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CATALOGUE/TIMELINE

🝱 SEPTEMBER 2026🝱

↭Rifsberjadalurinn / The Redcurrant Valley (translated by Philip Roughton) by Ásdís Óladóttir ↭

↭A hole glossary (Womanwood Kindling #4) by Juliana Gleeson ↭

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🝱 JULY 2026🝱

↭A Portrait of a Woman and a Still-Life of Her Burger by Candelaria SaenzValiente ↭

Francis Laurie Schaffer—an artist in her mid-40s—has recently separated from her husband after a two-decade long marriage and has fallen in love with a polyamorous young man who doesn’t fully reciprocate her feelings. In an attempt to express her dissatisfaction, she begins writing about the relationships between the people she imagines
belong to her polycule. But things begin to shift into a game of mirrors when Francis meets some of the people she’s written about. A series of events will then culminate with Francis and her friends crashing the 40th birthday party of her husband’s new girlfriend. A disastrous outcome serves as a rite of passage, delivering the protagonists onto the other side of that experience with a transformed sense of self. A Portrait of a Woman and a Still Life of Her Burger is a critique on the current "cute and tedious" social landscape and its effect on love from the point of view of a Gen X cynic. The book is set in 2022 Berlin and is a contemporary portrait of Peter Pan adults biting the dust. It can be read as a belated coming-of-age.

Candelaria Saenz Valiente is a published author
of a novel and a book of short fiction in
Spanish; a filmmaker, recipient of the award
"Women in Film" by the Berlin Senate in 2022;
a musician and a performance artist. She is
Argentinian and resides in Berlin. "A portrait of
a woman and a still life of her burger" is her
debut novel in English, published by Cutt Press.
Most of her visual and music work can be
found here: www.pictorialcandi.com

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↭26  Theses on Craft by  Lisa Robertson /// Reprinted on the occasion of  Christian K. Alborz Oldham’s exhibition ‘Some Libraries’ curated by Inga Charlotte Thiele, Prosopopoeia,  Vienna  -
13 June - 13 September, 2026 ↭


15 - Craft’s gestural intelligence is apt to discover material potential only by internalizing and inhabiting the specificities of a tradition. This tradition knows JOY IS FORMAL INTELLIGENCE. CRAFT’S TRADITION IS JOY.

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🝱 MAY 2026🝱

↭An INDEX, just the index, from this library copy of ‘The Book Before Printing’ (1982) by David Diringer. A reprint itself which was originally published as ‘The Hand-Produced Book’ (1953). ↭

Edition of 💯 /// The index charts a long history before history of this old technology - all the ancestors of the modern book - it’s fun to read and let the mind wander down tangents or read as a poem full of holes. Inevitably full of holes.

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🝱 APRIL 2026🝱

↭VORTEXT #5 ↭   
The last Vortext edited with Erin Honeycutt as an imprint of CUTT PRESS. 
Edited by Erin Honeycutt & Katharina Ludwig

“Bewilderment” (2003) by Fanny Howe (1940-2025). Your editors have added their marginalia to the essay and we send this to you with courtesy from the Estate of Fanny Howe. Read the essay and prepare for Fanny Howe’s ‘This Poor Book’ - published by Divided Publishing in May! As this will be the last print issue of the magazine for the foreseeable future, which, in these unforeseeable times, means most probably for this year, we want to send a huge thank you and our deepest gratitude to everyone who has supported us on this journey through writing, contributing, guest-editing, subscribing, reading, sharing, assembling, and mailing.                               
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↭Labour of Listening by Haytham el-Wardany↭        

An early version of this text was read at “Politics of Listening” - an iteration of the public program at the Italian Pavilion during the 2024 Venice Biennale. This edition of 100 is a 4-page unbound booklet     “The dead. They have a plan. And their plan is simple. It is called Sumoud صمود. To stand fast and start all over again. The dead. They direct us to the open graves, desecrated by bulldozers. A severed hand. A mutilated tongue. A stained truth, beside a suitcase of books. The dead. They are hungry, and they have a plan. Their plan is to summon us to the soil. Where they are not buried anymore. And insist that we stand fast, and start from there, all over again. Haven’t written to you for a while. But you crossed my mind today. My earache made me think of you. It is a pain that has worsened since the genocide in Gaza غزة began.”

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↭oracular opuscules by Katharina Ludwig to accompany the publication of  'The Hole: An Insurrectionary Poetics’ (MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE) ↭

THE HOLE. AN INSURRECTIONARY POETICS by Katharina Ludwig was recently published byMA BIBLIOTHÈQUE ⚪️In parallel/in interruption with this book are three opuscules—The Oracle of Lips, The Oracle of Tongue, and The Oracle of Teeth—published by CUTT PRESS ⚪️Edition of  200.  

“At the limits of language, a hole opens and voices meet, channelled from the abyss through temporalities and histories. Jacques Lacan analyses the wounded text; Hélène Cixous whispers to anarchist poet Katerina Gogou; theorist Carla Lonzi, artist Chiara Fumai, and her army of women dissidents invade the symbolic realm of father, state, law, and religion. A canon of disorderly voices from philosophy, psychoanalysis, poetry, and fictional characters converse, connected by the appearance of K. The Hole is an epistolary work written in multiple forms, approaching the unsayable in a jouissant textual body, considering broken narratives and minor literatures through an investigation of (textual) holes, wounds (trauma), and the mouth (voice/language). Poetry operates as strategy of resistance and revolt, against systemic power structures and against closure. Wounds must stay open to speak.”

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↭Palestine in Berlin - Existing is Resisting,
a pamphlet by Emma Bleck↭
A5 / pamphlet-stitched / Edition of  100. 


This pamphlet is an adaptation of the author’s master thesis in Urban Studies (2024): “Palestine in Berlin - existing is resisting. Investigating human rights, everyday violences and (in)visibility in the city” at Université Libre de Bruxelles and Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Published by CUTT PRESS in an edition of 100 / Printed in Berlin / March 2026 / Proceeds of sales of this pamphlet go to the European Legal Support Center (ELSC)

This pamphlet arises from the urgent need to make space for Palestinian voices within a German public sphere increasingly shaped by silencing, self-censorship, and erasure. Independent publishing has become one of the few remaining means to preserve and circulate critical thought under conditions of cultural repression. This text, adapted from a master’s thesis, documents how Palestinians in Berlin navigate a landscape where mourning, commemoration, and expression are subject to surveillance and criminalization. It reveals how state narratives anchored in Staatsräson, the IHRA definition of antisemitism, and anti-BDS legislation reshape public discourse to exclude Palestinian histories and rights. In publishing this work, Cutt Press (based in Berlin) affirms the responsibility of independent presses to protect plural memory and intellectual freedom, especially when institutions withdraw support or remain complicit in silencing. This pamphlet stands as both testimony and tool: a small act of resistance against censorship, and a reminder that publishing, at its most vital, is an act of solidarity and accessibility.
-  Preface by Cutt Press

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↭ Give Piss a Chance:
A Willing Suspension of Consequences 
by Simon(e) van Saarloos ↭

A reprint of a single edition produced in 2025 by invitation from The Racial Imaginary and the DAAD Gallery. This reprint is in an edition of 100 /  digitally printed /  pamphlet stitched with various paper additions and marbled cover.

A story about the piss drinker in Berlin’s night club Berghain, internet gossip, mythology, the genocide in Palestine, gender transitioning, obsession and preferences and how far you can go to make a dream come true. When considering trans and transitioning an act of desire, instead of having to defend it as a lifesaving urgency, what playful love arises?

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↭ 12 Centuries of Silence,
an artist book in collaboration with Sylee Gore ↭

This artist book in an edition of six was produced on the occasion of the book launch of Silence - A Literary History (2026, Oxford University Press) by Kate McLoughlin at the Berlin Medizinhistorisches Museum  on April 9th, 2026 and accompanying exhibition.
Silence: A Literary History traces silences over twelve centuries of English literature, from the solitary states of exile on icy seas described in Anglo-Saxon poems to searches for silence in our own Age of Pings. This pioneering work of 'big' literary history encompasses exalted states of blissful union with the divine and with the natural world, the deep hushes of intimacy, spell-binding silent scenes on stage, encrypted expressions of same-sex love, the great literary epics of inarticulable grief, the game-changing idea of silence within the mind, the failure of words in the face of two World Wars, the hilarious awkwardness of some social silences, the echoing absence of lost voices, and silences as a powerful form of protest.

The six unique sets of artist books each contain a poster with the text ‘12 Centuries of Silence,’ an A4 lotus book with 12 signatures, and an A3 lotus book with 12 signatures.

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🝱MARCH 2026🝱

↭Labour of Tongues by neneh noï↭
Half riso/half xerox/ some vellum/ some office scraps/ spray painted silver coil and all in cream tones… edition of 100.

