K. Verlag 2022 Preview Catalog (April 2022)

PREVIEW CATALOG 2022

ABOUT K. VERLAG

Advancing a novel approach to the book-­as-­ exhibition, the Berlin-based publishing atelier K. ­Verlag collaborates internationally with artists and institutions to develop publications whose conceptual rigor and experimental ­design create radical aesthetic and discursive spaces. K.’s editorial-design process insists on the mutuality of content and form, ­allowing the press to concurrently rethink and re­shape political, ecological, and theoretical ­ambitions and expectations. In May 2020, K. Verlag was named a recipient of the prestigious Deutscher Verlagspreis, which is a­ warded annually to honor outstanding ­independent publishers by the Federal ­Ministry of Culture. K. has also been recognized for various individual publications, including Dora García’s On Reconciliation­ / ­ Über Versöhnung, which was named one of the Most Beautiful Books of 2018 by the German Stiftung Buchkunst, as well as The Work of Wind: Land (co-published with The ­Blackwood Gallery of the University of ­Toronto Mississauga), which won the 2019 Book Design Award of the Ontario ­Association of Art Galleries. Most recently, K. received a Special Publishing Award on the occasion of the ­twentieth anniversary of the Kurt Wolff Stiftung for independent publishers.

Dear Reader, Two years ago in March, as I was flying back from field research in ­Indonesia to arrive in Berlin before the airports were shut down in an attempt to halt the spread of the pandemic, it was somehow easy to think that we’d be back to some kind of normal in a few months, or by the fall at the latest.

That didn’t happen. As the vaccines were rolled out, it was again easy to think we’d get back to hosting events soon. That didn’t happen either. And, as the pandemic raged on, we awoke in February to the wrenching news of ­Russia’s horrific invasion of Ukraine; we join with the voices of solidarity calling for an end to this imperialist war. Now, in such difficult times, it is almost hard to imagine the world as it was only two years ago; and yet so many of the current struggles were already there in that world, latent, waiting for their moment.

As K. works on new titles of our program, we are keen to share just a bit of good news … there are good things, too, that have been waiting for their moment. We are not only proud to announce a list of exceptional projects currently in the making, we are also excited about the new preview format, which doubles as a limited-edition series of interviews with an artist, author, or editor about their perspectives on publishing. This inaugural volume ­presents a conversation with Spanish artist Dora García that was moderated by Lauren Lee, a Modern Culture & Media student from Brown University who interned with K. last summer. Notably, this exchange keeps a worm­hole open to one of our earliest books, Traversals, which also ­contains such an interview with Dora about publishing as artistic practice.

On that note, if you are in New York this spring or summer, don’t miss Carla Zaccagnini’s solo exhibition Accounts of Accounting at Amant— which is accompanied by her beautiful hardcover monograph, Cuentos de ­Cuentas. As the first release from K. Verlag this year, it continues the atelier’s long-term conceptual interest in the conjunctions between artistic and writerly practice and experimental publishing.

Second, the long-awaited intercalations 6 is now shipping worldwide.

If you are keen to reconnect with your avifaunal kin after months in pan­ demic lockdown, this is a collection not to be missed.

Whether you are interested in individual publications or represent a book­shop or a library, we look forward to hearing from you! In these times, the moments of mindfulness and inspiration that good books provide seem more crucial than ever.

Take care, Anna-Sophie Springer & the K. studio

intercalations 6 Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin, eds.

Among the Nightingales in Berlin

by David Rothenberg

Juliana Spahr: If You Were a Bluebird

Mark Dion: The Library for the Birds

Bird Culture

by Sophia Graefe

Speechless: Some Notes About Birds

by Bik van der Pol

Post-digital Ornithology David Bonter in conversation with Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin

