Floating Opera Press

29/07/2024

Great, thoughtful review of Aruna D’Souza’s “Imperfect Solidarities” in Art in America by Larissa Pham! 🙏👌 Link in bio ☝️

29/05/2024

“A Q***r Theory of the State” spotted Seaport 😎 go grab a copy and see what Samuel Clowes Huneke has to say about q***r studies and the state 🏛️🌈
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23/05/2024

Covers for Aruna D’Souza’s “Imperfect Solidarities” are printed and headed to the binder 📙 Hitting bookstores in mid-July!
Details in launch events in July and September forthcoming 🎉
This is the 7th installment of our Critic’s Essay Series and we’re super excited to publish it.

In “Imperfect Solidarities” D’Souza contends, we need to imagine a form of political solidarity that is not based on empathy, but on the much more difficult obligation of care. When we can respect the unknowability of the other and still care for and with them, without translating ourselves into their terms, perhaps we will fare better at building political bridges.

08/05/2024

Read Samuel Clowes Huneke’s and Hugh Ryan’s discussion of “A Q***r Theory of the State” in 🎙️ from a transcript of the book launch 😎 link ☝️
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29/04/2024

Feeling inspired and hopeful after ! It was wonderful seeing and talking to so many people about books, and to sell a good many too 😎 I’m excited to dive into what I picked up!

And massive thanks to the team, Sonel, Sunny, and sgp for such a great event 🙏

27/04/2024

Hey NYC, come say hi today the New York Art Book Fair 📚 I’ll be here until 7 and love chatting about books, especially those that I’ve published 😎

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25/04/2024

Come by Booth C38 tonight from 6-9 at 548 W. 22nd St and say hi 📚🎉 we’ll be there with all of our Critic’s Essay Series as well as a selection of our artists’ book!

22/04/2024

Join us this week at the NY Art Book Fair for an engaging conversation between Ciarán Finlayson and Rachel Himes at The Classroom, where they'll be delving into Ciarán's thought-provoking work, "Perpetual Slavery."

🗓️ When: Saturday, April 27th, 2:00 pm
📍 Where: Dia Art Foundation, 537 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011

Admission is free, but make sure to register in advance. Click the link in our bio to secure your spot!

18/04/2024

We’re very happy to announce the 7th instalment in the Critic’s Essay Series: “Imperfect Solidarities” by Aruna D’Souza 💫 Out in June in the EU/UK and July in the US with

In "Imperfect Solidarities," writer and art historian Aruna D’Souza offers observations pulled from current events as well as literature and contemporary art that suggest that a feeling of understanding or closeness based on emotion is an imperfect ground for solidarity. Empathy—and its correlate, love—is a distraction from the hard work that needs to be done to achieve justice. Rather, D’Souza contends, we need to imagine a form of political solidarity that is not based on empathy, but on the much more difficult obligation of care. When we can respect the unknowability of the other and still care for and with them, without translating ourselves into their terms, perhaps we will fare better at building political bridges.

Aruna D’Souza is a writer and critic based in New York. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times and 4Columns.org, where she is a member of the editorial advisory board. Her writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, Bookforum, Frieze, Momus, and Art in America, among other places. Her book, Whitewalling: Art, Race, and Protest in 3 Acts (Badlands Unlimited), was named one of the best art books of 2018 by The New York Times. She is the recipient of the 2021 Rabkin Prize for art journalism and a 2019 Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant.

08/04/2024

Original cover of the unauthorized first edition of Guy Debord’s “Society of the Spectacle” collectively translated and published by Black & Red in Detroit in 1970 🖨️ &red ✊

05/04/2024

Rest in peace John Barth (1930-2024)
Barth was a seminal Southern modernist and postmodern writer who wrote some wonderfully subversive and ahead-of-their time books. I borrowed the title of his “The Floating Opera” for my own imprint and only hope my books confound and eventually delight the critics today as his book did when it was published 🖤
“Though life’s tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn.” -John Barth

04/04/2024

Just absolutely love this painting by Jamian Juliano-Villani NYC 😎 and bringing some fun to

29/03/2024

Victor Man .gallery

18/03/2024

All 6 Critic’s Essay Series spotted by editor extraordinaire Louisa Elderton 🙏 thanks to all at the ICA London bookstore for helping us get these nuggets of contemporary wisdom out into the world 🗺️

Photo:

05/03/2024

Paul Thek at Galerie Buchholz NYC 🟩 yes please 😎

16/02/2024

Living as a foreigner ... A short quote from Steven Warwick's "Notes on Evil," an investigation into the current social architectures that determine the perception of the notion of "evil"... and the production of figures that embody it.

