kyklàda.press, Athens (2024)

28/06/2024

thank you Printed Matter, Inc. for this engaged response on the series! friends in the US, we have distribution now near you!

24/09/2022

FORCED) MOVEMENT
Across the Aegean Archipelago
press

What would be of contemporary culture if we did not recognize the impact of migration in cultural and socio-economic crossings? This book explores human migration in different times, contexts, and geographies surrounding the Aegean Sea. Through an assemblage of voices, lived experiences, historical documents, urban and rural dislocations, this publication examines responses to mobility of the ones on the move, and of the ones living in the destinations the former are heading to. It speaks of the sacrifices one is forced to make en route and at its antipode; the implications of voluntary migration to a place, steered by investment in real estate.

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
illustrations: color and b/w
printing: offset
ISBN: 978-9-464202-84-7
language: English
first print: fall 2021
available

price: 12 euro - (10 in Athens)

keywords: human geography, archipelago topographies, archaeology of moods and emotions, experiences of urbanism, historical (dis)continuities, architecture, gender equality, non-patriarchy, corporeality, writing experiment, public health, and healing

24/09/2022

ARCHITECTURES OF HEALING
Cure through Sleep, Touch, and Travel
press

Today, many feel fettered by insomnia, untouchability, and restrictions on movement. Looking for a more holistic approach to bodily and mental health, this book explores architectures and elementary forms of care and healing in different time periods: from the powers of sleep, touch, and travel in Asklepieia, the ancient healing temples for divine dream encounters alleviating the pain of the ailing pilgrim; to the attentiveness carried through the healing touch from the establishment of Byzantine hospitals till our times; to a pilgrimage center in modern-day Le**os on a personal search for healing from the traumas of war and patriarchy; to the liberating and self-preserving powers of sleep as a healing response to past and current systems of oppression.

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
illustrations: color and b/w
printing: offset
ISBN: 978-9-464202-84-7
language: English
first print: fall 2021
second print: fall 2022
available

price: 12 euro - (10 in Athens)

24/09/2022

ARCHITECTURES OF HEALING
Cure through Sleep, Touch, and Travel
press

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
illustrations: color and b/w
printing: offset
ISBN: 978-9-464202-84-7
language: English
first print: fall 2021
second print: fall 2022
available

price: 12 euro - (10 in Athens)

content:

Asklepieia:
Architectures of Healing
400 BC to 200,
David Bergé

The Healing Power of Sleep
Milica Ivić

The Healing Touch
Antigone Samellas

My Grandmother’s
Desire to Heal:
A Pilgrimage to Le**os
Valentina Karga

24/09/2022

ARCHITECTURES OF HEALING
Cure through Sleep, Touch, and Travel
press

Today, many feel fettered by insomnia, untouchability, and restrictions on movement. Looking for a more holistic approach to bodily and mental health, this book explores architectures and elementary forms of care and healing in different time periods: from the powers of sleep, touch, and travel in Asklepieia, the ancient healing temples for divine dream encounters alleviating the pain of the ailing pilgrim; to the attentiveness carried through the healing touch from the establishment of Byzantine hospitals till our times; to a pilgrimage center in modern-day Le**os on a personal search for healing from the traumas of war and patriarchy; to the liberating and self-preserving powers of sleep as a healing response to past and current systems of oppression.

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
illustrations: color and b/w
printing: offset
ISBN: 978-9-464202-84-7
language: English
first print: fall 2021
second print: fall 2022
available

price: 12 euro - (10 in Athens)

keywords: human geography, archipelago topographies, archaeology of moods and emotions, experiences of urbanism, historical (dis)continuities, architecture, gender equality, non-patriarchy, corporeality, writing experiment, public health, and healing

24/09/2022

FORCED) MOVEMENT
Across the Aegean Archipelago
press

What would be of contemporary culture if we did not recognize the impact of migration in cultural and socio-economic crossings? This book explores human migration in different times, contexts, and geographies surrounding the Aegean Sea. Through an assemblage of voices, lived experiences, historical documents, urban and rural dislocations, this publication examines responses to mobility of the ones on the move, and of the ones living in the destinations the former are heading to. It speaks of the sacrifices one is forced to make en route and at its antipode; the implications of voluntary migration to a place, steered by investment in real estate.

