¿Cómo suena el hueco de una montaña que ya no está?, ¿cómo suena un sistema mientras se destruye?, ¿qué pasa con las lenguas que ya no se hablan, con las cosas que ya no nombra o los silencios que deja?
La inmensa e intensa actividad extractiva nos ha dejado paisajes de agujeros, socavones y montañas de materiales, extraídos al vómito y convertidos en basura. Vacíos dejados, especies que surgen del detrito, que resisten, existen y que, aunque no lo percibamos, son.
Arturo Hernández Alcázar nos invita a reflexionar acerca del despojo y los restos de las lenguas que ya no hablamos y que probablemente sean las lenguas del futuro.
LØGÖSTÃSÌS
2021
64 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
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Titles, dispositions, chapters and general concepts ordered by a dream; conversion of people into pedestrians, cyclists, users, motorcyclists, service providers, children, drivers and traffic officers; regulated circulation and circulated regulation; instructions imagined by a pedestrian verbally admonished by a Civic Judge; canon of good behavior lost in a nightmare; statutes written under the consumption of alcohol, narcotics, dope and psychotropics; decrees marked on the pavement at a road intersection.
The devices for the control of flow and movements, order, orient, prevent and provide a confined traffic.
Títulos, disposiciones, capítulos y conceptos generales ordenados por un sueño; conversión de personas en peatones, ciclistas, usuarios, motociclistas, prestadores de servicio, niños, conductores y agentes de tránsito; circulación regulada y regulación circulada; instrucciones imaginadas por un peatón amonestado verbalmente por un Juez Cívico; canon de buena conducta perdido en una pesadilla; estatutos redactados bajo el consumo de alcohol, narcóticos, estupefacientes y psicotrópicos; decretos marcados sobre el pavimento en una intersección de vías.
Los dispositivos para el control del flujo y los movimientos, ordenan, orientan, previenen y proporcionan un tránsito confinado.
LØGÖSTÃSÌS
2021
64 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
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This artist’s book is made up of esoteric ads on Mercado Libre as well as questions from reckless buyers. Each intervention exemplifies stories of men hidden in the anonymity of the internet to justify “out of love” their desire to manipulate and submit.
Este libro de artista está conformado por anuncios esotéricos en Mercado Libre y preguntas de compradores decididos a todo. Cada intervención ejemplifica historias de hombres ocultos en el anonimato de internet que justifican “por amor” su deseo de manipular y someter.
LØGÖSTÃSÌS
2021
64 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
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“Theory and practice appear here wisely combined, answering at all times the three basic questions that every woman asks herself when it comes to dressing elegantly and embellishing herself with sobriety:
what to do?
how to do it?
and
why to do it this way?”
“Teoría y práctica aparecen aquí sabiamente combinadas, respondiendo en todo momento a las tres preguntas básicas que toda mujer se plantea a la hora de vestirse con elegancia y embellecerse con sobriedad:
¿Qué hacer?
¿Cómo hacerlo?
y
¿Por qué hacerlo así?”
LØGÖSTÃSÌS
2021
72 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
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For this artist’ book, Betzamee used as background a book about Andy Warhol, covering its pages with white paint in order to re-write it. She took words that have a masculine grammatical gender and modified them, transforming them to female by switching the “O” to “A”. The words, by being pronounced in female, enter the social and cultural imaginary, opening up a discussion surrounding the idea of enunciating the world in female.
Para esta libra de artista, Betzamee utilizó como soporte un libro sobre Andy Warhol, cubriendo sus páginas con pintura blanca para (re)escribirlo. Tomó palabras que tienen un género gramatical masculino y las modificó para que tuvieran un género femenino (cambiando “O” por “A”).Las palabras, al ser nombradas en femenino, entran en el imaginario social y cultural, poniendo en discusión la idea de enunciar al mundo en femenino.
Feminism
2021
72 pages
Spanish
17 cm x 23 cm
Printed in RisographIn coedition with nohacernada.org
Retail Price
20 USD
Un Cachondeo Tirano comes out of Anais Vasconcelos personal diaries and work logs, proposing a form of self-knowledge that also functions as a methodology of her plastic research. Through her records, the artist dissolves the limits between private and professional life, achieving a unification between piece, archive and process. The images contained in this edition aren’t flat documents; they have a live body in constant transformation. In them, various dimensions, materials and spatialities, that have been reinterpreted to a editorial format, coexist together
Un Cachondeo Tirano parte de los diarios personales y bitácoras de trabajo de Anais Vasconcelos, proponiéndolos como forma de autoconocimiento y funcionando como una metodología de su investigación plástica.Por medio de sus registros, la artista disuelve los límites entre vida privada y profesional, logrando que la obra, el archivo y el proceso sean uno mismo. Las imágenes contenidas en esta edición no son documentos planos; tienen un cuerpo vivo que se transforma. En ellas coexisten varias dimensiones, materiales y espacialidades, que se han reinterpretado al formato editorial.