Ari Bayuaji: Birds of Paradise

Looking at a Blackbird

by Mary Ellen Hannibal

Lêna Bùi: Where Birds Dance Their Last

Of Wild Sanctuaries Bernie Krause & Kat Krause in conversation with Etienne Turpin Wallace Craig: The Song of the Wood Pewee Myiochanes virens Linnaeus introduced by David Rothenberg Blue Canary: Five Excerpts

by Barbara Marcel & Andreas Doepke Jimmie Durham: Guajalotes

Six Exercises in Minor Ornithology

by Frank Steinheimer

Inter Folia, Aves

by Anna-Sophie Springer

Anaïs Nin: Little Birds

Bruno Schulz: Birds

The Sociality of Birds: Reflections on Ontological Edge Effects

by Anna Tsing

The Virtue and Value of Disappearance: Muse-ecology and Invisible Flight of the Birds

by John Paul Ricco with images by Xavi Bou

Nina Katchadourian: The Birds of New Zealand

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Bertolt Brecht: The Experiment Loons, Space, Time, and Aquatic Adaptability

by Megan Prelinger

The Voice of a Bird, Or, The Problem of Strangeness

by Yoko Tawada

intercalations is a project of SYNAPSE – The International Curators’ Network

These Birds of Temptation

K. Verlag & Haus der Kulturen der Welt

These Birds of Temptation

Anne Geene & Arjan de Nooy: Aristotle’s Birds

All images in this piece are stills from the film Nightingales in Berlin, directed by Ville Tanttu (2019); reproduced courtesy of David Rothenberg. For more information, see nightingalesinberlin.com/film.

intercalations 6—These Birds of Temptation— is a queer refrain, populated with both acoustical lines of flight and the sorrows of captivity, wherein the ­reader-­as-­exhibitionviewer learns that the adventure of orni­thol­ogy is as preoccupied with the evolutionary meaning of allopreening among avifauna as it is with their taxonomical domination. With contributions creating a kaleidoscopic murmuration of minor ornithologies, including pieces on feathers, flight, song, loss, escape, and evasion, as well as a series of poetic reflections, short stories, and theoretical reflections.

These Birds of Temptation intercalations 6

The intercalations: paginated exhibition series is an experimental foray exploring the structure of the book as a potential curatorial space. As the reader-as-exhibition-viewer moves through the book-as-exhibition, she discovers that the erratic intercalations of the Anthropocene invite new forms of literacy, visuality, inquiry, and speculation that are, in the words of Clarice Lispector, less promiscuous than they are kaleidoscopic.

intercalations is a project of SYNAPSE – The International Curators’ Network, published by K. Verlag and Haus der Kulturen der Welt in conjunction with The Anthropocene Project.

Published January 2022 English

These Birds of Temptation. Edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin.

With contribu­tions by Eddie Bartley, Ari Bayuaji, Bik Van der Pol, David Bonter, Xavi Bou, Tiffany Bozic, Lêna Bùi, Bertolt Brecht, Wallace Craig, Mark Dion, Andreas Doepke, Jimmie Durham, Anne Geene, Sophia Gräfe, Mary Ellen Hannibal, Nina Katchadourian, Bernie & Kat Krause, Barbara Marcel, Anaïs Nin, Arjan de Nooy, Megan Prelinger, John Paul Ricco, David Rothenberg, Juliana Spahr, Bruno Schulz, Anna-Sophie Springer, Frank Steinheimer, Yoko Tawada, Anna Tsing, Etienne Turpin, and Francesca Woodman.

Design in collaboration with Katharina Tauer.

13 × 21 cm 436 pages Color and black / white images Softcover with flaps, thread stitching ISBN 978-3-9818635-4-3 € 27

Carla Zaccagnini

Cuentos de Cuentas

Cuentos de Cuentas brings together a series of recollections from artist Carla ­Zaccagnini’s childhood in Brazil and Argentina in the 1980s. Punctuated by childhood drawings and personal photographs, each episode is structured around a specific object—a tent, a jar, a vest, etcetera—that were keys to enabling secret economic transactions in a context where the U.S. dollar dictated the person-to-person cash economy. The replacement of the banknote as a tangible object through digitalization works in tandem with the logic of late capitalism: the disappearance of the unitary subject in a moment of high inflation, political incertitude, and social insecurity.

Published April 2022 English / Spanish 10.5 ×16.5 cm 216 pages 56 full color images

Carla Zaccagnini, Cuentos de Cuentas.

