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““Hosono-esque vocals, dub beats and reggae vibes infused into ethereal dreamy mellow rock.” The album just sucks you ou...
05/12/2025

““Hosono-esque vocals, dub beats and reggae vibes infused into ethereal dreamy mellow rock.” The album just sucks you out of the current place and state you are in. And drops you 40 minutes later back. Whenever you put it on turntable, it opens a 5th dimension for you. Which is unfortunately limited with only a 40 minute stay. Originally released in 100 copies by a mysterious Japanese underground band in 1985. Sold at their local festival on Mount Kyogamaru. No one ever heard about them ever since.”

Available in our shop and webshop (including the previous Spinnaker release on the label)

THURSDAY / 27-11-2025 / 18:00 / BOOK LAUNCH Vera Mota – Performing Matters, flesh hues, skeletal formsABOUT THE BOOKPerf...
25/11/2025

THURSDAY / 27-11-2025 / 18:00 / BOOK LAUNCH

Vera Mota – Performing Matters, flesh hues, skeletal forms

ABOUT THE BOOK
Performing Matters, flesh hues, skeletal forms is the first monograph on Vera Mota, offering a comprehensive look at the last decade of her work. Her practice explores the physical, tactile, and conceptual possibilities of distinct material bodies — including her own. The body becomes an indispensable agent, both medium and subject, imprinting its gestures and movements while amplifying the voice of other matters. Working across sculpture, drawing, installation, and performance, Mota investigates how the body acts, functions, or is represented, probing the possibilities of an economy of presence.
As Philippe Vergne writes, Vera Mota’s diagrammatic work stages such dislocations and dismemberment of bodies under attack or subjected to self-dismantlement and barely held
together. It might be the human body, the physical body. It could also be the small societies she organises in her installations and displays, pointing to communal bodies, social bodies, political bodies, democratic bodies, and migrating bodies of all kinds — all bodies that continue to be dismantled if they do not conform.
Featuring a foreword by Merle Radtke, essays by Philippe Vergne and André Barata, and a conversation with Barbara Piwowarska, this book offers a rich entry point into Vera Mota’s artistic practice.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Vera Mota (1982) works and lives in Porto. Exhibiting regularly since 2004, her work has been presented at institutions such as the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto Municipal Gallery, MACE – Museum of Contemporary Art of Elvas, Matadero (Madrid), Ireland’s Biennial (Limerick), and SESC (São Paulo). Her work is part of several public and private collections, including the Portuguese State Contemporary Art Collection (CACE), Serralves Foundation, Municipal Art Collection of Porto, PLMJ Foundation Collection, António Cachola Collection (MACE), Ilídio Pinho Collection, Collection Maria João and Armando Cabral, and Centro de Arte Oliva – Collection Norlinda and José Lima.

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The latest is now available in our shop and webshop ! “To Spin. The world is spinning, and so is everything on it: you ...
17/10/2025

The latest is now available in our shop and webshop !

“To Spin. The world is spinning, and so is everything on it: you and me, the trees, the oceans, and the mountains. We may have deluded ourselves into thinking everything is stationary, but the reality is that we’re perpetually in motion. The planet is spinning around its axis and orbiting around the sun, and in a way, at this very moment, we are all products of rotation: life on Earth is only possible because of the cycles of days, seasons, and years. As Simon Bauchet writes in his article “Spinning Machines”, humans have always used rotational movement to run machines and produce the material world around us. To Spin is more than just a word: it’s a dynamic, a force, a necessity, even a philosophy. Craftspeople know this well. Their workshops are filled with spinning objects: the potter’s wheel, the wood turner’s lathe, the spool of a spinner who pulls wool to make yarn. Glass, too, can be spun by glassblowers into rondels, discs that capture the light and are the ancestors of our modern windowpanes. Antique glass is evidence of this know-how: irregular and vibrant, its appearance reflects its own artisanal production.”

The latest Dean Blunt release, this time in collaboration with Iceage’s Elias Ronnenfelt, is available in our shop and w...
16/10/2025

The latest Dean Blunt release, this time in collaboration with Iceage’s Elias Ronnenfelt, is available in our shop and webshop .

Two essential Ultraani records just landed. Find them at our shop or online.
29/09/2025

Two essential Ultraani records just landed. Find them at our shop or online.

“Catalogue of stolen objects” courtesy of Mirelle Van Tulder“(…) The act of removal highlights the missing condition of ...
12/09/2025

“Catalogue of stolen objects” courtesy of Mirelle Van Tulder

“(…) The act of removal highlights the missing condition of these artefacts, and reminds us how this legacy is constructed from exclusion. The final work, an empty catalogue, calls for a dismantling of systems of representation that are aligned with colonial attitudes. ‘Catalogue of Stolen Objects, Courtesy of’’ makes visible the invisible (and buried) practices of erasure, displacement and subjugation that inform our worldview.”

