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12/08/2025

All Ah We is One - Caribbean Carnival Costume

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Caribbean Carnivals have been taking place around the UK since 1959. These joyous celebrations of culture and community began as acts of resistance in the face of enslavement — a defiant stand from communities who refused to lose who they were and where they came from.

Drawing from this rich and radical history, Aisling Serrant explores Carnival through one of its most vibrant and unmissable features: costume. First turned to by former slaves in the Caribbean as an act of reclamation and quiet resistance, with roots in West African and European masquerade alike, the colourful costumes of Carnival weekend remain a vital mode of self-expression, protest, and camaraderie. From Canboulay to Leeds and Notting Hill, the costume makers, wearers, and the communities they attract, embody Carnival in the spirit of an expression used across the Caribbean to signify unity among nations and peoples: all ah we is one.
Written by Aisling Serrant .ps

Design by Chris Shortt
Illustrations by Rachel Moss
Edited by Jamila Abdel-Razek, Eleanor Chapman, Marisa Clements and Laura Moseley

Once again, Common Threads Press brings new insight into a creative form, both celebrating the work, and highlighting it's deeper social & political meaning within a beautifully produced publication.

Pre -order now to have All Ah We IS One in time for the official launch date of August 21st and in good time to celebrate the carnivals
happening this month and beyond! 🌞🦋

17/07/2025

Ying Ang - Fruiting Bodies

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It's here! So excited to have this exquisite publication by

Ying Ang’s Fruiting Bodies reimagines the mushroom as both a biological form and a feminist metaphor – an emergent, generative force that challenges dominant narratives of fertility and the female body. Photographed while walking through inner-city parks close to the artist’s home in Melbourne, the series examines how the fetishisation of fertility has shaped cultural perceptions of women, nature and reproduction, questioning whether growth and abundance must always serve a reproductive imperative.
Ang’s photographs capture mushrooms in various states of emergence: solitary and erect; clustered in intimate pairs; decaying and dispersing spores. In these images, the fruiting body becomes an uncanny stand-in for the female form – soft yet resilient, sensuous, and categorically enigmatic. The undulating stems and textured caps – the act of pushing through and returning to the earth – evoke the eroticised, reproductive framing of the female body in art and culture, yet they also resist it.
Unlike traditional fertility symbols that reinforce womanhood as a vessel for production, these mushrooms thrive in cycles of decay and renewal, blurring the boundaries between birth, death, and transformation.
Ecofeminist scholars have long argued that patriarchal systems exploit both the earth and the female body through the same logic – one that demands constant output, control, and utility. Fruiting Bodies responds to this by embracing the fungal model: a form of fertility that is rhizomatic rather than hierarchical; collective rather than possessive; disruptive rather than obedient. Here, Ang challenges the fetishisation of fertility and proposes a different kind of reproductive power – one that is intellectual, communal, and ever-evolving.

Edited by Justine Ellis, Ash Holmes, Dan Rule, designed by Narelle Brewer , with lithography by Mariska Bijl amsterdam

In stock & ready for orders!

Read the feature at .artlens, link in bio

17/07/2025

Ying Ang - Fruiting Bodies

from

It's here! So excited to have this exquisite publication by

Ying Ang’s Fruiting Bodies reimagines the mushroom as both a biological form and a feminist metaphor – an emergent, generative force that challenges dominant narratives of fertility & the female body. Photographed while walking through inner-city parks close to the artist’s home in Melbourne, the series examines how the fetishisation of fertility has shaped cultural perceptions of women, nature & reproduction, questioning whether growth & abundance must always serve a reproductive imperative.
Ang’s photographs capture mushrooms in various states of emergence: solitary & erect; clustered in intimate pairs; decaying & dispersing spores. In these images, the fruiting body becomes an uncanny stand-in for the female form – soft yet resilient, sensuous, and categorically enigmatic. The undulating stems & textured caps – the act of pushing through & returning to the earth – evoke the eroticised, reproductive framing of the female body in art & culture, yet they also resist it. Unlike traditional fertility symbols that reinforce womanhood as a vessel for production, these mushrooms thrive in cycles of decay and renewal, blurring the boundaries between birth, death, and transformation.
Ecofeminist scholars have long argued that patriarchal systems exploit both the earth and the female body through the same logic – one that demands constant output, control, and utility. Fruiting Bodies responds to this by embracing the fungal model: a form of fertility that is rhizomatic rather than hierarchical; collective rather than possessive; disruptive rather than obedient. Here, Ang challenges the fetishisation of fertility and proposes a different kind of reproductive power – one that is intellectual, communal & ever-evolving.

