Conversations With The Hearing (1994/2020)
Joseph Grigely
Published by Shimmer, Rotterdam, 2020, 5 cards (colour & b/w ill.), 14.8 × 10.5 cm, English
Price: €0.00

Conversations With The Hearing (1994/2020) by Joseph Grigely comes fromGrigely’s extensive archive of conversations through notes and drawing that he has gathered over the years. For Shimmer, he has made a selection which he and designer Christophe Clarijs have made into 5 postcard-sized works. These works will be dispersed through the postal system. Fragments of past conversations will move through hands, mail slots, in pockets and across borders. Available as a free pack of 5 postcards (edition of 250).

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On Property
International Institute of Social History, Ghislaine Leung, Remco Torenbosch
Published by Cargo in Context, Amsterdam, 2020, card, 14.8 × 14.8 cm, English
Price: €2

Invitation produced on the occasion of On Property, International Institute of Social History, Ghislaine Leung, Remco Torenbosch at Cargo in Context, Amsterdam.

On Property is set against the backdrop of one of the most speculative construction sites in Amsterdam: de Houthavens. This former port area (also the location where Cargo is located) is exemplary of how urban expansion is used as a means for speculation of property, with all its socio-economic consequences. On Property focuses on the subcutaneous and invisible lines of the idea of ownership, a concept that forces separations from public and private and that produces an unequal distribution of collective values.

More information on the project can be found here and here.

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Between Ears, New Colours
Elena Narbutaitė and Hagar Schmidhalter
Published by CRAC Alsace, Centre rhénan d’art contemporain, Altkirch, 2020, leporello, 5.2 × 7.3 cm (unfolded 5.2 × 31.2 cm), English / French
Price: €3

Invitation and pamphlet produced on the occasion of Between Ears, New Colours, a group exhibition with Elena Narbutaitė and Hagar Schmidhalter, curated by Elfi Turpin at CRAC Alsace. Designed by Charles Mazé & Coline Sunier. More information on the exhibition can be found here.

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Ici Non, Hier Nicht, Not Here #1
Christopher Knowles
Published by Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, 2020, 12 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 23 × 29 cm, English
Price: €10

Ici Non, Hier Nicht, Not Here is a new publication series of the Kunstverein. The first issue is dedicated to the work of Christopher Knowles.

Ici Non, Hier Nicht, Not Here is an exhibition that uses the ‘paper space’ as an exhibition space. Its name is derived from a series of works by artist Remy Zaugg from 1995. This series consists out of small paintings with scarcely legible words that dialectically refer to the fact that images are physical, found in a specific place, and yet also ubiquitous.

Concept: Noor Mertens, Bart de Baets, Lea Schürmann. Designed by Bart de Baets.

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Blood: The Poems And Archive Of R. Broby-Johansen
Line-Gry Hørup
Published by Kunstverein, Amsterdam, 2020, 434 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 24 cm, English
Price: €40

Edited and designed by Line-Gry Hørup, this long-awaited publication presents the first-ever translations of the fourteen (and only) poems written by the Danish art historian and publisher R. Broby-Johansen in 1922, for which he was sentenced to jail. In vivid and gory details, the poems depict the red-light district of Copenhagen’s underbelly. In them, he defends those subjected to misery and poverty, and comments on the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie responsible for their misery. The appendix of the book gives a unique insight into Broby-Johansen’s methodology, interests and life following the end of his career as a poet, through photographs taken by Johannes Schwartz and translations of the archive by Hørup.

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Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking and Censorship
Karen Brodine
Published by Unbidden Tongues / Publication Studio, Rotterdam, 2020, 32 pages (b/w ill.), 14 × 22.5 cm, English
Price: €8

Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking and Censorship is a two-part collection of poems by typesetter, activist and poet Karen Brodine. First published posthumously in 1990 as a reflection on her life as a typesetter, union organiser and lesbian, this series of ‘work poems’ chronicles labour struggles, both personal and collective, and draws on her experience growing up surrounded by socialist feminists immediately following the wrath of McCarthyism.

It is the second title from Unbidden Tongues, a series edited by Isabelle Sully that focuses on previously produced yet relatively uncirculated work by cultural practitioners busy with questions surrounding civility and civic life—particularly so in relation to language.

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