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A wildly radical answer to an invitation to write a memoir, Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) by the queer writer and surrealist artist Claude Cahun is a tour-de-force work of resistance, an ever-mutating inquiry into the multiplicity of “the self,” and an embrace of the outcasts and cast-offs, the unknowable and the unknown. The English translation—long unavailable since its original publication in 2007—is now revised, and the book itself is redesigned to emulate the original French edition from 1930.

The Brooklyn Rail  |  CANCELLED CONFESSIONS by Claude Cahun: “There is much about Cahun’s life—their gender-nonconforming presentation, their sustained work (with Moore) of anti-fascist resistance in Nazi-occupied France—that will feel familiar today. It’s another striking moment of doubling, perhaps: an uncanny (and possibly affirming) look in the mirror as history repeats itself. But, as always, the artist remains too capricious to draw an easy comparison.” —Daniella Sanader

THE SLEEPERS by Sophie Calle  |   In one of Calle’s first experiments, she invited friends, acquaintances, and strangers to sleep in her bed which would be continuously occupied for 8 days.

Suite Vénitienne by Sophie Calle  |   Intentionally losing herself in the labyrinthine streets of Venice, searching for Henri B., the city becomes a repository of her desires.

THE Hotel by Sophie Calle  |  Working as a chambermaid, Calle stashes her camera and tape recorder in her mop bucket, sorting through and surveying the evidence of the guests’ lives.

“It Is What It Is” — Introduction by author Richard Kraft: “One of the English tabloid newspapers summed it up with its Cockney-rhyming slang headline: ‘No, it wasn’t a dream folks … THE WORLD REALLY IS DONALD-DUCKED’.”

Print this!  |  Richard Kraft invokes Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi to respond to the Trump Presidency: “And it’s your fault I’m stupid.”

Intermedia, Fluxus and The Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins, edited by Steve Clay and Ken Friedman

No. 1 Time Indefinite — TRACIE MORRIS: “There are intersecting communities of experimental artists … We are perpetually in conversation with each other across, time, space, beingness, perspective and geography”

Appreciation  |  JOSHUA BECKMAN AT POETs HOUSE: “My hope is to share some of the exuberance I have found … in the things Dick Higgins put in the world.”

List  |  Dick Higgins’s Something Else Press Lives On: A bibliography of Something Else Press reprints, facsimiles, etc. that evinces the enduring love for SEP

No. 3 Lingual Music — IN THIS ISSUE & INTRO: Guest edited by Alex Balgiu and Chloé Gourvennec, this issue is a catalyst, a manifesto, a conversation across time, language and musical propositions.