Benjamin’s arguments against the reproducibility of image retake the importance of digitalization that exists today. “It would therefore be wrong to underestimate the value of such theses asa weapon. They brush aside a number of outmoded concepts, such as creativity and genius, eternal value and mystery” —WalterBenjamin.
2019
34 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
150 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
#Foreword
#DigitalReproducibility
#Limitation
#DemolitionofCommodity
#MarketandPolitic
#ExchangeValueandUseValue
#DataFile
#DataFileandInternetasArt
#InternetandTestPerformance
#TheOnlineUser
#ClaimtobeOnline
#OldAuthorandNewAuthor
#ReceptionofPaintings
#MickeyMouse
#Conceptualisms
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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.
2019
34 pages
Spanish
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Offset
Coedition with Edition Taube
Retail Price
150 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
ISBN: 978-3-945900-22-2
Hide the book inside a fake rock.
Reunion are various acts that involve conversing, reading and writing; quotidian yet strange acts that always implicate being next to one another. Zelko writes down poems that others dictate to him. After completing his homework of how to listen and how to write, he edits the books within the next coming days. In a round of nine people, the writings are presented to the author’s neighbors, friends, and family. The writer reads his poems; he listens to himself while he is being heard by others.
The second part of the project consists of an extension of the first project, in other places. In a round of nine chairs, the writer’s poems are read by spokespeople, emissaries who lend their bodies, eyes and voices. It is a chain of situations and encounters: subjects dictating and reading, reading and writing; books and poems. All these are actions and proceedings in order to be together.
This edition, titled North Border, was realized between September 2017 and October 2018, taking place in Mexico, USA, and Canada (Tijuana, Veracruz, Texas, Florida, New York, Princeton and Toronto). The cover’s photograph was taken just before the presentation of Maritza’s book. Maritza read her poems aloud to her caravan friends. Then they gave away some books to people who passed by, and walked to the USA in order to seek political asylum.
2019
204 pages
English
23 cm x 17 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
200 MXN, 20 USD, 20 €
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
200 MXN, 20 USD, 20 €
Buildings are not empty containers awaiting their inhabitants. They are composed of a large and ever-changing array of objects. During construction, prioritizing certain objects — like walls, floors, roofs, etc. — limits appropriation itself. In order to increase the opportunities of appropriation, objects that are traditionally dealt with by architects to encompass the possibility of object — such as a wall, sink, chair —would need to be augmented.
2019
44 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
150 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
ISBN: 978-607-97969-5-2
Chronicle of a long night.
2019
168 pages
English
17 cm x 23 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
600 MXN, 40 USD, 40 €
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
400 MXN, 30 USD, 30 €
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.
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
250 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
ISBN: 978-607-97969-7-6
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.
In 1984, when Jean Genet was preparing the edition of his most important articles, he chose to start with a text that did not belong with the rest of the collection. The Declared Enemy — which would become the title of Albert Dichy’s reference edition of Genet’s articles and interviews from 1964 to 1986 — was written in Tangiers the same year that Genet was invited to encourage support and bear witness to the repression suffered by the Black Panther Party (1970). Bouchra Khalili’s The Radical Ally is a visual and textual investigation on the work she undertook in Twenty-Two Hours (2018).
She follows Genet’s traces during his stay with the Panthers, and questions what remains of the party’s political memory. Through other important voices, Bouchra interrogates the different layers of history that have engulfed the struggle for liberation to which the characters in her video have committed their lives to. In this publication, we explore the position of the radical ally as the reverse of the declared enemy. To become the radical ally, as Khalili reminds us in her interview with Jackie Wang, Genet had to destroy the white man in him.
2019
84 pages
English
40.5 cm x 26.5 cm
Printed in Offset
Retail Price
250 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
ISBN: 978-607-97969-6-9
It is a form of resistance,
reclaiming history from the power.
Nonverbal is a book of drawings in which animals, everyday objects and parts of the body serve as short narrations that communicate physical sensations without words. Employing a similar economy that is writing, the content considers the lyrical genre, paralinguistics and the overall language of cartoons. Due to such close proximity to literary creation, the drawings are read as poems, jokes or refrains.
2019
72 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
150 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
2016-2019
48 pages
10.5 cm x 8.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
50 MXN, 5 USD, 5 €
Imagen divina, by Chilean photographer Toro Goya, presents twenty images as allegories of different Latin American countries; each transvestite nation is exhibited as the portrait of the maiden of the family, locked in the midst of the symbols and historical conflicts that has characterized it.
2018
20 pages
40.5 cm x 26.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
1000 MXN, 40 USD, 40 €
In La manzana no espera, the Argentinian poet and artist Ricardo Carreira (1924-1993), member of “Tucumán arde” collective, experiments with the boundaries of words— a space that escapes common language so it may liberate sound; where purpose and image get to be experienced as if it were the very first time; but as well as space that demonstrates a game’s mechanism — the active margin that opens like a semantic whole in-between them.
2018
72 pages
Spanish
23 cm x 17 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
200 MXN, 20 USD, 20 €
The Spanish neologism “Pocha Nostra” can be translated into “our impurities” or “the cartel of culturally-betraying bastards”. It is an attitude against art and society: interracial, cross-trans-or-post-national, polygendered, post-ultra-retro-experimental, neoindio, or a remix of the same or nothing. And so what?What’s the problem? After all, national states are dysfunctional and outdated.
2018
48 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
150 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
ISBN: 978-607-97599-8-8
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.
