Durty Books

Durty Books Durty Books is an independent publishing house based in Ireland.

Their first publication, Durty Words: A space for dialogue, solidarity, resistance and creation (2018), featured 134 international contributors and encapsulates their approach to publishing.

Legendary 124 year old independent bookshop O'Mahony's Booksellers is now stocking Looking for a Sign: Contemporary Art,...
27/09/2024

Legendary 124 year old independent bookshop O'Mahony's Booksellers is now stocking Looking for a Sign: Contemporary Art, Magic, and Language.
Also available through their online shop https://www.omahonys.ie/looking-for-a-sign-contemporary-art-magic-and-language-p-10599379.html

O' Mahony's was the first bookshop to sell Durty Words back in the very start of the Durty Books Publishing House adventures so we are very excited to have our newest release on the shelves of O'Mahony's Booksellers

Durty Books is very excited to announce the new release of “Looking for a Sign: Contemporary Art, Magic, and Language” E...
27/08/2024

Durty Books is very excited to announce the new release of “Looking for a Sign: Contemporary Art, Magic, and Language” Edited by Kerry Guinan.
You can via https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/collections/latest-arrivals/products/looking-for-a-sign-contemporary-art-magic-and-language-kerry-guinan
Also available in O'Mahony's Booksellers The Glucksman and Books Upstairs, it will be available in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop soon!

In a culture dominated by prescriptive rationality, and the reduction of language to functions, Looking for a Sign champions the intersectional practices of art and magic, exploring their capacity to invoke a profound dimension of reality that transcends the limitations of language. Comprising essays, reflections, and artworks from a group of international artists and curators — Aaron Gach (The Center for Tactical Magic), Annie Kwan, Anri Sala, Linda Stupart, and Kerry Guinan and Frank Sweeney (The Order of Co-operative Consciousness) — the volume reflects and interrogates an inquisitive turn towards magic in contemporary art. For these practitioners, magic is a potentially political and emancipatory practice, which challenges normative, rational frameworks, expands the horizons of reality, and restores one’s sense of personal and social agency. With an eclectic set of contributions that range from instructive spells to curatorial propositions and academic essays, Looking for a Sign is an indispensable resource for those seeking respite from the relentless codification of our collective existence.

Durty Books (2018 - present) is an independent publishing house based in Ireland and co-created by artist Kate O’ Shea and designer Victoria Brunetta. Their first publication, Durty Words: A space for dialogue, solidarity, resistance and creation (2018), featured 134 international contributors and encapsulates their approach to publishing.

Durty Books aims to provide a critical space and platform for prominent and emerging voices across art, design, community organising, academia and activism who challenge hegemonic social and political structures and offer imaginative alternatives. Durty Books believes in the power of sharing stories of collective action, solidarity and resistance across the world to build networks of solidarity and empower social change through the creative potential of print and publishing

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Durty Books is an independent publishing house by graphic designer Victoria Brunetta and artist Kate O’ Shea. The first release is entitled Durty Words.

“Durty Words is an invitation to make a space for dialogue, solidarity, resistance and creation through the medium of print. In 2016, we began the journey of making this book by asking people to respond to the relevance of Anarchist thought today. The title alludes to the fact that anarchism, along with other theories and practices that seek alternatives to capitalism, are often misunderstood. There are fractures within how we organise for a better world; it is important to recognise these, and therefore we set out to create a space for debate that is built on respect. By bringing together 134 contributors from different backgrounds from all over the world, we aim to begin to map the resonances and dissonances across diverse social movements. In this time of great social injustice, protest is necessary, but there is more to resistance than protest. We are interested in the space that opens up when we create a platform for building alternatives to that which we protest.”

The second release of Durty Books is Direct Democracy, Context, Society, Individuality by Yavor Tarinski, edited by Eve Olney.

“If social activism is to realistically take on ‘the question of power’ it must be carried out from a knowing ‘holistic’ assault on all social spheres of society. This is the challenging premise that Yavor Tarinski proposes in this very timely ‘provocation to action’, Direct Democracy: Context, Society, Individuality. Tarinski traces the philosophical and political reasoning of works from Cornelius Castoriadis, Murray Bookchin, and others, in an almost pragmatically presented case for a radical direct democratic ‘organizational basis of our society’. He applies a considered focus on the ‘contextuality’ of historical as well as existing examples of direct democracy as ‘tests’ to his argument that explicitly recognizes the complex interrelationship between the individual and society. The book concludes with an open-ended sense of persistence in realizing the kinds of institutions we need to reinstitute and collectively claim power over.” Eve Olney.