ft. Gloria Glitzer
Thanks to funding from the Art Council's Pilot for the distribution and dissemination of artists' books, I am building a reading room re: identity, community, and publishing.
Throughout the course of (be)longing, new titles were be added a total of 5 times, coinciding with each new exhibition in the space. The long table, mis-matched stools and shelves of books are the exhibition's only, albeit in flux, constant variable.
Titles in the reading room were selected by myself and a group of external actors: independently-run bookshops, curators and other practitioners whom I deeply respect and admire. Links to purchase primarily go directly to the institution who recommended the title. Other links go directly to PDFs or online sources. The entities who have contributed recommendations are:
Hverdag Books ✿
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GOOD PRESS ■
Good Press, established in 2011, is a workers cooperative dedicated to the promotion, distribution and production of independent or self published printed matter alongside co-projects Sunday's Print Service and Lunchtime Gallery. They are a bookshop, events and gallery space, risograph printer and bookmaking studio based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Bladr ✺
Based in Copenhagen, Bladr was founded in 2017 and continues to assume various shapes by being a bookstore and an exhibition place, as well as a space for workshops, screenings, performances, book launches, talks, and other events. Their goal is to increase the visibility of artists' books and to create and facilitate activities that foster a larger community.
Tenthaus ☁
Based in Oslo, Tenthaus Art Collective has been working together in various constellations since 2009. Tenthaus began as an artists-in-schools project and over a decade later they continue to maintain strong relations to the community and works to cultivate and nurture its environment. Today Tenthaus encompasses both a project room and an exhibition space, a mobile studio, and a wide range of curatorial projects. As a collective Tenthaus reimagines themselves and what it means to be artists working with the public, and what makes a relevant socially engaged practice today.
Bergen Art Book Fair ✤
Bergen Art Book Fair is an annual art book and self-publishing festival in Norway since 2013. The fair showcases local, national and international artists and small press publishers. The fair is organized by Pamflett. Pamflett is an artist run self-publishing workshop and mediator of artists' books, which run residencies, book launches, exhibitions and workshops.
Gloria Glitzer
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Based in Berlin, Gloria Glitzer is the avatar of the artists Franziska Brandt and Moritz Grünke. Founded in 2007, Gloria Glitzer develops, creates, and publishes artzines and artists' books. We understand publications as free and safe spaces in which self-determined political and aesthetic questions are negotiated and social communities are defined through publishing as an (artistic) practice. From 2015 to 2022 Moritz Grünke organized, together with P. Obolo (2022), Y. Camps, M. Pichler and Kristin Mueller (2015), the Miss Read Festival at HKW, Berlin.
A POETICS OF THE PRESS: INTERVIEWS WITH POETS, PRINTERS, & PUBLISHERS ■
Kyle Schlesinger (Editor) + Cuneiform Press
2021
A SOFT MANIFESTO ✿
Cortney Cassidy
2020
A VERY SHORT AND INCOMPLETE GUIDE TO SUBVERSIVE PUBLISHING STRATEGIES ⌘
Framer Framed
2023
ACTUALISE UTOPIA ☁
Ninos Josef + Kemê Pellicer (Editors)
2019
A[LIE][NATION] STATELESSNESS AND AI ROBOTS ✺
Samara Sallam
2019
AFRIKANERE I NORGE GJENNOM 400 ÅR ☁
Yacoub Cissé
2011
AGAINST COMPETITION ✤
Marc Fischer
2014
AIRPORT LOVE THEME ✤
Hamishi Farah
2023
ANTHOLOGY FOR LISTENING VOL. 1 ✺
Bureau for Listening
2023
A-SIDE: ARE YOUR DREAMS AT NIGHT 1985 SIZES TOO BIG? ■
Graham Holliday
2019
CALLING ALL DIVAS ✺
Tyler Matthew Oyer
2017
CENTRAL BOOKS: A BRIEF HISTORY 1939 TO 1999 ■
Dave Cope
2000
CITIZEN ☁
Claudia Rankine
2014
CONTESTED: ON BLACKNESS ✤
Gabbah Baya
2018
CREATE DISTURBANCE IN YOUR MIND ■
Private Sorrow
2022
CRITICAL RACE THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION ☁
Richard Delgado