With texts, art, and photography by Carla Zaccagnini. Edited and translated

by Sarah Demeuse, Ruth Estévez, and Carla Zaccagnini. Design by K. Verlag in collaboration with Wolfgang Hückel & Katharina Tauer.

Hardcover, thread stitching ISBN 978-3-947858-32-3 € 24

INTRODUCING: PROCESSING PROCESS

Situated at the intersection of the artist book, the manifesto, and the exhibition, the v­ olumes of Processing Process are dedicated to ­ artistic researchers and their ongoing forays into ­science, culture, technology, and fabulation with a conceptual monograph.

Focusing on each artist-author’s unique set of themes, concerns, poetic and investi­ ga­tive aesthetics, the seriality of Processing ­Process will be reflected through a minimal set of recurring formal parameters, as well as contextual interviews recorded with each ­author. Published alongside the artistauthor’s own research, these conversations relay in-depth theoretical discussions of their practice-led approach and processual methodologies.

Together, the works in the series form an assembly of a new generation of experi­ menters committed to provocative and ­genre-spanning research creation in the intersecting fields of expanded art practice, ecology, politics, and ritual.

The series is kicked off with publications by artists Ana Hupe in the summer and Justine Blau in the fall, with more volumes currently in the works.

Softcover with dustjacket, open spine, and thread stitching

Ana Hupe

Color and black / white images ISBN 978-3-947858-34-7 € 24

Footnotes to Triangular Cartographies

14 × 21 cm c. 200 pages

Ana Hupe: Footnotes to Triangular Cartographies — Processing Process.

With texts and photography by Ana Hupe, reflective essays by anthropologist Moisés Lino e Silva, art historian Maykson Cardoso, and cultural producer Jumoke Sanwo, as well as a conversation between Ana Hupe and K. Verlag. Design by Clara Huber with K. in collaboration with Wolfgang Hückel & Katharina Tauer.

English/ Portuguese

Processing Process

Forthcoming Summer 2022

In Footnotes to Triangular ­Cartographies, the notes become the body of the text. A detail observed along a boulevard of imperial palms in Havana connects the gardens of the Portuguese court in colonial Brazil to an ancient currency in West Africa. In her travel writings, Ana Hupe maps historical relationships as she immerses herself in Yoruba philosophy. The book thus relays an intermittent incursion into the universe of invisible and poetic forces, which teach that some apparent coincidences can also be recognized as synchronicities that re-enchant worlds and increase speculative capacities. As an encounter between the visual arts and the disciplines of anthropology, art history, literature, and philosophy, the project also moves through B ­ razil, Cuba, and Nigeria on its way to other destinations, and other destinies.

Processing Process

Softcover with dustjacket, open spine, and thread stitching ISBN 978-3-947858-33-0

Justine Blau

14 × 21 cm Color and black / white images € 24

Veil of Nature

English c. 200 pages

Contributors forthcoming in the 2023 Preview Catalog.

Forthcoming Fall 2022

Endemic to the Galapagos Islands, Sicyos villosa was collected by Charles Darwin during his journey on the Beagle between 1831 and 1836, but it is now extinct.

Aftering reading that a group of contemporary scientists were hoping to de-extinct Sicyos villosa using biotechnologies, Justine Blau began to investigate what it means to bring a species back to life. She embarked on a journey to understand the desire for de-extinction and just what it was that science was now trying to save. Through her encounters with researchers and scientists in herbaria and seed banks, as well as her travels to the Galapagos, she uncovered a matrix of contradictions that radically challenge the modern scientific conservation complex. As modern science projects its ambition for rationality onto the mysteries of life, nature itself withdraws. As Blau uncovers the conservation complex, she also discovers another potency of nature held in abeyance.

