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30/10/2024

Loncraine Broxton

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Happy Publication Day!🎉📚❤️

Loncraine Broxton is out today!

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In the late 1960s, former art-school friends Richard Loncraine and Peter Broxton formed a partnership to make sculptures and desk-top toys for the burgeoning UK gift market. With a background in kinetic sculpture, concrete poetry, and the experimental art scene of 1960s London Loncraine Broxton imbued their products with flair and inventiveness. Their first design, Ballrace, a stylish chrome version of Newton's cradle, became the defining executive toy of the 1970s and 1980s. It was followed by a series of memorable, playful products such as elegant kinetic sculptures, games for the home and garden, as well as items which revealed the pair's knack for the outlandish: a giant match concealing a cigarette lighter, a double-sized deck chair, a pen disguised as a red mullet fish, address books with perfectly tailored jackets. Their liquid puzzles like the Mercury Maze with a real blob of mercury, or their Perrier and Champagne games, wittily characterise the mood of the 1980s. This new book brings together the huge range of Loncraine Broxton products with commentary by Richard Loncraine and Peter Broxton, telling the story of how they spent three decades devising unlikely ideas for products to amuse and delight.

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30/10/2024

19/05/2024

Sunday, Day 3 of Offprint London 2024 at Tate Modern!💥📚❤

Make sure to stop by the Art Data table #87 ❤📚

18/05/2024

Day 2!📚📚📚📚📚📚

Offprint London Bookfair

At Tate Modern

Until 18:00 today, last entry 17:50

See Art Data, & all the wonderful publications from
all our lovely publishers
At Table 87

28/03/2024

Open Mouths - Sharan Hunjan

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Happy Publication Day to Sharan Hunjan's Open Mouths !

In Open Mouths Sharan Hunjan presents a vision of a world simultaneously familiar and strikingly strange. The quotidian, the domestic, the commonplace are interrogated and manipulated through the poet’s eye for detail, linguistic sense of play and restless imaginative and philosophical impulses. The shortcomings of language, the gulf between words and meaning, between experience and description, the space between translation, between places, between generations—these are the problems with which Hunjan grapples.
Full of seemingly quiet, yet startlingly profound thought, razor-sharp wordplay, raw emotion and dazzling image and phrase-making, Open Mouths marks the emergence of another stellar talent from 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE.

Includes the poem 'Sister Rach', just announced to have been longlisted, chosen from 19k poems, from over 100 countries, and over 8000 poets for the National Poetry Competition 2023 from .

13/02/2024

The Monadic Age
Notes on the Coming Social Order
by Ingo Niermann

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The world is marked by deepening conflicts—between democracies and autocracies, woke and populist identity politics, rich and poor, continued environmental exploitation and harsh complications like climate change. In The Monadic Age, Ingo Niermann argues that, stirred by rapid developments in automation and AI, these manifold crises are about to culminate in a new paradigm of self-sufficiency—monadism—that overturns the liberal era and forces a reinvention of all social parameters.

Today, two major post-liberal dispositions are unfolding. On the one side, people envision a harmonious community of all human and nonhuman beings (multi-species kinship, a rainbow of identities). On the other side, people isolate themselves within their own identities and belongings (filter bubbles, safe spaces, gated communities, charter cities, prepping). Monadism recognizes that these two seemingly contradictory dispositions stem from a similar understanding of the world: one is more optimistic, the other more pessimistic, but ultimately they’re interdependent. Before seeking harmony, we humans, a highly dominant species, must first of all restrain ourselves from coercive interactions with our environment. And to protect ourselves sufficiently from our environment, we must minimize its abuse.

The Monadic Age unfolds in thirty-three autonomous—monadic—essays on topics as diverse as environmentalism, terrorism, geopolitics, housing, the metaverse, nonbinarism, language, charity, euthanasia, identity politics, tattoos, ableism, AI, birthrates, war, religion, s*x, and art.

