Michael Nardone

CONVIVIALITIES: Dialogues on Poetics Michael Nardone with Dana Michel, Gail Scott, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Shanzhai Lyric, Joshua Clover and Jasper Bernes, The Culture and Technology Discussion and Working Group, Kevin Davies, Raven Chacon, Divya Victor, Carlos Soto Román, Cecily Nicholson, and Ryan C. Clarke. Out today ! Info in bio. “This is a book about living and thinking together, about what we can make in and through conversation. Michael Nardone gathers a surprising array of interlocutors – across these necessary dialogues, we find new ways to situate art and thought within the communities, the politics, the environments that shape our lives.” —Sarah Dowling, author of Entering Sappho and Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form “In Convivialities, Michael Nardone and an exceptional band of interlocutors explore commonalities among conversation and poetics – writ broadly, writ most everywhere – through nuanced, capacious discussions about performance scores, exhibition and documentary practices, translation, Indigeneity, and activism. Some folks will be familiar, some perhaps not, but it’s all of interest, and timely as hell.” —David Grubbs, musician and author of Good night the pleasure was ours and The Voice in the Headphones + With @danamavismichel #gailscott @afognak_suk @shanzhai_lyric #joshuaclover @outside_dadgitator #kevindavies @ravenchcn @sugaronthegash @s_t_r_m_n @cecily.nicholson @negrolith And to all the folks in the Culture and Technology group: Sadie Couture, Jonathan Sterne, Mehak Sawhney, Shirley Robert, Andy Kelleher Stuhl, Burç Köstem, Hannah Tollefson, Randolph Jordan, Landon Morrison, and Allyson Rogers. Many thanks to Catriona Strang and @ryanfitzpublic at @talonbooks , and a special thanks to @sitasingh_ for the elegant cover design. Thank you for your good words @sarahmmmdowling and @blackfaurest With great gratitude and in the memory of Jonathan Sterne and Joshua Clover.

I’m really pleased to find out this project is back from the printer and will be making its way out into the world this week ! OEI # 98–99: AURAL POETICS, edited by Michael Nardone. With contributions by: Raven Chacon, Lisa Robertson, Cecilia Vicuña, Dylan Robinson, Constance DeJong, Eyvind Kang, Gail Scott, JJJJJerome Ellis, Damon Krukowski, Candice Hopkins + Raven Chacon, Merlin Sheldrake, Amber Rose Johnson, John Melillo, Heather Davis, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Diane Glancy, Janel Morin + Peter Morin, Niiqo Pam Dick, Oana Avasilichioaei, Sophie Seita, Ame Henderson + Evan Webber, Patrick Nickleson, Dalie Giroux, Simon Brown, Dalie Giroux + François Lemieux, Mitchell Akiyama, Carolyn Chen + Divya Victor, Michael Nardone, Marshall Trammell, Luke Nickel, Lauren (Lou) Turner, Valéria Bonafé + Lílian Campesato, Nicholas Komodore, Lewis Freedman, Tiziana La Melia + Ellis Sam, Ida Marie Hede + Steven Zultanski, Alexandre St-Onge, Danny Snelson, Brent Cox + Courtlin Byrd, Raymond Boisjoly, Max Ritts, Steven Feld + Xenia Benivolski, Tom Miller, Daniel Borzutsky, Anne Bourne, and Marcus Boon. Designed by Eller Med A, with special thanks to Marte Meling Enoksen. Cover Image: “Plainsong” (2020), by Raven Chacon. Much gratitude to Jonas Magnusson & Cecilia Grönberg for the invitation to edit this work, their incredible support throughout the project, and the community of writers and artists they bring together through OEI.

Announcing "Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo," a book and archival film documenting Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s public artwork staged across the U.S.-Mexico border in 2019, connecting Ciudad Juárez and El Paso with bridges of light controlled by the voices of participants. Please join Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, curator Kerry Doyle, and editors Edgar Picazo Merino and Michael Nardone, in the following events: 15 April 2026, 5pm Museo Tamayo, Auditorio Mexico City, Mexico In Spanish 21 April 2026, 6pm Moody Center for the Arts Houston, Texas, USA In English 26 April 2026, 12pm Mexican American Cultural Center, in partnership with the Rubin Center for the Arts El Paso, Texas, USA In English 27 April 2026, 6pm Centro Cultural de las Fronteras Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico In Spanish 5 May 2026, 7 pm Giorgione Cinema D’Essai with author Cuauhtémoc Medina Venice, Italy In English 7 May 2026, 10 am bruno bookstore Venice, Italy In English + Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo Book edited by Michael Nardone and Edgar Picazo Merino, with contributions by Kerry Doyle, Tatiana Flores, Juan Luis Longoria Granados, Robin Greeley, Andrea Blancas Beltrán and Léon de la Rosa Carillo, Sergio Raúl Arroyo, Willivaldo Delgadillo, Lucía Sanromán, and Cuauhtémoc Medina. Published by: Inventory Press Designed by: IN-FO.CO Distributed by: ARTBOOK | D.A.P. Categories: Art, Theory, Border Studies Languages: English, Spanish Bilingual Edition supported by Arte Abierto + Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo, Film A 48-minute film documenting the cross-border conversations during the artwork’s installation, distilled from over 500 hours of archival footage. Edited by Matthieu Vanier, the film is part of the collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