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
illustrations: color and b/w
printing: offset
ISBN: 978-9-464202-84-7
language: English
first print: fall 2021
available

price: 12 euro - (10 in Athens)

24/09/2022

FORCED) MOVEMENT
Across the Aegean Archipelago
press

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
illustrations: color and b/w
printing: offset
ISBN: 978-9-464202-84-7
language: English
first print: fall 2021
available

price: 12 euro - (10 in Athens)

content:

(Forced) Movement
Antigone Samellas

Amygdalia
Christina Phoebe

To live in the Borderlands
means you,
Gloria Anzaldua

In the Great Maria River
Liwaa Yazji

Real Estate
Cosmopolitanisms
George Papam

Uprootings/Xerizomoi
Nicolas Lakiotakis

24/09/2022

FREE LOVE PAID LOVE
Expressions of Affection in Mykonos
press

Nowhere in Cycladic culture has love been defined in a singular all-encompassing manner. Forces of attraction, affection, connection, and relation were ascribed in a plurality of ways. Through symposia in Delos, the tax haven of antiquity, 17th-century transactions of love involving pirates, slaves, and Mykonians; naturist communities reliving sexual freedom in the 1960-70s and 21st-century tourists quest in search of love, free or paid; this book gathers fragments of expressions of affection across Mykonos island. Mykonos has long defined itself as a self-ruling place far away from realities lived elsewhere.

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
illustrations: color and b/w
printing: offset
ISBN 99-789-464202-80-9
language: English
first print: 2020
second print: 2021
available

price: 12 euro - (10 in Athens)

24/09/2022

FREE LOVE PAID LOVE
Expressions of Affection in Mykonos
press

Nowhere in Cycladic culture has love been defined in a singular all-encompassing manner. Forces of attraction, affection, connection, and relation were ascribed in a plurality of ways. Through symposia in Delos, the tax haven of antiquity, 17th-century transactions of love involving pirates, slaves, and Mykonians; naturist communities reliving sexual freedom in the 1960-70s and 21st-century tourists quest in search of love, free or paid; this book gathers fragments of expressions of affection across Mykonos island. Mykonos has long defined itself as a self-ruling place far away from realities lived elsewhere.

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
illustrations: color and b/w
printing: offset
ISBN 99-789-464202-80-9
language: English
first print: 2020
second print: 2021
available

price: 12 euro - (10 in Athens)

content:

Transactions of Love
Nicolas Lakiotakis

To watch every Sunset
as if it was the Last One
Juan Duque

Faces of Love
Denis Maksimov

Professional Hugs
Dimitra Kondylatou

24/09/2022

FREE LOVE PAID LOVE
Expressions of Affection in Mykonos
press

Nowhere in Cycladic culture has love been defined in a singular all-encompassing manner. Forces of attraction, affection, connection, and relation were ascribed in a plurality of ways. Through symposia in Delos, the tax haven of antiquity, 17th-century transactions of love involving pirates, slaves, and Mykonians; naturist communities reliving sexual freedom in the 1960-70s and 21st-century tourists quest in search of love, free or paid; this book gathers fragments of expressions of affection across Mykonos island. Mykonos has long defined itself as a self-ruling place far away from realities lived elsewhere.

