Vogliamo Tutto
Nanni Balestrini
Published by Telephone Publishing, Melbourne, 2014, 198 pages, 13.8 × 20.5 cm, English
Price: €16 (Out of stock)

“Vogliamo tutto: We want everything—all the wealth, all the power, and no work.”

Torino, 1969. Fiat’s giant Mirafiori plant is a magnet for thousands of young southern workers, who go north to escape oppression, poverty and underdevelopment and find only exploitation and abuse on the assembly lines.

Nanni Balestrini draws on interviews, flyers and the movement’s bulletins to document workers’ experiences on the factory floor, in the meetings and demonstrations and, finally, at the barricades, creating a poetic remix of a novel, a searching documentary and a call to arms for a just society.

Translated from the Italian by Matt Holden. Designed by Warren Taylor.

#2014 #nannibalestrini #warrentaylor
The Lulennial: A Slight Gestuary
Published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2015, 144 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 16 × 23 cm, English / Portuguese
Price: €15

Produced on the occasion of the biennal The Lulennial, organized by Fabiola Iza and Chris Sharp at Lulu, Mexico City, a 9-square meter independent space in Mexico City, whose economy, “in the sense of doing a lot with a little or sometimes nothing at all,” is one of the founding principles.

With Zarouhie Abdalian, Francis Alÿs, Paola de Anda, Carl Andre, Billy Apple, Darren Bader, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Robert Barry, Graciela Carnevale, Ulises Carrión, Lygia Clark, Isaac Contreras, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, Tania Pérez Córdova, Eduardo Costa, Christopher D’Arcangelo, Marcel Duchamp, Koji Enokura, Lucio Fontana, Fernanda Gomes, Alberto Greco, Simon Gabriel Greenberg, Matt Hinkley, Hi Red Center, Tehching Hsieh, Douglas Huebler, Stephen Kaltenbach, Yves Klein, Joseph Kosuth, Jirí Kovanda, Sol LeWitt, Lee Lozano, Jenine Marsh, Cildo Meireles, Robert Morris, Roman Ondák, Yoko Ono, Gabriel Orozco, Chantal Peñalosa, Goran Petercol, Kirsten Pieroth, Wilfredo Prieto, Ana Roldán, Lotty Rosenfeld, Karin Sander, Ana Santos, Martín Soto Climent, Mladen Stilinovic, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Goran Trbuljak, Lawrence Weiner, B. Wurtz, Lin Yilin, La Monte Young.

#2015 #bwurtz #chrissharp #christopherdarcangelo #hiredcenter #jirikovanda #kirstenpieroth #lamonteyoung #mierleladermanukeles #mladenstilinovic #moussepublishing #tehchinghsieh #zarouhieabdalian
Cunt-Ups
Dodie Bellamy
Published by Tender Buttons Press, New York, 2019, 80 pages, 12.7 × 17.7 cm, English
Price: €17 (Temporarily out of stock)

Dodie Bellamy’s Cunt-Ups, first published in 2001 and recipient of the Firecracker Award for Innovative Poetry, was immediately a controversial and celebrated work. Using the “cut-up” method of William S. Burroughs, Cunt-Ups is a work of sex magick, based on source texts from old lovers and Jeffery Dahmer transcriptions. The resulting spell queers everything around it.

#2019 #dodiebellamy #newnarrative
Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
Donna Haraway
Published by Free Association Books, London, 1996, 290 pages, 15 × 23 cm, English
Price: €24 (Temporarily out of stock)

Simians, Cyborgs and Women is a powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their profound link as “creatures” which have had a great destabilizing place in Western evolutionary technology and biology. Throughout this book, Haraway analyzes accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs. At once a social reality and a science fiction, the cyborg—a hybrid of organism and machine—represents transgressed boundaries and intense fusions of the nature/culture split. By providing an escape from rigid dualisms, the cyborg exists in a post-gender world, and as such holds immense possibilities for modern feminists. First published in 1991.

#1996 #donnaharaway
Soleil politique
Pierre-Bal Blanc
Published by Paraguay Press, Paris, 2016, 216 pages (b/w ill.), 15 × 24 cm, English
Price: €25 (Temporarily out of stock)

Soleil Politique is a book conceived by curator Pierre-Bal Blanc, in dialogue with graphic designers Vier5 and Paraguay, the book dwells on the exhibition that he organized at Museion Bolzano in 2014. In Soleil Politique, Pierre Bal-Blanc examinines the exhibition starting points in the readings of a group of thinkers and artists, its methodology—inspired by the musical compositions of Cornelius Cardew.

Contributions by Robert Breer, K.P. Brehmer, Marcel Broodthaers, Giorgio De Chirico, Josef Dabernig, Félix González-Torres, Dan Graham, Sanja Ivekovic, Deimantas Narkevičius, Roman Ondák, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Pratchaya Phinthong, Carlo Scarpa, Allan Sekula, Sturtevant, Terre Thaemlitz, Philippe Thomas, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Lois Weinberger, Lawrence Weiner and others.

#2016 #christodoulospanayiotou #clemensvonwedemeyer #deimantasnarkevicius #felixgonzaleztorres #giorgiodechirico #josefdabernig #kpbrehmer #loisweinberger #paraguaypress #pierrebalblanc #pratchayaphinthong #terrethaemlitz
Visit (1883–2020): Notes on Museumplein's exhibitionary complex across coloniality and modernity
Timo Demollin
Published by the artist, Amsterdam, 2020, 120 pages, (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 28 cm, English / Dutch
Price: €28

Produced as a supplement to the work Visit (1883–2020), 2020, in the context of the group exhibition In the Presence of Absence: Proposals for the Museum Collection, curated by Britte Sloothaak and Fadwa Naamna at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 5 September, 2020–31 January, 2021.

With contributions by Marieke Bloembergen, Jan van Adrichem, Aspha Bijnaar, Sadiah Boonstra, Caroline Drieënhuizen, Mitchell Esajas, Guno Jones and Simone Zeefuik.

Designed by Jan-Pieter Karper.

#2020 #janpieterkarper #stedelijkmuseum #timodemollin