Author: Sylvan Oswald

Artist: Jessica Fleischmann Designer: Jessica Fleischmann / still room
How does sleep—or its absence—change us? At the end of another wakeful night, High Winds tears off on a hallucinatory road trip in search of his estranged half brother, led by cryptic signs and coincidences. Part modern-day pillow book, part picture book for adults, and told in an associative, elliptical style, the narrative takes readers deep into a dreamlike Western landscape. Jessica Fleischmann’s atmospheric imagery amplifies the words on every page, referencing 1980s graphics, net art, and something yet unseen; Sylvan Oswald’s text inhabits and draws meaning from this visual environment. Gas stations, local legends, and unlikely rock formations become terrain for explorations of fear, fantasy, masculinity, medication, spatial structures, and bodily functions—inspired by the author’s experience of gender transition, insomnia, and moving to Los Angeles. Poetic and funny, surreal and beautiful— High Winds makes a delightful companion, before or instead of a good night’s sleep.

5 ½ × 7 inches, 254 pages, paperback with flaps
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Sylvan Oswald is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles who creates plays, texts, publications, and video. His work explores the ways we forge our individual and national identities.
Jessica Fleischmann is an award-winning graphic designer and creative director whose work on socially conscious projects engages built and unbuilt spaces.
still room is the Los Angeles-based graphic design studio of Jessica Fleischmann with Dorothy Lin and Jenny Kim, focused on socially engaged and interdisciplinary design work.

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ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives in collaboration with Artist Curated Projects (ACP) presents Stand Close, It’s Shorter Than You Think: A show on feminist rage, co-curated by Katherine Brewer Ball and RJ Messineo with work by boychild, RJ Messineo, MPA and Guadalupe Rosales. The exhibition explores the promises and pitfalls of thinking with rage as a meditation, an inspiration, a medium, and a process.
In the 1960′s and 1970′s the United States became keenly aware of itself as a domestically violent space—from the death of Martin Luther King Jr., to the Watts Riots, to the Vietnam War. This public awareness coincided with the increasing momentum of second wave feminism and other radical public protest movements. But as “militant” organizations like The Black Panthers articulated, this violence did not originate from the left, but was a reaction to larger social structures that, in their refusal of social services for example, were already enacting violence on the poor, women, and people of color. As Pamela Haag explains, feminism “questioned not whether, but how violence would happen, how the body would be (ab)used or subjectivity compromised.” If this violence against marginalized bodies is inevitable, what are the most powerful stances from which we might confront its wide unending reach?
Rage is both a re-action and an action. It is felt in response to unequal power-dynamics such as sexism, transphobia, homophobia, and racism and the accumulation of these insults over time, lifetimes, and generations. Examining the way rage shapes and is expressed in the work of contemporary queer and feminist artists, Stand Close brings together the products and the process of rage. The work in the show ranges from the more direct visual semiotics of unrest in the performance work of MPA and boychild, to abstract meditations on power and loss in the drawing and painting works of RJ Messineo and Guadalupe Rosales. boychild’s performances—which employ costume, disguise, and changeability— are archived in traces across the internet referencing the in-between forms of queer cultural production and nightlife. RJ Messineo’s body-sized abstract assembled paintings raise questions about authorship and legibility as they play on what it means to make a mark. MPA’s collection of documents from her performances and her installation in the archive propose experiments in direct action, in meditation, and in the speculative alterations of power and framing. Guadalupe Rosales’ photographs, sculptures and meticulous hand-drawn geometric shapes limn relationships between mourning and rage in the return home.

Stand Close is curated by Katherine Brewer Ball and RJ Messineo as part of Artist Curated Projects (ACP) at ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. Support for the exhibition Stand Close is provided by the independent 501-c3 ONE Archives. Support for the exhibition publication is provided by the USC Libraries. Publication designed by Rachel Berks / Otherwild.

Stand Close, It's Shorter Than You Think

With contributions by Diedrich Diederichsen, Suzanne Hudson, Glenn Ligon, and Eileen Myles Design by Joseph Logan Copublished with Ridinghouse, London

In the two related bodies of work that form this volume’s centerpiece, Zoe Leonard poses fundamental questions about the medium of photography and the nature of sight. In a series of large-scale installations sited in the United States and Europe, the artist has employed the principal of the camera obscura, pairing it with silver-gelatin photographs of the sun. The image in Leonard’s room-size camera obscuras is immersive and continuous, shifting constantly in response to the fleeting light of the outside world and unraveling in the surrounding space to come into its full vibrancy. This title explores this body of work in depth through photographs that document these installations in five international cities.