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
illustrations: color and b/w
printing: offset
ISBN 99-789-464202-80-9
language: English
first print: 2020
second print: 2021
available

price: 12 euro - (10 in Athens)

keywords: human geography, archipelago topographies, archaeology of moods and emotions, experiences of urbanism, historical (dis)continuities, architecture, gender equality, non-patriarchy, corporeality, writing experiment, public health, and healing

24/09/2022

PUBLIC HEALTH IN CRISIS
Confined in the Aegean Archipelago
press

Epidemics and pandemics undermine societies and highlight the vulnerability of relations people have created to the land, other species, and each other. This book presents fragments of disease management in the Mediterranean from the 15th-century onwards and in the Aegean Archipelago in the last two centuries. From religious to medical approaches to the Bubonic Plague, through the creation of lazarettos, to the famine in occupied Syros, to ghost ships drifting on the Mediterranean: citizens are forced to avoid citizens. Public health in crisis: confinement versus mobility, awakening memories of totalitarian regimes.

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
printing: offset
illustrations: color, b/w
ISBN: 97-894-64202-81-6
language: English
first print: 2020
second print: 2021
available

price: 12 euro - (10 in Athens)

24/09/2022

PUBLIC HEALTH IN CRISIS
Confined in the Aegean Archipelago
press

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
printing: offset
illustrations: color, b/w
ISBN: 97-894-64202-81-6
language: English
first print: 2020
second print: 2021
available

price: 12 euro - (10 in Athens)

content:

Impending Arrivals
Dimitra Kondylatou
& David Bergé

Suspended Arrivals
Dimitra Kondylatou
& David Bergé

Confined Spaces
Dimitra Kondylatou

Confinement
and Totalitarianism:
Famine in Occupied Syros
Nicolas Lakiotakis

Panic Room.
Waiting Room.
Island.
Hülya Ertas

24/09/2022

PUBLIC HEALTH IN CRISIS
Confined in the Aegean Archipelago
press

Epidemics and pandemics undermine societies and highlight the vulnerability of relations people have created to the land, other species, and each other. This book presents fragments of disease management in the Mediterranean from the 15th-century onwards and in the Aegean Archipelago in the last two centuries. From religious to medical approaches to the Bubonic Plague, through the creation of lazarettos, to the famine in occupied Syros, to ghost ships drifting on the Mediterranean: citizens are forced to avoid citizens. Public health in crisis: confinement versus mobility, awakening memories of totalitarian regimes.

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
printing: offset
illustrations: color, b/w
ISBN: 97-894-64202-81-6
language: English
first print: 2020
second print: 2021
available

price: 12 euro - (10 in Athens)

keywords: human geography, archipelago topographies, archaeology of moods and emotions, experiences of urbanism, historical (dis)continuities, architecture, gender equality, non-patriarchy, corporeality, writing experiment, public health, and healing

24/09/2022

THE ARCHITECT IS ABSENT
Approaching the Cycladic Holiday House
press

The white cubical house, the vernacular architecture in the Aegean Archipelago, knows no author. Its capacity to resist harsh climatic and topographic circumstances has been improved and adjusted through time and seems today close to perfection. The white-washed Cycladic House has become iconic to the image of Greece through the construction of national and tourism narratives. What happens when an architect steps into this process of anonymous transmission of skills? In 1966 music composer, architect, and engineer Iannis Xenakis articulated a response to this tradition and designed, from his base in Paris, a holiday house on the island of Amorgos while choosing to remain absent throughout the construction process.

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
printing: offset
illustrations: color, b/w
ISBN: 97-894-64202-82-3
language: English

price: 12 euro - (10 in Athens)

24/09/2022

THE ARCHITECT IS ABSENT
Approaching the Cycladic Holiday House
press

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
printing: offset
illustrations: color, b/w
ISBN: 97-894-64202-82-3
language: English

price: 12 euro - (10 in Athens)

content:

Constructing through Absence
Hülya Ertas

Summer Home for
François-Bernard Mâche,
by Iannis Xenakis, 1966-74
Sharon Kanach

Villa Mâche: a harsh hijack
against the space of the sun
David Bergé

Traveling to the Cyclades
Modernist Projections
Dimitra Kondylatou

Iannis Xenakis Selected
Projects from Critical Index
Sven Sterken

24/09/2022

THE ARCHITECT IS ABSENT
Approaching the Cycladic Holiday House
press

The white cubical house, the vernacular architecture in the Aegean Archipelago, knows no author. Its capacity to resist harsh climatic and topographic circumstances has been improved and adjusted through time and seems today close to perfection. The white-washed Cycladic House has become iconic to the image of Greece through the construction of national and tourism narratives. What happens when an architect steps into this process of anonymous transmission of skills? In 1966 music composer, architect, and engineer Iannis Xenakis articulated a response to this tradition and designed, from his base in Paris, a holiday house on the island of Amorgos while choosing to remain absent throughout the construction process.