Feminism
2021
72 pages
Spanish
17 cm x 23 cm
Printed in RisographIn coedition with nohacernada.org
Retail Price
25 USD
2021
24 pages
28 cm x 21.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
$10 USD
“On December 8, 2017, in the La Boca neighborhood in Buenos Aires, the police officer Luis Chocobar murdered Juan Pablo Kukoc, an 18-year-old boy who had just stolen a camera from an American tourist. Since then, the State and the hegemonic media endorse Chocobar as a hero, and the repressive policy of the Macri government was renamed the Chocobar Doctrine.Walking through La Boca I met Ivonne, Juan Pablo’s mother. We meet one afternoon and had some Coca con medialunas. We made a book together: She spoke to me and I wrote very quickly everything she told me. Every time she breathed I wrote the next line. From that manuscript we made a fanzine that is already circulating. Against the story of state and media power, the voice of a woman sitting next to her daughter in the kitchen of her tin house.Esteban Rodriguez Alzueta, Luci Cavallero, Verónica Gago, Ileana Arduino, Dana Rosenzvit, La Negra Quinto and the Lost Toys Collective participate in this book.”
—Dani Zelko
“El 8 de diciembre de 2017, en el barrio de La Boca en Buenos Aires, el policía Luis Chocobar asesinó por la espalda a Juan Pablo Kukoc, un pibe de 18 años que venía de robarle una cámara de fotos a un turista estadounidense. Desde entonces, el Estado y los medios hegemónicos de comunicación avalan a Chocobar como un héroe, y la política represiva del gobierno de Macri pasó a llamarse Doctrina Chocobar.Caminando por La Boca conocí a Ivonne, la mamá de Juan Pablo. Nos encontramos una tarde y tomamos Coca con medialunas. Hicimos un libro juntxs: Ella me habló y yo escribí bien rápido todo lo que me dijo. Cada vez que respiró pasé a la línea de abajo. De ese manuscrito hicimos un fanzine que ya está circulando. Contra el relato del poder estatal y mediático, la voz de una mujer sentada junto a su hija en la cocina de su casa de chapa.Participan Esteban Rodriguez Alzueta, Luci Cavallero, Verónica Gago, Ileana Arduino, Dana Rosenzvit, La Negra Quinto y el Colectivo Juguetes Perdidos.”
—Dani Zelko
2021
76 pages
28 cm x 21.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
$10 USD
John Komurki’s Wörterbuch comprises a series of sparse and enigmatic texts. Resembling poetry, they are in fact abstracted from a multilingual dictionary published in Germany in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Excavated in this way from their their original context, these texts become a meditation on the ravages of war, and in particular, its impact on civilian populations; as well as a reflection on the ways in which violence deforms language.
Llena de atisbos de belleza raros e inesperados asomándose entre las ruinas, la obra de John Komurki, Wörterbuch, trata de una serie de textos abstractos y enigmáticos, dispersos, parecidos a la poesía y extraídos de un diccionario multilingüe publicado en Alemania inmediatamente después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Excavados así de su contexto original, estos textos se convierten en una meditación sobre los estragos de la guerra y, en particular, su impacto en la población civil; así como una reflexión sobre los modos en los que la violencia deforma al lenguaje.
2021
22 pages
28 cm x 21.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
$10 USD
With this publication, Barbara Foulkes opens up a conversation about the care and work surrounding the body in our culture. Using as raw material the experience of her body through its trajectory as an artist, choreographer and dancer, she invites us to measure, think and feel the questions that she asks herself, based on her experience working in a contemporary art museum, concerning the relationship between the systems of care and control that permeate the majority of exhibitions.
Con esta publicación, Bárbara Foulkes propone abrir una conversación acerca del cuidado y el trabajo del cuerpo en nuestra cultura. Utilizando como materia prima la experiencia de su cuerpo a través de su trayectoria como artista, coreógrafa y bailarina, nos invita a medir, pensar y sentir las preguntas que ella se plantea, a partir de sus experiencias trabajando en un museo de arte contemporáneo, sobre la relación entre los sistemas de cuidado y control que permean la mayoría de los espacios de exposición
2021
88 pages
28 cm x 21.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
$15 USD
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, instrumental on the constructing an hegemonic narrative; one mainly about triumph against adversity, division, and catastrophe in the recent history of the United States.
But by stressing the gaze over that monumental set of images, and scrutinizing at the corners of the pictures, at the backgrounds and details—in the secondary characters, in what should not be there, that which appears by chance, accident or error— it is possible to discover a different narrative, one that is thicker, murkier, more troubled, complex, contemporary and contradictory. Both a shatter and an apex: a premonition of the genealogical continuity of the many (tumultuous, visible and invisible, thunderous and silent) systemic violences that make up the face of American society.
A book that serves as a mirror of the distressing reality of theUnited States in our days, and, a the same time, as a device for reflection on the way historical and documentary photography is read and understood, taking the editorial eye to its ultimate consequences.
Persiguiendo al fantasma, las huellas del olvido y los ecos de lo que fue y ya no es, Omen es una revisión y reencuadre de una fracción del archivo fotográfico de la Farm Security Administration (1935-1944) alojado en la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York. Ese programa fue uno de los hitos de la fotografía documental moderna y fue fundamental en la construcción de una narrativa hegemónica —principalmente sobre el triunfo contra la adversidad, la división y la catástrofe— de la historia reciente de los Estados Unidos y su orden social.
