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30/12/2025

2025 Set Margins’ publications: new titles and reprints, although one new title is missing because it sold out already… see if you can find it🙃

Thank you all authors, designers, distributors etc etc: all believers. Keep the faith in 2026: much good stuff coming soon!

29/12/2025

JUST DELIVERED!
Homing In, Sharing Knowledge:
Notes and essays on HISK laureates, 2016-23
by John C. Welchman

AVAILABLE AT 22€
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The 13 book and catalogue essays, conversations, emails and occasional texts collected here sample a decade or more of work by noted art historian and critical theorist John C. Welchman, Distinguished Professor at the University of California—in studio visits, lectures, workshops and other collaborations—with HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts Advanced Studies & Practice-based Research in Visual Arts) until its summary defunding in 2022. They pay tribute to the creative vitality, powerful, research-driven investigations, and engaged critical thinking of the rich material and conceptual activities of HISK laureates in a full spectrum of media and genres during the last decade or so.

The texts offer amplified meditations on the possibilities—but also defaults and limits—of the studio visit and on how this scene of encounter sets engagements with work that are dialogical and critically robust; respectful but also challenging; full of seeing into and through; and tactically combustible, in the sense of sparking future allusions. In his preface Welchman reflects candidly on his time at HISK, but also on the stakes and consequences of the signal forms of knowledge co-production generated though work-mediated conversation—with its revelations and risks, silences and aporia, seasoned by occasional unexpected, unpredictable, even uncanny, insight.

The book is a thinking out loud; but everything it delineates and suggests derives from what was seen and then animated in the complex mutuality of shared encounters.

Included artists are Femmy Otten, Chloé Op de Beeck, Lisa Wilkens, Ariane Loze, buren, Vesna Faassen & Lukas Verdijk, Adja Yunkers and Indrikis Gelzis, Katya Ev, Sofia Caesar, Nikolay Karabinovych, Helen Anna Flanagan, Nelleke Cloosterman and Danielle Kaganov.

Graphic design by Freek Lomme
Made possible by Set Margins’ publications and John C. Welchman

note: product photography to follow!

26/12/2025

𝘯𝘦𝘸: 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬
𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬, 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘜𝘴𝘦
By Karin Christof

On civic actors in urban dynamics: urging shared ownership, the social value of autonomy, maintaining autonomy as intermediaries, and methodological championing!

𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐚𝐭 𝟐𝟓 𝐄𝐔𝐑𝐎
𝘷𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘴.𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 (@𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘪𝘰) 𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦!

In recent decades, citizens active in urban governance have taken up their roles as autonomous subjects, negotiating with governmental actors on the reuse of vacant buildings while representing the wishes of fellow residents to create self-managed communal spaces that are open to neighbourhood residents. They have appropriated vacant properties — and, where possible, constructed new buildings — in line with their own interests, those of civic groups, and the common good. They work to create affordable working, living, cultural and community places in an increasingly commercialised urban environment. In this publication, these civic actors are referred to as citizen professionals (CPs).

Written by Karin Christof, with a foreword by Elke Krasny.
Graphic design by Eric de Haas
Made possible thanks to Freek Lomme

citizenship civilparticipation art culturaltheory

23/12/2025

𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞
𝘖𝘯 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘺-𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺
by Alessandro Sbordoni

OUT NOW AT 19€
available through setmargins.press ( link in bio)
or order through your local bookstore

Today, we do not believe in images anymore. This incredulity is, in part, the product of technology. From brainrot to deepfakes, from NFTs to sloppy content, the function of the image is not representation but only the reproduction of capital.

In the twentieth century, the machine automated the hands of workers; in the twenty-first century, it automates the eyes of consumers. The conveyor belt is upgraded by scrolling. In the age of electronic reproduction, the gaze is replaced by the stare of Internet users.

Yet, as the medium is pushed to its limit by capitalism, it reverses its characteristics. Another relationship with the medium–beyond post-truth and deepfake–is designed anew into digital culture. From the Kardashians to Donald Trump, from Pepe the Frog to Paris Hilton, the nihilism of the image is trending right now. Beyond the Image is an attempt at the revaluation of visual culture in the age of video monetization and artificial intelligence. Soon enough, the same eyes that are filled with the glow of the screen are also starting to see beyond it.

Written by Alessandro Sbordoni

Graphic design by Freek Lomme

Made possible thanks to Set Margins’ publications

21/12/2025

𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞
𝘖𝘯 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘺-𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺
by Alessandro Sbordoni

OUT NOW AT 19€
available through setmargins.press ( link in bio)
or order through your local bookstore

Today, we do not believe in images anymore. This incredulity is, in part, the product of technology. From brainrot to deepfakes, from NFTs to sloppy content, the function of the image is not representation but only the reproduction of capital.

In the twentieth century, the machine automated the hands of workers; in the twenty-first century, it automates the eyes of consumers. The conveyor belt is upgraded by scrolling. In the age of electronic reproduction, the gaze is replaced by the stare of Internet users.