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
printing: offset
illustrations: color, b/w
ISBN: 97-894-64202-82-3
language: English

price: 12 euro - (10 in Athens)

keywords: human geography, archipelago topographies, archaeology of moods and emotions, experiences of urbanism, historical (dis)continuities, architecture, gender equality, non-patriarchy, corporeality, writing experiment, public health, and healing

24/09/2022

THE SLEEPING HERMAPHRODITE
Waking up from a Lethargic Confinement
press

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
printing: offset
illustrations: color, b/w
ISBN: 97-894-64202-83-0
language: English
first print: 2020
second print: 2022
available autumn 2022

price: 12 euro - (10 in Athens)

content:

My Trans Body
is an Empty House
Paul B. Preciado

Touching the Difference
Juan Duque

The Sleeping Hermaphroditus,
Roman type,
Juan Duque

Hermaphroditos
Anasyromenos
Nicolas Lakiotakis

Swimming with Myths
Sofia Grigoriadou

Q***r Anticipation
I Greet You
Dionysus and Athena
Denis Maksimov-Gupta

The transformation
of Hermaphroditus
Juan Duque

24/09/2022

THE SLEEPING HERMAPHRODITE
Waking up from a Lethargic Confinement
press

What can a reclining marble sculpture, conceived through a myth in Greek antiquity, tell us today about the fluidity of our gender construction? What has been the role of aesthetic and historical canons in the construction of the female and male genders? Is ‘the sleeping Hermaphrodite’ really asleep? Or has she/he been induced to a long lethargic state, punished and confined by the history of gender normalization?

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
printing: offset
illustrations: color, b/w
ISBN: 97-894-64202-83-0
language: English
first print: 2020
second print: 2022
available autumn 2022

price: 12 euro - (10 in Athens)

keywords: human geography, archipelago topographies, archaeology of moods and emotions, experiences of urbanism, historical (dis)continuities, architecture, gender equality, non-patriarchy, corporeality, writing experiment, public health, and healing

29/04/2022

join us for a reading tomorrow,
Saturday, April 30, 15:15 offstage

(Forced) Movement

Liwaa Yazji is a Syrian filmmaker, screenwriter, playwright, and poet living in Berlin. She will be reading from her contribution to (Forced) Movement (kyklàda.press, 2021), a book exploring human migration in different times, contexts, and geographies surrounding the Aegean Sea. In her text, Liwaa Yazji examines direct responses to the mobility of the ones on the move and the sacrifices one is forced to make en route.
press is a small imprint, a series of texts resonating with phenomena in the Aegean Archipelago. is a publishing organ in Athens, driven by a trans-disciplinary team and directed by David Bergé exploring critical and experimental positions in writing.

Through navigation, the westernized sense of perspective has established a common horizon, simplifying islands as visual spots at the surface of the sea. Islands are not exotic entities alone in the sea waters. Islands remain interconnected with the mainland and each other, from the top of the mountains to the hidden topographies of the sea bed: a myriad of creatures and non-organic matter which lives in constant symbiosis with water; tectonic plates, fossil fuel pipes, and data cables. When writing, we think the urban in relation to the island, we imagine time and duration together with the archipelago, the beach in relation to the built, we think the body when writing about migration.

key words: island topographies, archipelago culture, experiences in landscapes, historical (dis)continuities, q***r, urbanism, gender equality, non-patriarchy, archaeology of moods and emotions, narratives of travel and tourism, corporeality, healing, and public health.