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07/02/2024

🔊🎙📻📡 TOMORROW Thursday February 7th

ON BBC RADIO6

Alex Coles joins Chris Hawkins
to talk about

Tainted Love - From Nina Simone to Kendrick Lamar

his book from

just in time for Valentine's Day💔📕

see link to 📻 show in bio

Titled after Soft Cell's version of the original 1965 Gloria Jones track, Tainted Love is the first book-length inquiry into the subject of the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency. Sometimes extreme, this twist to the conventional romantic ballad spans across gender and generational boundaries to subvert our understanding of both the genre's function and its behavior. Each chapter of Tainted Love explores a single twisted ballad in depth, examining both its inner workings-lyrics, melody, and vocal approach-and its broader cultural resonance. The analysis developed in the chapters turns on the question: what compels songwriters to compose-and us to listen to-these warped songs?

Featuring an analysis of songs by Kendrick Lamar, Nina Simone, Roxy Music, Joni Mitchell, The Velvet Underground, Antonio Carlos Jobim & Frank Sinatra, Soft Cell, Paul McCartney, Charlotte & Serge Gainsbourg, PJ Harvey & Nick Cave and Little Simz, this book turns on the question: What compels songwriters to compose—and us to listen to—these warped songs?

06/02/2024

Ben Rivers - Collected Stories

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Collected Stories is, as implied by the title, a collection of stories, curated by Ben Rivers. Fiction and poetry have always been an essential source of inspiration for his filmmaking. On the occasion of the retrospective Ghost Strata, and other stories, held at Jeu de Paume in Paris in November 2023, he decided to bring his films in conversation with writers who have influenced him over the years. Rivers invited fourteen authors to watch one of his films and respond in writing in any way they wished. Imaginative and surprising, the fables, essays and poems of Collected Stories come together in a beautiful celebration of the work of one of contemporary cinema's vital artists, doubling as a testament to the reciprocal nature of inspiration. The authors of these collected stories are Gina Apostol, Chloe Aridjis, Kevin Barry, Xiaolu Guo, Golan Haji, M John Harrison, Daisy Hildyard, Nathalie Leger, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Helen Oyeyemi, Iain Sinclair, Irene Sola, Lynne Tillman and Marina Warner.

To celebrate the publication of Collected Stories, join & on this Thursday, February 8th in London;

18:30 at Kate MacGarry Gallery@katemacgarry
for book launch & reading by
Vanessa Onwuemezi

20:15 join Experimental Cinema for a 16mm short film screening + Q&A at Close Up Cinema
Rivers will introduce a selection of his films, followed by a Q&A session hosted by Fireflies Press editor Giovanni Marchini Camia.

See link in bio for more details & booking 📽🎟

book design by , with thanks to Jeu de Paume and STUK: House for Dance, Image and Sound

18/01/2024

The Complex Answer - On Art as a Nonbinary Intelligence

Chus Martinez

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The Complex Answer presents the reader with a selection of texts—from 2010 to 2021—that introduce an exercise in how a practice of art and exhibition making has been influenced by philosophical thinking. One form of thinking oriented towards the production of an epistemological space where art is not illustrating ideas but enacting thinking and activating experience as an epistemological force that slowly erodes and, eventually, erases the culture-nature divide.

For the sake of creating a dramaturgy and stressing the thesis these known writings have been reedited and partly rewritten. The texts aim to enforce the idea that art is an intelligence that is influenced by ideas and the emergence of new notions but also thinking through experience. An experience that is aesthetic and epistemological in equal terms.

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23/11/2023

Couldn't resist reposting on this crisp & bright (for now!) November day 😍🍁🍂📚🍂🍁📚
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On Listening To Trees 🌳

Stunning book available now - bathe in the forests and nature!

Albarrán Cabrera’s poetic universe invites us to immerse ourselves in nature, in the land of trees and on what trees can teach us about life.

The idea for the book comes from a text written by Hermann Hesse that can be described as one of the most beautiful love letters to trees.

Hesse tells us that “when we listen to trees, we discover the meaning of life”, so in this book Albarrán Cabrera explain that in the process of photographing trees they have learnt not only how to listen to them but also to better understand themselves.

