siglio

HELEN CAMMOCK in NEW ORLEANS — A polyphonous exhibition of film, poetry, performance, archival documents and books, 10/14/23 – 12/17/23

Times Literary Supplement  |  THE HOTEL by SOPHIE CALLE: “Is there judgement in Calle’s photograph, and if so, who is being judged?” —Lauren Elkin

Air/Light (Interview)  |  Nicole Rudick and Sam Stephenson dive into the life of Niki de Saint Phalle and the nuances of shaping a biography

Lit Hub  |  “A challenge to the publishing industry to become less merchants of books and more agents of curiosity and ideas” —Elissa Schappell on Siglio

Steve Beresford and Xenia Pestova Bennett play Call and Response on two pianos, toy objects and electronics at Iklectik Art Lab in London, 10/24/22

Join Bookartbookshop for a little, fizzy celebration of Call and Response with a signing by Steve Beresford at the Small Publishers Fair in London, 10/29/22

Siglio at BOOK FAIRS IN NYC, FALL 2022 — Hooray! Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, 10/13–16

Christian Marclay & Steve Beresford launch Call and Response at the Vortex Jazz Club in London, with a performance by Pat Thomas

The Nation  |  What Is Now Known … niki de Saint Phalle: “Her most feminist gesture may have been the creation of herself” —Jillian Steinhauer

BOMB  |  What Is Now Known … Niki de Saint Phalle: “The narrative that Rudick presents is frank and unsparing” —Bruce LaBruce

Vanity Fair  |  What Is Now Known … NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE: “A posthumous narrative; a ghostly collaboration” —Keziah Weir

Brooklyn Rail  |  ROCK OF EYE by Troy Montes-Michie: “Stitching is a violent and healing act—puncturing as well as uniting” —Megan Liberty

Alta  |  ROCK OF EYE by Troy Montes-Michie: “It revels in contradiction, ambivalence, beauty, queerness, time, and place” —Rasheeda Saka

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

New Yorker  |  THE HOTEL BY SOPHIE CALLE: “What interests her most is the seduction and projection involved in knowing another person” —Lili Owen Rowlands

Photo-Eye  |  THE HOTEL by SOPHIE CALLE: “Calle proves that few if any spaces are ours and ours alone” —Odette England

Washington Post  |  “It Is What It Is” by Richard Kraft: “There’s something weirdly haunting about Kraft’s record with its regularity and manic determination” —Ron Charles

Bookforum  |  “IT IS WHAT IT IS”: “Stubborn systematism … and touchingly futile attempt to collate ephemeral news and prevent forgetting” —Fran Bigman

Paul Chan and Lucy Ives in conversation about the work of Madeline Gins — Saturday, February 27, 3:30–5pm EST online at the Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair

Richard Kraft and Mónica de la Torre in conversation — online at the Brooklyn Rail’s New Social Environment, February 26, 2021

Lisa Pearson and Connie Lewallen in conversation about the origins of Siglio and more — online at The Brooklyn Rail’s New Social Environment, 1/19/21

The Millions  |  FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES: “Visibility is key for public awareness … It also presents the conundrum, how to commemorate an absence?” —Anne K. Yoder

New Yorker  |  Memory by Bernadette Mayer: “It is happiest in the in-between, and hyperalert to its own transit from one word and image to the next.” —Dan Chiasson

Times Literary Supplement  |  MEMORY: “It combines the permutational prose of Gertrude Stein with the casual coterie references of the New York School poets.” —Craig Dworkin

Tupelo Quarterly (Forum) |  Danielle Dutton, Lucy Ives & Lisa Pearson participate Feminist Poetics of the Archive, curated and moderated by Karla Kelsey

Daily readings in July from Memory by Bernadette Mayer as a parallel durational work to celebrate the new book — Poets House, everyday at 3pm EST

Hyperallergic  |  MADELINE GINS READER: “Gins’s I-as-reader is porous, delivering a vision of human subjectivity always in excess of the singular self” —Karla Kelsey

4 Columns  |  MADELINE GINS READER: “… not only sign, sound, and symbol, but mist, breath, substance, season, measure, odor, numeral …” —Quinn Latimer

Bookforum  |  Memory by Bernadette Mayer:“It is as much a conceptual exercise as a diaristic one, a Hydra dancing at the intersections of language and image” —Jennifer Krasinski

Tank Magazine (Interview)  |  Square Octagon Circle:  Ellie Ga,“an artist of the intrepid … voyaging through histories, mythologies and languages” talks with Anna Della Subin

Bookforum  |  Vincent Sardon’s The Stampographer: “Sardon has erected his own bawdy bureaucracy … and proudly serves as it notary public” —Juliana Halpert

Xtra  |  Dorothy Ianonne’s You Who Read Me With Passion…: “Her bold embrace of sex and love in her work is matched by robust drive toward … inventive forms of autobiography.” —Kate Wolf

Robert Seydel: The Eye in Matter — “I’ll invent who I am, against what is. My time and name: a Queens of the mind.” an exhibition + events at the Queens Museum, NYC, 2015

Bookforum  |  Not Nothing: Ray Johnson: “An opportunity to sample one of the most subversively witty intelligences to paste, draw, and type in the last half century.” —Albert Mobilio

From the archives  |  Ray Johnson Reviews + Ray Johnson Reviewed: “The Paper Snake is copyrighted, I don’t know why—that seems excessive caution.”

Best Books 2013  |  Bough Down by Karen Green: “One of the most singular books I read this year—a book that left an indelible impression on me” —Meghan O’Rourke

The Millions  |  BOUGH DOWN by Karen Green: “It resists naming her dead husband, the author, or his texts — making him, instead, her own shadow figure” —Suzanne Scanlon

Artnews  |  O! Tricky Cad & Other Jessoterica: “Jess inaugurated a universe of ceaseless fluctuating, erudite wordplay and poetic transformation.” —Elizabeth Kley

Art in America  |  O! Tricky Cad & Other Jessoterica: “His text-heavy collages, concrete poems and détourné comic strips blur the boundary between reading and seeing.” —Ben Lerner

Brooklyn Rail  |  Tantra Song: “The image as a threshold leading to … a revelatory understanding that some images are more than mere data; they are instead vital seeds, living carriers of possibility.” —Craig Olson

BOMB (Interview)  |  Nancy Spero’s Torture of Women: the book’s designer talk about translating the monumental work into the intimacy of the book