Zoe Leonard: Available Light

Document Series #1 6 x 8.25 in. 80 pp., b/w and color illustrations First edition Edition of 400 Printed in Michigan
Mariana Valencia’s solo performance ALBUM assembles song, text, and dance into a multifaceted album that draws from choreographic methodology, personal narrative, herstorical and intergenerational kinship, and popular culture. The first title in Wendy’s Subway’s Document Series, ALBUM expands on Valencia’s performance to include her spoken script in its entirety alongside choreographic descriptions and new annotations, original song lyrics, diagrams, drawings, and visual representation. Navigating childhood memory, mourning, framily, and vampires through factual, humorous, and grave observations, Valencia archives and performs a self herstory as an album in image and song.
The Document Series highlights the work of performance- and dance-makers in printed form.
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Mariana Valencia is a dance artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been presented at Danspace Project, Roulette, the Center for Performance Research, The New Museum, The Women and Performance Journal, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and AUNTS. Internationally, her work has been presented in Serbia and Macedonia. As a performer, Valencia has worked with Lydia Okrent, Jules Gimbrone, Elizabeth Orr, Kate Brandt, AK Burns, Em Rooney, robbinschilds, Kim Brandt, Fia Backstrom and MPA. Valencia is a Bessie Award recipient for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer (2018), a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award to Artists grant recipient (2018), a Jerome Travel and Study Grant fellow (2014-15), a Yellow House Fund of the Tides Foundation grant recipient (2010-13) and a Movement Research GPS/Global Practice Sharing artist (2016/17). She is a founding member of the No Total reading group (2012-2015) and she has been the co-editor of Movement Research’s Critical Correspondence (2016-17). Valencia has held residencies at Chez Bushwick (2013), New York Live Arts Studio Series (2013-14), ISSUE Project Room (2015), Brooklyn Arts Exchange (2016-18) and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (2018). Valencia holds a BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA (2006) with a concentration in dance and ethnography.

Album By Mariana Valencia

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a scented shamanic awakening taking you to the lost civilizations of lush greens. The velvet finish of ambrox mixed with the astral spice of pimento berry and ivy leaves channel the healing connections to nature. Watery coconut, jasmine and fig leaves give lushness to the palate while macadamia nut grounds you in a rich earthy exotic base. Inhale deeply to exhale deeply. You have entered the cool, inner sanctum of AGUA DE JARDÍN.
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FLEURSHADOW is a total smokeshow of sweet labdanum love and patchouli pillow talk. Become enamored with sultry blossoms of geranium, freshly cut rosebuds and elusive violet spiked with dark resins. Incense and benzoin finish you off with sensual shadowy sensations that will keep you tingling all night long. Ignite the floral nature of FLEURSHADOW and liberate your love.
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NEOPÊCHE is here to crystalize your visions of a new celestial reality. Inhabit space with transcending ultraviolet and delicate peach flesh for an outer body scent journey. Pink peppercorn, incense and oakmoss electrify this scent with spice while the delicate tannins of rose and mandarin drop you deep within yourself. Project yourself toward the sun and stars while transcending earthly expectations with NEOPÊCHE.
POLYAMBEROUS: cardamom, geranium, tobacco flower, pistachio, patchouli fraction, beeswax and tonka bean
The scented spectrum of POLYAMBEROUS is here to refract light and multiply love. Explore Venus via a scented prism of patchouli fraction, geranium and tobacco flower. Dripping in rich, sticky amber, beeswax, wisps of musk and delectable pistachio, this woody yet delicious exotic tonic is made for a world where more is the merrier. Pleasure is your discipline, that burns to embrace an entire spectrum identity, blooming like never before. A prismatic vision of love awaits you with POLYAMBEROUS.
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Softcover publication by Anna Sew Hoy featuring five poems by Ariana Reines. Features full-color photographs and a fold-out poster.

Anna Sew Hoy: Blood Moon Proposition

This book is based on a lecture originally presented at Dia Art Foundation’s Artists on Artists Lecture Series, , New York, on November 27, 2018. This text was read alongside a performative slideshow, and is considered an artwork by A.K. Burns.