Pero enfatizando la mirada sobre ese monumental conjunto de imágenes y escudriñando las esquinas de los cuadros, los fondos y los detalles—en los personajes secundarios, en lo que no debería estar, en lo que aparece por casualidad, accidente o error—es posible descubrir una narrativa diferente: una más espesa, turbia, turbulenta, compleja, contemporánea y contradictoria. Como un estallido y un ápice: una premonición de la continuidad genealógica de las violencias sistémicas múltiples, tumultuosas, visibles e invisibles, atronadoras y silenciosas que conforman el rostro de la sociedad estadounidense.
Un libro que a la vez sirve de espejo de la angustiosa realidad de Estados Unidos de nuestros días, y de dispositivo de reflexión sobre la forma en que se lee y se entiende la fotografía histórica y documental, llevando la mirada editorial a sus últimas consecuencias.
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”.
—Mauricio Marcin
“Fernanda Laguna practica, con gracia de bruja, la creación de espacios. De sus espacios brotan, suficientes, seres inimaginables o quiméricos y mundanas chucherías. Es demiurga gnóstica e impulsa el vacío. Multiplica sus horas y las colma con humildes obras de antiarte que se ufanan del despilfarro de la imaginación convertida en forma. Al mismo tiempo, su ética es ecológica y económica. Ha atravesado las grandes aguas como quien atraviesa las inacabables crisis argentinas, es decir, humanas. Goza del don de la atracción: hacia su ser gravitan las escenas, los contextos, las meninas, las eras, los gatos... Y ella, cuerpo sutil y leve, se deja también atraer, orbitando y divagando sin timón por los salones cósmicos. El agua de su cuerpo desborda los ríos y esa alta energía contagia.
Fernanda Laguna no escribe, invoca”.
—Mauricio Marcin
2021
72 pages
Spanish
8 cm x 10.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
5 USD
“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”.
—Mauricio Marcin
“Fernanda Laguna practica, con gracia de bruja, la creación de espacios. De sus espacios brotan, suficientes, seres inimaginables o quiméricos y mundanas chucherías. Es demiurga gnóstica e impulsa el vacío. Multiplica sus horas y las colma con humildes obras de antiarte que se ufanan del despilfarro de la imaginación convertida en forma. Al mismo tiempo, su ética es ecológica y económica. Ha atravesado las grandes aguas como quien atraviesa las inacabables crisis argentinas, es decir, humanas. Goza del don de la atracción: hacia su ser gravitan las escenas, los contextos, las meninas, las eras, los gatos... Y ella, cuerpo sutil y leve, se deja también atraer, orbitando y divagando sin timón por los salones cósmicos. El agua de su cuerpo desborda los ríos y esa alta energía contagia.
Fernanda Laguna no escribe, invoca”.
—Mauricio Marcin
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 illusion sold by the gringos as a result of the bomb, of which we became an extension for better or worse, during a postwar 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.”
“Fue al amparo de la tropicalización de contenidos, tan en boga en los años sesenta (no tanto en términos de apropiación como de revalidación como lugar en el mundo) y, siguiendo las políticas del tráfico y representación dela palabra como lugar, o mejor aún, como no lugar, que puse manos a la obra para la construcción o destrucción o mejor, deconstrucción de Ladera Este de Octavio Paz. Pensando la Francia, el inglés, pero otro, y la diplomacia nacional, el último vestigio de la gran ilusión internacionalista vendida por los gringos a raíz de la bomba, de la que nos convertimos para bien o para mal en una extensión, y que durante una post-guerra que se extendió como mantequilla sobre el pan hasta los años sesenta. Se trata del libro de un turista ilustrado, una versión que extiende su sometimiento al sometimiento del de junto: no es Rudyard Kipling, pero como si lo fuera. No sólo viene de la Francia sino del México que viene de la Francia, viendo las correspondencias entre dos mundos en los que brilla como satélite de privilegio, apropiándose del otro.”
—Ricardo Pohlenz
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 their reflections on historiography and sexuality, proposed as an experimental jewelry fantasy, artists Berke Gold and Isaac Olvera created a visual and written essay surrounding 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 finger sculptures worn by the artists to collect debris and filth from the environment during their drifts, functioning as a metaphor to Jewish literary traditions, and working as a compositional resource that was utilized directly on the risograph plate.
Guiades por la fantasía de la joyería experimental, la reflexión sobre la sexualidad y la historiografía, les artistes Berke Gold e Isaac Olvera proponen un relato visual y escrito, en torno a sus casuales derivas y convivencias en Nuevo León.
Mugres Regias acompaña a un conjunto de esculturas para los dedos de la mano, que en todo momento fueron empleadas para recolectar detritos del medio ambiente, debido a su pegajosa superficie. Con ellas vinculan las derivas a tradiciones literarias del judaísmo y fueron empleadas para realizar las imágenes impresas en el libro, directamente desde la plancha de la máquina risográfica.
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.