Edited by Justine Ellis, Ash Holmes, Dan Rule, designed by Narelle Brewer , with lithography by Mariska Bijl
amsterdam

In stock and ready for orders

Read the feature at .artlens, link in bio

21/06/2025

Does the Sun Have a Translucent Shell?
Edited by ,

from

The fifth in the annual A Series of Open Questions published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts & Sternberg Press. Each book includes newly commissioned writing as well a selection of perspectives, images, and references related to the Wattis’s year-long research seasons dedicated to single artists. This volume is informed by themes found in the work of Anicka Yi, such as AI, umwelt, scent and taste, the anthropocene, decay and rot, the animal world, feminism, and Asian American experiences. Contributions include a cocktail recipe by Pierre Huyghe, an academic essay on psychedelic mushrooms in Native American culture, and a short story by Argentinian author Julio Cortázar, along with photographs and drawings relating to the themes. Through an eclectic range of international voices, the book encompasses many mediums in an attempt to address some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Includes a fold out page with drawings by
Design by Scott Ponik
Copublished with
Contributions by Giorgio Agamben, John Berger, Suzanne Brant, Michelle Braunstein, Mel Chen, Julio Cortázar, .dinkins, Dave Elfving, & Rommy González, , Taro Hattori, , , Pierre Huyghe, Caroline A. Jones, , Karen Cheung & , Jochen Lempert, , Yutaka Matsuzawa, , , Naomi Mitchison, Ho Tzu Nyen, Adrián Villar Rojas, Osiris Sinuhé González Romero, , Nina Canell & Robin Watkins, Keith Williams, Anicka Yi

😍📚 TODAY! Go see at the Bblioteka Art Book Fair At

21/06/2025

Rough Trade Books
with Anna Whitwham

TODAY! Even MORE wonderful book goodness in London.

& .whitwham

will be in Peckham for The Uncorrected Independent Publishers Fair - "All of your favourite indie publishers under one roof, with lager"
At from 11 to 6 pm

There’ll be readers from 2pm onwards, including Anna Whitwham, author of the recent Soft Tissue Damage.❤️📚

Rough Trade Books will have stickers, bookmarks, pamphlets, pin badges and books.
As say, Cool off with a new book & a chilled libation! 📚☀️🍺

20/06/2025

Four Corners Books

Another wonderful publisher to go see
today & tomorrow at
the Biblioteka Art Book Fair
At in London

See the details from their post below ❤️📚

Just 3 days to go until the Biblioteka Art Book Fair

We’ll be at the Warburg Institute on:
Friday 20 June, 2–7pm
Saturday 21 June, 11–6pm

Come and find us — we’ll have a selection from our Familiars artist book series, along with a few backlist gems, including Prison Landscapes by Alyse Emdur and How to Ride the Bus by Jennifer Bornstein.

The fair will offer a mix of stands and a programme of talks across both days. Link in bio to find out more.

19/06/2025

Louise O'Hare - Centrefold 1974 A Memoir

from .liotheque

November 2024 marked 50 years since Lynda Benglis, 33 years old and a rising star in the New York art world, rocked the art establishment with the publication of her famed 1974 Artforum Advertisement. For this provocative work, she commandeered two pages in the front of the magazine with a glossy field of black space and an image of herself naked, wearing white sunglasses and holding a comically large double d***o between her thighs. Five of Artforum's editors denounced Benglis's artwork & two subsequently left the staff.

Following the publication of Centrefold in Artforum Benglis says that Penthouse wanted to use the image, but instead she proposed 'a take-off on a traditional pieta, depicting a beautiful girl as the Madonna with a n**e man on her lap'. They refused, 'we cannot do that, we cannot allow artists to make a centrefold.'

Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of that Centrefold, and shifting between 1970s New York and Los Angeles and the Corbyn years in Tower Hamlets, London, this Centrefold enacts an ambivalent 'full accounting' of Benglis's Artforum spread, as well as her gender 'mockeries' and Secrets series. Taking in nursery privatisation, artworld silencing and censorship, maintenance art, muddled Marxism, performances of motherhood & ma********on, Louise O'Hare weighs up the various impacts & forms of disciplining at play in both column and d***o inches.