Digitally-printed book, copper foil stamp, perfect bound, 32 pages, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, edition of 400

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Puro Silencio is a collection of poems by queer chicanx artist Marcel Alcalá. The publication also features photographs by Marcel Alcalá, Parker Bright, David Josef Tamargo, Birk Høgsted Thomassen & Camille McOuat. This is the first book released by Marcel Alcalá. - GenderFail

Puro Silencio By Marcel Alcalá

Rachelle Rojany’s Yearsbooks is a series of artist books that reflect on the medieval illuminated manuscript, in particular, the devotional book of hours. Wedded to the high-school yearbook, a present-day record and commemoration of time, the Yearsbooks illuminate memory’s restlessness, porousness, and its relationship to self-understanding. The first in the series, at 81⁄2 x 11 inches and one-half inch thick, is a bound, yellow- spined collection of 76 favorite pictures faded to 10% opacity. Personal pictures of work, family and friends are interwoven with images culled from Rojany’s research, creating a dream-like narrative. What emerges over the pages is a loose impression of Rojany’s presence, like the lines of Sappho’s poetry discovered wrapped around an Egyptian mummy.
The Yearsbooks provide a new format for creating visual autobiography, full of jumped tracks, crossed synapses, memory and fantasy. Readers are encouraged to use the book as a notebook, writing and sketching on top of its faded pages. Like a computer’s desktop image, those pages become a backdrop to the reader’s working memory. Rojany’s self-portrait recedes underthe jotted notes and sketches of the reader, entangling authorship, background, and foreground.
Informed by the river of ever-present time in Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha, the Yearsbooks address the permeability of self and the impossibility of seizing time. It is a prayer for interwoven existence inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh’s conception of “inter-being,” simply that all of the material world is interconnected.

Yearbooks By Rachelle Rojany's

Published in conjunction with Ulrike Müller’s contribution for the 12th International Cairo Biennale (2010), this book takes as its subjects the drawings, paintings, and quilts the artist has produced since 2006, from the Curiosity drawings, which mark the beginning of Müller's engagement with modernism’s visual strategies, to Franza, her latest group of enamel paintings developed for the Cairo Biennale. Transcending conventional binaries, such as the division of abstract forms and representational logic, these works charge seemingly neutral abstract and diagrammatic imagery with psychology and sexual politics. Shaped by her understandings of feminist art and institutional critique, they rekindle the avant-garde desire to tie aesthetic production to a tangible, concrete experience of life.
104 pages, 102 color images ISBN 978-0-9853377-0-4
Dancing Foxes Press, Brooklyn, NY

Ulrike Müller: Franza, Fever 103, And Quilts

A call to serenity. Our Banya Candle was inspired by the peace found in Russian Bathhouses, Japanese Onsens, and on long morning walks in the forest. Sweet, dry Japanese hinoki wood couples with terpentinic Texas Cedarwood to bring calm to any room.

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On display at LA>
The exhibition catalogue, designed by Rachel Berks, features images of all arworks in the exhibition, an essay by Catherine Damman and a conversation between Samantha Thomas and Jarrett Gregory.

Texture / Parameter - Samantha Thomas

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Filled with deep desires, this scent is best described as a spiced and lustful floral tonic. Wild notes of ambrette seed, orris and musk and softened by bitter orange and cassis fruit.  PHILIA, translated as "brotherly love", is one of the four ancient Greek words for love. In this moment, it is sensual, sophisticated and gorge, producing a palpable tension between beauty and desire.
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In the latest issue:
Winter 2019, Volume 22 Issue 2
Artist's Project The Underworld Beatriz Cortez
Conversations Building a Transhistorical We Allyson Vieira and Brooke Holmes
A World Not Meant for Us Beatriz Cortez and Candice Lin
Feature Knowledge-Montage: Page 3, Poetic Sculpture, and Print Cora Gilroy-Ware
Columns Ghosts See Ghosts Haruko Tanaka
You Go, I Stay: James Luna (1950–2018) Ellen Fernandez-Sacco
Reviews Morgan Fisher / Passing Time Sabrina Tarasoff
Meret Oppenheim and Friends: Cadavre Exquis Brigitte Nicole Grice

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Sinister Wisdom is a multicultural lesbian literary & art journal that publishes four issues each year. Publishing since 1976, Sinister Wisdom works to create a multicultural, multi-class lesbian space. Sinister Wisdom seeks to open, consider and advance the exploration of lesbian community issues. Sinister Wisdom recognizes the power of language to reflect our diverse experiences and to enhance our ability to develop critical judgment as lesbians evaluating our community and our world.

Sinister Wisdom 112: Moon and Cormorant features an eclectic array of contemporary poetry, prose, and art by lesbians from around the world, including new work by: Marilyn Hacker Rita Mookerjee Christina M. Wells Mie Astrup Jensen Julie Weiss Chanice Cruz Emel Karakozak Lila Tziona Kaye Lin Kuphal and a tribute to writer and editor Michelle Cliff.

