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1999, dernière année d'un XXe siècle particulièrement éprouvant et déterminant pour l'humanité en général et pour l'Afrique en particulier, est marquée, pour Jibril Omar Kane, par une tragédie qui l'oblige, une fois de plus à déployer toutes ses ressources afin d'échapper au terrible chef d'accusation qui pèse sur sa vie. Désigné coupable du meurtre de sa femme, il se retrouve à Fleury-Mérogis.Après avoir péniblement dressé le grand tableau de ses aspirations dans Peintures en Esquisses, Jibril réalise qu'il lui faut désormais y introduire des Couleurs Écarlates générées par son Réveil, réalisé grâce à sa rencontre avec d'étranges détenus, au service de l'institution, organisation secrète, qui se dit garante de toutes les libertés d'une humanité dominée, abêtie et appauvrie par Les Maîtres du Profit et de la Destruction.

The party as a model for new forms of togetherness, with examples from communist Hungary and SpainFrom social get-together to scenes of delirium, this publication aims to unpack the party as a complex, vertiginous construct that provides a dynamic view onto questions of community. If the party functions as an intensification of togetherness, what lessons might it provide in negotiating a given social order? This first volume on the topic considers the house party, and in what ways domestic space is reworked in support of an extension of the family unit. Including a series of interviews with those active in flat events in Budapest during the communist regime and today, essays on hospitality, the politics of rest, and erotic knowledge, and documentation on Sala 603, an informal house-theater in Curitiba. The publication is the first in a new Errant Bodies series developed in parallel to a set of party-workshops initiated by the artist Brandon LaBelle held in different locations in Madrid, each of which performatively investigates states of partying, posing the party as a scene of study.

In the tradition of concrete poetry and Fluxus: visual poems and more from Brazilian artist and poet Alex HamburgerDrawing from notions of "bad poetry" as the critical undoing of normative taste, Antilogy brings together works by the Brazilian artist and poet Alex Hamburger. Central to Hamburger's practice and engagement with poetry is a focus on writing as the expression of a performative disruption and playful reworking of semiotic systems. With references to Fluxus intermediality, Brazilian concretism, experimental music and sound poetry, Hamburger's work dynamically collapses the distinctions between fact and fiction, theory and performance, system and noise. From visual poems to abstract narrative to personal fantasy, Antilogy reminds us about the potent sense of refusal and experimentation that all art should carry.

Volume two in Errant Bodies' new series on transcultural poetics: struggles and utopian desires of contemporary lifeThe Other Citizen tracks the hopes and losses, struggles and utopian desires of what the author terms "the floating subjects" of contemporary life. Drawing upon traditions of socially engaged poetics, the work takes aim at the heart of contemporary crisis and exclusionary politics, mobilizing instead the creative solidarities and pirate imaginaries spanning the globe. Through ten acts we are led into narratives of friendship and survival, threadbare endurance and tender resistance.From lost teenagers struggling in the American maze of neoliberal privatization to secret gatherings of artistic bandits occupying buildings in Madrid to those caught in between the borders of nation-states, these emerge as frontiers of invention that, when stitched together, outline the force of an anarchic citizenry. The Other Citizen is a challenging and moving call for exiting the new norm of crisis.

Performance artists address the political possibilities of creative agencyThe Imaginary Republic is an artistic research project focusing on questions of social practice and political subjectivity. In particular, it considers the creative and restless imaginaries underpinning our political selves and argues for a deeper engagement with what Richard Gilman-Opalsky terms "imaginary power."The publication brings together participating artists Tatiana Fiodorova, Octavio Camargo / Brandon LaBelle, the Sala-Manca Group and Joulia Strauss, whose practices engage situations of struggle and autonomous cultures through a range of methods and approaches. From social fictioning to camouflaged interventions, collaborative pedagogies to gestures of care, their works propose unlikely paths of mutuality. The publication includes documentation of an exhibition held at Kunsthall 3,14 in Bergen, as well as key essays and works by theorists and artists Rhiannon Firth, Hélène Frichot, Marysia Lewandowska, Gerald Raunig, Raimar Stange with Oliver Ressler and Manuela Zechner.