LABOUR OF TONGUES is a document of poetry that records, but saves nothing. It asks, how to stay with pain? This archive is built out of two channels, two voices running parallel to one another. In one an elder speaks, in the other a knot of generational fabulation. Through imitation and declaration this archive becomes a container for disorganised storytelling, disorder, the loss of narrative, language and tongues. Here, the poem and flesh serve as ushers for pain.

neneh noï is a poet based in Belgium. They approach their art as a social practice beyond authorship. They create contexts for writing/text, performance, and play to activate each other, wherein they seek the fine balance between pleasure, discomfort and fascination. They co-organise Anonymous Poets meetings with Kate Paul and Roya Shadmand, and co-host The Scandal, an open mic’s for poets, with cris e. fidelis (AU JUS 11/04 & La Balsamine 25/04).

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↭ Triple zine collection on Faustian bargains
by İz Öztat and Çağla Özbek ↭

Here and now, and after? by artist İz Öztat, a script for a puppet play for camera where Öztat turns to Kasperle and Karagöz traditions—viewing them as both tools of political satire and pedagogical instruction—to explore artistic agency, accountability, and the self’s relation to the Other, drawing on the Faustian pact as a literary motif. Counterdictions by writer and researcher Çağla Özbek is a satirical closet drama accompanied by archival assemblages made by the author. Sprawling across time and space, the text re-reads the storied dynamic between two sides of the famous bargain, the Master and the Devil, interpreting it through the coiled relationship between a cultural worker and the work of art. With an interminable number of stage characters, Counterdictions dramatizes the perpetual state of negotiation on the divergent labors of seeing versus exhibiting. The third zine ‘On Faustian Bargains…’ includes a dialogue between Özbek and Öztat chronicling their   2.5‑year collaborative research tracing Faustian iterations, examining their approaches and respective artistic processes. The collection of zines is designed by Katharina Hetzeneder.

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🝱JANUARY 2026🝱

↭VORTEXT #4 guest-edited by a.monti↭

This issue’s “cover poem” is a letter written by fluxus artist Endre Tót to Ruth and Robert Rehfeld in East Germany in the 1970s. The Rehfelds were key instigators of mail art networks, which started as mail-only protests behind the Iron Curtain and Berlin Wall. Several of these archives now live at@chertluedde_books in Berlin, who have graciously provided this letter for the issue.

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↭WOMANWOOD #4
edited by Erin Honeycutt  and a.monti ↭
Printed in collaboration with Obsessed Press and Spiral Editions in Kingston, NY in an edition of 100.

WOMANWOOD 4 features 12 contributors: Kaje Ackerman, Blush Bullseye, Zack Darsee, Susan Finlay,  Andria Nyberg Forshage,  MH,  Nina Hanz,  Parel Joy,  CHloe Langford, Liola Matthias,  Maya Martinez,  and KD Sims.  

We asked ourselves,  “from sleep or death or numbness; is this the phallic hussy sweating flower issue?”

Some excerpts:
“Molting. Molting. Rostrums. Wings. No trace of time- just the murk.” (Nina Hanz) “Lilacs like cocks in the garden.” (Zack Darsee) “Bathed in rosewater,  fresh from our mothers’  cunt.” (Susan Finlay) “Whose gaze is it now bitch?!” (Blush Bullseye)  “long  last I came in bloom” (Liola Mattheis) “I guess what I’m saying is I’ve never seen a dyke do to  a dyke what I saw they were doing to each other by the end of the last millennium.” (Parel Joy)

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🝱DECEMBER 2025🝱

↭CASSELL'S ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF QUEER MYTH, SYMBOL, AND SPIRIT.
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Lore↭
Edited by Randy P. Conner & David Hatfield
with a foreword by Gloria Anzaldua.  
Reprint in the form of an  artist book. Edition of 50


The 300  page encyclopedia is partly risoprinted and partly xeroxed into three separate volumes, size A4, and spiral bound; all three volumes have a braided bookmark attached to the spiral which are all placed inside a bag.

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↭We have chosen life:
Student statements from Berlin Courtrooms↭
Pamphlet stitched edition of  100.
Collectively assembled in Berlin.

◻️All sales go towards ELSC: https://elsc.support/donate/
Print your own here: https://linktr.ee/cuttpress

“The statements collected here provide insight into students’ resistance against the normalization of state violence propped up by the Staatsräson. After being violently prohibited from organizing events on Palestine at their universities, students were left to push back against their universities and the German state through courts. Included in this pamphlet are speeches given in 2024-2025, following four heavily criminalised student actions. Facing the judge and the prosecutor, students reiterate the reasons behind their interventions. In their statements, originally presented in English, German, and Spanish, students emphasize not only their right to protest, but also their moral responsibility to disrupt business as usual at their institutions, given the universities’ complicity in the ongoing genocide. In response, judges frequently interrupt students, insisting such speeches belong not in the courtroom, but lecture halls and seminar rooms, disregarding the very reasons for which students are being criminalized. In light of tireless attempts at silencing, students’ voices must be remembered so I will and shared. Their speeches serve as testimonies of their resistance against Germany’s complicity in the genocide and settler-colonial violence against Palestinians. We present them to you as part of a living archive of global student solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation. For a free Palestine in our lifetime.” - Berlin, October 2025 (from the introduction)

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🝱NOVEMBER 2025🝱

↭FLYING HIGH ON A FREE FALL BY NCUBE ↭
Spiral bound / Edition of 200 / risoprinted / size A5 / Unique bookmarks and covers
Flying High on a Free Fall is a speculative novel set in 2090s Zimbabwe, where assisted suicide has evolved to engender the expression: be careful what you wish for... Those wishing to die no longer travel to clinics, they write instead. Letters are sent to Suicide Inc, where agents are assigned on a case-by-case basis. Told in dos-à-dos format, or two novels bound together that meet in the middle, the story unfolds from opposite sides. In one, a high school student sends a letter to Suicide Inc. In the other, unaware that their request has already set an unseen process in motion, an agent assumes the identity of a transfer student, infiltrating the teenager’s world of friendship, gossip, and crushes. As both voices spiral toward the centre, their perspectives converge in an emotional collision that blurs duty and desire, death and awakening. Flying High on a Free Fall” is a mirror-novel about consent, intimacy, and the ethics of care in a future that has professionalized empathy. Designed with two beginnings and no end, it challenges the reader to confront which story, life or death, feels more like the beginning.

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🝱OCTOBER 2025🝱

↭“I am drawing to resist powerlessness”
by Noor us Sabah  ↭
/ Edition of 100 / stamped folder with A3 pamphlet and risoprint based on a watercolor painting

A collaborative project by Noor us Sabah Saeed, Philipp F. Hench and Erin Honeycutt. The publication is based on the performance of the same name, which took place on August 6, 2025 in the foyer of Wedding City Hall. Noor us Sabah Saeed drew the premises of Wedding City Hall, focusing on the architecture and its ideological background. Combined with the choreographed presence of the audience, this artistic practice created an intervention in the institution of the city hall, aiming at its processes of alienation.

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🝱AUGUST 2025🝱

↭VORTEXT MAGAZINE #3
(edited by Erin Honeycutt & Kathy Ludwig) ↭
8 unbound A4 pages / risoprinted / Edition of 250 / bound by mailing envelope

Dedicated to Venezuelan poet, journalist, and script writer Miyó Vestrini (1938-1991). ‚SCHEDULE‘ (‚HORARIO‘) [translated from the Spanish by Anne Boyer and Cassandra Gilling] is the cover poem. With kind support from  Letra Muerta Inc. and texts by Yanara Friedland, Tracy Fuad, Dimitra Ioannou, Adelaide Ivanova, Lotte L.S., a.Monti, Rosie Stockton, Cassandra Troyan.

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↭PROPRIETARY METHOD
BY TESS BROWN-LAVOIE ↭
in collaboration with Chertludde Books.
English / dos-à-dos book (two front covers) / A5 / Edition of 200 / Printed at Copy Clara / pamphlet stitched

Proprietary Method (2025) undertakes the systems embedded in abstract paintings: material processes, emergent narrative, and commodity valuation. The essaying poem follows a studio visit with Tyra Tingleff in Berlin, and studies how abstract surfaces hold off meaning or conclusion in favor of durational structures: a booby trap made of desire, souped up time bauble requiring patience. Immersed in visual poetics, the painter and the reader negotiate the imminence of reluctant figuration produced by conditions of the painting: as a valuable/valued object, a time sink, an experiment, and a meter for the artist's days, life, reading, and thinking. Proprietary Method's pairing with June July (2024) further extrudes the dialogue between visual and verbal poetics and their constituent processes. Time is accounted (for) and objectified: two adjacent summers and their various liquidities, canons, affects, afterthoughts, and sensual material. Longing and its detritus are rinsed in the shores of June July, to outline possible uses for a poem made out of the distances intrinsic to life.

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↭TONGUE TOUCHING THE OTHER /
DIL ÖTEKINE DEĞINCE
BY BILGE EMIR↭
Turkish & English / 167 pages / perfect bound /
21x26 cm / Edition of 200 / Printed in Turkey
Tongue Touching the Other / Dil Ötekine Değince explores the experience of settling in a new country—or how similar dynamics can unfold even without leaving one’s own—through four interrelated themes: becoming a foreigner in a foreign land, occupying the fragile position of a guest, undergoing assimilation through education, and finally, producing or being subjected to representation. This path is examined through our relationship with language.