2001
DECOLONIZING ART BOOK FAIRS: PUBLISHING PRACTICES FROM THE SOUTH(S) ✤
Miss Read, Afrikadaa and Mosaïques
2021
DECOLONIZING NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION ✿ ■
meenadchi
2021
DOWN WITH THE POOR! ✿
Shumona Sinha
2022
DRAWING A FIGURINE ■
Georgia K. O'Brien
2022
ET GODT STED ✿
Zarina Saidova
2023
EVEN WHEN MY SOUP-CURLERS SLUR I STILL KEEP THE TAKE ✺
Georgia Anne Muldrow
FRUITING ■
Hayley Jane Dawson
2022
HOPELESSNESS ☁
Verity Spott
2020
HOW DO WE KNOW? INSTITUTIONAL LISTENING AND YOUNG AGENCY IN THE ARTS ✿
Teen Advisory Boards of Index (Stockholm), PRAKSIS (Oslo), and PUBLICS Youth (Helsinki)
2023
HOW TO MANEUVER: SHAPESHIFTING TEXTS AND OTHER PUBLISHING TACTICS ■
Maha Maamoun and Ala Younis (Editors)
2021
HYDRANGEAS FOR BREAKFAST ⌘
inmensidades
2019
IN PURSUIT OF REVOLUTIONARY LOVE: PRECARITY, POWER, COMMUNITIES ☁
Joy James
2022
I AM WRITING A MONOLOGUE ■
Jessica Higgins
2022
IMPERFECT ARCHIVING, ARCHIVING AS PRACTICE FOR A LOVE OF SOFTNESS ■
Be Oakley
2021
INSIDE A GLEAMING FEELING ■
Craig Pollard
2020
LANGUAGE SCRAPS 02: MARK E. SMITH'S HANDWRITING AND THE TYPOGRAPHY OF THE FALL ■
Paul Wilson
2021
LAVENDER SCARE ✺
Arantza Pena Popo
2021
LOVE ☁
Toni Morrison
2003
MSHERESIES 2: USEFUL WORK VERSUS USELESS TOIL ■
Rietlanden Women's Office
2019
MSHERESIES 3: AMNIOTECHNICS ⌘
Rietlanden Women's Office
2020
NEVER RUN FASTER THAN YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL CAN FLY ✺
Fryd Frydendahl
2022
NONBINARYHOOD ■
Aki Hassan
2022
NOVELTY THEORY ☁
Caspar Heinemann
2019
OPEN LETTERS ✤
Mark Menjivar
2018
OTHER REFLEXES ✤
Diana Georgiou
2023
PIT ■
Lisa Anne Auerbach
2021
PLANETARY EMBODIMENT - COOKING WITH WORDS FOR SYSTEMIC CHANGE AND SOLIDARITY ⌘
Andrea Galano Toro, gal sherizly , and Luïza Luz (Editors)
2023
PPSS READER (PRAGMATIC POETIC SNEAKY STICKY) ⌘
Colorama Books
2023
PUBLISHING MANIFESTOS ■ ✿
Michalis Pichler (Editor) + Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair
2018
PUBLISHING NOW: GENDERFAIL'S WORKING CLASS GUIDE TO MAKING A LIVING OFF SELF-PUBLISHING ✤ ✿
Be Oakley (Editor)
2023
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT ✤
Rosa-Johan Uddoh
2022
PUNK IS DAD ■
Jamie Johns
2011
RAB-RAB JOURNAL ISSUE #06 ■
Journal of political and formal inquiries in art
2021
READER ON SELF DEFENSE ✤
Cassandra
2023
(RE)CLAIMING AGENCY: CARE, TRAUMA AND THE MEDICAL INSTITUTION ■
Greta Sharp
2022
REVOLUTION AS AN ETERNAL DREAM: THE EXEMPLARY FAILURE OF THE MADAME BINH GRAPHICS COLLECTIVE ■
Mary Patten
2011
RIFF RAFF ✺
Franziska Brandt and Moritz Grünke
2018
ROOTS TO FRUITS N°1 Ghanaian Highlife ⌘
Mirelle van Tulder (Editor)
2022
ROOTS TO FRUITS N°1 Champeta ⌘
Daniel Senior Durán & Mirelle van Tulder (Editors)
2023
SHY RADICALS: THE ANTISYSTEMIC POLITICS OF THE MILITANT INTROVERT ✿
Hamja Ashan
2017
SOME KIND OF A MOOD ⌘
Yuen Che Hung
2021
STAGES: ON DYING, WORKING, AND FEELING ■
Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
2020
STICKY FINGERS RECOMMENDS ■
Sticky Fingers
2022
THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE ☁
Bessel van der Kolk
2015
THE BOOK OF NA ✤
Na Mira
2022
THE FEAR AND LOATHING OUT OF HARARE ⌘
Dambudzo Marechera
2021
THE FUTURE OF ART BOOK FESTIVALS - FORMERLY KNOWN AS FAIRS ⌘
Gloria Glitzer
2023
THE GROCER'S ITCH ■
Jessica Higgins
2022
THE NATURAL ENEMIES OF BOOKS: A MESSY HISTORY OF WOMEN IN PRINTING AND TYPOGRAPHY ■
MMS (Editor)
2020
THE NEW WOUNDED : FROM NEUROSIS TO BRAIN DAMAGE ☁
Catherine Malabou + Steven Miller (Translator)
2012
THE PROBLEM OF THE NEGRO AS A PROBLEM FOR GENDER ☁
Marquis Bey
2020
THE STRAIGHT MIND ✺
Cast Ello
THE SUN ISN'T OUT LONG ENOUGH ■
Tatevik Sargsyan (Editor)
2021
THE TRANSGENDER ISSUE: TRANS JUSTICE IS JUSTICE FOR ALL ☁
Shon Faye
2022
THE URGE ✺
Dimitris Tairis
2020
TOWARD A GLOBAL IDEA OF RACE ☁
Denise Ferreira da Silva
2007
UNDER THE RAINBOW - OVER THE WEATHER ⌘
Hocus Bogus Publishing
2020
UPROOT ■
Sasha Delmage
2022
URGENT PUBLISHING AFTER THE ARTIST'S BOOK: MAKING PUBLIC IN MOVEMENTS TOWARDS LIBERATION ■
Paul Soulellis
2021
VÄNNERNAS ARENA ✿
Erik Viklund
2020
WE ARTISTS DON'T CREATE ARTWORKS. WE INVENT PRACTICES. ⌘
Silvio Lang
2022
WHAT PROBLEMS CAN ARTIST PUBLISHERS SOLVE? ✤
Temporary Services with PrintRoom
2018