Part of Errant Bodies' Doormats series, Resounding Roar takes aim at the corruption of the Mexican government."And may the Earth tremble at its core, at the resounding roar of the cannon," so ends the initial verse of the Mexican national anthem. Nowadays that resounding roar should be directed towards the corruption of an elite class that has kidnapped the country. Resounding Roar takes aim at a government that does not govern for the people, but for corporate interests and international agreements that only benefit a few. The sound and visual artist Israel Martínez reflects on the present state of Mexico and its regime of narco-politics through artistic works, interviews, notes, images and collaborations with fellow writers, curators, activists and artists that have influenced or accompanied him throughout his artistic practice over the last years. Resounding Roar is a polyphonic work of creative resistance.Contributors include: Mariana Ampudia, Mónica Arreola, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Adela Goldbard, Vicente Gutiérrez, Diego Martínez, Cuauhtémoc Medina and Sandra Sánchez.

Renowned sound artists and theorists advocate for sound as a new paradigm in artIn this second installment of the Dirty Ear Report series, leading sound artists and theorists argue for sound as a new paradigm in art, particularly considering questions of noise and otherness. Ricarda Denzer, Claudia Firth, Lucia Farinati, Brandon LaBelle, Ana Pais, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Alexandre St-Onge and James Webb are included.

A new platform for the discussion of sonic art Dirty Ear Report offers a new platform for sonic research, in which leading sound artists and theorists gather to discuss radio art, field recording, noise, real-time work, voice and site-specific sound. This issue includes Zeynep Bulut, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Ole Frahm, Anja Kanngieser, Brandon LaBelle, Anna Raimondo, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec and Åsa Stjerna.

Recent Chilean artists explore the power of art as a platform for working through confining political structuresThis book engages the creative and critical strategies at play in works of recent Chilean art that emerge from a reflection on the politics of invisibility: how the operations of the seen and the unseen are understood to perform equally within the material realities of Chilean society. Stemming from two exhibitions and seminars held in Bergen, Norway and Santiago de Chile, curated and organized by Soledad García Saavedra and Brandon LaBelle, Magic Block underscores the processes of appearance and disappearance, memory and forgetting, writing and erasure as social and psychological intensities. Through the works of Chilean artists and writers, the publication highlights art as a powerful platform for working through the political structures that hold the body in a phantasmic grip, and which can be traced and appropriated through unsteady acts of magic. Expressions of secrecy, camouflage, forgetfulness, dematerialization and covert occupation thus enable a giving narrative to those memories that are often subordinated by history. The book includes works by Catalina Bauer, Juan Downey, Claudia Missana, Eugenio Téllez, Sandra Vasquez de la Horra, Michelle-Marie Letelier, Rainer Krause, Gonzalo Díaz/Justo Pastor Mellado Voluspa Jarpa and Enrique Ramírez.

"Mobile phones have replaced design in mediating our relation to the surrounding space," writes Italian artist and composer Riccardo Benassi (born 1982). "All the tools that surrounded us were dematerialized. To stay alive--and to survive the digital--objects have become invisible, and are often processed in their own narratives."Equal parts essay, diary and critical pamphlet, Techno Casa is the fifth publication in Errant Bodies' Doormats series.

Unsitely Aesthetics seeks to address the unconventional ways in which contemporary art is made and engaged with across the vastly expanded networks of new media culture, arguing--counterintuitively--that network culture not only embodies its own version of "situatedness" but can also lead to the creation of a more democratic art, with the Internet acting as a far broader public space than the traditional site-specificity of old, a space in which artists can encounter and perhaps even engender new publics for their work. The book aims to theorize current dynamics in media and sound art practice, and includes interviews and conversations with Barbara Campbell, Linda Carroli, Hugh Davies, Bec Dean, Renate Ferro, John Craig Freeman, Jo-Anne Green, Teri Hoskin, Lucas Ihlein, Yao Jui-Chung, kanarinka (a.k.a. Catherine D'Ignazio), Scott Kildall, Deborah Kelly, Natalie Loveless, Michael Takeo Magruder, Timothy Conway Murray, Norie Neumark, Victoria Scott, Brooke Singer, Igor fitromajer, Helen Thorington and Darren Tofts.

Room Tone was initiated by artist Brandon LaBelle to examine the relationship between sound and architecture. LaBelle sent field recordings of his apartment to 20 architects, designers and artists, each of whom was invited to construct a physical model of the apartment based solely on these recordings. This publication includes documentation of the architectural renderings, essays, an interview with LaBelle and a CD of the recordings.