11/11/2023

on our table at Offprint Paris today...
macinnis

and many more fab publications from wonderful publishers!😍📚❤📚❤

10/10/2023

Solitary

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Organised & edited by Tyler Coburn , Solitary is a collection of texts written at a wellness center in South Korea designed as a mock prison. This facility is run by an organization called Happitory-a combination of "Happiness" and "Factory." Happitory offers retreats for teenagers, company employees, government officials, and the general public. Some sessions involve drama therapy, others are led by Buddhist monks. Most intriguing is a program called "Solitary Confinement," where one can spend twenty-four hours of technology-free time locked in an individual cell.

To create Solitary, artist Coburn commissioned ten practitioners (including himself) to spend time in solitary confinement at this wellness center, where they produced texts using the materials on hand. Certain questions drove their writing. How does one square the relaxation promised by Happitory with the way solitary confinement functions in actual prisons? What types of thinking and writing become possible through its restrictions-no book, no Internet, just writing materials? How might the emphasis on writing relate to texts by Oscar Wilde, Antonio Gramsci, Kim Dae-jung, Shin Young-bok, and others produced during periods of imprisonment?

Taken as a whole, Solitary is unique in being both a collection of texts and a collective artwork: an experiment in site-specific writing.

With contributions by Jaeyeon Chung, Tyler Coburn, Sunjin Kim, Hyunjeung Kim, Kyungmook Kim, Min Kyoung Lee, Woochang Lee, Russell Mason, InYoung Yeo, Jiwon Yu.

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📣📚🎉Launching tonight at 18:00
at
With conversation with
& Cliff Lauson

09/10/2023

Rights Not Charity: Protest Textiles and Disability Activism

by Gill Crawshaw

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The new publication from Common Threads Press, in stock & available for orders now!

Textiles have long been part of the fabric of disabled people’s lives and history.
In common with banners of the women’s suffrage movement and trade unions, disabled activists have embraced banners as a form of protest and resistance, communicating messages about identity, pride, unity and justice.

Rights Not Charity tells the stories of these banners.

Curator Gill Crawshaw explores this history through the protest banners and political artwork of disabled people’s rights movements, taking in political responses to charity, accessibility, and government cuts, among other causes.

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26/09/2023

The NIGHTLIFE series
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Rough Trade Edition No.55 - Chaotic Nightclub Photos by Gabrielle de la Puente

Taking the reader through an artistic history of the representations of nightclubs through the prism of author Gabrielle de la Puente’s obsession with the Chaotic Nightclub Photos Twitter account. Chaotic Nightclub Photos: The Review is an utterly contemporary, smart, playful slice of personal essay goodness.

Rough Trade Edition No. 56 - Delíria by
Jeff Young .26

As day and night blur into one another across a quintessentially European backdrop, Jeff Young explores the sensations of ’the City’ as muse, landscape, inspiration and antagonist. A masterpiece of bruised, beat short fiction.

Rough Trade Edition No.57 - Rory Gallagher—Live!—From the Hotel of the Dead by Tim MacGabhann with Irish translation by Colm Breathnach thanks to

A kaleidoscopic, almost psychedelic conjuring of images and cultural reference points power this incredible single long poem from Irish novelist and poet Tim MacGabhann. A heartsore evocation of the blues that feels both hard won and linguistically ecstatic, this is a bravura poetic performance.

Rough Trade Edition No.58 - Learning Lines by Cathy Thomas

A glimpse behind the curtain of life in the theatre courtesy of two brilliant short stories from author Cathy Thomas highlighting how the anticipation, hope and promise of youth come into dramatic tension with the grubby realities of adult, working life with its both profound and petty disappointments.

05/09/2023

Tam Joseph - I Know What I See

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Bringing together paintings and sculptures from over 40 years of work, Tam Joseph: I Know What I See is the first major publication to provide an extensive survey of the work of Dominica-born British artist Tam Joseph (b. 1947). Joseph’s wide-ranging career defies being pinned down to any one style or approach. But while his art takes him in many different directions, it is grounded in a sensibility which revels in the connections between things, as well as the creative possibilities of human perception.
Some paintings reflect on his own history and the history of injustices faced by African Caribbean people in Britain. Other works draw inspiration from diverse sources including cinema, music, and sport, as well as the natural world, and the history of painting itself. Whether his subject is landscape, portrait or history, Joseph employs his deep knowledge of paintings of the past to create work which invites viewers to consider these genres afresh.
Eddie Chambers’ insightful essay explores how Joseph’s independent spirit and boundless imagination offer a thrilling survey of a lifetime’s creative expression.