@
asli.ozdoyuran .duque.works

press

29/04/2022

join us for a reading tomorrow,
Saturday, April 30, 15:15 offstage

(Forced) Movement
kyklàda.press

Liwaa Yazji is a Syrian filmmaker, screenwriter, playwright, and poet living in Berlin. She will be reading from her contribution to (Forced) Movement (kyklàda.press, 2021), a book exploring human migration in different times, contexts, and geographies surrounding the Aegean Sea. In her text, Liwaa Yazji examines direct responses to the mobility of the ones on the move and the sacrifices one is forced to make en route.
press is a small imprint, a series of texts resonating with phenomena in the Aegean Archipelago. is a publishing organ in Athens, driven by a trans-disciplinary team and directed by David Bergé exploring critical and experimental positions in writing.

When writing, we think the urban in relation to the island, we imagine time and duration together with the archipelago, the beach in relation to the built, we think the body when writing about migration.

key words: island topographies, archipelago culture, experiences in landscapes, historical (dis)continuities, q***r, urbanism, gender equality, non-patriarchy, archaeology of moods and emotions, narratives of travel and tourism, corporeality, healing, and public health.

.ozdoyuran .duque.works
.press

27/04/2022

dear friends, join us for a reading with Liwaa Yazji at MISSREAD the art book festival in Berlin, this weekend. or come say hi at the kyklàda.press table!

16/03/2022

available now:

ARCHITECTURES OF HEALING
cure through sleep, touch, and travel

(FORCED) MOVEMENT
across the aegean archipelago

THE ARCHITECT IS ABSENT
approaching the cycladic holiday house

FREE LOVE PAID LOVE
expressions of affection in mykonos

PUBLIC HEALTH IN CRISIS
confined in the aegean archipelago

THE SLEEPING HERMAPHRODITE
waking up from a lethargic confinement
(currently sold out - reprint autumn 2022)
press is a small imprint, a series of texts resonating with phenomena in the Aegean Archipelago. is a publishing organ in Athens, directed by David Bergé and driven by a trans-disciplinary team, exploring critical and experimental positions in writing.

Through navigation, the westernized sense of perspective has established a common horizon, simplifying islands as visual spots at the surface of the sea. Islands are not exotic entities alone in the sea waters. Islands remain interconnected with the mainland and each other, from the top of the mountains to the hidden topographies of the sea bed: a myriad of creatures and non-organic matter which lives in constant symbiosis with water; tectonic plates, fossil fuel pipes, and data cables. When writing, we think the urban in relation to the island, we imagine time and duration together with the archipelago, the beach in relation to the built, we think the body when writing about migration.

key words: island topographies, archipelago culture, experiences in landscapes, historical (dis)continuities, q***r, urbanism, gender equality, non-patriarchy, archaeology of moods and emotions, narratives of travel and tourism, corporeality, healing, and public health.

01/02/2022

Thank you Charlotte Malterre Barthes for reviewing our 2020 titles! http://www.averyreview.com/issues/55/the-mediterranean-does-not-exist

03/12/2021

kyklàda.press]]

presenting 2 new titles:

ARCHITECTURES OF HEALING (2021)
Cure through Sleep, Touch, and Travel

Today, many feel fettered by insomnia, untouchability, and restrictions on movement. Looking for a more holistic approach to bodily and mental health, this book explores architectures and elementary forms of care and healing in different time periods: from the powers of sleep, touch, and travel in Asklepieia, the ancient healing temples for divine dream encounters alleviating the pain of the ailing pilgrim; to the attentiveness carried through the healing touch from the establishment of Byzantine hospitals till our times; to a pilgrimage center in modern-day Le**os on a personal search for healing from the traumas of war and patriarchy; to the liberating and self-preserving powers of sleep as a healing response to past and current systems of oppression.