“”An Anthology of Counterculture and Political Graphic Design” Over 300 pages, a kind of visual mixtape, putting politic...
10/09/2025

“”An Anthology of Counterculture and Political Graphic Design” Over 300 pages, a kind of visual mixtape, putting political posters and underground press of the late 1960s and 1970s in dialogue with the broader graphic design of their era as a tribute to the generation of artists who made them and continue to inspire so much. Decades ago, liberation movements used to produce memorable and inspiring visuals, but not anymore. Why? Why do movements not produce beautiful and memorable visuals anymore? Why do the biggest image makers of today not lend their talents to the good fights that need their help? We hope that these will intersect again, and the first step is to study their history. Ramdane Touhami and Émile Shahidi are passionate about graphic design and revolutionary struggles in equal measure. Starting from Ramdane’s personal collection, they have researched and traveled the world to study the history of revolutionary art, and create an ideal library of counterculture and political graphic design. Friends, we are here to tell you that fighting for a better world is, in fact, not only extremely cool, but the coolest thing you can do — and we have the images to prove it! “

Available in the shop and webshop !

This iconic MPB classic is finally back in stock ! Available in our shop and webshop !
09/09/2025

This iconic MPB classic is finally back in stock !
Available in our shop and webshop !

“A copiously illustrated, sweeping overview of the beloved polymath’s life and career. Harry Smith (1923-91) was a paint...
12/08/2025

“A copiously illustrated, sweeping overview of the beloved polymath’s life and career. Harry Smith (1923-91) was a painter, filmmaker, folklorist, musicologist and collector as well as a radical nonconformist whose work defies categorization. This volume accompanies the major exhibition on the art and life of Harry Smith co-organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Carpenter Center at Harvard University. It is the first publication featuring extensive color illustrations of Smith’s visual art, films and collections. It contains biographical information alongside examinations of his work across mediums. The publication follows Smith from an isolated Depression-era childhood in the Pacific Northwest through his counterculture youth in postwar Berkeley, California. From there, it traces his path through bebop and experimental cinema in San Francisco, to his profoundly influential decades spent in New York City, where he was an essential part of the city’s avant-garde. This volume is a critical read for fans of Harry Smith, as well as those interested in any of the many countercultures and art movements that he shaped.”

Books on hair available in the shop and webshop : Melissa Keys - Hair Pieces () Grow it, Show it! A look at hair from Di...
23/07/2025

Books on hair available in the shop and webshop :

Melissa Keys - Hair Pieces ()

Grow it, Show it! A look at hair from Diane Arbus to Tik tok ()

Jeremy Aston - Not Just Hot Hair ( )

“Surface Disorder sees the release of the music from Jonathan Uliel Saldanha’s large-scale exhibition of the same name t...
22/07/2025

“Surface Disorder sees the release of the music from Jonathan Uliel Saldanha’s large-scale exhibition of the same name that occurred in Porto & Lisbon, (2024-25). As with much of his work, there is a Ballardian sense of a near-future in dystopia. And since we’re already living the apocalypse, there’s never a hidden moral to veer away from the torment. Instead, Uliel Saldanha dives into it and catalyzes it further. Information from Angels feels like a cunty John Dee AI (credited as The Mouth) becoming an oracle of information overload, accompanied by an instrumental bidirectionally that splits into a lush harmonic layer of blissful punctuated pads and another that is a speedy but subdued melodic bassline. The Mouth intones a 15-minute fever dream that flows through themes that have occupied Uliel Saldanha for quite some time. On Swarming the Pit, the intricacy of Jonathan Uliel Saldanha sonic wizardry is on full display. A constantly moving swarm of granulated particulates of sonic material morph into a variety of textures: coins or gunshell casings hit the floor, engines rev their monstrosity, rubber-like pulses are splayed into spectral blurs and pops. This is clearly an update on music conrète’s obsessions. The Mouth on the closing track, Wolf & Virus Dialogues, has a completely different texture from the first, alerting the listener to the uncanny nature of its genesis. Here the instrumental sounds are all triggered by the articulations of the voice: a weird unison, it serves as its own artificial accompaniment. The reiteration of a self-model (a rabid ‘my’) creates a greater tension between computational self-certainty and the terror of its inevitable actualization.”

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The latest collaboration between .manuela.restivo / .do.alhures and pays tribute to an icon of Portuguese tradicional u...
15/07/2025

The latest collaboration between .manuela.restivo / .do.alhures and pays tribute to an icon of Portuguese tradicional utensils, the moringue.
Similarly to their previous “Pratos Falantes”, this book establishes a dialogue between both old and contemporary approaches to this object’s design.

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