Songs of Songs by the Mexican artist Frosh Samo, is a new illustrative version of the Old Testament which intends to reinterpret the games given to King Solomon, King David, and his friends.
2018
36 pages
English
23 cm x 17 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
250 MXN, 25 USD, 25 €
ISBN: 978-607-97969-4-5
The line, the lie, and the lice is a book of divination that is governed by one idea: all complex ideas are composed of simple ideas. Two ideas: if everything can be reduced to a simple idea, why do I understand less and less every time? Three ideas: due to distraction, refraction or hyper simplification. Four ideas: error — neither the one or the other, but something much worse.
2018
74 pages
10.5 cm x 8.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
50 MXN, 5 USD, 5 €
The book collects unpublished photographs that the American artist Zoe Leonard has taken along the Rio Grande (or Río Bravo) in 2017. As well, it includes commissioned texts by the Mexican poet and activist, Dolores Dorantes, who has been exiled to the UnitedStates for years.
It is an immersion into the physical context, the actual barrier; the very heart of the border between Mexico and the US: the waters of the Río Bravo or Rio Grande. A number of figures appearing in the water recall something else though: skin, scars, wrinkles, genitals, the writing of an unknown language.
It is a visual-textual attempt of conversationthat explores the tensions between thesimple, ever-changing but continuously-fluidflow of water, and all the terrible complexitiesaround, above and beneath it.
We were power, or we were once.
The water isn’t an attribute of your
circumstances. Crossing over isn’t
an attribute of your circumstances.
2018
156 pages
English-Spanish
23 cm x 17 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
600 MXN, 30 USD, 30 €
ISBN: 978-607-97969-3-8
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.
Already by nature, manifestos are necessarily tied to time. For Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, time is a raw material that can only be released from its obligations and contracts by means of acceleration. If Newton lived in these dark times, he might have reformulated his laws based on the concept of accelerationism.
2017
60 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
150 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
ISBN: 978-607-97450-4-2
In more than 1400 laconic arguments, the Argentinian Malena Pizani describes an artist’s process of becoming. The statements— lacking verb in each sentiment — depict an artist that is petrified between two moments that for now does neither act, nor do, nor execute, nor intervene. It only thinks of itself, or sees itself through the gaze of the other.
2017
112 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Offset
Retail Price
150 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
ISBN: 978-607-97599-3-3
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.
Written as an essay, An Attempt at a «Compositionist Manifesto» points toneeding a manifesto in form of genre and contemporaneity. Using The Communist Manifesto as a model, Latour constructs a manifesto using the different meanings of the word “compose” in order to think about a new world: one that is composed and decomposed into heterogeneous elements. For the author, the manifesto is the world’s composition that we need to imagine.
2017
60 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
150 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
ISBN: 978-607-97450-5-9
The alphabetical order implies an act of reinvention. Abraham Cruzvillegas recuperates the alphabetical order in order to organize a series of projects that otherwise would cause confusion.
2017
44 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
150 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
ISBN: 978-607-97450-2-8
Brief
Works of art are moments in the long-term development of ideas and production. Exhibitions and projects are reports on this development.
In this book, Doris Sommer, Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University, proposes an array of semantic neologisms in order to understand the new dynamics of our world that is in constant acceleration; how to create new ideas and new construction tools. It is a double invitation: on the one hand, it develops definitions that articulate an interdisciplinary lexicon. On the other, it suggests missing words. It is vital for the new lexicon’s intuitions to move into public discourse.
Color
Structural element in the Renaissance of Tirana, Albania, Edi Rama.
Common sense
Intersubjective agreement based on aesthetic judgment, Immanuel Kant.
Connectionist
Agent who fosters collaborations, Pedro Reyes.
Constraints, hard and soft
Imposed and also chosen conditions of rational choice, Jon Elster.
Distribution of the Sensible
Range of access to and production of art, Jacques Rancière.
2017
36 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
150 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
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.
2017
32 pages
English
10.5 cm x 8.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
150 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
ISBN: 978-607-97450-8-0
[…] and layed off
and sexually harrassed
and gaybashed and deported.
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.
2017
36 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
150 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
ISBN: 978-607-97599-6-4
Call out loud
Vivid and violent ideas
To your blushing
We shout the
obscenities
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.
2017
44 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
150 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
ISBN: 978-607-97599-1-9
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.
Starting with the exclamation mark assumes that there is an exit on the other side. Untitled Manifesto asks: what is decomposition made off? In other words, does it take an exclamation mark in order to understand a question is taking form? For example, who can believe in the queries translated by Google? These are not questions without answers, but answers without questions. With his manifesto, the artist Juan Caloca shows how much knowledge we lack, and how little we know in order to imagine.
2017
48 pages
English
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
150 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
ISBN: 978-607-97450-3-5
For the sake of humanity:
Burn this and all manifestos!
To see if someone remembers us
only with the oral memory.
Compendium of images in open confrontation: politicians placing first stones facing people protesting, throwing stones. An exercise on the constant erosion of solids as materialization of power and stone as the first and last tool.
2014
72 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
150 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
Written in braille, Tercera Persona is a discussion that takes place between ‘him’ and ‘her.’ The reader witnesses a conversation of misunderstandings, the impossibility that is communication and everything quotidian.
Veronica Gerber Bicecci (MexicoCity, 1980) reduces language into a less complex framework, so everything we cannot understand — but that which haunts us everyday — becomes again what it actually is and always was.
2014
32 pages
16.5 cm x 11.5 cm
Printed in Risograph
Retail Price
150 MXN, 15 USD, 15 €
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.