(FORCED) MOVEMENT (2021)
Across the Aegean Archipelago

What would be of contemporary culture if we did not recognize the impact of migration in cultural and socio-economic crossings? This book explores human migration in different times, contexts, and geographies surrounding the Aegean Sea. Through an assemblage of voices, lived experiences, historical documents, urban and rural dislocations, this publication examines responses to mobility of the ones on the move, and of the ones living in the destinations the former are heading to. It speaks of the sacrifices one is forced to make en route and at its antipode; the implications of voluntary migration to a place, steered by investment in real estate.

available now
check our selling points
and e-store: www.kyklada.press

distribution and kyklàda.press]]
communication and kyklàda.press]]
Athens launch: dec 11, 16:00 > 22:00

27/12/2020

interview with Dimitra Kondylatou and David Bergé about kyklàda.press and more specifically our book supported by Goethe-Institut Athen:

PUBLIC HEALTH IN CRISIS, confined in the Aegean Archipelago

GR: https://www.goethe.de/ins/gr/el/kul/mag/22076060.html
ENG: https://www.goethe.de/ins/gr/en/kul/mag/22076060.html
DE: https://www.goethe.de/ins/gr/de/kul/mag/22076060.html

20/12/2020

SELLING POINTS

ATHENS: Lexikopoleio, O Meteoritis, Dolce, Οι Εκδόσεις των Συναδέλφων, Fotagogos

BERLIN: pro-QM, Motto, Zabriskie, Books People Places

BRUSSELS: Wiels Bookshop, Walther König in BOZAR

LONDON: AA bookshop, Walther König in Serpentine

GHENT / ANTWERP: Copyright bookshop

PARIS: Walther König in Palais de Tokyo

VIENNA: Walther König in Museumsquartier

MILANO: Armani Libri
ROMA: Leporello

AMSTERDAM: Walther König in Stedelijk Museum

DÜSSELDORF: Walther König in Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
FRANKFURT: Walther König
STUTTGART: Walther König in Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

ONLINE: through our catalogue (https://kyklada.press/shop/?v=f214a7d42e0d) or if you are around Germany, through Books People Places

our stock is in Athens and we keep smaller stocks in Berlin, Brussels, London, Chania and soon also in Istanbul

18/12/2020

Free Love Paid Love
Expressions of Affection in Mykonos

Nowhere in Cycladic culture has love been defined in a singular all-encompassing manner. Forces of attraction, affection, connection, and relation were ascribed in a plurality of ways. Through symposia in Delos, the tax haven of antiquity, 17th-century transactions of love involving pirates, slaves, and Mykonians; naturist communities reliving sexual freedom in the 1960-70s and 21st-century tourists quest in search of love, free or paid; this book gathers fragments of expressions of affection across Mykonos island. Mykonos has long defined itself as a self-ruling place far away from realities lived elsewhere.

authors: Juan Duque, Nicolas Lakiotakis, Dimitra Kondylatou, Denis Maksimov

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
illustrations: color and b/w
printing: offset
ISBN 99-789-464202-80-9
language: English

price: 8 EURO

Order here: https://kyklada.press/shop/

17/12/2020

Public Health in Crisis
Confined in the Aegean Archipelago

Epidemics and pandemics undermine societies and highlight the vulnerability of relations people have created to the land, other species, and each other. This book presents fragments of disease management in the Mediterranean from the 15th-century onwards and in the Aegean Archipelago in the last two centuries. From religious to medical approaches to the Bubonic Plague, through the creation of lazarettos, to the famine in occupied Syros, to ghost ships drifting on the Mediterranean: citizens are forced to avoid citizens. Public health in crisis: confinement versus mobility, awakening memories of totalitarian regimes.

authors: Dimitra Kondylatou, Nicolas Lakiotakis, Hulya Ertas, David Bergé

The production of this book received the support of Goethe-Institut Athen.

96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
printing: offset
illustrations: color, b/w
ISBN: 97-894-64202-81-6
language: English

price: 8 euro

Order here: https://kyklada.press/shop/?v=f214a7d42e0d