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🝱JULY 2025🝱

↭ANTINORMATIVE INTERPRETATION
BY ELIN MCCREADY ↭
Pamphlet stitched / A5 / Edition of 50 / Risoprinted / includes found office scraps

This is the zine accompaniment to Elin McCready’s recently published book ‘Antinormative Interpretation’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).

“The book proposes a new style of artistic and literary practice which takes the space of interpretation as its artistic sandbox. The proposal is developed for the literary case and concretized using the tools of formal linguistics, specifically of formal models of linguistic meaning. In the process, the author calls into question the nature of the practice of linguistics as a science, and some foundational assumptions of that field; she also shows how to do a new kind of literary and conceptual work in the domain of interpretation and meaning assignment. The whole project has deep connections with games and rules, partly via the notion of constraint in experimental literary work and partly via the notion of interpretative rule in compositional formal semantics, and also (in its last parts) with the more-than-human as represented in language and the environmental humanities.”

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↭FORWARD: ON LESBIAN DESIRE
BY MICAELA BRINSLEY ↭
WOMANWOOD KINDLING #3
Printed on the occasion of the zine launch reading of Womanwood #3 /  Pamphlet stitched / A5 / Edition of 50 / Risoprinted

Text by Violette Leduc and Simone de Beauvoir translated by Derek Coltman. Text by Virginie Despentes translated by Frank Wynne. Cover photograph by Vareila Mairanga

“To move forward with desire, to be aware of the multidimensionality of a step. To be conscious of that component of a walk, of its action as consisting of a before, during, and after—but not necessarily in that order. What might it mean for something like lesbian adoration, something always relegated to the sidelines of society’s gaze — “the alleyways, the archives, the diaries, the glances across the street, and, as it is sometimes documented, the bathroom”— for its enactment to be embraced in its totality, rather than be consumed from the outset over fear of its potential disappearance? With the voice of Violette Leduc at the helm alongside those of Virginie Despentes, Deborah Levy, Simone de Beauvoir & Erin Honeycutt themself, Forward renders the step as a kaleidoscope, an emblem of lesbian desire, and a place where past, present, and future intertwine.” - intro by the author

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↭WOMANWOOD: THE SMUT GAZETTE  #3:
VENUS CLOACINA
(edited by a.Monti & Erin Honeycutt) ↭
Edition of 150 / Risoprinted / A5 / pamphlet stitched

Contributions from Micaela Brinsley 🦋Ash(ley) Michelle C.🦋Martin Duthey🦋Mona Gendron🦋Daniel Gianfranceschi🦋Rachel Pafe🦋Robin Percyz🦋Daniela Petrosino🦋Syd Ramirez🦋Ilias Tsagas

An excerpt from the introduction by the editors, a bit of aftercare in advance: “At the entry of the Cloaca Maxima, the “Great Drain” of Ancient Rome, there was a shrine to Venus: the Venus Clocina, goddess of the sewer. People knew that beauty is reliant on shit and that the divinity of the sewage system needed the blessing of the great goddess of pleasure. Hotter compost, brighter roses. Another thing the Romans knew: the “mouth of truth,” an ancient marble mask, said to bite off any liar’s hand, was also an entrance to the sewage system - our shit is the most honest thing we have.”

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🝱JUNE 2025🝱

↭Collective zine made in the
UdK RADICAL PUBLISHING Seminar:
Magister und Scholaren: 
The Illustrated History of  Teaching ↭

Edition of 60 / Risoprinted / half bound by yarn / half bound by two-prong clips

We squatted a found book from the sidewalk, Magister und Scholaren, and collaged it with our findings. In The Illustrated History of Teaching, we ask what we really want to know. What can we truly know and can we own it? What can we learn from this old technology: the book, at the nexus of computer, sewing machine, and printer.

“We make the broth. The words are the bay leaves. We remove them.

What’s left is:

a tracing of the desktop,

Times New Roman,

a boxer contemplating greatness,

“weird, sentient animals,”

and souls craving congee.

Heavy Iron wings.

Odes to rest.

A sleeping mirror with superior intelligence.

Intellectualized pain management.

Indisputable truth.

Would you open your ribs for a poem?

How can we 100% understand each other?

What is the relationship between Freudian censorship of the subconscious and censorship in publishing, in the suppression of voices?

The reason for all books: If there are two of us thinking this, then we can’t be crazy.”

Also includes some prompts for “writing’s materiality” in the back.

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↭THE UNDERTAKING OF THE PEARL
BY CHRISTIAN HAWKEY ↭
Risoprinted / Edition of 200 / A5 / pamphlet stitched / Cover sketch by Satch Hoyt

Christian Hawkey’s The Undertaking of the Pearl takes its title from a phrase found in June Jordan’s extraordinary 1996 poem, “Intifada Incantation: Poem #8 for b.b.L.”

Written during the fall of 2023 and into the spring of 25, the poems enact a personal and embodied refusal to turn away from genocidal horror, while simultaneously mapping refusal’s multiple dimensions and affective threads. The sequence also comprises a wandering and errant reading of Jordan’s mysterious phrase; here, Jordan’s pearl is figured as the necessary undertaking to love the irreducible singularity of each life, itself a task that require an ethics of commitment, one that hinges on ritual, recitation—spells in the tradition of Césaire’s “miraculous weaponry.

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↭ يوليسيس (ULYSSES - THE LAST CHAPTER)
BY JAMES JOYCE  /// 
TRANSLATED FROM THE ARABIC
BY TAHA MAHMOUD TAHA↭
Printed on the occasion of Bloomsday Berlin organized by Susan Philipz & Tom McCarthy. Edition of 50 / comb-bound / risoprinted / A4 slightly trimmed

The last chapter of Ulysses in Arabic ///// 40 pages with almost no punctuation tells the inner monologue of Penelope/Molly/Nora ///  This translation into Arabic was made by Egyptian writer Taha Mahmoud Taha in 1982.

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🝱MAY 2025🝱

↭MEDUSAS BY YANARA FRIEDLAND ↭
Riso printed /  Edition of 100  / A5  pamphlet-stitched
Written in October 2023, at the edge of the Mediterranean sea, the story follows mothers and their children during an island vacation watching mass atrocity unfold in the distance when jellyfish swarm and sting the children from below the sea’s surface. An investigation into the tentacled bonds, and its poisons, circulating between mothers and children, tourists and locals, the mediated world, its wars and destruction, on screens, Medusas grapples with how political violence infiltrates language, bodies, and relationships through time.

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🝱APRIL 2025🝱

↭VORTEXT MAGAZINE #2
(edited by Erin Honeycutt & Katharina Ludwig)↭
Edition of 250  / risoprinted on deutsche post recycled paper / 10 unbound A4 sheets / bound by envelope

Issue 2 features Nikki Giovanni’s ‘For Saundra’ on the cover and assembles contributions by J. Mae Barizo, David Buuck, Derrais Carter, Jackqueline Frost, Monilola Olayemi llupeju, Sacha Kahir, D.S. Marriott, Mira Mattar, Savanna Morgan, Ghazal Mosadeq, Wendy Trevino.

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↭Aftershocks: Nobody’s Faults? Various authors with photographs by Min Ma Naing↭
Risoprinted / edition of 60 / A5 / pamphlet stitched

Gathers raw thoughts and emotions shared on social media in the wake of Myanmar’s 7.7 earthquake. Alongside them, Min Ma Naing responds with images from her archive of photographs made back home, before exile. Together, these fragments create a space of rupture and return.  Profit of the sale will go to  Myanmar Earthquake Relief.

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🝱FEBRUARY 2025🝱

↭WOMANWOOD KINDLING:
THE ADVENTURES OF LEUCIPPE AND CLITORIS↭
(КАТА ЛЕУКІПП КАІ КЛЕІТОРІДА) 
Edited by Katsarida Press (Athens). A Reprint of the original by Katsarida Press (Athens)
Risoprinted / A5 / pamphlet stitched / Edition of 60

Leucippe and Clitoris is based on one of the first romantic novels written in 192 AD by Achilleas Tattius. A very Katsarida Press retelling of an ancient story.

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🝱JANUARY 2025🝱

↭WOMANWOOD: THE SMUT GAZETTE #2
(edited by a.monti & Erin Honeycutt ) ↭
Edition of 100 / A5 / pamphlet stitched / manifesto booklet insert / bookmark compiled from stationary shops in Dubai & Atlanta

This spectacularly steamy second edition features work from eight contributors, including smutty artwork by the stained-glass artist of a famous cathedral (featured on the cover), critical commentary on the chaser, trans re-imaginings of Smokey the Bear, ecosexual obliteration of gender, and more. Featuring Kerry Collison,  Tess Brown-Lavoie,  Yael Merlini, Hank Lola Cohen, Anna Dacqué, Elin McCready, Mascha Linke, Claudia Hausfeld.

