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Floating Opera Press is a Berlin-based imprint publishing contemporary art and cultural criticism

31/12/2024

As 2024 comes to an end, we want to share and reflect on some of our favorite moments from the year. A heartfelt thank you to all our writers, collaborators, and supporters for your dedication and encouragement. From new publications to book fairs, it’s been an incredible journey to be part of so many amazing experiences.

We can’t wait to bring you more exciting things in 2025—stay tuned!

23/12/2024

Wishing you a happy Michael Krebber 🎄

14/12/2024

Come along this weekend to the annual Book Bash at the Storefront for Art and Architecture , a weekend long-event convening independent publishers in art, architecture, culture, and more. Support publishers in/outside of NYC and shop from a variety of vendors, including zines, creative collaboratives, indie presses and more ✨📚

22/11/2024

We are excited to announce that our books will be available at the upcoming TURNING TABLES Art Book / Publication Fair + Show in Toronto!

Free and open to the public, TURNING TABLES is a hybrid art book fair + show that will shine a spotlight on over 20 local and international arts publishers and producers of art books, critical arts publications, periodicals, prints, apparel, editions, multiples, and more.

Join for the main event Thursday, Nov 28 from 5-8 pm when the Fair will be launched in conjunction with 401 Richmond’s annual Holiday Open House. Browse the offerings alongside 5 floors of galleries, shops, a licenced café, and 25+ open creative studios.

After the launch evening, the Fair / Show continues during gallery hours through Dec 14th. Stay tuned to the Instagram feed at .distance for exhibitor highlights and new releases to be announced.

22/10/2024

Two of the last few copies of Q***r Formalism spotted at the Walter Koenig bookstore in Berlin 👀 for those of you in and around Berlin hoping to get your hands on a copy, you know where to go!

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24/09/2024

SAVE THE DATE!

Join us in just five weeks for an exciting evening at P&T Knitwear as we celebrate Aruna D’Souza’s “Imperfect Solidarities.” The event will feature a conversation with curator and writer Legacy Russell.

Date: Tuesday, October 29
Time: 7PM
Location: P&T Knitwear, 180 Orchard Street, New York

The event is free and open to all, so come along and be part of what promises to be a great evening!

11/09/2024

For those of you in and around Marseille, our “Notes on Evil” author Steven Warwick will be giving a reading and performance this coming Friday at LOTO .

Doors: 7 pm, Performance: 8 pm

LOTO
17 rue Flégier
13001 Marseille

See you there!

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

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