Entre 2017 y 2020, la biblioteca pública Aeromoto en la Ciudad de México organizó una serie de lecturas bilingües. Los encuentros, llamados Salón de belleza, reunieron a más de 70 poetas y escritores de diversas generaciones, contextos y tradiciones, casi todos de México y de los Estados Unidos, aunque también de varias partes de América Latina y Europa. En las lecturas, la traducción se utilizó para zanjar las brechas lingüísticas y culturales entre poetas separados por fronteras políticas y para establecer un espacio donde las literaturas de diversos orígenes y estéticas pudieran coexistir. El resultado de esta colaboración fue una muestra representativa de algunas de las expresiones literarias más intrigantes que han tenido lugar en América durante la segunda década de este siglo. Salones de belleza: escritores en Aeromoto reúne, en una edición totalmente bilingüe, el trabajo de estos escritores, muchos de los cuales aparecen en traducción por primera vez.
2021
456 pages
Spanish/English
17 cm x 23 cm
Printed in Offset
In coedition with
Wolfman Books,
Aeromoto
and UNAM
Retail Price
39.90 USD
ISBN: 978-607-98763-5-7
978-607-30-3920-8
“All photographs are memento mori”.
“Todas las fotografías son memento mori”.
—Susan Sontag
2021
56 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
10 USD
Edited by Mauricio Marcín
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.
Monoblock, Poemas y textos sin elocuencia de Juan José Gurrola constituye la primera entrega de una serie de cinco volúmenes que recopilarán una selección de la producción poética de Gurrola. Aunque sus contribuciones al mundo dramático son ampliamente reconocidas, su obra poética ha sido poco investigada y poco difundida, a pesar de ser vasta y prolífica.
2021
76 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
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Photographsby Alice Zukofsky
Translatedby Javier Arango
In Pleasures, Mario Bellatin interweaves fiction and poetry; mysticism and corporeality; death and the pristine; visceral and surreal.
Through a narrative that emerges from a sea of images, the book explores a spotless world inhabited by death and dominated by liquids, where cleanliness reigns supreme.
A young philosopher in search of a sacred dog; a school where children attend to die; Boris, the pedagogue, and Virginia, the teacher; a tour guide who steals from her clients; a paraplegic dog trainer devoured by his subjects...
From the depths of its reality, Pleasures investigates the necessity to write, and the possibility of redeeming the world with a new form of script.
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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Fotografías de Alice Zukofsky
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 líquido, donde la limpidez es suprema.
Del mar de imágenes surgenhilos narrativos- —un joven filósofo en búsqueda de un perro sagrado; el Pedagogo Boris y la Maestra Virginia, custodios de una escuela donde acuden los párvulos para morir; una guíaturística que se roba las pertenencias de sus clientes; un entrenador de perros parapléjico devorado por sussujetos…
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 de una nueva escritura que pueda redimir a este mundo.
Con su toque magistral, Bellatin construye un universo literario, a la vez conectado a 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
*This edition has multiple covers.
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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
"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
Translated by Nayeli García
“I renounce those who hate women, who have contempt for women, who ridicule and demean women, and when I do, I renounce most of the art, masculinist art, ever made.”
“Renuncio a quienes odian a las mujeres; a quienes no las consideran; a quienes las ridiculizan y las desprecian; y cuando lo hago, renuncio a la mayor parte del arte que ha sido creado: un 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
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 super saturating 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.”
“Para hacer un caramelo de roca hay que sobresaturar agua hirviendo con azúcar, colocando una curda en ella y dejándola enfriar. Lo mismo hace Jerónimo Rüedi (mejor conocido como pintor) en sus libros, dejando caer su mente en nuestro mundo sobresaturado de imágenes e información, donde en lugar de caramelos obtenemos algo más dulce que esos cristales de azúcar pura: libros que –en cómo se cagan sobre los falsos profetas; en cómo utilizan el humor negro como arma contra la codicia fatalmente acelerada del globalismo; en cómo condenan los cimientos mismos sobre los cuales damos sentido al mundo– nos recuerdan que debemos basar nuestras vidas en las partes del mundo que aún no se han vendido. Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously es una introducción a cómo romper las trivialidades del tiempo para reconstruirlas nuevamente en una visión radicalmente nueva, basada en convicciones personales más que en un consumo pasivo.”
— 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, Lara Konrad invites us to witness adopted gender performativities within society, and gradually begin to notice the universal longing to unearth purpose in hopes of outgrowing human loneliness.
Mother, We All Have Been Lonely and Lovely Places sirve como una trayectoria de historia personal, que narra las distintas etapas de la dependencia femenina en un paisaje patriarcal. A medida que el libro examina íntimamente los patrones de comportamiento emocional y sexual delas relaciones que se (re) formulan de acuerdo con el inevitable proceso de envejecimiento, Lara Konrad nos invita a ser testigo de las performatividades de género adoptadas dentro de la sociedad, impulsándonos a desenterrar el anhelo de encontrar propósito en la vida, con la esperanza de superar la soledad humana.
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”, in which we witnesses a conversation of misunderstandings, based on the impossibility of communication and everyday life. Veronica Gerber Bicecci (Mexico City, 1980) reduces language to a less complex framework, through which everything that we cannot understand— but that which haunts us every day —becomes again what it actually is and always was.
Escrito en braille, Tercera Persona presenta una discusión entre “él” y “ella”... Rastros de una conversación mal avenida por el mal entendimiento y la imposibilidad de una comunicación total dentro de la cotidianidad. Verónica Gerber Bicecci (Ciudad de México, 1980) reduce el lenguaje a un panorama menos complejo para que sea de nuevo eso que no podemos entender, pero que sabemos que nos acecha cada día.
