Carrot Jokes are a genre of dense, joke-like texts first proposed by cognitive linguists Chlopicki and Petray (1981) to undermine emerging computational models of humor analysis. These jokes, further developed by others in the field, depend on a preponderance of background incongruities, blunt omissions, faulty script switch-triggers, “gray” implicature, and missing links in inferencing.

Michael Portnoy’s practice spans dance-theater, vocal power-tools, Relational Stalinism, reptangles, abstract gambling, the improvement of biennials, and Icelandic cockroach porn. His art circles the rules of play and communication—language itself playing a crucial role in the works.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Borrowed Space at Emergent, Veurne, 1 July–16 September, 2018. Edition of 300 copies

Textless newspaper with drawn compositions, borrowed from existing book covers, posters, and paintings.

Produced on the occasion of Kunstprojekt für das Rehabilitationszentrum Meran, Südtirol, 1998–2004, curated by Martin Fritz, rehabilitation center, cafeteria, geriatrics department, Meran.

This project by Maria Eichhorn was created as part of the artistic design of the Meran Hospital. For this purpose, two libraries were instigated. This book lists the titles and names of a total of forty writers, from Jane Austen to Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Hermann, Doris Lessing, Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf to Banana Yoshimoto.

Texts and graphic works by Emmett Williams the American Fluxus artist and poet. With the introduction in the form of a letter to Ann Noel, his wife. The book is divided into four parts: IBM; EGO, HEGO, SHEGO; DIE (DIE) & FETE DUCHAMPETRE, all are multi page flip book-style compositions.

To see more on Edition Hansjörg Mayer visit Kunstverein Amsterdam’s current exhibition, The How and the What – Edition Hansjörg Mayer, extended until 21 June, details can be found here.

A young Asian woman’s life at Yale takes a dizzying turn when she meets Dolores—her doppelgänger—at a party. As they begin to merge into each other’s social and sexual worlds, it becomes impossible to tell where one girl ends and the other begins. When Dolores’ boyfriend and his twin brother enter into this pas de deux, identities and couplings spin off into a sinister and perverse web of illusions. Fantasian is Single White Female for the dawn of a new sexual fluidity.

Fantasian by Larissa Pham is one of the New Lovers, a series of short erotic fiction published by Badlands Unlimited. Inspired by Maurice Girodias’ legendary Olympia Press, New Lovers features the raw and uncut writings of authors new to the erotic romance genre. Each story has its own unique take on relationships, intimacy, and sex, as well as the complexities that bedevil contemporary life and culture today.