MORE FORTHCOMING & AVAILABLE TITLES

Black and Pantone color Softcover with staple-binding

Wendy Morris Volumes 1–3 (of 10)

11 × 17 cm 48–52 pages ISBN 978-3-947858-35-4, 978-3-947858-40-8, 978-3-947858-41-5 € 9, € 27 as a set of 3

Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist

English / Vol. 3 English /Afrikaans

Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist. A project by Wendy Morris. Volumes 1 to 3 with texts and drawings by Wendy Morris and an essay by Nadia Kamies, Rachel O’Donnell, and Joshua Cohen, respectively. Design by K. Verlag in collaboration with Katharina Tauer and ­Wolfgang Hückel. Additional volumes forthcoming in 2023.

Forthcoming Spring 2022

Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist is an ambulatory library, a series of chapbooks for travelling women and wayfaring men, small enough to be concealed in an underpocket. Suspended between the mundane and the miraculous, these word-of-mouth works are a part of Nothing of Importance Occurred: Recuperating a Herball for a 17th Century Enslaved Angolan Midwife at the Cape. Initiated by South African artist Wendy Morris, this is a project of recu­peration of missing narratives through speculative investigation of plants-as-archive and storytelling as a method. The invited contributors are researchers and writers whose reflections were influential on the investigation.

128 pages Full color Softcover, thread stitching, and a hole

Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide & Taylor Le Melle, eds.

17 × 24 cm ISBN 978-3-947858-38-5 € 19

A Lasting Truth Is Change

English

A Lasting Truth Is Change. Edited by Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide and Taylor Le Melle, with contributions

by Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Clare Butcher, Nuraini ­Juliastuti, Kunci School of Improper Education (Gusti Nur Asla Shabia, Mokhsa Imanahatu Atolu, Eris Setiyawan, Eliesta Handitya, Yngvie Ahsanu Nadiyya, and Rifki Afwakhoir), Kabelo Malatsie, Taylor Le Melle, Christian Nyampeta, Noleca Anderson Radway (with Blu & Moxie), Karen N. Salt, Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, and the Van Abbemuseum acquisitions commit­ tee (Nick Aikens, Charles Esche, Chantal ­Kleinmeulman, Steven ten Thije, and Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide). Design by Sandra Kassenaar.

Forthcoming Spring 2022

Transformative justice movements consistently recognize the power of art; culture workers simultaneously acknowl­edge the need to challenge historical and institutional conditions in which art is made. That visual culture can normalize violence is an especially acute concern among heritage art institutions—while these spaces display radical works, it is often without meaningfully addressing the structural injustice that has constrained their production. In A Lasting Truth Is Change, the editors ask: what lies beyond hierarchical and extractive traditions that can activate change here and now?

The collection includes responses from artists, collectives, and scholars all engaging with emancipatory experiments at institutional perimeters.

Color and black / white images

intercalations 5

436 pages Softcover with flaps, thread stitching ISBN 978-3-9818635-3-6

Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin, eds.

13 × 21 cm € 27

Decapitated Economies

English

Decapitated Economies. Edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin. Contributions by Abdel Amine, Maria Thereza Alves, Elisa Balmaceda, Priyanka Basu, Ollie Cameron, Tatenda Chidora, Musquiqui Chihying, Jason S. Cipparone, DT Cochrane, Yayo Herrero, Amanda de Lisio, Gregor Kasper, Armin Linke, Nashin Mahtani, MAP Office, Jeff Monaghan, Skye Moret, Thomas Moynihan, Jan Nikolai Nelles, Vincent Normand, Steve Rowell, James C. Scott, Joel Tauber, Etienne Turpin, Junichi Ushiba, and Alfred Russel Wallace.

Design in collaboration with Katharina Tauer.

Forthcoming Summer 2022

intercalations 5—Decapitated Economies—is a book of provocations wherein the reader-as-exhibition-­ viewer learns that the “Head,” despite its interminable attempt to rule over the body, necessarily underestimates the sophistication of corporeal desire when such desire is unleashed in accord with the principles of a general economy. With contributions addressing a variety of acephalia and attendant operational deformations— from the invention of the guillotine to the maintenance of the museum repository, from annual shareholder reports to Indigenous sovereignty struggles, and from neuroscientific advancements to brain surgery nar­ra­tives, as well as the housing crisis, ocean pollution, settlement and cerealization, wheat banks, political murder, human extinction, and much more.