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🝱DECEMBER 2024🝱

↭Contraproyecto / Book of Days -
A zine by Erin Honeycutt & Pia Chakravarti ↭
Printed on the occasion of a conversation and listening session at Migas - A Listening Bar (Berlin Wedding). Edition of 70 / spanish &  english / A5 / pamphlet stitched

Pia and I explored the echoes across time and space that link Carla Grandi’s book of poetry “Contraproyecto” (1985/1987) & Meredith Monk’s film and album “Book of Days” (1988). The zine is a rare chance for English speakers to be introduced to Grandi’s work, with several poems translated from Spanish for the first time specially for the event.

“In a time of increasing authoritarianism, misogyny, and lethal polarization, we revisit these works to learn strategies of mourning and political defiance. And to understand the appeal of medieval settings to capture repressive regimes and the subversive potentials of magic, myth, and madness. Conceived of at roughly the same time and yet under very different circumstances, both works interweave medieval storytelling and contemporary events to protest racial and political violence and to celebrate intellectual and physical survival. Carla Grandi wrote “Contraproyecto” as a personal and affective response to the everyday restrictions and heinous violence of Augusto Pinochet’s regime in Chile, which barred her and many other leftists from teaching and publishing. Written and produced in the late 1980s, in the midst of the AIDS epidemic, and affected by the uncertainties and injustices of the Cold War, Meredith Monk’s film “Book of Days” shifts between a fictional medieval town and contemporary footage from New York City. With a soundtrack composed by the avant-garde artist and composer, and voiced by herself and a twelve-voice ensemble, the film deserves to be listened to as much as to be seen.”

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↭Postcards from Staatsräson
(edited by Katharine Halls & Erin Honeycutt)↭
Edition of 100 / A5 / pamphlet stitched / risoprinted


In August 2024, the bookstores Hopscotch Reading Room and Khan Aljanub came together for a talk titled ‘On Multilingual Publishing Worlds’ as part of Colorama’s year-long series of events, ‘Publishing as Collective Practice.’ As a follow-up to that event, the editors gathered this collection of texts on the topic of solidarity with Palestine in times of censorship from the following contributors: Mohammad Abdallah, Fadi Abdelnour, Lana Bastašić, Leila Boukarim, Yuval Carasso, Yasmeen Daher, Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus, Nadine Essmat, Tracy Fuad & Sylvie Robinson, Sandra Hetzl, Ann Kiernan, Amanda Priebe, Ayça Türkoğlu. All sales from the publication went to ELSC Legal.

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↭VORTEXT MAGAZINE #1 (edited by Erin Honeycutt & Katharina Ludwig)↭
Edition of 250  / risoprinted on deutsche post recycled paper / 10 unbound A4 sheets / bound by envelope

Our inaugural issue’s cover poem was Diane DiPrima’s ‘Revolutionary Letter #12’ (1971). Our contributors were emet ezell, Erin Honeycutt, Sharon Kivland, Sara Larsen, Katharina Ludwig, Mira Mattar, Dalia Neis, Nat Raha, Vicky Sparrow, Lotta Thießen.

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↭MARGOT THE ESCARGOT BY WENDY M.K.SHAW↭
Edition of 200 / risoprinted / accordion fold / 21 x 60cm unfolded

Based on a lithograph print made by Wendy 24 years ago - a short comic about a snail named Margot.

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🝱NOVEMBER 2024🝱

↭About A World without Maps edited by Philip Rizk↭
in collaboration with Hopscotch Reading Room.
Risoprinted / edition of 100 / A5 /  pamphlet stitched
This was originally produced for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2022) and features conversations between Philip Rizk and Linda Quiquivix, Vivien Sansour, Dirar Kalash, Yasser Munif, and a Syrian farmer named Walid, as well as Omar Aziz’s early conceptions on the local council in liberated territories originally designed by Salma Shamel.

The publication accompanied the film Mapping Lessons by Philip Rizk. In Mapping Lessons we travel with K through time and place to a Middle East being colonized. This essay film puts struggles in conversation, from the early days of the Soviets, 1936 Spain, the Vietnamese resistance and the Paris Commune to the Syrian Revolution in 2011. All with the aim of preparing us for the next time.

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🝱OCTOBER 2024🝱

↭ASHKARI / LUDOLOGY by Tara Habibzadeh & Priyam Goswami Choudhury ↭

/////// This poetry chapbook is bound as two books in one with two front covers, dos-à-dos style.
Risoprinted / pamphlet stitched / edition of 50  /  printed on the occasion of Bazar Art Book Fair  in Tehran.

ASHKARI / LUDOLOGY is a product of abundant conversations about loan words between Farsi and Hindi that took place between the poets and was overheard by the publisher. Some poems in Ashkari are written in Farsi. The titles were handwritten by the authors in Farsi and Assamese script. The chapbook is the first publishing project of Farangi. Farangi Triptych stands for intellectual brothers abroad - speaking, writing, and thinking in Farsi, Hindi, Marathi, German, English, and Icelandic. We are interested in the materialities of poetic cultures and the hybrid frameworks of the body of the text – both a literal body that is to be situated in culture and the poetic text. We retrieve the spillage from mistranslations of ideas from “East” to “West.”
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Priyam Goswami Choudhury is a poet and scholar from India based in Berlin. They recently graduated from the Doctoral program, RTG Minor Cosmopolitanisms where they researched postcolonial poetry and the construction of the formative history of postcolonial Indian poetry.

Tara Habibzadeh (they/them) is a post-medium artist, philosopher and art director, born and raised in tehran/iran. With a background in Film, Mathematics and Law, Habibzadeh’s works think in analogies and metaphors of complex systems and layers in the simplest dialectic visuals and language using the triviales challenging the Eurocentric colonial binaries with scientific and universal methods.

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↭Shrinking Horizons: The German Struggle Against Universalism by Ana Teixeira Pinto ↭
in collaboration with Hopscotch Reading Room. Risoprinted / edition of 100 / A5 / pamphlet stitched

Published in July 2024 in Third Text’s online Forum ‘Thinking Gaza: Critical Interventions’. Ana Teixeira Pinto is a writer and cultural theorist based in Berlin. She is a professor at HBK Braunschweig and a faculty member of the Dutch Art Institute. She is co-editor of The White West: Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity (Sternberg Press, 2024), and author of Entropy and Chronopolitical Allegory. (forthcoming, Sternberg  Press.)

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↭There Was, There Wasn’t. Fables in Fragments ↭
edited  by Pina Bendfeld and Erin Honeycutt on the occasion of the exhibition ‘The Houses Of The Serpent Bearer. The Third House’ at Noah Klink Galerie, Berlin.

edition of 50 / Riso-printed at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf⁣⁣ / Bound from books found on the streets of Berlin, Düsseldorf, Bonn & Glasgow ⁣

‚The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.‘⁣⁣– Italo Calvino⁣⁣

⁣Each book is a unique piece and its own being – a mask, a costume, a puppet, its material form and contents weave together a tapestry of tales. ⁣‚There Was, There Wasn’t: Fables in Fragments‘ is a shapeshifting book that blurs the lines between storytelling and art. This horizontal evening will be dedicated to fragmented narratives, weaving together folklore, masks, veils, and puppetry. The book serves both as the exhibition text and a translation of the exhibition ‚The Houses Of The Serpent Bearer. The 3rd House‘itself, a playbill for Yara Asmar’s ethereal sonic world of layered electronic and analog instruments.⁣ Created from discarded books found on city streets and re-bound into a new collection of texts from authors such as Italo Calvino, Susan Stewart, and Hélène Cixous. The fragmented selection of texts  echoes the textile pieces by Atelier Planeta / Yevgeniya Kuzmenko draped over Pina’s puppet houses, gently dissolving the boundaries between literature and object. Both the texts and textile works carry something of the costume, like masks that obscure the essence beneath. This interplay of veiling and revealing lends a quiet ambiguity, where the distinction between what is shown and what remains hidden becomes poetically uncertain. We invite guests to optionally bring a text which you would like to read aloud that responds to these themes. ⁣

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↭6th man award  by Jenkin Benson ↭
----Womanwood Kindling #1------
Riso-printed / edition of 50 / bound by red linen thread / A5 pamphlet

This work of critical poiesis uses the author’s 8th-grade basketball season as a vehicle of investigation into the cruel settler colonial consciousness of the contemporary midwest (and much of America). It is a rejection of the bucolic and romantic narratives often associated with the prairie states.

This also the first 🔥WOMANWOOD Kindling🔥WOMANWOOD Kindling is devoted to full-length chapbooks published in between releases of WOMANWOOD, the smut gazette, published bi-anmally. This is the first Kindling!

