books
THE SLEEPERS by Sophie Calle | In one of Calle’s first artistic experiments, she invited friends, acquaintances, and strangers to sleep in her bed which she intended to be continuously occupied for eight days.
✼ news:
The Sleepers officially releases in December, but preorders get books shipped in November (and 20% off with code sleep). Translated for the first time into English, it’s also Calle’s fourth artist’s book published by siglio. More about other Calle books below.
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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.
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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.
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reviews
Times Literary Supplement | THE HOTEL by SOPHIE CALLE: “Is there judgement in Calle’s photograph, and if so, who is being judged?” —Lauren Elkin
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New Yorker | THE HOTEL BY SOPHIE CALLE: “What interests her most is the seduction and projection involved in knowing another person” —Lili Owen Rowlands
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✼ elsewhere:
The election is looming. Here are almost 10,000 reasons to vote.
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“It Is What It Is”: ALL THE CARDS ISSUED TO DONALD TRUMP… by Richard Kraft | For four years, artist Richard Kraft refused to normalize Trump’s presidency, notating every one of his offenses.
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reviews
Brooklyn Rail | “It Is What It Is” by Richard Kraft: “A real-time diary that’s a dazzling testament to its subject’s basic incomprehensibility.” —Leah Ollman
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✼ natalie’s upstate weather report:
october 23, 2024—a sojourn across the sea for the Small Publishers Fair in London! Our intrepid publisher has lugged three suitcases with the most minimum of clothing to maximize the books—almost 150 pounds of them. (For the lucky few, a first glimpse of Sophie Calle’s The Sleepers!)
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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.
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✼ the improbable:
from Issue, No. 1 (Time Indefinite), “Dick Higgins, Publisher: Notes Toward a Reassessment of the Something Else Press Within a Small Press History” by Matvei Yankelevich: “To find connections between poetry, small press publishing, and the art scene of the early 1960s, one may look no further than Higgins’ own network.”
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Intermedia, Fluxus and The Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins, edited by Steve Clay and Ken Friedman
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the improbable
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”
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affinities
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.”
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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
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