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On Lithub: “Reading John Cage in Reykjavík”
J. Mae Barizo on LITHUB: “I thought of Cage’s prescience in his diaries when it came to the complexities of technology in the 21st century. ‘We need an utterly wireless technology,’ he wrote almost 30 years before the Internet.”
Dick Higgins reviewed in Bookforum: “An unruly guide to publishing & preserving one’s cultural present”
Brian Dillon writes at Bookforum: ““The force of Dick Higgins’ personality, the sheer intellectual & organizational energy in evidence here, the insights into Fluxus—all make this an essential volume.”
Dick Higgins reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement: “Betweenness”
Craig Dworkin writes at the TLS: “Betweenness is central to Higgins’s interest in the ‘intermedia’ bordering traditional disciplines.”
Ellie Ga: Artist of the Intrepid (interview with Anna Della Subin)
Anna Della Subin interviews Ellie Ga for TANK: “Charting a course from Patagonia to the North Pole, she voyages through histories, mythologies and languages, navigating the role of the artist on a precarious planet.”
Mirtha Dermisache: Selected Writings wins 50 Best Covers award from AIGA
This is the second Siglio title to receive this prestigious award from AIGA.
Dick Higgins: Directing Fluxus’ “oppositional energy and playful anarchy toward the unlikely medium of print”
James Gibbons writes in HYPERALLERGIC: “This volume imparts a nuanced sense of a man who . . . made a sustained and messy effort to create a worldly space for a certain kind of art, performance, and writing—and life.”