‘With the wry observations of his concerted, determined and engaging international reach, Joseph is in so many respects the absolute embodiment of diaspora. But perhaps we’d do better to simply describe Joseph as a world citizen, one who is as deeply engaged with history as he is with geography, and formidably engaged with artistic innovation.’ — Eddie Chambers, Introduction to Tam Joseph: I Know What I See

To mark the publication of I Know What I See, Four Corners Books present a special in-conversation between Tam Joseph and art historian Dr. Anjalie Dalal-Clayton at Raven Row Saturday 9 September, 6.30pm (doors open at 6pm), followed by refreshments. Please see link in bio to book free tickets.

All artwork (c) Tam Joseph

05/09/2023

Tam Joseph - I Know What I See

from

Bringing together paintings and sculptures from over 40 years of work, Tam Joseph: I Know What I See is the first major publication to provide an extensive survey of the work of Dominica-born British artist Tam Joseph (b. 1947). Joseph’s wide-ranging career defies being pinned down to any one style or approach. But while his art takes him in many different directions, it is grounded in a sensibility which revels in the connections between things, as well as the creative possibilities of human perception.
Some paintings reflect on his own history and the history of injustices faced by African Caribbean people in Britain. Other works draw inspiration from diverse sources including cinema, music, and sport, as well as the natural world, and the history of painting itself. Whether his subject is landscape, portrait or history, Joseph employs his deep knowledge of paintings of the past to create work which invites viewers to consider these genres afresh.
Eddie Chambers’ insightful essay explores how Joseph’s independent spirit and boundless imagination offer a thrilling survey of a lifetime’s creative expression.

‘With the wry observations of his concerted, determined and engaging international reach, Joseph is in so many respects the absolute embodiment of diaspora. But perhaps we’d do better to simply describe Joseph as a world citizen, one who is as deeply engaged with history as he is with geography, and formidably engaged with artistic innovation.’ — Eddie Chambers, Introduction to Tam Joseph: I Know What I See

To mark the publication of I Know What I See, Four Corners Books present a special in-conversation between Tam Joseph and art historian Dr. Anjalie Dalal-Clayton at Raven Row , Saturday 9 September, 6.30pm (doors open at 6pm), followed by refreshments. Please see link in bio to book a free ticket.

All artwork (c) Tam Joseph

06/05/2022

📢📣🎉📚❤Hurray! One more week to go!📚

Join Art Data with books from our wonderful publishers next weekend at Offprint 2022 at Tate Modern.
Offprint

⏰ Opening Times
Friday 13 May: 14:00 – 18:00
Saturday 14 May: 10:00 – 18:00
Sunday 15 May: 10:00 – 18:00
Free / Booking required ;
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/offprint-london

Rough Trade Books Sternberg Press
CentreCentre Leonard Koren Camden Art Centre

Valerie Phillips Grand Gallery Yasushi Ide Fireflies Press THE GREEN BOX The Modern Institute studio Gagosian
White Cube Fruitmarket Dundee Contemporary Arts Accumulate Centre Pompidou DCV

Four Corners Books Hato Press
After 8 Books

22/04/2022

Water Futures - Where Will the Water Come From?

from Jane Withers Design Studio

This beautifully designed and illustrated publication brings together the findings from the year-long Water Futures programme, exploring the ongoing relationship between drinking water and city life, curated by Jane Withers Studio.
With sections exploring the programme themes Harvesting the Sky, Pollution and Purification, Re-imagining Urban Water and Drink Local, with contributions from participating experts, practitioners and artists including Ashley Dawson, Anthony Acciavatti, Morna Livingstone, Emma Riley, Willis Elkins and Mary Miss.
With the aim of informing and inspiring a wider design audience to address the urban water crisis, the project looks at highlights of the programme, including explorations and solutions in living and working with water from across the globe, from South Africa, India, Japan, the Americas and Europe.

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