Sinister Wisdom 111: Golden Mermaids features some of the best work from lesbian writers and artists working today. This issue of Sinister Wisdom offers testimony of lesbian lives today; they are a whisper and a promise to a future when lesbians are interested in reading the stories from these pages.
Featured writers and artists include: Tai Farnsworth Savannah Slone Lynette Yetter Lahl SarDyke Lynn Martin Kinnery Chaparrel Kai Coggin Lee Lynch Nora Beck Patty Willis Deborah Miranda Sara Koppel and many more!

Sinister Wisdom 110: Dump Trump features serious, satirical, and humorous writing in varied genres and forms, e.g., email correspondence, essay, poetry, short fiction, blog entries, novel excerpt, and interview—all reflecting lesbian ideas, notions, and actions of/for what it will take to unseat the Trump regime.
This issue of Sinister Wisdom emphasizes the ways in which struggle is a lifelong vision and commitment to realizing a better world, even if we argue that the Trump era represents a particularly urgent call to action. And to echo Morgan Gwenwald, lesbians have been doing this work a long time. As always, we include a range of lesbians/ queer voices of all races, ethnicities, ages, abilities, religions, and gender identities. We explore what Trump politics has meant to us as lesbians/queers, document its chronology, reflect on historical resistance, and commemorate the power of lesbian/queer art and activism against a hostile state. And finally this issue is an issue against forgetting that, lesbian resistance is, as Joan Nestle says, older than the Trump era and will last longer.
Featured writers include: Joan Nestle Anne Maguire Lorrie Sprecher Claire Bond Potter Sarah Schulman Adriana de Luiza Jewelle L. Gomez Denise Conca Blanche McCrary Boyd and many others.

Sinister Wisdom 109: Hot Spots explores the Southern spaces where lesbians gathered and organized during the past forty years. The ways that lesbians came together during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s were many and varied. There was no social media, no high-speed communication. Lesbians relied on the US Post Office, telephones, and face-to-face contact. Public advertising such as newspaper ads, flyers, and leaflets, had to be done carefully and discreetly. Learning about events of the past gives templates by which to formulate and support activism in the present and future. Oppression, restriction, discrimination, and disempowerment can take many forms, some more insidious than others, and activism can be especially difficult when one is a member of a despised minority that also is criminalized. Sometimes the most we can do is be ourselves and live the truth in our lives.
This issue of Sinister Wisdom , fourth in our series of special issues covering lesbian-feminist activism in the late twentieth-century South, focuses on lesbian gathering places and ways that lesbians created community while continuing activism.

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Nature Study On Lonesome Island

2017 English 164 pages Hardcover, 20 x 27 cm ISBN 9788867492886

Karen Kelly, Fabian Schöneich, and Barbara Schroeder, eds. Texts by Yve-Alain Bois and Manuela Ammer, interview by Fabian Schöneich.

Fabian Shöneich: “What do you think abstraction offers today?” Amy Sillman: “OMG!” This book provides an overview of American artist Amy Sillman’s most recent bodies of work, including diagrams, drawings, animations, sculpture, and large-scale abstractions that combine painting with digital prints on canvas, shown serially in panoramic installations. Layering and dynamic movement pervades these works, whose concerns shift between the tragic-comic and the vexed histories and techniques of painting. Co-published with Portikus, Frankfurt, and Dancing Foxes, New York

Amy Sillman: The All-over

Dean Daderko speaks with Elaine Reichek about the art, life and legacy of Nicolas Moufarrege.
Nicolas Moufarrege (1947–1985) was an artist, art critic and curator who died of AIDS related complication at the age of thirty-six. During his lifetime, he was best known for being a critical champion of the East Village art scene. He was born in Egypt, lived in Beirut and Paris, before moving to New York. He molded a complex mixture of cultures into a distinct sensibility - his idiosyncratic embroidered works confirms that he deserves to be remembered for his art.
Dean Daderko is curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston who curated Nicolas Moufarrege's art into his 2008 Visual AIDS exhibition "Side X Side."
Elaine Reichek is a fiber-based artist based in New York City who was close friends with Nicolas Moufarrege during his lifetime.
Foreword by LJ Roberts. Afterword by Sur Rodney.
Featuring artwork by Nicolas Moufarrege.
DUETS is a series of publications that pairs artists, activists, writers, and thinkers in dialogues about their creative practices and current social issues around HIV/AIDS.
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DUETS: Dean Daderko & Elaine Reichek In Conversation on Nicolas Moufarrege
72 pp, 29 color images, perfect bound
Softcover, 7.5” x 5.5”
Published by Visual AIDS, September 2016