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🝱AUGUST 2024🝱

↭Night Sheyds: Yanara Friedland, Erin Honeycutt, Dalia Neis, Rachel Pafe, and Susannah Stark↭
Edition of 100 / risoprinted / A5 / pamphlet stitched / centerfold sketch by Susannah Stark

Night Sheyds* is an open and itinerant collective of writers and musicians based in Glasgow/Berlin. They will perform work at the juncture sainthood, sleep/dream, writing as re-reading, the afterlife of literature, erotic uprisings, and sapphic folksong.

*Sheyds is derived from ‘shedim’ an Akkadian mythological figure known as the God of foreigners, and alternatively as the offspring of Lillith in the Babylonian Talmud.

The sheyd אַשְמְדּאָי (Ašmodai) in bird-like form, with dragon’s wings, lion’s tail and human phallus, as depicted in Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae 1775.

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↭10  Stone by J.R. Carpenter↭
Edition of 100 / A5 / plastic translucent cover / ten loose, blank pages in the back for notes

“This writing is based on a durational performance project undertaken in Treaty 6 Territory in 2020. the prompt was informed by a workshop with Marilyn Arsem: go to the river. collect one stone. ask: why this stone. answer in writing. repeat for 10 days. the river in question is kisiskâciwani-sîpiy, which still has my heart. thanks to the friends who walked with me during this time, who appear in this writing: Darren Hagen, Elisabeth Belliveau, Marilene J. Oliver. and thanks to old woman bear who later told me that taking a stone requires leaving an offering. I asked if a poem was an offering. she said yes, but added that the land was now addicted to tobacco, so left that too. and returned all the stones to the river except this one piece of chert. to remind me. of so many things. there are blank pages at the back of this chapbook for notes. and the cover is slight water-proof. take it out for a walk with you. try it. ask yourself. why this stone?”

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🝱JUNE 2024🝱

↭Until the Next Uprising: Three Feuilletons  by Jacob Israël de Haan↭
100 Years Since the Assassination of Jacob Israël de Haan. Edited by Ido Harari and Avinoam J. Stillman / in collaboration with Blima Books. Risoprinted / edition of 100 / Translated from the Dutch by Rosamond van Wingerden. 

“Jacob Israël de Haan was born in 1881 in Smilde, the Netherlands, and was murdered by a Zionist assassin in 1924 in Jerusalem. In his short life, he had many affinities and identities. He was a novelist and poet, a religious Jew and a socialist, a homosexual and a journalist, first a Zionist and then an anti-Zionist. In 1919 he moved to Palestine as a Zionist, but he was gradually disillusioned with what he saw as Zionism’s attempt to conquer the land and control its Jewish and Arab inhabitants. He became a member of the Haredi (non-Zionist Orthodox) community, in Jerusalem and their foremost representative to the British Mandate authorities. In parallel, he developed connections with the Hashemite family in Jordan, and initiated meetings between its leaders and Haredi leaders in Jerusalem.

The fact that he found attentive ears among both British and Arab leaders marked him, in the eyes of the Zionist leadership, as a present danger. This led to the decision to murder him. The three feuilletons below - just a few of the over 300 feuilletons which he sent from Palestine to the popular Dutch daily Algemeen Handelsblad - provide a glimpse into the process which led to his assassination.”

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↭Evidence that ancient Mayan cosmology incorporated the internal functioning of the human brain by Edgar A. Ostrander↭
Risoprint / edition of 100 / A5 / pamphlet stitched / facsimile from the original published in 1983 by Books of the New Universe from an original copy in the Hopscotch Reading Room archives

“If the object identified as a barred-spiral galaxy in drawing #37 really is a barred-spiral galaxy, it would seem to imply that either the ancients had high-powered telescopes or that advanced beings visited earth! I personally feel that such is not very likely, due to the lack of appropriate artifacts. Yet suppose a worldwide civilization existed in the past, which was fragmented by planets in collision in historical times? Then the object might well be the two-horned, comet-planet Venus. Since the Mayans held that their savior-creator god Quetzacoati had turned into Venus after ascending from a three day stay in Hades, it would not be inconceivable that he might be deemed to, in fact, constitute the fundamental building blocks of the universe.”
- from the postscript

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↭The Lesbian Body by Monique Wittig ↭
Edition of 100 / perfect glue bound / A5 / risoprinted / facsimile of the original / landscape format

Originally written in French in 1973, this edition has no title on the cover, just a small silver stamp. Here are a few ways it has been described:

“always reminded that I have a body whenever I read this book. recommend reading in the bath for a more visceral experience.”

“A remarkably way to turn the idea of “the gaze” on its head.”

“No plot, no characters, no dialogue: if you need these things in a book you may not like it.”

“Part anatomy index, part Greek/Egyptian mythos fanfiction, all disgustingly good.”

“…a fictional Sapphic island where women live exclusively among themselves,”

“polyphonic-prose epithalamion…”

“So, you might be a little thrown off by this title...but it’s really as subversive a book about language, its structure, and feminism as you can get.”

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↭Music by Hazrat Inayat Khan↭
risoprint / edition of 100 / A5 / spiral bound / facsimile (for educational purposes) of the original copy published by Sufi Publishing Company (New Delhi, 1973) from the archives of Hopscotch Reading Room

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882 – 1927) was an exemplar of Universal Sufism and founder of the “Sufi Order in the West” in 1914 in London. Later, in 1923, the Sufi Order of the London period was dissolved into a new organization called the “International Sufi Movement”. He initially came to the West as a representative of classical Indian music, having received the title of ‘Tansen’from the Nizam of Hyderabad but soon turned to the introduction and transmission of Sufi thought and practice. “Music” is a compilation of lectures given by Hazrat Inayat Khan. It conveys an insight into the deep knowledge of Indian mysticism and music in a very simple language. His teachings on sound present a vision of the harmony which underlies and infuses every aspect of life; science of breath, law of rhythm, the creative process, healing power and psychological influence of music.

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🝱MAY 2024🝱

↭WOMANWOOD: the smut gazette ///
INAUGURAL ISSUE #1 >>>
Erin Honeycutt, T. Morgan, a.Monti >>>↭
Edition of 150 / A5 / risoprinted / pamphlet stitched

This first edition features filthy theories of translation, orgasmic devices and an encounter with a horny lesbian saint. 

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↭PROVERBS OF A SHE-DANDY  by Lisa Robertson↭
Edition of 200  / A5 / pamphlet stitched / risoprinted

These proverbs were originally published in 2018 in Vancouver by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. With permission from the author the text has been styled into a bootleg.

🌑“Menopause, Gardanne said in 1821, is the loss of the signs of female reproductive ability. ‘Huge dangers’, he warned, ‘precede, accompany, follow the cessation of this function’. The illustration on the cover of his book shows a broken ceramic pitcher. Gardanne was at the forefront of what now would be called the ‘medicalisation of menopause’, which is to say, its treatment as an ailment, both physical and psychosomatic, of the female body.”🌑

🌚THAT SHE EXISTS AND MOVES IN THE CITY IS AN AFFRONT TO THE WILL OF CAPITAL. COUNTLESS CLINICS ARE DEDICATED TO PREVENTING HER APPEARANCE.🌚

“Proverbs of a She-Dandy elaborates on a persistent theme in feminist art and literature over many past decades: a skeptical yet desirous exploration of the flâneur as a figure of agency for women. Robertson finds in Charles Baudelaire’s dandy a tangible presence for old women in public spaces.” - From the publisher

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↭Passages Through Genocide ↭
//// The texts are available at www.gazapassages.com
A5 / pamphlet  stitched / risoprinted / edition of 100
Printed on the occasion of a reading at Hopscotch Reading Room with Social Body Apothecary

The pamphlets contain texts from Palestinian writers gathered by Passages Through Genocide, a group of volunteers who collects, translates and publishes texts from Palestinian writers confronting the genocide in Gaza, to lift up their words. Share, print, publish and distribute these texts by all possible means, in support of Palestinian liberation.

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↭The Yellow Papers #2: The Politics of Delivery (Against Poet-Voice) by Holly Pester↭
A5 / edition  of  100 / pamphlet stitched / risoprinted / reprinted with permission  / Designed by #PhilBaber in 2020 ( #TheLastBooks )

“Smirking at ‘poet-voice’, the so-called auto-tune of more or less uniform, up and down notes that a poet uses to tumble along a line of poetic clauses and conjunctions until… it reaches… a possible verandah of resolution… indicated mainly through the recognisable key change and programmed-from-elsewhere pauses – is a little trite, if not a pointless point of contention. Poets from all camps, scenes and aesthetic traditions do it, or a version of it. And after a succession of literary festivals I’ve heard poet-voice enough times to think that maybe there’s something about this common spoken tune that kindly coheres the voice of poets…? But, no. Following a political impulse that I cannot shake, I want to oppose poet-voice. Not to smirk, but to suggest that poet-voice, that is, to lay a given mutual voice on top of the text, is a kind of opting out. It’s a self-absolving move. What’s being opted out of is the rough stuff of delivery and the ethical shrapnel in intonation. Such materials of poetic intonation are not, I will argue, irrelevant to the political questions of one’s speech in society and its disputed freedoms.”