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 and foremost: what is the role of the enigmatic Mme. Belmont in this Machiavellian entanglement?
¿Se alejará Antonewsky de las garras de los terribles Zetas? Va a encontrar al joven Arthur? Pero primero, ¿cuál es el papel de la enigmática Mme. Belmont en este enredo maquiavélico?
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
The photographs that are included in this book form part of the archive of the photographer Alberto Flores Varela. The majority were taken on commission by the Sociedad de Cuauhtémoc y Famosa (SCyF), an institution established in 1918 for Cervecería Cuauhtémoc (Cuauhtémoc Brewing Company), a company that marked the foundation of modern Monterrey. It´s worth noting that the context of those years was of revolution. The business´ elite was threatened by the labor rights included in the new constitution of 1917, which featured the right to strike. This is how the “most fortunate” workers of modern Monterrey were domesticated. It was thus decided to sacrifice freedom of expression, free association, and democratic representation of the workers, among other rights, in exchange for maintaining employment in “the company.” This book depicts the first flash of restrained disillusionment: ¨forever loyal.¨
These images represent the seed of the social order that was established in many industrial cities around the world.
Las fotografías que integran este libro forman parte del archivo del fotógrafo Alberto Flores Varela y la mayoría fueron tomadas por encargo de la Sociedad Cuauhtémoc y Famosa (SCyF), institución creada en 1918 por Cervecería Cuauhtémoc, empresa fundadora del Monterrey moderno. Cabe recordar que el contexto de aquellos años era de revolución. La élite empresarial se encontraba totalmente amenazada por la cartera de derechos laborales contenidos en la nueva constitución de 1917, que incluía el derecho a huelga. Callados, en la mesa familiar, sonriendo, levantando un poco más la botella, no tanto, ¡no se muevan! Así fueron domesticados los trabajadores “más afortunados” del Monterrey moderno. Estas imágenes representan la simiente del orden social que acabó por instalarse en muchas ciudades industriales del orbe. Así se decidió sacrificar la libertad de expresión, la libre asociación y la representación democrática de los trabajadores, entre otros derechos, a cambio de conservar el empleo en “la compañía”.
Este libro retrata el primer flashazo de desilusión contenida: leales para siempre.
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 on 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 is considered today as Carrión’s first‘ artist’s book’, where he still uses language, but quite differently. In 2009, Michalis Pichler, in a similar approach but using mostly Word or OpenOffice, created 44 new variations and published this book, titled SOME MORESONNET(S).
En 1972, Ulises Carrión produjo su primer libro de artista SONNET (S), que consta de 44variaciones de un soneto de Dante Gabriel Rosetti titulado “Heart’s Compass”. Utilizando el lenguaje como material, Carrión escribe el poema de Rossetti una y otra vez en una máquina de escribir, en versiones ligeramente diferentes. Este libro hoy se considera el primer “libro de artista” de Carrión, donde todavía usa el lenguaje, pero de manera bastante diferente.En 2009, Michalis Pichler, con un enfoque similar, pero utilizando principalmente Word u Open Office, creó 44 nuevas variaciones y publicó este libro titulado 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.
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Arturo Hernández Alcazar brings us a compendium of images in open confrontation, where politicians place the first stones in front of people who use others to protest. An excercice on the constant erosion of solids as a materialization of power, in which the stone becomes the first and last tool.
Arturo Hernández Alcazar nos trae un compendio de imágenes en confrontación abierta, donde políticos colocan primeras piedras frente a gente que protestando, lanza otras. Un ejercicio sobre la constante erosión de los sólidos como materialización del poder y de la piedra como primera y última herramienta.
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 as a weapon. They brush aside a number of outmoded concepts, such as creativity and genius, eternal value and mystery”
—Walter Benjamin.
Los argumentos de Benjamin contra la reproductibilidad de la imagen, retoman importancia con la digitalización de nuestra época. “Sería erróneo subestimar el valor de estas tesis como un arma. Apartan una serie de conceptos anticuados, como creatividad y genio, valor eterno y misterio”
—Walter Benjamin.
#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
Reunión 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
A Manifesto On The Appropriation of
Space is a contemporary manifesto
created by an avant-garde architecture office in Mexico City.
A Manifesto On The Appropriation of
Space es un manifiesto contemporáneo creado por un despacho arquitectónico
avant-garde, en la Ciudad de México.
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.
Crónica de una larga noche.
2019
168 pages
English
17 cm x 23 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
40 USD
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.
Image Text Ithaca reúne a una prensa independiente, talleres y simposios en curso, y un programa MFA en la intersección de la escritura y la fotografía.
Coedition with Ithaca Press.
2019
32 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
10 USD
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.
Image Text Ithaca reúne a una prensa independiente, talleres y simposios en curso, y un programa MFA en la intersección de la escritura y la fotografía.
Coedition with Ithaca Press.
2019
32 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
10 USD
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.
Image Text Ithaca reúne a una prensa independiente, talleres y simposios en curso, y un programa MFA en la intersección de la escritura y la fotografía.
Coedition with Ithaca Press.
2019
32 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
10 USD
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.
Image Text Ithaca reúne a una prensa independiente, talleres y simposios en curso, y un programa MFA en la intersección de la escritura y la fotografía.