We’re launching BABY FACE/FACE DE BÉBÉ by Sallie Fullerton, with photographs by Suzanne Girard, at 7PM on June 4 at @ndq_bar_mtl . Come celebrate the first book in the newly rehomed DOCUMENTS series. About the book: “A helluva aesthetic toast to human lesbian magic and ancestor worship, daggers, womyn and queers.”—Eileen Myles Constructed with the tools of poetic and documentary convention—fragmentation, oral history, rhythmic and imagistic leaps—Baby Face / Face de bébé weaves a portrait of Denise Cassidy, known as Baby Face, the first woman to own a lesbian bar in Montréal. Iconoclastic and authoritative, revered and feared, Baby Face’s story remains nevertheless largely undocumented. Yet for those in the know, the Montréal queer scene is nearly impossible to recount without her. The story of Baby Face is, too, the story of a formative time and place in North American lesbian culture and a testament to those who have worked to preserve her history. Blending photographs by Baby Face’s personal photographer Suzanne Girard with archival clippings, spliced interviews, audio from independent films, and other marginalia, the book offers a window into a particular moment in queer life—and a nod to the DIY methods often used to preserve histories relegated to the margins.

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Lisa Robertson + Shanzhai Lyric Montréal Book launch and runway reading 29 May 2026 7pm Parquette

Earlier today, crossing by foot from El Paso into Ciudad Juárez with Edgar Picazo Merino for the Border Tuner book launch at the Centro Cultural de las Fronteras. Grateful for these last two years of conversations together with Edgar to see this book into the world~

We are pleased to invite you to the presentation of the documentary and book on Border Tuner, the binational participatory installation developed by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso in 2019. The documentary brings together audiovisual material from the project, focusing on the participation of the local community. The book, in turn, gathers a range of writers who approach the project from different perspectives, with both local and international contributions. The publication also includes photography by Mariana Yáñez and Monica Lozano. The project was curated by Kerry Doyle and León de la Rosa Carrillo; the book was edited by Michael Nardone and Edgar Picazo. Members of the organizing team will be present during the event. Free admission. Limited capacity. Refreshments will be served. Sunday, April 26, 2026, 12:00 PM Mexican American Cultural Center 201 W Franklin Ave, El Paso, TX 79901

Now Shipping! Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo Edited by @mdnardone and @eeedgaaar , with contributions by kerrydoyle2010, @tatigrams , #JuanLuisLongoriaGranados, #RobinGreeley, @drebelle and #LéondelaRosaCarillo, #SergioRaúlArroyo, #WillivaldoDelgadillo,lucia.sanroman.1, @cuauhmedina , and photo documentation by @monicalozano “Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo” documents Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s participatory art installation composed of powerful search-lights forming bridges of light that opened live channels for direct communication across the U.S.-Mexico border. At a time of intense anti-immigrant rhetoric, militarized surveillance, and nationalist violence, the artwork connected the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, creating a platform for people to converge along the border to speak to one another and listen across the divide. This volume features extensive documentation of the artwork and its activation by tens of thousands of people who gathered to honor the interdependence of life at the border. The book’s ten essays, presented in both English and Spanish, critically examine the legacy of Lozano-Hemmer’s project within the wider frame of artistic production along the U.S.-Mexico border. To celebrate the book’s release, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will present “Border Tuner” in April at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City; The Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University in Houston, Texas; at the Centro Cultural de las Fronteras in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico UACJ; and at the Mexican American Cultural Center, in collaboration with the Rubin Center for the Arts in El Paso, Texas. “Border Tuner” @lozanohemmer 7.5 × 10 inches, 304 pages, softcover ISBN 978-1-941753-88-0 Bilingual Spanish-English edition Design by @in_fo_co Published by @InventoryPress Distributed by @artbook Now Shipping!

Today in Houston! We are about to screen the new film on "Border Tuner" and launch the book published by Inventory Press. Join us at 6PM at Moody Center at Rice University. And then this Friday we open "Undercurrents," a massive interactive installation at the Cistern.

Sallie Fullerton’s incredible work of documentary poetics is now out in the DOCUMENTS series with Invisible Books. Baby Face / Face de bebé recollects the Montreal lesbian bar scene of the 1970s through image, testimony, and legend, weaving poetry from the traces of recessed histories. Having edited the DOCUMENTS series through the Centre for Expanded Poetics since 2017, Michael Nardone and I have been working with Norm Nehmetallah to relaunch it with Invisible — with wider distribution, larger print runs, and the republication of six books from our catalog. Norm and his collaborators have done an incredible job retaining the style of the Risograph printed books in this new offset format, and this first iteration is beautiful. Huge congratulations to @sal_liefullerton on a scintillating debut, and to @invisibooks and @mdnardone

Just received from the printer: the new edition of m. nourbeSe philip’s Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence, published by Invisible Books. So proud to have written the afterword for this new edition, and looking forward to celebrating the book with nourbeSe in the springtime. @nourbesephilip @invisibooks @norm.nehmetallah