Reconstruct – Various Artists
i) Build or form (something) again after it has been damaged or destroyd.
ii) Form an impression, model, or re–enactment of (a past event or thing) from the available evidence.
This group publication is the result of an open call where contributers were invited to respond to the theme Reconstruct.
Featuring works by: Joao Pedro Lima, Johann Husser, Dan Commons, Theo Simpson, Tyrone Williams, Sofia Masini & Angelo Vignali, Sam Hutchinson, Liz Orton, Ellie Rankin, Xanthe Hutchinson, Fiona Segadaes Da Silva, Fabrizio Albertini, Jonas Feige, Hannah Ackroyd, Christopher Shannon, Philip Welding, Berangere Fromont, Hiroshi Takizawa, Lucie Armstrong, Isabelle Wenzel, Michel Mazzoni, Sybren Vanoverberghe, Joe Gilmore, Simon Bray, Stephan Keppel, Carlos James Reeder, Arian Christiaens, Carl Ander, Ash Hardman, Megan Mechelle Dalton, Sanne van den Elzen, Juergen Bergbauer, Thomas Hausser, Ole Erik Lovold, Anya Jasbar, Scott Alberg, Amandine Freyd, James Meredew, Eugenie Shinkle, Richard Higginbottom, Joanna McNulty, Eva Louisa Jonas, Andy Pham, Boris Snauwaert, Polly Palmerini, Colm Pharrell, Sophie Lethem, Constanza Miranda, Lena Paßlick
Details
96 Pages
197 x 280 mm
Softcover
Single Colour Risograph Printing in Black
Index Card Insert
Hand Bound
November, 2023
£20 + Postage
H – Joe Gilmore
H is the fifth in a series of artist’s books by graphic designer Joe Gilmore. The book presents an archive of black and white photographs, each identified by one of the 26 letters of the alphabet. The images were created using text-to-image artificial intelligence. Presented as a kind of encyclopaedia of natural forms, H questions our notions of representation and reality. The text prompts used to generate these photographs consisted of descriptions of things which do not exist, and often combined lists of unrelated words alongside features and forms derived from different disciplines (architecture, biology, geology, mathematics).
Details
20 Pages
208 x 297mm
Softcover
Single Colour Risograph Printing in Black
Staple Bound
November, 2023
£12 + Postage
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The City & The City – Thom Bridge & Taisuke Koyama
The City & The City is a recursive photographic exchange between artists and researchers Thom Bridge (SE/UK), living and working between London and Manchester, and Taisuke Koyama (JP), living and working in Tokyo. Their collaborative dialogue playfully explores the surfaces of the artists’ three home cities, including a recent pastel shift found in colour palettes, stationary, anime characters and art supplies.
With fast, lo-fi printing, inverted images of the cities’ renewal, demolition and reconstruction are transferred on to colour paper, and the city as we know it—created by a mix of societal needs and desires through urban planning—emerges as an infinite array of irreversible surfaces. Even if the prints were to be reversed, the reality of the city wouldn’t return. It may only exist as an image in our imaginations.
The images in The City & The City focus not on specific places, but the cyclical scenes of assembly, scrapping, upheaval, displacement, landscaping and regeneration commonly seen across, around and in-between sites of newly built streets, in seemingly endless construction sites and neglected passages and thoroughfares.
The project takes its title from British author China Miéville’s 2009 novel of the same name that imagines two interspliced cities, each of whose citizens are forbidden to go into or acknowledge the other. Areas where these complicated sites intermesh are known as crosshatches, with a third mythical city said to occupy the space between them.
The City & The City is the result of Chapter Five. Chapters is a collaborative curatorial program that aims to create connections between artists and external organisations. For each Chapter, two artists are invited to engage in a dialogue of their choice during the build-up of a show exploring different exhibition models. Chapters engage with both online and offline events and exhibitions.
Details
68 Pages
205 x 290mm
Softcover with Acetate
Spiral Bound
December, 2024
£18 + Postage
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The Point of Non-existence - Sam Batley
The Point of Non-existence is inspired by the transition, traditions and acts of masculinity that take place as a teen;
“You don’t get to pass from one state of being to the next without the ritual of trial and tribulation. Adolescence pangs with tests subjective to a whole host of variables. Grounded in the past, tied to landscape and social conditions of the environment marked by the previous men that walked the plank as a boy, to jump repeatedly into being a man.
Like an insecure caterpillar trying so hard to shed its exterior only to reveal yet another exterior. Discomfort makes or breaks you. It is the thing that underpins the pursuit of trying to shed it, will you? or won’t you?
Jump or don’t jump, no one’s arsed.”
Details
44 Pages with Wraparound Cover and Text by the Artist
Risograph Printed in Black & Metallic Gold
105 x 235mm
Softcover
December, 2024
£16 + Postage
Details
20 Pages
208 x 297mm
Softcover
Single Colour Risograph Printing in Black
Staple Bound
November, 2023
£12 + Postage
The City & The City – Thom Bridge & Taisuke Koyama
The City & The City is a recursive photographic exchange between artists and researchers Thom Bridge (SE/UK), living and working between London and Manchester, and Taisuke Koyama (JP), living and working in Tokyo. Their collaborative dialogue playfully explores the surfaces of the artists’ three home cities, including a recent pastel shift found in colour palettes, stationary, anime characters and art supplies.
With fast, lo-fi printing, inverted images of the cities’ renewal, demolition and reconstruction are transferred on to colour paper, and the city as we know it—created by a mix of societal needs and desires through urban planning—emerges as an infinite array of irreversible surfaces. Even if the prints were to be reversed, the reality of the city wouldn’t return. It may only exist as an image in our imaginations.
The images in The City & The City focus not on specific places, but the cyclical scenes of assembly, scrapping, upheaval, displacement, landscaping and regeneration commonly seen across, around and in-between sites of newly built streets, in seemingly endless construction sites and neglected passages and thoroughfares.
The project takes its title from British author China Miéville’s 2009 novel of the same name that imagines two interspliced cities, each of whose citizens are forbidden to go into or acknowledge the other. Areas where these complicated sites intermesh are known as crosshatches, with a third mythical city said to occupy the space between them.
The City & The City is the result of Chapter Five. Chapters is a collaborative curatorial program that aims to create connections between artists and external organisations. For each Chapter, two artists are invited to engage in a dialogue of their choice during the build-up of a show exploring different exhibition models. Chapters engage with both online and offline events and exhibitions.
Details
68 Pages
205 x 290mm
Softcover with Acetate
Spiral Bound
December, 2024
£18 + Postage
The Point of Non-existence - Sam Batley
The Point of Non-existence is inspired by the transition, traditions and acts of masculinity that take place as a teen;
“You don’t get to pass from one state of being to the next without the ritual of trial and tribulation. Adolescence pangs with tests subjective to a whole host of variables. Grounded in the past, tied to landscape and social conditions of the environment marked by the previous men that walked the plank as a boy, to jump repeatedly into being a man.
Like an insecure caterpillar trying so hard to shed its exterior only to reveal yet another exterior. Discomfort makes or breaks you. It is the thing that underpins the pursuit of trying to shed it, will you? or won’t you?
Jump or don’t jump, no one’s arsed.”
Details
44 Pages with Wraparound Cover and Text by the Artist
Risograph Printed in Black & Metallic Gold
105 x 235mm
Softcover
December, 2024
£16 + Postage
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