Forthcoming Summer 2022 English Hardcover, thread stitching ISBN 978-3-9818635-9-8 € 29

The Work of Wind: Sea

Color and black / white images

The Work of Wind: Sea. Edited by Christine Shaw & Etienne Turpin. With contributions by Ursula Biemann & Yvonne Volkart, Christina Geros, Assaf Gruber, Stefan Helmreich, Heraclitus & Konstantina Koulouri, Anne Duk Hee Jordan & Pauline Doutreluingne, Gabriel Mascaro, Renisa Mawani, Skye Moret, Arjuna Neuman & Denise Feirreira da Silva, The Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar & Kodwo Eshun), AbdouMaliq Simone, Jonas Staal, Etienne Turpin, and Françoise Vergès.

Design by K. Verlag in collaboration with Katharina Tauer.

346 pages

Christine Shaw & Etienne Turpin. eds.

19 × 24.5 cm

The Work of Wind: Sea takes as its conceptual starting point the Beaufort Scale of Wind Force for “Use on Sea” —the index of thirteen levels measuring the effects of oceanic wind force published in 1807 by British sea admiral Sir Francis Beaufort.

The companion to The Work of Wind: Land (2018), this new collection starts with a reflective essay by Françoise Vergès on cruise ships as neocolonial leisure and a visual “intermezzo” by Brazilian filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro. The wind scale’s thirteen distinct forces are then echoed by thirteen contributions that consider the ocean and its weathers as a field of tension characterized by structural violence and multispecies becoming.

180 pages Color and black / white images Softcover with flaps, thread stitching

Owned by Others, Lutz Henke, Anna-Sophie Springer & Raul Walch, eds.

18 x 24 cm ISBN 978-3-947858-39-2 € 28

A Map to Possession Island

German / English

A Map to Possession Island. Edited by Owned by Others, Lutz Henke, Anna-Sophie Springer & Raul Walch.

Contributors forthcoming in the 2023 Preview Catalog.

Design in colla­bo­ration with Basics09.

Sneak Peak Fall 2022

A Map to Possession Island is the published companion and continuation of a series of artistic interventions organized by the Berlin initiative Owned by Others on Museum Island. In autumn 2020, a temporarily rented travel agency specializing in Caribbean travel became a new collective meeting place, “Museum Tropicana.” It instantiated a critical and visionary counter-proposal to a reactionary urban planning that has cemented in the heart of Berlin. As a reflection on themes such as possession, appropriation and belonging, the forthcoming book aims to address a broad readership and supports a collective and lively psychogeography and engagement with the past, present, and future of this urban island in the middle of Berlin.

Sneak Peak Fall 2022 English Hardcover, thread stitching ISBN 978-3-947858-36-1 € 32

This Is Not An Artifact

Color and black /white images

Richard W. Pell, This is Not An Artifact. With text and images by Richard W. Pell/ Center for PostNatural History.

Edited by Etienne Turpin and designed by K. Verlag in collaboration with Wolfgang Hückel & Katharina Tauer.

224 pages

Richard W. Pell

18 × 24 cm

Founded in 2008, the Center for PostNatural History is an independent museum with a private collection in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

It is the only museum of its kind in the world—collecting artifacts of the intentional and heritable changes humans make to the living world. Featuring hundreds of entries for collection specimens organized under the postnatural categorical matrix of Isolating, Breeding, Engineering, and Leaking, this book-as-exhibition This Is Not An Artifact makes the exceptional collection of the Center for PostNatural History available to a global audience for the first time.

Published 2021 English 13 × 20 cm ISBN 978-3-947858-31-6 € 18

Allen S. Weiss, Figure Against Form: The Dolls of Michel Nedjar. Text and photos by Allen S. Weiss. Edited by Etienne Turpin and designed

by K. Verlag in collaboration with Wolfgang Hückel & Katharina Tauer.