Warwick's book is still available to order online through our distributors or at your local bookstore. 📚✨

06/02/2024

Book-length documentation by Joseph Grigely of a yearlong project at called MacLean 705 purchased 👍 Artist included and among others. 🏫 Not sure if the inscription is my but I like to think it is
Published by for
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There is a great piece on Grigely in by

26/01/2024

Tomorrow in Malmö, join Skēnē for an afternoon in the company of Karen Archey, curator and critic, revolving around her book "After Institutions" (Floating Opera Press, 2022) and continuing research project of the same name.

"After Institutions" addresses contemporary art's sociopolitical entanglements by expanding the definition of Institutional Critique, looking beyond what cultural institutions were to what they are and what they might become.

You can order “After Institutions” through ✨

🕓 Date and time: 27th January 2024 at 4 PM CEST.
📍Location: Drottninggatan 6C, Malmö 212 11, Sweden

22/01/2024

G. Peter Jemison at 47 Canal ❄️ up till January 27, go give it a peep 👀

19/01/2024

Thanks to all who came out last night to the launch of “A Q***r Theory of the State” 🙏 And thanks to Hugh Ryan and Samuel Clowes Huneke for a great conversation, and to our hosts P&T Knitwear 📚

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16/01/2024

So happy to see Samuel Clowes Huneke’s “A Q***r Theory of the State” front and center on the round table at in SoHo 🙏 go grab a copy if in 📚
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12/01/2024

Not long to go until the official US launch of Samuel Clowes Huneke's "A Q***r Theory of the State"—an exploration into how the state is an integral component of a politics that seeks to subvert and undo the oppression of q***r lives, and the latest edition to our Critic's Essay Series. 🌟

Join us on Thursday, January 18, at 7 PM at P&T Knitwear, where a discussion between Samuel and author Hugh Ryan will take place, as well as the opportunity to get signed copies of the book. The event is free to attend but we recommend RSVPing to secure your spot—link in bio! ⬆️

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04/01/2024

First edition of Atticus Lish’s “Life Is with People” published by Tyrant Books 📚 filled with some intense drawings, and some humor 👌

26/12/2023

Hey Houston, come out for the launch of Perpetual Slavery at Basket Books 📗 Ciarán Finlayson will be in conversation with Anna De Filippi 🎤

25/12/2023

Michael Krebber 🎄

22/12/2023

Join us in listening to New Books Network's latest podcast episode as Samuel Clowes Huneke sits down with the Lea Greenberg to unravel the layers of his newest title "A Q***r Theory of the State." Hear all about the process, inspirations, and the insights that shaped this work. Tune in now on New Books Network's website or Apple Podcasts to listen to the entire podcast. 🎧✨

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28/01/2023

Dora Budor Berlin 👌

20/01/2023

Antonio Obá New York 😎 ends this weekend — go check it out 🌈

13/01/2023

Hope to see you tomorrow evening Amsterdam!

This Saturday January 14, 8—10pm
Launch of NOTES ON EVIL by Steven Warwick

with Steven Warwick in conversation with Becket MWN at 8.30pm

What is evil? How is it categorized, understood, and used as a tool? Surveying recent examples of "evil" which have taken hold in mass culture, Notes on Evil examines the mechanisms by which societies construct new enemies in a collective bid to rid themselves of their problems, usually culminating in largely superficial or aestheticized purges. Do societies necessarily need to create evil villains in order to function? And is the villain's role best understood as that of a court jester, who symbolically appears to mock the sovereign, while actually reinforcing their position of power?
Artist and writer Steven Warwick reflects on the overlapping social architectures which frame our current discourse on good and evil, ultimately charting a path beyond our present climate of reductivism, false binaries, and collective impasse.

Steven Warwick is a British artist, musician and writer residing in Berlin. His practice includes durational performance installations, plays and films using the construction of situations and language. He also makes music under his own name, and previously as Heatsick. His writing has appeared in Texte zur Kunst, Frieze, Urbanomic, Artforum, Spike and Electronic Beats and has co-authored a book released on Primary Information.

07/01/2023

Stefanie Heinze 🤜💥