books
A wildly radical answer to an invitation to write a memoir, Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) by the queer writer, surrealist artist, and anti-fascist activist 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 thoughtfully redesigned to emulate the original French edition from 1930
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BACK IN NYC AT MoMA p.s.1: Find siglio in Room M (#12) with a glorious cohort of favorite presses at this year’s Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair. Come here first and never leave!
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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.
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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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✼ ex libris:
We tried. We really tried. A 1600+ page cautionary tale bearing witness to Trump’s first term was insufficient caution, it seems. If it was “a heat map of proto-fascism,” now we’re no more proto.
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“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’.”
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affinities
Print this! | Richard Kraft invokes Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi to respond to the Trump Presidency: “And it’s your fault I’m stupid.”
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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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affinities
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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the improbable
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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