Softcover, thread stitching

Figure Against Form: The Dolls of Michel Nedjar

67 color photographs

Allen S. Weiss

136 pages

Monster or marvel, totem or fetish, icon or idol, every doll created by contemporary French artist Michel Nedjar is a memento mori, a lamentation. These dolls both wound and protect. They indicate those terrors, inexorable and insidious, that exist not only in the world, but also within ourselves. Nedjar: The doll is my survival. The doll is what compels me not to lose my humanity. What is a doll? The doll is the thing that helped me to not flounder. The doll is what gave my existence its manner of seeing the world. What is a doll? That is what I still want to know.

288 pages Full-color and duo-tone images Softcover, thread stitching, otabind ISBN 978-3-947858-28-6

Raphael Fonseca & Anna Schneider, eds.

17 × 24 cm € 22

Sweat

English/German

Sweat. Edited by Raphael Fonseca & Anna Schneider/Haus der Kunst Munich.

With artworks by Pacita Abad, Cecilia Bengolea, Mohamed Bourouissa, chameckilerner, Mary Beth Edelson, Philipp Gufler, Sunil Gupta, Eisa Jocson, Isaac Julien, Christine Sun Kim, Daniel Lind-Ramos, Natalia LL, MAHKU (Movement of Huni Kuin Artists), Mulambö, António Ole, Santiago Reyes, Tabita Rezaire, Michele Rizzo, MPA, Guadalupe Rosales, Jacolby Satterwhite, Tschabalala Self, Tuesday Smillie, João Pedro Vale & Nuno Alexandre Ferreira, Kaylene Whiskey, Zadie Xa & Benito Mayor Vallejo; texts by Olamiju Fajemisin, Raphael Fonseca, Renée Akitelek Mboya, André Lepecki, Andrea Lissoni, Miguel Lopez, Anna Schneider, Elena Setzer, Claire Tancons, and Helena Vieira; translation by Stephan Geene and Anna-Sophie Springer. Design by Estúdio Margem, São Paolo.

Published 2021

Sweat is a sign of both attraction and struggle, joy and excess; it relays fear and illness; it is evidence of exertion and expenditure. As a residue of physical vitality, sweat modulates temperature while enlivening the senses and smoothing the friction among conjugating bodies.

Published alongside the eponymous exhibition Sweat at the Haus der Kunst Munich, this book gathers together over thirty artists and writers—including new commissions and pathbreaking works from the 1970s and 80s—to connect historical perspectives on and contemporary struggles for radical social emancipation.

Traversed by an ethics of and through pleasure, these sensual acts help to materialize narratives that have been silenced or rendered invisible, insisting instead on a politics and poetics of bodies without shame.

21 × 28 cm 152 pages 144 black / white illustrations Softcover with flap, wire-o spine

Nina Canell & Robin Watkins

English ISBN 978-3-94858-21-7 € 19

Animalcules Colouring Book

Published 2021

Let’s say a blank page is not actually blank.

In fact, let’s say it is anything but blank.

Devoid of colour, yet infinitely colourful; full of possibilities for multicoloured pens and literally covered by multitudinous life forms. It turns out that even the emptiest page is technically more than full – it’s alive. Do microbes respond to colour on paper? Can spontaneous doodles give rise to new species? Based on Antonie van Leeuwenhoek’s term for microorganisms, this age-fluid book considers a world where the smallest is suddenly in control of the largest. Its illustrations function as an exploration into morphological occurrences, rejecting the goal-oriented, the figurative and the categorical. Following a traditional format, these pages attempt to open up a creative bypass. To draw is to embrace mutational forms, and to colour in these pages is to understand that many possible forms may emerge as a bear or a bacterium. We are what we draw. Time then to let those animalcules express the possible colours of kingdoms to come.

Animalcules Colouring Book.

Edited by Nina Canell & Robin Watkins, with text and design by Robin Watkins.

Published 2021 English Softcover, metallic dust jacket, thread stitching ISBN 978-3-947858-29-3 € 24

Play-White

50 full-color and black/white images

Bianca Baldi, Play-White.

With contributions by Bianca Baldi, Mika Conradie, Shoniqua Roach, and Amy Watson.

Design by K. Verlag in collabo­ ration with Katharina Tauer & Wolfgang Hückel.