Yet, as the medium is pushed to its limit by capitalism, it reverses its characteristics. Another relationship with the medium–beyond post-truth and deepfake–is designed anew into digital culture. From the Kardashians to Donald Trump, from Pepe the Frog to Paris Hilton, the nihilism of the image is trending right now. Beyond the Image is an attempt at the revaluation of visual culture in the age of video monetization and artificial intelligence. Soon enough, the same eyes that are filled with the glow of the screen are also starting to see beyond it.

Written by Alessandro Sbordoni

Graphic design by Freek Lomme

Book photography by Annette Behrens

Made possible thanks to Set Margins’ publications

20/12/2025

new! M͇a͇i͇s͇a͇ i͇n͇ W͇e͇b͇l͇a͇n͇d͇
D͇e͇t͇o͇u͇r͇i͇n͇g͇ U͇X͇ D͇e͇s͇t͇i͇n͇i͇e͇s͇

by Maisa Imamović

OUT NOW AT 25€
via setmargins.press ( link in bio)
or get your local bookstore to order it!

What does ‘user-friendly’ website mean if, on it, online behaviors like stalking, teasing, and ghosting — once considered peripheral — are now central to survival, care, and belonging? How to thrive without becoming an “Interdisciplinary Unicorn”: the state’s most beloved user-citizen fluent in multiple registers of production, optimization, and self-branding? How in this beautiful world is one supposed to log off, when surveillance and privacy erosion have been normalized? And how, oh how, could users possibly think of building the alternatives, when cool and cringe online acts, all activate the platform’s reward system: the unleashing of emoji-filled praise? How to resist the platform’s toxic seduction?

Haunted by screenshots of early cyberfeminist websites and in dialogue with digital sages, web scripts, and business interests, media artist, web developer, and author Maisa Imamović embarks on a philosophical and practice-based crusade through the internet’s surface and its shadows. To expose the various ways of thriving online without surrendering to optimization, the book explores imperfect uses of perfect software, preservation of precarious web infrastructures, tactical content strategies, and experiments with autonomous financial systems — all wrapped in educational efforts to sustain criticality amid automation. Through these traversals beneath the scroll, Maisa finds her Webland: speculative, broken, and oftentimes, poetic infrastructure where logic destabilizes, binaries dissolve, and meaning evades monetization. But can a non-extractive internet exist beyond metaphor? Can poetry rewire protocol? Or will her sanctuary be absorbed into the very architectures it resists?

graphic design
Clara Pasteau
video by Annette Behrens
Made possible by Mondriaan Foundation, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds

19/12/2025

LOOK AT THIS!
maybe the beauty-est provocative gift-gadget book I ever published!

𝐈’𝐦 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞
𝘛𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴
By Gabriel Jones

𝘈 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘦𝘴.

Posting next week,
AVAILABLE AT 25€
via setmargins.press ( link in bio)
or order at your local store!

By making collages of the communist, brutalist architecture presented on tourist postcards (947-1991) which suggests great space, with disruptive tags found on murals worldwide (2010-2025), artist photographer Gabriel Jones blends the top down and the grass roots, the sublime and the subluminal as well as past and present political context.

This decontextualisation causes a humorist effect, while simultaneously bringing a weird kind of recognizability into the picture on the postcard. The tags on the facades show what many of us intuitively naïve or speculatively critical think. It shows a resilience to imposed superstructures, and an alternative to the tourist experiences. This dynamic easily lends itself to mirror against the superstructures proposed by contemporary politicians. Be it in our minds, shared with others socially or by tagging places yourself. The juxtapositions in these collages’ express the resilience of the liberty people take towards facades imposed upon us.

Photography/collages by Gabriel Jones
Graphic design by Freek Lomme

18/12/2025

𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘩 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘵! M͇a͇i͇s͇a͇ i͇n͇ W͇e͇b͇l͇a͇n͇d͇
D͇e͇t͇o͇u͇r͇i͇n͇g͇ U͇X͇ D͇e͇s͇t͇i͇n͇i͇e͇s͇

by Maisa Imamović

OUT NOW AT 25€
via setmargins.press ( link in bio)
or get your local bookstore to order it!

What does ‘user-friendly’ website mean if, on it, online behaviors like stalking, teasing, and ghosting — once considered peripheral — are now central to survival, care, and belonging? How to thrive without becoming an “Interdisciplinary Unicorn”: the state’s most beloved user-citizen fluent in multiple registers of production, optimization, and self-branding? How in this beautiful world is one supposed to log off, when surveillance and privacy erosion have been normalized? And how, oh how, could users possibly think of building the alternatives, when cool and cringe online acts, all activate the platform’s reward system: the unleashing of emoji-filled praise? How to resist the platform’s toxic seduction?