Duets: Dean Daderko & Elaine Reichek In Conversation On Nicolas Moufarrege

West Street
West Street is an accordion fold artist's book that combines Emily Roysdon's recent photographic work with images from the estate of Alvin Baltrop. The setting for both sets of photographs is the deteriorating industrial architecture of the Hudson River piers. Roysdon views this book as part of her ongoing interest in the cultural history of the piers and an opportunity to reflect on Baltrop's spectacular, and unheralded oeuvre of photographs. Along with the collection of folding images, the book contains a text by Roysdon as an extended meditation on these ideas that reverberate through the photographic pairing and the historic context of the Baltrop works.
West Street limited edition of 400 20 special editions (with a solar plate etching printed by Marina Ancona/ 10 Grand Press) available at printedmatter.org
Published on the occasion of Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair and the Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference at MoMA PS1, November 4-7, 2010.
coordinated by: David Senior Production by: David Senior & Carl Williamson design by: Circle & Square Design and Emily Roysdon

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Cajsa von Zeipel March 2015
Pro Anatomy is the first catalog of Swedish artist Cajsa von Zeipel’s work from 2007 to 2015. Divided into three parts, the book presents the artist’s obsession with her own body as it relates to her diverse practice, from her signature sculptures to her most recent work, 1:1, a project that represents a new direction for the artist in her engagement with the human form. Using a CAT scan of her body, von Zeipel 3D-printed a replica of her own skeleton, continuing her investigation into the body’s aesthetic—and scientific—complexities when it is stripped to muscle and bones. Whereas much of her work has dealt with the surface of the body, 1:1 cuts to the bone.
Featuring new essays by writers Andrew Durbin, Chris Ford, Stefanie Hessler, Sarah Nicole Prickett, and Lyndsy Welgos, Pro Anatomy also includes an introductory text by the artist as well as A-Z, a poetic script for a 2009 sound piece. In her introduction to the book, “Bad Sad Mad Glad,” the artist writes intimately about her practice, covering her range of interests, from installation work and classical sculpture to Tom of Finland and new media. “I have always fed on the border,” she writes, “where things are simultaneously appealing and scary—works that move from the attractive to the repulsive, grotesque, and studied.” Von Zeipel’s sculpture deals directly with the cosmetic and social discourses that influence how the body is imaged and actualized. In Pro Anatomy, she introduces the myth of Narcissus as integral to how she conceptualizes her practice. In doing so, von Zeipel presents her work as it relates—and responds—to the ways our bodies are idealized, altered, and presented in life and in media. Threading in images from a CAT scan of her body throughout the book, von Zeipel offers a new perspective in her continuing engagement with the human form. Pro Anatomy presents von Zeipel’s story—what Chris Ford writes is a “story of self and narcissism, techne, and courage, and audacity and hermeneutics and talent and heart and soul, deep intelligence, epistemology, too”—in a dynamic, comprehensive format.
CAJSA VON ZEIPEL (b. 1983, Sweden) exhibited at the Gothenburg Museum of Art, the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art, the Royal Institute of Art, Västerås Konstmuseum, Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, Millesgården in Sweden; M/L Artspace in New York; and Galleri F 15 and Buntelabo Kunsthall in Norway, to mention a few. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Foundation in Mallorca, Spain, Eskilstuna Museum of Art, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Borås Museum of Art, Gävleborg County Museum, S.A.O. Foundation of Research and Culture, and the Västerås Museum of Art in Sweden. She has also exhibited at Capricious 88 in New York.

Cajsa Von Zeipel, Pro Anatomy

New York–based artist Paul Ramírez Jonas investigates how publics are constituted and convened through the exploration of public forms like the equestrian statue, the bronze plaque and the key to the city. Published to accompany the artist’s first survey exhibition in the Americas, Atlas, Plural, Monumental is the most comprehensive publication on the artist’s work to date, including sculptures, photographs, videos, drawings, public actions and participatory works made from 1991 to 2016.

Paul Ramírez Jonas: Atlas, Plural, Monumental

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Coffee Mugs

ADULT CONTEMPORARY is an experimental non/fiction salon series featuring readings, lectures, performances and interviews with and by established and emerging writers. We seek out first person perspectives characterized by the urgent and the everyday; true stories that connect us to the big by way of the small, uneventful, and unexpected. Readings will be followed by informal conversations.
organized by Katherine Brewer Ball & Svetlana Kitto

Adult Contemporary

100% of proceeds go to the Anotherwild Fund : a grant for QTPOC makers annually.

- Ceramic 
- 11 oz mug dimensions: 3.85″ (9.8 cm) in height, 3.35″ (8.5 cm) in diameter 
- Dishwasher and microwave safe