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🝱MARCH 2024🝱

↭DWELLING ↭
A zine made with the Freie Klasse at HfG Bremen.
Risoprinted / edition of 60 / handcut Lino stamped cover / various bindings / Compiled with elegance and deep narrative analysis in 48 hours 

“A place where we arrive and find the option to take care. An indefinite affiliation. Our togetherness concedes an ability to change, as the captured space and time change, emerging and evolving in the present. A situative experiment. A coincidental encounter. What it is to dwell: always in an immediate testing, readapting. An invitation to attune to one’s dwelling, to attune to each other’s dwelling, in our own dwelling.”

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↭Witches, Midwives and Nurses:
A History of Women Healers
by Deirdre English & Barbara Ehrenreich↭
Risoprinted / edition of 200 / A5 / pamphlet stitched / facsimile (for educational purposes) of the original 1973 pamphlet published by The Feminist Press  from an original copy in the archives of Hopscotch Reading Room

An essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English raise an exposé on the demonization of women healers and the political and economic monopolization of medicine. This quick history brings us up-to-date, exploring today’s changing attitudes toward childbirth, alternative medicine, and modern-day witches.

“This booklet will open your eyes. Barbara Ehrenrich and Deirdre English show how, for reasons of class politics, women’s suppression and naked greed, wealthy men discredited, persecuted and outright killed the wisewomen healers, leaving themselves to be the sole practitioners of their ‘scientific’ medicine. The information presented here gives a whole new perspective to medical history and points to some of the causes underlying our current healthcare mess.”
—Woman Source Catalog & Review.

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↭Gaza, 2035 by Haytham El-Wardany ↭
Commissioned as part of the project 🌑Literatura. أدب .ספרות. Edebiyat. văn học. literature – in den Sprachen Berlins 2021🌑 hosted by Literarisches Colloquium Berlin in 2021.
Risoprinted as a trilingual pamphlet in its original Arabic with a German translation by Sandra Hetzl, and an English translation by Katharine Halls. A5 / Edition of 150

“Haytham el-Wardany is an Egyptian writer and translator. He lives and works in Berlin, and writes short stories and experimental prose. His praxis focuses on fiction, especially short stories, and nonfiction formats, like essays, and fragmental prose. Reflecting on the experiences and aftermath of protests and uprisings in Egypt and the surrounding region, el-Wardany’s work explores what it means to live together. His current research concerns examining the fugitive and fragile spaces where the process of inheriting a (traumatic) past can take place. ‘Banat Awa and The Missing Letters,’ was published in Arabic in January 2023. It considers forgotten expressions of hope within Arabic fables—where animals speak and humans listen—as crucial to a moment of post “Arab Spring” speechlessness. In previous publications, including The Book of Sleep (Al-Karma 2017, Seagull Books 2020, by Robin Moger) and How to Disappear (Kayfa ta 2013-2017), el-Wardany has examined the agency and potential of passivity, through regimes of listening and the dialectics of sleep and vigilance amid social protests.“

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🝱FEBRUARY 2024🝱

↭ISOLA - a libretto by J. Mae Barizo↭
Risoprinted / edition of 60 / A5 / pamphlet stitched

“ISOLA is a prismatic meditation on time, mental health, and isolation, a collaborative project undertaken J. Mae Barizo and composer Alyssa Weinberg. The title is taken from the word ISOLA, at turns meaning isolation, an island, or the archipelago in the Pacific Ocean where Barizo’s parents emigrated from the year before her birth. Written by hand by Barizo in the Appalachians in 2020, the text hinges on the idea of distorted perception, both internal and external, viewed through the lens of isolation.”

Born in Toronto to Filipino immigrants, J. Mae Barizo is a poet, essayist and multidisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of poetics, media and performance. She is the author of two books of poetry, Tender Machines (Tupelo Press, 2023) and The Cumulus Effect (Four Way Books, 2015). Pink Noise, a book of hybrid essays on John Cage and the poetics of sound was a finalist for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and the 2023 Megaphone Prize. Her work has been anthologized in books published by W.W. Norton, Atelier Editions and Harvard University Press.

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↭The Other Europe: Voyeuristically↭
Composed of three essays forming one chapter of the exhibition catalogue ’Unpacking Europe: Towards a Critical Reading’ edited by Salah Hassan and Iftikhar Dadi and published in 2001 by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Facsimile made from an original copy in the archives of Hopscotch Reading Room.
Risoprinted / A5 / pamphlet stitched / edition of 100

This pamphlet includes the introduction by the editors and the three essays, ‘Undressing Europa: Voyeuristically Through the Dark Corridor’ by Apinan Poshyananda; ‘Belief in Europe’ by Jimmie Durham; and ‘Europe and Its Others’ by Fredric Jameson.

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↭‘Why We Can’t Wait: Listening to Martin Luther King’s Call for the Contemporary World’ (2024)
by Anthony Bogues ↭
A pamphlet initiated by Kennedy Hollins; it is a transcript of a lecture given by Dr. Bogues at the 2023 Martin Luther King annual lecture at Vrije Universitett Amsterdam. Risoprinted / edition of 200 / A5 / pamphlet stitched / in collaboration with Hopscotch Reading Room

“Martin Luther King Jr, in his time had identified that one of major problems facing the world was militarism. Today that militarism is not confined to the USA, it has enveloped many other states. When that militarism is combined with new forms of violence which seek to extinguish the imagination then the world is in an unknown place. One made not for the living or the dying, but rather for destroying and conquering. Violence / war is action. It is accompanied by speech which makes the human- non human As violence / war perpetuates itself as power then the human disappears, and life becomes an experience in which we tell tales to give life in death. It is a dangerous moment in our human world and my hope is that the publication of this lecture might facilitate attempts to challenge this world . We certainly cannot wait.”
- from the preface by Dr. Bogues

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↭Coineaters in Progress by Charlotte Thiessen ↭
Risoprinted / A5 / 5 folded pages / original drawing by the author on the cover. Printed on the occasion of a reading at The White Chapel Gallery for the closing of the exhibition ‘Anna Mendelssohn: Speak, Poetess’ and the launch of  THIS ENERGY WASTED BY FLIGHT  by Lotte L.S.

Join us for an evening of readings by poets Lotte L.S., Mira Mattar, Lotta Thießen and Dom Hale to celebrate the launch of THIS ENERGY WASTED BY FLIGHT – a new publication of poetry and prose by Lotte L.S.

Drawing on a range of influences including Anna Mendelssohn (currently on view in the Gallery), the book attempts to both unravel and complicate the she that speaks: gendered experience and its relationship to fragmented memory and the violence of narrative time; to sexual violence; to surveillance and grief; to solitude and collectivity; to song and dissent.  

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🝱JANUARY 2024🝱

↭COMING TO WRITING ↭
includes Coming to Writing  (1976) by Hélène Cixous + The Book Inside the Book (2002) by Mireille Calle-Gruber
Edition of 50 / risoprinted / marbled-ink half-cover  / size A4 / 2-prong hole binding clip / stapled A5 pamphlet inside

The title essay explores Cixous's decision to become an author and the problems raised by a woman writing herself into history and into a particular literary and cultural tradition.

“What is the book, of which the main character is the book? More precisely, not a book but this book that the readers hold in  their hands? Cixous calls it ‘the Coming’ [la Vitesse] and of vision [la Vision]. Is this an allegory? A  proper name? Is this the name that  is  taken by the form of movement, when the language of a common place becomes a singular  dream? A dream of singular  stories -  since in the shady zone where they appear, these stories contain the stuff of a  dream: its tenacity, its  freedom, its clairvoyance. They run and talk. She calls it. Or does she? Is it not, rather, the  book that calls? Calls her to write it? Puts her to the work of the word [le Verbe]?” - ‘The Book Inside the Book’ (2002) by Mireille Calle-Gruber

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🝱DECEMBER 2023🝱

↭JUST THE WOODCUTS↭
a colouring book based on the woodcuts from one of the first illustrated printed books,
HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI
(THE DREAM OF POLIPHILUS)

On the surface it appears to be a kind of romance, yet one preoccupied with lengthy descriptions of architecture. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili — or, “Poliphilo’s Strife of Love in a Dream” — was published by the Venetian press of Aldus Manutius in 1499. Structured as a dream within a dream, the narrative weaves together mythological references to construct a universe filled with ruinous landscapes and orgiastic celebrations, visualized with nearly two hundred woodcut illustrations.
This colouring book is reprinted in burgundy riso ink on munken crème paper from a reproduction made in 1893 for the department of science and art in photo-lithography in Leipzig. In the original, the illustrations are integrated into the main text and contain aspects of film, comics, and storyboarding, all of which make it even more interesting that it is one of the most unreadable books ever published.

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↭The Kufiya by Ted Swedenburg↭
Risoprinted / A5 / pamphlet stitched / edition of 60

The text is Chapter 12 from Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century (2021) edited by Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera. The text details the sought-after scarf's various modes through the last 75 years, as a symbol of resistance and solidarity with Palestine,  as well as ubiquitous fashion item.