152 pages

Bianca Baldi

14 × 21 cm

The racist term “play-white” comes from the apartheid era, when it connoted a black or “mixed race” person who lived as a white person: “So and so is a play-white.” South African artist Bianca Baldi draws from studies of biomimicry and her own family history, as well as literary precedents— such as Nella Larsen’s novel Passing (1929)—to reflect on racial passing and the instability of racial identities.

Play-White alternates between layers of visualization and moments of discretion in order to explore questions of presence and evasion beyond their representation in black and white.

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¡DESPÓJATE! CLEANSE YOURSELF! GHOSTLY TOOLS FOR DISPOSSESSION Foreword by Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández

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Acknowledgments

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DISPOSSESSION MATTERS AN INVITATION by the Willful Weeds Research Group

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WILLFUL WEEDS STRIFE by the Willful Weeds Research Group

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HEAVY BLOOD

by Naomi Rincón Gallardo

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LUZ, CLARÃO, FULGOR / LIGHT, BLAZE, FULGOR

by Sílvia das Fadas

75

AROUND A RIVER

by Rojda Tuğrul

97 DESPINA by pek Hamzaoğlu 121 PAPERLANDS

by Janine Jembere

145 OPOSSUM RESILIENCE

by Naomi Rincón Gallardo

169 CARE & BECOME

by Berhanu Ashagrie Deribew

205 Despite Dispossession Activity Cards

Full color Cardboard cover with flaps, wire-o spine

Anette Baldauf, Janine Jembere, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, et al., eds.

258 pages, with 52 pages cut-out activity cards ISBN 978-3-947858-16-3

Despite Dispossession: An Activity Book. Edited and with contributions by Anette Baldauf, Berhanu Ashagrie Deribew, Sílvia das Fadas, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, İpek Hamzaoğlu, Janine Jembere, and Rojda Tuğrul.

Additional texts by Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez and Elizabeth Giorgis. Design by K. in collaboration with Wolfgang Hückel & Katharina Tauer.

19.5 × 26 cm

193 A CRITICAL REFLECTION ON THE CONTEMPORARY MOMENT OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH Afterword by Elizabeth W. Giorgis

197 APPENDIX: WILLFUL WEED PROTOCOL by the Willful Weeds Research Group 257 Project Bibliography

€ 26

Despite Dispossession Activity Book

English

eira, Head of Environmtenal Architecture, Royal College of Art London

In cities as diverse as Addis Ababa, Istanbul, Mexico City and Berlin, the concept of dispossession An Activity Book currently provides a key point of reference for activist, academics, and artists to engage with a wide scope of violent appropriations including colonial theft, corporate land grabbing, state facilitated resettlement, urban gentrification, etc. The collaborative and artistic Activity Book starts off from the contested realities and public struggles of the dispossessed. It offers subtle reflections, informal and ephemeral tactics of encroachment, and epistemic interventions. This project finds inspiration in epistemologies of the South, decolonizing methodologies and Black aesthetics, postulating that an art-based research that aims to unify knowing, doing, and feeling can grasp the complexity of dispossession, charging it up with resilience and resistance.

Despite Dispossession

Published 2021

ez-Barris, author of The Extractive Zone and At the Sea’s Edge

h ideas, tools and observations, this amazing book journey through different landscapes of dispossession obal south. Carefully weaving kindred stories from ins of extractive violence Despite Dispossession unsetric forms of knowledge production to tap into the earth. In utterly compelling ways, it explores modes of uly necessary to awaken an aesthetics of the pluriverse.

Edited by Anette Baldauf, Berhanu Ashagrie Deribew, Sílvia das Fadas, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, pek Hamzaoğlu, Janine Jembere, and Rojda Tuğrul

ns of an anarchist archive, and positioned from the artistic praxis, Despite Dispossession is a living and anual for how to get to the other side of the colonial persistent collective existential questions: How to s worth living within? How to imagine liberation from th trap of coloniality and its extractive relations, den of hetero-and-radiating nuclearity, from the somatic al dispossessions of the colonial haunt? This lively borative potential activates us to move more fully into , into the world of unbuilding and toward inhabiting nd designing anew.

