Counter-Archives to the Narco-City
Alma Leiva, Adriana Corral, Tatiana Reinoza & Luis Vargas-Santiago Soft cover with 22 color plates [STOCK TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE] The print companion to a curatorial project on art and human rights that seeks to make visible the underlying structures and experiences of everyday life in cities of the global south that offer alternative views to the spectularization of narco-violence in the Americas (counterarchives.org). This unique catalog features works by Adriana Corral & Alma Leiva on the counter-archives of Ciudad Juárez in Mexico and San Pedro Sula in Honduras. Read more about the project here and here. |
Letters to the Poet from His Brother
Maceo Montoya Hardcover with 10 removable artist prints $25 "...a mestizaje-of-a-tome—that is: a book that marries words and image, prose and poem: a hybrid work of art as personal and vulnerable and moving as anything I've read in a long while. This is risky writing." -Francisco Aragón In this hybrid memoir woven between essay, painting, drawing, and poem, a young artist probes his lineage of artists, poets, and cultural activists after the death of his brother, poet Andrés Montoya, and grapples with the cultural legacy of his pioneering Chicano artist father, Malaquias. As he attempts to craft himself into his own image, he questions the ideals of the solitary artist, contemporary Chicano art, the politics of place, and his own memory. |
Between the Ends of Worlds, Touch
Stephanie Sauer Limited Edition of 100 Bound by Hand [STOCK TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE] EXCERPT: "Like women, books are not empty vessels to be filled with the ideas of men. They are structures that actively convey ideas, long held cultural beliefs and, potentially, new ways of seeing. Making books that are often called artist books is an activist project as much as it is an arts practice. These books insist that form conveys content, that the eyes must translate what is and what is not contained in words, that the hands have their own ways of reading. With each making, I counteract a culture that insists upon my passivity." This book explores what it is to make books between geographies, genders, and, yes, worlds [...more] |
Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist
Doug Rice "It's queer, surreal, and will probably blow your mind." -San Francisco Bay Guardian Limited edition of 500 Bound in part by hand [STOCK TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE] In his first book in nearly ten years, Doug Rice moves against the silence of paper and dreams in a meditation on desire, a memoir told and untold somewhere between image and word. Undeveloped photographs. Bodies abandoned by reflections. Mirrors gone ecstatic with wanting. "Dream Memoirs is a beautiful book." -William T. Vollmann [...more] |
Chola Enterprises
Lorraine García-Nakata Limited Edition of 150 Bound by Hand [STOCK TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE] "She will cut you up with brilliant satire and drawings that are razor sharp.” –HERBERT SIGUENZA, CULTURE CLASH CHOLA ENTERPRISES combines stunning illustrations and biting prose in a playful take on corporate culture, ignorance and gentrification. |
Pieces
Tess Perez, Terra Dawson, Sylvia Lopez, Lolbette Moreno & Jonathan Alston Limited edition of 100 SOLD OUT Fully hand-bound with original artwork, Pieces is an exploration of fairytale, of how we experience the world and internalize our actions, of how we recall memory in fragments, rearrange it, lose track of time and place, and put reality together into a form we call life. The book itself is a fractured narrative, both in story and in touch. Held together by only fabric, Pieces is experienced how the reader chooses. [...more] |
Los Compas:
El Chale Gallego Y'l Xorty José Montoya Limited edition of 300 Bound by hand [STOCK TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE] El Chale Gallego y'l Xorty, an (almost) silent graphic cuento, follows two vatos from New Mexico and their dog. Laced with humorous and historic undertones, El Chale Gallego y'l Xorty unfolds its loose narrative inside a traditional codex book form to be read from right to left. Read review in Rain Taxi. Listen to José's interview on Capitol Public Radio. [...more] |
The Book of Her
Mila Barone Limited edition of 100 Bound by hand SOLD OUT A short visual story of sound. [...more] |
Miss Ella's Tunnel Mural Tours Ella Maria Diaz, Ph.D. & Stephanie Sauer Printed public art installation SOLD OUT Be guided through time in the Royal Chicano Air Force’s controversial tunnel murals, where you’ll learn to read Chicano hieroglyphics and journey to Sacramento’s past, present and future in 20 minutes or less! You’ll travel through inner and outer space, meet the first peoples of the region and learn to visually assemble and repair geometric shapes into farm worker icons! [...see the film trailer!] |
Collaboration Book
Stephanie Sauer Limited Edition of 25 Bound by Hand [STOCK TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE] Free downloadable version available Collaboration Book is a playful, interactive workbook designed by Copilot Press founding editor Stephanie Sauer to help you and your team navigate the solitary and cooperative work required of any collaboration. Map out your dreams, play games with co-conspirators, tear out pages to make paper airplanes, or doodle in the margins. It's all part of collaboration. |
The Noun Painter
(Esteban Villa) Limited edition of 300 Bound by hand SOLD OUT This inaugural publication features thirty six sketches by General Esteban Villa of the Royal Chicano Air Force. Published as a deck of flash cards, the collection maps General Villa's daily route through Sacramento. [...more] |
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there is no grammar
Stephanie Sauer
One-of-a-kind sculpture
NFS
A book-as-garment-sculpture inspired by the making of Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist
Winner of So to Speak's Hybrid Book Contest!
[more...]
Stephanie Sauer
One-of-a-kind sculpture
NFS
A book-as-garment-sculpture inspired by the making of Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist
Winner of So to Speak's Hybrid Book Contest!
[more...]