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↭BLAUTT: Underwater Publishing Manifesto
by Erin Honeycutt↭
Printed on the occasion of the exhibition ‘ á ‘ (Icelandic for ‘river’) at the Icelandic embassy in Tokyo  curated by Sigurdur Atli Sigurdsson.

Edition of 100  /  xeroxed at the Kinko’s in Jimbocho, Tokyo / accordion fold / bound by envelope

BLAUTT (Icelandic for 'wet'), a kind of underwater publishing manifesto, was inspired by Oro:Orð the Icelandic-Basque Pidgin libretto written in collaboration with Alex Mendizabal that was part of the show.

Here are some excerpts:
First it is elemental, because water, because ink, because eyeballs floating in fluid, because paper compressed first by being moist, because the tongue is wet. I’m making a lot of this up, articulating it like pulling it up bit by bit from a well, a deep one. The more likely scenario for Underwater Publishing, underwater communications, underwater radio, is that the underwater part is a voice that is oppressed and we have to find a way to make it legible, or else find a way to extricate it…

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🝱NOVEMBER 2023🝱

↭The Other's Language: Ornette Coleman & Jacques Derrida in Conversation (1997)↭
Edition of 100 / riso printed in burgundy ink / pamphlet stitched in collaboration  with Hopscotch  Reading Room

A 1997 conversation between the modern-jazz musician Ornette Coleman by the philosopher Jacques Derrida; the substantial connections between their ideas, which come through in surprising ways. They were, as Derrida notes, born in the same year, 1930.

/// OC: When you take music, the composers who were inventors in western, European culture are maybe a half-dozen. As for technology, the inventors I have most heard talk about it are Indians from Calcutta and Bombay. There are many Indian and Chinese scientists. Their inventions are like inversions of the ideas of European or American inventors, but the word “inventor” has taken on a sense of racial domination that’s more important than invention—which is sad, because it’s the equivalent of a sort of propaganda.

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↭Letter from Gaza (1956) by Ghassan Kanafani↭
Edition of 100  / risprinted /  pamphlet  stitched /  A5

The sales of these pamphlets (3 euros each) went towards supporting the activities of @nidalaat_ - a new series of teach-ins and workshops exploring the urgent question of Palestine in relation to broader regional and global contexts while focusing on the Arab world and its diasporas. The program offers a space for Palestinians, Arabs and allies from across the globe to come together and develop a critical understanding of current events and a shared vision for liberation.

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↭meia roda da fortuna / half wheel of fortune
by afonso fragoso matos↭
Risoprinted with burgundy ink / pamphlet stitched / edition of 100

Firstly written in Portuguese and presented in Lisbon (Dec. 2022), 'meia roda da fortuna / half wheel of fortune' found its way into English and is now presented in a bilingual edition.

“It tries to capture some lapses of the contemporary world, in a variety of geographies, questioning the inner mechanisms of poetic and political languages. An homage to those who live in exile, inspired by legacies we tend to forget, exploring a divergent historical perspective. It is also a personal testimony of nomadic inteneration and observation of some of the events that mark our time. A kind of odyssey in which you may also get lost... and still get home safe, wandering about cycles and the direction we move to.”

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↭UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE X CUTT PRESS X HOPSCOTCH ↭
Reprint collaboration  / Risoprinted / edition of 100 each /  A5 / stapled

Four UDP pamphlets which were part of a 2020 Pamphlet Series of twenty commissioned essays on collective work, translation, performance, pedagogy, poetics, and small press publishing.

🟨Reincarnating Marechera: Notes On A Speculative Archive by Tinashe Mushakavanhu🟨 Marechera’s death in 1987 is an event that remains unremarked. Reincarnating Marechera interprets this event as a moment of radical praxis in the Zimbabwean imaginary, mining three overlapping archives—Marechera’s own writings, his historical and theoretical legacy, and an imaginative archive that responds creatively to gaps in the first two.

🟨Letters: The classroom is burning, let’s dream about a School of Improper Education by KUNCI Study Forum & Collective🟨Since its founding as a cultural studies group in 1999 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, KUNCI Study Forum & Collective has experimented with methods of producing and sharing knowledge through acts of collective study at the intersections of affective, manual, and intellectual labor. This pamphlet is a collaboratively authored epistolary essay that narrates the discourse behind the development of KUNCI’s School of Improper Education.

🟨Say Translation Is Art by Sawako Nakayasu🟨… a treatise on literary translation that exceeds the bounds of conventional definitions of such, advocating for a wider embrace of translation as both action and as art.

🟨Translation is a Mode=Translation is an Anti-neocolonial Mode by Don Mee Choi🟨…explores translation and language in the context of US imperialism—through the eyes of a “foreigner;” a translator; a child in Timoka, the made-up city of Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence; a child from a neocolony.

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🝱SEPTEMBER 2023🝱

↭ADDRESSED TO ITS INTENDED ↭
Texts and images by Erin Honeycutt and Francis Burger. Edition of 50 / risorinted in riso burgundy ink / various materials /  bound by envelope.  

A combination of thoughts on the thresholds of skin, paper, 'the book', undergrowth, gatherings, holes. Featuring the rough tongue of a holy ghost cat and a few circling dogs and many textures gathered by Francis from the flora of Berlin.

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↭COMING TO POWER:
Writings and Graphics on Lesbian S/M↭
Risoprinted / edition of 65 / extra blank pages for notes / bound by metal rings

This 1981 book was edited by members of the lesbian feminist S/M organisation Samois, based in San Francisco. It was reprinted by Alyson Publications the following year.

No theory, just first-person stories🌀Special thanks to the owner of the only original copy in Berlin🌀

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↭ Stuck In Free Fall by Nicola  Bullock↭
A book that is also a performance / unbound pages /  bound by envelopes of different colours / edition of 100

“Stuck in Free Fall is a show about Nothing. In this genre-bending solo performance Nicola celebrates the contribution that “Nothing” – a feeling, state, need, or otherwise – has made to our individual psyches and the collective unconscious. As she guides the audience through a wild, experimental and thought-provoking collective reading of their artist book, a ritual is born. Featuring dance, poetry and love letters to the void, Stuck in Free Fall insists that Nothing – invisible, impossible, and accessed only through imagination – invites us to believe in belief and trust the unknown.”

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🝱JUNE 2023🝱

↭Mythical Celestial Bodies by  Cassie Thornton ↭
Risoprinted with burgundy ink /  Japanese stitched /  satin bookmark /  Edition of 100 / on the occasion of the exhibition at  Mehringplatz 20 as part  of Project Space Festival

“When you come to the White Hole exhibition, you can leave with this book, an after-care, created in collaboration with Cutt Press. Beautiful, riso printed and hand bound. It contains a collection of essays by Cassie  Thornton   AKA the_feminist_economics_dept connected to the artworks about the myth of Cassandra, the power and smallness of white holes, care as neglect, and more. In exchange, we would love for you to sign our petition on change.org, addressed to the World, for all care takers to be well taken care of. Because we all know that would turn the white hole upside down.”

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🝱MAY 2023🝱

↭Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars by Kojo Laing + a supplementary essay: ‘To Win the War, You Fought It Sideways: Kojo Laing's Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars’ by Kodwo Eshun↭
In collaboration with Hopscotch Reading Room as part of “AHAB: Architectural Hopscotch - Auspicious Bootlegs” for @ultradependentpublicschool at BAK, Utrecht
Risoprinted / edition of 100  /  comb bound

*Shown here are photos of a first edition of 20 made with coptic binding and hand-painted covers in 2020 (the year of the Achimota Wars!)

Originally published in the influential African Writers Series in 1992, Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars is a science fiction novel about the city of Akkra, Ghana in the year 2020. It is the most sustained science fiction yet written in which the futurity of the African continent constitutes the object and the stake of warring forces. Laing envisions the year 2020 as an era in which one power fights for the right to project themselves into a futurity from which they will be expelled by the victory of their enemy. ‘To Win the War, You Fought It Sideways: Kojo Laing's Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars’ by Kodwo Eshun is included with permission from the author.

“Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars (1992) is set in the year 2020 A.D., and on first impression seems to be the staple fare of sci-fi futuristic fantasy. Europe has retreated into a cyberworld of computerized emblems and virtual reality, in which physical existence and experiential learning have become unnecessary and have been abandoned, along with "language and humanity,"1 to the poorer countries. The cybernetic superpowers, who communicate with each other  through exclusive secret codes, have decided that the Third World does not qualify for what is now conceived as reality, and have declared Africa to be irrelevant to the modern world and humanly expendable, being useful only as storage space, nuclear sanctuary, toxic dumping ground, and experimental laboratory for germ warfare and genetic engineering (thus even the wildly futuristic has an uncomfortably contemporary ring).”
*About 3/4ths of the way through the printing process, the stash of Federal Blue ink ran out so you can see the gradual transition to Burgundy ink. 