An Activity Book

author of Caliban and the Witch and Beyond the Periphery of the Skin

Despite Dispossession

ansformed bodies into work-machines just as it connto plundered territory and cities into destituted ruins. y of accumulation and its attendant dispossession is ; to continue to inhabit these sites and build solidarities we require a renewed, radical, feminist, anticolonial Despite Dispossession emboldens just such an imaginaDIY aesthetics, everyday poetics, and commitment truggles of communities and ecologies, the book invites e a world beyond dispossession, extraction, and accud to take up practices that reveal how the world can be — ways is—otherwise.

Published 2021 English/Portuguese € 28

Paulo Tavares, Des-Habitat. A book-length essay, translation, and design by Paulo Tavares. With a preface by Marion von Osten.

ISBN 978-3-947858-20-0

978-3-947858-20-0

Second Edition Paulo Tavares

28/06/21 13:35

Softcover, thread stitching

Des-Habitat

Full color

oject conceived by Paulo Tavares. It was realized by the agency autonoma in the context of the exhibition bauhaus imaginista: Learning from, 2018/19. edition of the publication produced by K. Verlag, 2020. rojeto concebido por Paulo Tavares. Foi realizado pela agência autonoma, no contexto da exposição bauhaus imaginista: Aprendendo com, 2018/19. dição da publicação, produzida pela K. Verlag, 2020.

97 pages

Semelhante a outras publicações “modernistas militantes” que floresceram na época, a revista Habitat — publicação de artes e design editada pela arquiteta Lina Bo Bardi nos anos 1950 — não apenas propagava imagens de arte e arquitetura moderna, mas também de artesanato popular e artefatos indígenas. Dessa forma, introduzia o seu público simultaneamente ao vocabulário do modernismo e à formas vernaculares e nativas de expressão cultural. DesHabitat investiga a maneira pela qual a linguagem estética de Habitat enquadrava tais objetos e imagens. O projeto mobiliza uma série de estratégias de design baseadas em layout, reapropriação e colagem — procedimentos centrais à linguagem gráfica de Habitat —para interrogar o contexto a partir do qual essas imagens aparecem nas páginas da revista como significantes modernos. Isso envolve observar como políticas de estado de “pacificação” de grupos indígenas, que forçaram deslocamentos e apropriação de terras, levaram à circulação de artefatos indígenas e suas imagens para as elites culturais urbanas. Em virtude de sua linguagem visual moderna, Habitat funcionava como um enquadramento que ocultava esse contexto colonial, bem como sua própria perspectiva cúmplice.

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her “militant modernist” publications that t the time, Habitat—the arts and design dited by architect Lina Bo Bardi in the nly propagated images of modern art and but also images of popular and Indigenous artifacts. In this way it simultaneously s audience to the vocabulary of modernism ar and native forms of cultural expression. investigates the ways in which the aesthetic Habitat framed such objects and images. mobilizes a series of design strategies based appropriation, and collage—procedures graphic language of Habitat—to interrogate from which these images emerged as modernity within the magazine’s pages. This king at how state policies of “pacification” us groups, which forced resettlement and ation, led to the circulation of Indigenous their images for the urban elites. By virtue n visual language, Habitat functioned as a ce to conceal this colonial context and its it perspective.

With this publication Brazilian architect, curator, and activist Paulo Tavares intervenes in Habitat— the arts and design magazine edited by Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi in the 1950s. At the time, the magazine propagated images of modern art and architecture, but also images of popular and Indigenous crafts and artifacts.

In this way, it simultaneously introduced its audience to the vocabulary of modernism and vernacular and native forms of cultural expression. In Des-Habitat Tavares investigates how the aesthetic language of Habitat framed such objects and images. The project mobilizes a series of design strategies central also to Habitat itself, such as re-appropriation, collage, and displacement. By focusing on the context from which materials were originally taken the author shows how, by virtue of its modern visual language, Habitat functioned as a framing device to conceal its own coloniality—a suspenseful media history in light of suppression, complicity, and decolonization.

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