Haunted by screenshots of early cyberfeminist websites and in dialogue with digital sages, web scripts, and business interests, media artist, web developer, and author Maisa Imamović embarks on a philosophical and practice-based crusade through the internet’s surface and its shadows. To expose the various ways of thriving online without surrendering to optimization, the book explores imperfect uses of perfect software, preservation of precarious web infrastructures, tactical content strategies, and experiments with autonomous financial systems — all wrapped in educational efforts to sustain criticality amid automation. Through these traversals beneath the scroll, Maisa finds her Webland: speculative, broken, and oftentimes, poetic infrastructure where logic destabilizes, binaries dissolve, and meaning evades monetization. But can a non-extractive internet exist beyond metaphor? Can poetry rewire protocol? Or will her sanctuary be absorbed into the very architectures it resists?

graphic design
Clara Pasteau
Made possible by Mondriaan Foundation, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds

16/12/2025

𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘩 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘵! M͇a͇i͇s͇a͇ i͇n͇ W͇e͇b͇l͇a͇n͇d͇
D͇e͇t͇o͇u͇r͇i͇n͇g͇ U͇X͇ D͇e͇s͇t͇i͇n͇i͇e͇s͇

by Maisa Imamović

OUT NOW AT 25€
via setmargins.press ( link in bio)
or get your local bookstore to order it!

“𝘐𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘢 𝘪𝘯 𝘞𝘦𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘢 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘤 𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭, 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘣, 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴, 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘣’𝘴 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘤 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘸𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘰𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘥𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵. 𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘺, 𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯? 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘰𝘧𝘧-𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦? 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯? 𝘋𝘰 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰? 𝘐𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘢’𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘦𝘣 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘦.”
- 𝘕𝘢𝘥𝘢 𝘈𝘭𝘪𝘤

graphic design
Clara Pasteau
Proofreader
Grammarly
Text editor
Tripta Chandola, Maisa Imamović
Project advisor
Freek Lomme
Made possible thanks to
Mondriaan Foundation, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds

15/12/2025

New York and Sharjah: impressions of people with Set Margins’ publications at last weekend’s fairs!

Can you tell which people are where from?

ps.
New York is in North America for those who wander where it’s at.

13/12/2025

𝘯𝘦𝘸: 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬
𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬, 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘜𝘴𝘦
By Karin Christof

On civic actors in urban dynamics: urging shared ownership, the social value of autonomy, maintaining autonomy as intermediaries, and methodological championing!

𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐚𝐭 𝟐𝟓 𝐄𝐔𝐑𝐎

𝘷𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘴.𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 (@𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘪𝘰) 𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦!

In recent decades, citizens active in urban governance have taken up their roles as autonomous subjects, negotiating with governmental actors on the reuse of vacant buildings while representing the wishes of fellow residents to create self-managed communal spaces that are open to neighbourhood residents. They have appropriated vacant properties — and, where possible, constructed new buildings — in line with their own interests, those of civic groups, and the common good. They work to create affordable working, living, cultural and community places in an increasingly commercialised urban environment. In this publication, these civic actors are referred to as citizen professionals (CPs).

Written by Karin Christof, with a foreword by Elke Krasny.
Graphic design by Eric de Haas
Made possible thanks to Freek Lomme

13/12/2025

OUT NOW: 𝐃𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐘𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐏𝐀𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐀
𝘖𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦
by Annee Grøtte Viken

An intertextual, intimately descriptive writing on the spaces we inhabit, informing lived space!

OUT at 12,5 € only!
via setmargins.press ( link in bio)
or via local bookstores (just order and have it soon!)

We shower, cook and heat our homes. There is water, gas and electricity. We sit at a table, wash in a sink or rest on a couch. We are bodies among other bodies; living and dead, solid and fluid, raw and transformed, recognisable or in disguise. To live is to interact, but what are we interacting with?

The Domestic Encyclopaedia is a collection of stories that explore the material body of architecture, of houses. In the midst of ongoing ecological disaster and increased alienation from nature it invites you to travel beyond the screen, to practice attention and probe the nature of domestic space.

Watch the bathroom merge with mountain streams, kitchens sizzle on sandy beaches and a bedroom drift into a nocturnal choreography.
Let them seep underneath your door.
Welcome home.

In this encyclopedia of domestic space Annee Grøtte Viken enters in a dialogue with the conventional spaces that surround us, the semiotic skin we call home. She uses her first love, literature, to imagine and give voice to the seemingly mute spaces we inhabit, collecting bits and pieces from the western canon and non-western counter-canon, to find characters lying in bath, dreaming in bed, cooking in kitchens. By each time articulating the imagined voices of these spaces, she embarks on a poetic journey into the home, this drifting island.

Author
Annee Grøtte Viken
Graphic design
Benedetta Ferrari
Proofreader
Amy Gowen
Book photography
Annette Behrens

softcover
Dimensions
110 x 180 mm / 4.33 x 7 inches (portrait)
Pages
96
ISBN
978-90-835325-6-1

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