See .liotheque & all the other good book people & things at Biblioteka Art Book Fair from &
this weekend at

And join .liotheque at Wed 2 July for an evening of readings to celebrate Centrefold 1974, A Memoir. Drawing on the current exhibition at LCBA, O’Hare offers an alternative art history reading which connects Lynda Benglis, Ray Johnson & their playful appearances in each other’s work, accompanied by readings from Diana Georgiou, Stewart Home & Bridget Penney. See link in our bio for more info.

16/06/2025

Edmund de Waal - an Archive

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Edmund de Waal has created a book about archives that is itself archival, a gathering together of his reflections on archives from over a decade in chronological order. The book is also cyclical, it starts in Odessa in 2009 and ends in Paris in 2021 encountering his family archives in both places. In-between there are his responses to the archives of poets and artists and places he loves.
An Archive offers the opportunity to read texts by de Waal originally included in previous publications that are no longer available to the reader. The effort to put together all this material is not only an archival work but also an essay on the topic that offers different approaches to the definition and the experimentation of an archive by the viewer or its creator.

Like much of de Waal’s work, this book is concerned with collecting and collections—how objects are kept together, lost, stolen or dispersed. This book is part of the Ivorypress Archives series, which aims to make unpublished, long-lost or sold out material available to the general public.

In stock & ready for orders now

Attend 🎟📚 Book launch & talk tomorrow, June 16th, 18:00 - 20:00
The in person event is now full, but you can join the book launch online.
See link in our bio for details.

Read📰💻📱📚 Edmund de Waal and An Archive as featured in The Observer - link in bio

14/06/2025

Writings and Interviews
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Edited by Alexis Vaillant

from

Marc Camille Chaimowicz (1946–2024) was an acclaimed visual artist known for his performances, installations and curatorial flair. He was also a writer. This volume, the first comprehensive collection of writings by the artist, includes seminal interviews, chitchats, jokes, performance reports, insightful statements and letters in essay form, as well as rare documents, such as early surviving leaflets, typewriter handouts and hard-to-find articles. Spanning 1971–2023, the book unlocks the work of an artist considered to be a refreshing role model for a new generation of culture mavens and style savants. Drawing from literature, modernist architecture, interior design, art theory, glam rock and camp culture, the collection reveals the artist’s inner self alongside the art, social flânerie and the goings-on of his time. Entertaining and witty, the texts stand out brilliantly with their early acumen and inclusivity, while setting a new template for an expression of queerness through writing. With access to Chaimowicz’s personal material and photographs, curator and editor Alexis Vaillant is a guide to the artist’s writings. Vaillant provides behind-the-scenes commentary and context—a time capsule of pleasure featuring Andy Warhol, Des Esseintes, Josef Frank, David Bowie, Vito Acconci, Eileen Gray, Alex Kapranos, Jean Cocteau, Elsa Schiaparelli, Jean Genet, Bob Dylan, Emma Bovary and Roger Cook, among others. This book presents readers with an in-depth look into Chaimowicz’s quixotic shaping of his written work, which comes to life as a knowing and longing prose for the twenty-first century.

Design by Sanghon Kim .kim

Now in stock & ready for orders📚✨️

21/12/2024

peaceful winter solstice

recycling a beautiful repost from 2021 from the wonderful :

A chilly winter solstice dispatch from Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels!

Our Collection Manager Natalie Rae Good is in Utah visiting Sun Tunnels and watching as the solstice sun sets and rises through the four concrete structures. Moonlight and sunlight cast shifting ellipses through the small cut holes along the tunnels’ interior which are configured to the constellations Draco, Perseus, Columba, and Capricorn.

Nancy Holt, “Sun Tunnels”, 1973-76
Great Basin Desert, Utah
Concrete, steel, earth

Collection Dia Art Foundation with support from Holt/Smithson Foundation
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27/11/2024

20 Years of Four Corners Books !!!🎀

Congratulations & Hurray!! to
🎉📚🎉📚🎉📚🎉

Four Corners Books are celebrating 20 years of publishing with a special window display at 🎀 🎈

From Prison Landscapes to Greetings From The Barricades, the display features a selection of titles they have proudly published over the past two decades.

We at have had the immense pleasure of working with the lovely Four Corners folks for all those
wonderful & inspiring 20 years.🥰📚

Thank you for all the amazing publications, & for taking us along on this fantastic
journey. Here's to 20 more years!🥂🎀📚😊

Catch the display from 26 November - 1 December. Buy two Four Corners Books and you’ll get an enamel pin badge as a treat from the publisher.

~ Tenderbooks, 6 Cecil Court, London
~ Open Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 6pm

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