Coedition with Ithaca Press.
2019
32 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
10 USD
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.
Image Text Ithaca reúne a una prensa independiente, talleres y simposios en curso, y un programa MFA en la intersección de la escritura y la fotografía.
Coedition with Ithaca Press.
2019
32 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
10 USD
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.
Image Text Ithaca reúne a una prensa independiente, talleres y simposios en curso, y un programa MFA en la intersección de la escritura y la fotografía.
Coedition with Ithaca Press.
2019
32 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
10 USD
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.
Image Text Ithaca reúne a una prensa independiente, talleres y simposios en curso, y un programa MFA en la intersección de la escritura y la fotografía.
Coedition with Ithaca Press.
2019
32 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
10 USD
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.
Image Text Ithaca reúne a una prensa independiente, talleres y simposios en curso, y un programa MFA en la intersección de la escritura y la fotografía.
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.
Domestic Orbits es un ensayo que
explora cómo la configuración del espacio doméstico depende de órbitas de exclusión que delinean las trayectorias de las empleadas domésticas, invitándonos a cuestionar las formas en las que el espacio se articula de acuerdo al género, clase o raza.
Organizado según una serie de casos en la Ciudad de México, desde los años cincuenta hasta hoy en día, el texto estudia en diferentes escalas de qué manera el trabajo doméstico es eliminado por arquitectos y proyectistas, a través de la lecutra de cinco obras muy conocidas, que resaltan las relaciones sociales y económicas.
De este modo, Domestic Orbits esboza una contra-historia de la arquitectura moderna que cuestiona la dualidad entre lo visible e invisible; entre los que cuentan y los que no.
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
The Declared Enemy — which would become the title of Albert Dichy’s 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). In it, 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.
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.
En 1984, cuando Jean Genet preparaba la edición de sus principales artículos, eligió comenzar con un escrito que no pertenecía al resto de los textos incluidos en la colección.
The Declared Enemy, que se convirtió en el título de la edición de Albert Dichy de los artículos y entrevistas de Genet de 1964 a 1986, fue escrito en Tánger el mismo año que el escritor fue invitadoa apoyar y aportar su testimonio sobre la represión sufrida por el Partido Black Panther (1970).
The Radical Ally, de Bouchra Khalili, es una investigación visual y textual sobre el trabajo que realizó en el libro Twenty-Two Hours (2018), donde sigue las huellas de Genet durante su estancia con los Panthers, con el fin de cuestionar qué queda de la memoria política del Partido.
A través de distintos autores, Bouchra interroga las diferentes capas de la historia que han envuelto la lucha por la liberación de los personajes de su video.
En esta publicación, la autora explora la posición del aliado radical como el reversodel enemigo declarado.
Para convertirse en el aliado radical, como Khalili nos recuerda en su entrevista con Jackie Wang, Genet tuvo que destruir al hombre blanco en sí mismo.
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 to writing, the content considers the lyrical genre, paralinguistics, and the overall language of cartoons. Due to such close proximity to literary creation, the drawings can be read as poems, jokes or refrains.
Nonverbal es un libro de dibujos en el que animales, objetos de la vida cotidiana y partes del cuerpo sirven para contar pequeñas historias y transmitir sensaciones físicas sin usar una sola palabra.
Con una economía de medios similar a la de la escritura, el contenido de la publicación considera el género lírico, la paralingüística y el lenguaje de las caricaturas. Esta proximidad con la creación literaria permite que los dibujos sean leídos como poemas, chistes o refranes.
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 a form of allegories, in which each transvestite nation is exhibited through the portrait of the maiden of the family, locked in the midst of the symbol and historical conflicts that characterizes her context.
Imagen divina, del fotógrafo chileno Toro Goya, presenta veinte imágenes, a manera de alegorías, de diferentes países latinoamericanos, donde cada nación travestida se exhibe a través del retrato de la doncella de la familia, encerrada
en medio de los símbolos y conflictos históricos que la han caracterizado.
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, to liberate sound, meaning and image as if it were the first time, but also as a space that demonstrates the play of its mechanism, the margin of action the opens between them like semantic gaps.
La manzana no espera del poeta y artista argentino Ricardo Carreira (1942-1993), miembro del colectivo “Tucumán arde”, experimenta con los márgenes de las palabras, un espacio que escapa del lenguaje común para liberar el sonido,el significado y la imagen como si fuera la primera vez; pero también, como un espacio que demuestra el juego de su mecanismo, el margen de acción que se abre entre ellas como huecos semánticos.
2018
72 pages
Spanish
23 cm x 17 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
20 USD
*This edition has multiple covers.
The spanglish 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, neoindian; or a remix of the same or nothing.
And so what? What’s the problem? After all, national states are dysfunctional and outdated.
El neologismo spanglish "Pocha Nostra" puede traducirse como "nuestras impurezas" o "el cartel de bastardos traidores culturales".
Esta es una actitud hacia el arte y la sociedad: interracial, trans-o-post-nacional, poligénero, post-ultra-retro-experimental, neoindio, o un remix del mismo o ninguno; ¿y qué?, ¿Cuál es el pedo? Después de todo, los estados-nación son disfuncionales y fechados. El libro recopila manifiestos, o antimanifiestos, de los últimos veintitrés años de este colectivo para el que, muchas veces, el performance se convirtió en una pedagogía.