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↭Deschooling Society by  Ivan Illich↭
In collaboration with Hopscotch Reading Room as part of “AHAB: Architectural Hopscotch - Auspicious Bootlegs” for @ultradependentpublicschool at BAK, Utrecht
Risoprinted / comb bound / A5 / edition of 100

Deschooling Society is a 1971 book written by philosopher and social critic Ivan Illich that offers a critique of the role and practice of education in the modern world.

"A good educational system should have three purposes: it should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives; empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them; and, finally, furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known." 

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↭The Feel Trio by Fred Moten - Annotated Edition ↭
In collaboration with Hopscotch Reading Room as part of “AHAB: Architectural Hopscotch - Auspicious Bootlegs” for @ultradependentpublicschool at BAK, Utrecht
Risoprinted /  comb bound /  edition of  100  

This copy of The Feel Trio by Fred Moten (Letter Machine Editions, 2014) has been heavily notated by the previous owner. Drawings, personal thoughts and feelings, diagrams, and other scribbles fill the margins of our copy which we have reprinted as is in the spirit of Moten’s eclectic mixture of resources in the book: "contemporary as well as historical, steeped in jazz and black history, representing a cultural lexicon of the utmost accomplished chops filled with slang, humor, and critical acumen with events and cultural collateral" in the shared memory of the page.

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↭Spectres - In the Wake of Shipping Infrastructure’ (2023) by Ranjit Kandalgaonkar ↭
Edition of 100 / digital print  / leporello fold

Printed on the occasion of the exhibition „Indigo Waves & Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora" at Savvy Contemporary featuring material (and sound) related to the zine.

“These images showcase instances of shipping infrastructure within the latter half of the 20th century. During these critical post war years, merchant vessel shipping is undergoing a rapid transformation with regards to volume of goods being transported, distribution channels being streamlined, stringent maritime law being written (and partially enforced) and maritime technological innovation restructuring ship labour work-forces. The onset of early large-scale container vessels and supertankers changes the logistics of the industry irreversibly.”

Based in Mumbai, Ranjit Kandalgaonkar’s art practice primarily comprises a lens directed at the urban context of cities.

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🝱APRIL 2023🝱
↭Morai  Gero I edited by Elin McCready↭
Risoprinted /  A4 / comb bound / edition of 100 

Reprint of a 1995 bilingual zine about Japanese noise and hardcore. Featuring Melt Banana, Merzbow, Surfers of Romantica, and Boredoms.

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🝱JANUARY 2023🝱

↭ORO:ORÐ: Icelandic Basque Pidgin by Erin Honeycutt & Alex Mendizabal↭
Risoprinted / folded uncut pages /  A5 / spiral bound / edition of 100 / Co-published with ‘Uns - Plural for One (Reykjavik)  




This began as a conversation with the Basque composer, Alex Mendizabal about the existence of an Icelandic-Basque Pidgin language formed when Basque sailors arrived in Iceland in the early 17th century.

We decided to update the pidgin in the form of a libretto in which 12 Acts each correspond to a painting from the year 1616. The Icelandic-Basque poems are ekphrastic, describing each painting, but the paintings are not shown in their original. Each painting has been transformed by AI into a line drawing.

Oro:orð is simplified communication forms within a libretto, music, water, bubbles and images in twelve acts. It may take different forms such as (but not only) installation, radio play, internet or operatic stream, underwater publications. Oro:orð is inspired by the Icelandic Basque Pidgin, a trading language used between Basque and Icelandic whalers in the late 16th and early 17th century. It was not spoken, but only written on ledgers. Like the internet itself, it is a communication device for economic purposes, which is, in fact, an artifact. The libretto is written in Icelandic, English, and Euskara (Basque language) and is composed of ‘acts’ based on paintings produced in the year 1616 from around the world, reflecting on the long arrival of the current state of globalization. Each Act of the libretto is based on a painting from the year 1616 and includes an AI drawing of the painting in lieu of the actual image.

ORO:ORÐ was screened at the Cybernetics of the Poor festival at Tabakalera in 2020 as a lyric video by Francois Pisapia

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🝱NOVEMBER 2022🝱

↭Quarantine by Juan Goytisolo -
Handwritten by Erin Honeycutt↭
Risoprinted /  edition of 60 / bound by two-prong clip / landscape format / not intended for legibility

One way to inhabit your reading is to write it down by hand, l suppose. In homage to samizdat practices, l started handwriting this artist book edition of ‘Quarantine’ by Juan Goytisolo in 2020. I was also challenged by the protagonist who says he handwrote the book over the course of one night as it was dictated to him by an angel…

Juan Goytisolo, whose early works were banned in Spain until after Franco’s death, wrote ‘Quarantine’ (originally ‘La cuarantena’, tr. by Peter Bush) in 1994 while living in exile in Paris. The short novella has forty chapters, each corresponding to the forty days in Islamic lore that account for the time spent between death and eternity. While the novel is set up as a narrative of this journey, it reflects on writing itself as a quarantine, while also reflecting on the Gulf War on television.

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↭WHEN THEY BROKE DOWN THE DOOR by  FATEMEH SHAMS ↭

Risoprinted / A5 /  landscape format / Japanese stitched / edition of 100. Printed on  the occasion of  a poetry  reading by Shams (along with Aria Aber and Noah Warren) hosted by  Hopscotch Reading Room.

Shams' debut poetry collection 'When They Broke Down the Door' (2016, translated by Dick Davis), which is currently banned in Iran. The printing project sparked a conversation recorded here on Refuge Worldwide with Shams, whose poetry gained popularity following the Green uprising in June 2009, about the censoring of literature in Iran, and the clandestine publishing practices that followed the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

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↭COW TRIPE by  Savanna Ni’cheal Morgan ↭
In collaboration with Hopscotch Reading Room
/ Edition of 200  / risoprinted / occasional vellum pages / perfect glue bound / A5

Times of isolation and reflection following the events of 2020, call for this poetic exploration of love and grief through the lens of black womanhood, Southern U.S.Americanness, and modernity. Savanna Morgan is a storyteller through various mediums based in Berlin, Germany, and the U.S. Originally from Dallas, Texas, she writes plays, lms, shorts, and poems; she sings jazz, blues, folk, soul, r&b, and classical; she acts, creates, and devises film and theatre in collaboration with other artists. Savanna's writer-actor training brought her to Europe (Master of Arts, arthaus.berlin), however, she’s Texas, through-and-through. Cut her open and she will probably start bleeding hot sauce. Savanna’s creative process is very much rooted in time, place, and memory of home in the North American South. Her work aims to foster conversations within the black diaspora centering on histories, triumphs, joy, and healing.

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↭Bell’s Theorem (Reductio ad Infinitum) von Richard Bell (German Translation)↭
Bell’s Theorem (Reductio ad Infinitum): Zeitgenössische Kunst - das ist eine weiße Sache von Richard Bell. Risoprinted / edition of 500  / A5 / stapled. Publication of the German translation commissioned by Richard Bell for distribution at Documenta and other venues in Germany

"My painting Scientia E Metaphysica (Bell’s Theorem), or Aboriginal Art: It’s a White Thing, won the 20th Telstra National Aboriginal Arts Award in August 2003—it was an important moment in many ways. The accompanying essay, “Bell’s Theorem: Aboriginal Art—It’s a White Thing!,” was written to come to terms with my position in Contemporary Art, given the aesthetic prejudices against urban Aboriginal artists and practices and the persistent white hold on, and ignorance of, our power." - Richard Bell

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🝱NOVEMBER 2021🝱
↭Dictée by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha ↭
A reprint (for educational purposes) of Dictée (1981, Tanam Press) by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Risoprinted / edition of 75 / landscape format / bound by two-prongclips / A4
Printed on the occasion of a reading by Cha’s niece and nephew at Hopscotch Reading Room.

Dictée is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. A classic work of autobiography that transcends the self, Dictée is the story of several women: the Korean revolutionary Yu Guan Soon, Joan of Arc, Demeter and Persephone, Cha’s mother Hyung Soon Huo (a Korean born in Manchuria to first-generation Korean exiles), and Cha herself. The elements that unite these women are suffering and the transcendence of suffering. The book is divided into nine parts structured around the Greek Muses. Cha deploys a variety of texts, documents, images, and forms of address and inquiry to explore issues of dislocation and the fragmentation of memory. The result is a work of power, complexity, and enduring beauty.

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🝱SEPTEMBER 2020🝱

↭The Cactus Conspiracy by Erin Honeycutt↭

Edition of 30 / each with a unique A2 poster /  bound by  envelope / handpainted covers

Workshopped through a seminar I took in the summer 2020 with  the excellent Center for Book Arts New York.  My recent academic thesis in Religion (‘Imagetext as  Borderland:  Henri  Michaux and Occult Modernism,’ University of Amsterdam, 2019) was  turned into a  more experimental publication by meshing it with other writing about writing and also writing about cactus tree photography.  It includes three items: an accordion pamphlet, an A2 poster from the exhibition The Cactus Chronicles curated by Katharina Wendler at DZIALDOV, Berlin, and a hand-bound booklet.