Durty Books

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 pre-order now via https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/collections/latest-arrivals/products/looking-for-a-sign-contemporary-art-magic-and-language-kerry-guinan

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

07/08/2022

We are very honoured to get to work with MASI on producing their Journals ❤️ The launch at IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art was mind-blowing yesterday with so many networks of MASI solidarity coming together ❤️ Congratulations to everyone who made it happen and all the contributors to Journal 2 ❤️❤️

04/08/2022

Join MASI Journal #2 Launch & Party: From Fear to Liberty at IMMA for food and chat, and the launch proper will kick off at 2pm sharp.

MASI, the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland, has teamed up with IMMA (the Irish Museum of Modern Art) to launch the second issue of the MASI Journal, 'From Fear to Liberty'. There will be readings by journal contributors, live performances, dance, music, food, art and activities for children. It will be the first time MASI has held a public gathering since October 2019, a day for fun and celebration and an opportunity to reaffirm the importance of solidarity and unity. It will also be a day for people outside the system to learn what is happening now in Direct Provision and the asylum regime as conditions for people seeking asylum become more and more intolerable in Ireland and elsewhere.

The MASI Journal features personal essays, poetry, artwork, and analysis by people who are or have been in Direct Provision and the asylum system in Ireland. The MASI Journal is an important and powerful expression of the realities of Direct Provision, asylum and the deportation system by the people who have had to live it.

Bring a picnic, invite your friends and family – this event is free, no booking is necessary, and everyone is welcome.

https://imma.ie/whats-on/immaoutdoors-masi-journal-launch-from-fear-to-liberty/

Programme:

12.30-1.45: Lunch provided by Gorata & team, music by DJ Godfrey

2pm: Launch of MASI Journal #2: From Fear to Liberty
MCs for the day: Donnah & Bulelani

Guest Speaker: Stephen Rea

Readings by Journal Contributors
Presentation of Certificates

3pm: MASI Panel Discussion

Chair: Edith Chukwu
Panellists: Lucky Khambule, Bulelani Mfaco, & Donnah Vuma

3.45 - 6pm: Party!

Performances by:

Mimmie Malaba
Go Dance For Change
Real Kid Original
Farah Elle
Nealo
NuxSense
Catherine Young

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MASI is an independent grassroots organisation and is not in receipt of any funding. Our activities, including this launch, are possible thanks to the support of ordinary people. For this event, MASI is covering transport and meal costs for 150-200 people who are coming to the launch from Direct Provision. MASI is also covering the cost of printing the MASI Journal. If you would like to help us cover these costs and are in a position to do so, you can make a donation at the GoFundMe below:

https://gofund.me/32041d7e

02/05/2022

Durty Words in the Social Commons exhibition at Liberty Hall 02.05.2019

30/12/2021

Today 2018: Tiny Durty Words in Philadelphia 💜

27/11/2021

Submissions for The Artist-led Archive close on 13 December.

Artist-led initiatives in Ireland (North & South) are invited to submit materials for inclusion within 'The ALA – Sustainable Activism and the Embrace of Flux', due for publication Spring '22.

http://theartistledarchive.com

15/10/2021

https://londonmexicosolidarity.wordpress.com/2021/10/14/journey-for-life-wise-islands-day-1-2-in-ireland/

Days 1 – 3 ★ Ireland ★ The Zapatista delegation breathes in the ocean in the West of Ireland. October 13th. Credit: On the evening of October 12th, a group of Zapatista men a…

30/11/2020

There are a few copies left of Durty Words which can be ordered through O'Mahony's Booksellers xx

A space for dialogue, solidarity, resistance and creation. It maps the resonances and dissonances across diverse social movements, in 134 contributions. - 9786100001123

13/06/2020

You can order our first single author book 'Direct Democracy: Context, Society, Individuality' by Yavor Tarinski, edited by Eve Olney online from O'Mahony's Booksellers for 10euro :)
https://www.omahonys.ie/direct-democracy-context-society-individuality-p-10455479.html

18/12/2019

Durty Books will be on sale market tomorrow and Friday. Chance to get one of the final few limited edition Durty Words 😎😎 or pick up our new release by Yavor Tarinski, edited by Eve Olney😎

26/10/2019

Durty Books is delighted with the launch of Yavor Tarinski's “Direct Democracy: Context, Society, Individuality” book at TRISE Conference : Power to create, power to destroy in Athens. The book has been presented with two other impressive titles: “The Disobedient Society” by Matthew Little (New Compass) and “Enlightenment and Ecology – the legacy of Murray Bookchin”, editor Vincent Ge**er (Black Rose Books).

25/10/2019

Durty Books is a platform for solidarity, dialogue, resistance and creation. We aim to provide a critical space for emerging and prominent voices who are challenging and building alternatives to capitalistic social and political structures.
We believe in the power of sharing stories of collective action across the world to empower our social movements.
Through publishing diverse authors we aim to build networks of solidarity, highlighting the resonances and dissonances across social struggles, through print.
Kate O' Shea & Victoria Brunetta

25/10/2019

Direct Democracy, Context, Society, Individuality by Yavor Tarinski, edited by Eve Olney: The first of a single author series by Durty Books Publishing house has arrived.The book is available at O'Mahony's Booksellers, online https://www.omahonys.ie/r_prod_info.php?p=10455479 or by PM.

25/10/2019

Photos of Durty Words by Daniel Potts, at Piquant Media

22/10/2019

Images of some of our incredible Durty Words contributors and also the people the book met as it travelled around Ireland, US, Argentina, Greece and Spain.