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 that intends to reinterpret the games to which King Solomon, King David, and their friends indulge.
Song of Songs, del ilustrador mexicano Frosh Samo, es una nueva versión ilustrada del libro del Antiguo Testamento; una reinterpretación de los juegos a los que se entregan el Rey Salomón, el Rey David y sus amigos.
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.
The line, the lie and the lice de Diana Cantarey es un libro de adivinación que se rige bajo una idea: todas las ideas complejas se componen de ideas simples.
Dos ideas: si todo se puede reducir a ideas simples, ¿por qué cada vez entiendo menos?
Tres ideas: por distracción, por refracción o por hipersimplificación. Cuatro ideas: error: ni lo uno, ni lo otro, sino algo mucho peor.
2018
74 pages
10.5 cm x 8.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
5 USD
This book collects unpublished photographs that the American artist Zoe Leonard took along the Rio Grande (or Río Bravo) in 2017. It also inculdes texts comissioned by the Mexican poet and activist, Dolores Dorantes, who has been living in exile in the United States for years.It is an immersion, through its physical barrier (the waters of Río Bravo), into the very heart of the border between Mexico and the US.A number of figures appearing in the water recall something else: skin, scars, wrinkles, genitals... The writing of an unknown language; a hybrid of image and text that attempts a conversation between the ever-changing continuous flow of water and the terrible complexities that surround it.
Este libro recopila fotografías inéditas que la artista estadounidense Zoe Leonard tomó a lo largo del Río Bravo en 2017, así como textos encargados para este proyecto a Dolores Dorantes, poeta y activista mexicana, quien durante años ha estado exiliada en Estados Unidos. Se trata de una inmersión, a través de la barrera física (el Río Bravo), al corazón de la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos, donde habitan figuras escondidas bajo el agua: piel, cicatrices, arrugas y genitales, escribiendo con un idioma desconocido. Un híbrido entre imagen y texto que se plantea como intento roto de conversación bilingüe entre el siempre cambiante flujo del agua y las terribles complejidades que la rodean.
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
By nature, manifestos are 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.
Por naturaleza, los manifiestos están ligados al tiempo.
El manifiesto aceleracionista hace del tiempo la razón del manifiesto; no el tiempo necesario que necesita una cosa para cumplir su objetivo, sino el tiempo que el capitalismo necesita para capitalizarse.
Para Alex Williams y Nick Srnicek el tiempo es una materia prima que solo puede ser liberada de sus obligaciones y contratos por medio de la aceleración.
Si Newton viviera en estos días oscuros probablemente reformularía sus leyes siguiendo la fórmula del aceleracionismo.
2017
60 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
15 USD
ISBN: 978-607-97450-4-2
An Artist, by Malena Pizani, collects, through 1,400 sentences, the process in which an artist defines their selfs. The sentences, lacking verbs, describe the artist in a petrified state in which they neither act, create, execute, nor intervene; but rather thinks themself or looks within, through the eyes of the others.
An Artist, de Malena Pizani, recopila,
por medio de 1400 enunciados, las características de un artista en vías de definición. Los enunciados, carentes de verbo, describen al artista, petrificado entre dos puntos, en un estado en el que ni actúa, ni crea, ni ejecuta, ni interviene; sólo se piensa a sí mismo o se ve a través de los ojos de los demás.
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» responds to the need of treating the manifesto as a genre of its own.
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 foundation of the world that we need to imagine.
Escrito como un ensayo, An Attempt at a «Compositionist Manifesto» pone en evidencia la necesidad del manifiesto cómo género, y su total coincidencia con la contemporaneidad, a pesar de que el pensamiento opuesto sea dominante.
Usando el modelo del Manifiesto comunista, construye un manifiesto utilizando los diferentes sentidos de la palabra “componer”, con el fin de pensar un mundo nuevo: un mundo que se compone y descompone en elementos heterogéneos.
Para Bruno Latour el manifiesto es la composta del mundo que necesitamos imaginar.
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, and Abraham Cruzvillegas recuperates it in order to organize a series of projects that otherwise would cause confusion.
El orden alfabético implica una redefinición de la experiencia personal, no en función de las viviencias, sino a partir de un orden impuesto por el abecedario, y Abraham Cruzvillegas lo recupera para organizar una serie de proyectos que de otro modo cavilarían confusos.
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 understandthe new dynamics of our constantly accelerating world by questionig ways in which 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, and on the other, it suggests missing words.
It is vital for the new lexicon’s intuitions to move into public discourse.
En este libro, Doris Sommer, Directora de la Iniciativa de Agentes Culturales de
la Universidad de Harvard, propone neologismos semánticos con el fin de entender las nuevas dinámicas de nuestromundo en constante aceleración; una manera de crear nuevas ideas y nuevas herramientas de construcción. Se tratade una doble invitación: por un lado, a desarrollar definiciones que articulen un léxico interdisciplinario y por otro, a sugerir palabras faltantes.
Lo importante es que las instituciones del nuevo léxico pasen al discurso público.
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, filled with roads that lead to secret treasures, inquiring the ultimate philosophical questions of origin and self. Square by square, word by word, page by page, we are left to solve the riddle and its mystery.
Or could it be that the diagrams are architectual maps of long forgotten places?
Un libro de adivinanzas que busca respuestas en un mundo oculto, definido a través de paisajes arquitectónicos en nuestra mente. Hay caminos que conducen a tesoros secretos e investigan la última cuestión filosófica de nuestro origen y del yo. Cuadro por cuadro, palabra por palabra, página por página, nos queda por resolver el enigma y su misterio.
¿O serán los diagramas, mapas arquitectónicos de lugares olvidados?
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 websiteof 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 sincethe beginning is looking his best with his fans.
El deliberado uso de la mercadotecnia y la publicidad en las campañas presidenciales y de comunicación de gobierno, ha
tratado de encontrar formas para lograr un acercamiento del público con el candidato o político en cargo. El epítome de esta estrategia es visible en la página web oficial de la Presidencia de la República Mexicana, donde una de las secciones principales es titulada “Mi foto con el Presidente”.
A seis años de su devastador sexenio, queda claro que lo único que le importa al presidente Enrique Peña Nieto es verse bien con su gente.
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 that most of these deaths were caused by firearms.
El 19 de junio de 2016, en la comunidad de Nochixtlán, Oaxaca, México, ocurrió un enfrentamiento entre policías federales y
un grupo de civiles que se manifestaban en contra de la reforma educativa implementada por el gobierno de Enrique Peña Nieto.
El enfrentamiento causó la muerte de ocho personas y más de ciento ocho heridos. Especialistas concluyeron en su dictamen que la mayoría de estas muertes fueron causadas por armas de fuego.
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.
Este archivo visual se conforma por fotografías extraídas, a partir del año 2010, del periódico vespertino P. M., publicado en Ciudad Juárez, México. Las brutales imágenes de cadáveres y cuerpos desmembrados han sido minuciosamente eliminadas con una goma de borrar, generando una acumulación de residuos que aluden metafóricamente a la ceniza de una vida que ya no está.
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 3rd, 1995, the military weapons factory of the city of Río Tercero, in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, exploded. The executive branch declared it was an acciden when in fact, the warehouses were intentionally blown-up in order to hide pieces of evidence of arm-trafficking in which the president Carlos Menem was involved. Seven people were killed, and more than three hundred wounded, and the city crammed with shards and warfare ammunitions which citizens brought to their homes as souvenirs.
El 3 de noviembre de 1995, explota la fábrica de armamentos militares de la ciudad de Río Tercero, en la provincia de Córdoba, Argentina.
El poder ejecutivo declara que
se trata de un accidente, pero los depósitos son en realidad detonados intencionalmente con el fin de ocultar pruebas de contrabando de armas en las que estaba involucrado el presidente Carlos Menem.
Siete personas resultaron muertas, más de trescientas heridas, y la ciudad quedó repleta de esquirlas y municiones de guerra que los ciudadanos llevaron a sus casas a modo de souvenir.
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 is a graphic memory of Mexico City that portrays the rise and decay of its modernization project 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, we find images that range 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.
Thus, this book constitutes a self- portrait of the State in which it the history of the governments of the city and the birth and evolution of the urban trace, intersect with the transformation of the daily life of its inhabitants.
En Obra es una memoria gráfica de la Ciudad de México que retrata, a través del acervo del Museo Archivo de la Fotografía, el auge y decadencia de su proyecto modernizador hasta el despertar democrático y ciudadano.
Lo que aquí vemos es el material de un archivo poco explorado, casi inédito, que fue resguardado durante varias décadas. En él, se pueden encontrar imágenes que van desde el registro de obras de infraestructura como agua, drenaje, pavimentación, y alumbrado, hasta la transformación de los mercados públicos; ofreciéndonos una mirada dentro de reformatorios, prisiones, hospitales, estaciones de bomberos, programas de educación vial y las acciones de la policía de tránsito; mostrándonos, también, elementos simbólicos del poder: sus monumentos y rituales cívicos.
Este libro constituye así un autorretrato del Estado en el que se entrecruzan la historia de los gobiernos de la ciudad y el nacimiento y evolución de la traza urbana con las transformación de la vida cotidiana de sus habitantes.
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
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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
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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.
María Sabina es un libro de arte que se compone de tres partes: la serie fotográfica que realizó Gusmano Cesaretti en 1982, durante su estancia de diez días en casa de la curandera; un testimonio en el que narra su experiencia con los enteógenos conocidos como niños santos; y una selección de fotografías de dicha serie, intervenidas por el artista, que transmiten aspectos de una experiencia difícilmente comunicable con palabras. En este recuento, las ricas imágenes del fotógrafo italiano ayudan a llenar espacios vacíos en el mito de la sabia anciana.
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 action.
Mladen Stilinovic es uno de los más notables artistas croatas de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Acciones, fotografías, dibujos, instalaciones, esculturas, objetos, agrupaciones, textos y reuniones son parte del repertorio de su obra. En este breve texto, The Praise of Laziness, que no es más que una mínima muestra de su legado antisistémico, revolucionario y político-estético, Stilinovic nos deja un manifiesto-reflexión en torno a la pereza y al derecho universal a la misma, como forma creativa, revolucionaria y anticapitalista.
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.