In the Belly of the Beast – Art & Language New York Projects, 1972-1978. Second edition with a new cover.
Edited by Michael Corris
Foreword by Sezgin Boynik
Designed by Ott Kagovere
Published by Rab-Rab Press
#artandlanguage #rabrabpress #sezginboynik #bookdesign #typography
Publishing as Scaffolding #7
Ugly Duckling Presse with Rebekah Smith and Asiya Wadud
Rikhardinkatu Library on 16 April, Thursday, starting at 4 pm.
Organized by Rab-Rab Press.
Ugly Duckling Presse is a collectively-run, nonprofit publisher of poetry, translation, experimental prose, performance texts, and books by artists. Through the efforts of a volunteer editorial collective and small part-time staff, UDP has published more than 400 titles to date and produced countless prints and ephemera.
Join us for a presentation from Rebekah Smith, UDP editor, who will talk about scale and community: how a literary arts organization can also be a publisher, and how making books together becomes a way of making a life together. As artists, editors, writers, and translators, UDP works non-hierarchically—no bosses, no growth model, no fantasy of scaling up—while attending to the process of creating books that are as pleasurable to hold as they are to read to read, and to practices of generative collaboration. As much as a publisher, UDP and its community are a group of co-conspirators in a daydreaming, bookmaking experiment—making the world we want to live in every minute of every day.
Rebekah will be joined by Helsinki-based UDP author Asiya Wadud. Asiya is a writer, most recently of the collections Mandible Wishbone Solvent and No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body. Wadud’s work has been supported by Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Foundation Jan Michalski, Tekstintalo Helsinki, and Danspace Project.
Publishing as Scaffolding talks are supported by the Kone Foundation.
#publishingasscaffolding #rabrabpress #uglyducklingpresse #publishing poetry
Saturday Morning by Ott Kagovere
24 vector drawings of unmade beds, messy chairs and wardrobes.
Like Nylon Tights in the Washing Machine by Lea Wittich
A play of words on the subject of language and folds.
Graphic design by Ott Kagovere
160x240mm, offset, 2026
20€ ([email protected])
#opapublishing #opa #saturdaymorning #leawittich #artistbook
I sent this video to Lea @lmrwttch to show her the book, but why not share it here as well. Its a joint or split (like bands do) book of my drawings and her writing. Will share more soon! #opapublishing #saturdaymorning
New book by Rab-Rab Press!
Ne vois-tu pas que je brûle ? – the French edition of the book on Sylvain George’s “Obscure Night”. English edition coming soon as well!
A whirlwind of a book! A great overview of Sylvains films and a lot of reflections on his work by several writers, artists, filmmakers etc.
Contributions by Azza Abo Rebieh · Cristina Amaral · Scott Barley · Simone Bitton · Gabriel Bortzmeyer · Sezgin Boynik · Letizia Carattini · Roberto Carro · Rafael Castaneirha Parrode · Saad Chakali · Yun-Hua Chen · Gérald Colas · Antoine de Baecque · Vincent Dieutre · Didier Fassin · Sylvain George · John Gianvito · Sylvie Glissant · Hamza · Raphael Jaudon · Leslie Kaplan · Karina Karaeva · Itvan Kebadian · Jacques Kebadian · Martin Klein · Larissa Krampert · Roger Koza · Camille Louis · Jonathan Mackris · Olivier Marboeuf · Dario Marchiori · Marie Martin · Jurij Meden · Anna-Louise Milne · Pawel Moscicki · Silvia Nugara · Jacques Rancière · Ben Rivers · Alexia Roux · Ben Rullière-Beitler · Debarati Sanyal · Miguel Savransky · Carolina Sourdis Arenas · Susana de Sousa Dias · Philippe Tancelin · Colette Tron · Françoise Vergès · Apichatpong Weerasethakul · Billy Woodberry
Graphic design by Linnea Lindgren
Design assistance by Ott Kagovere
Available at rabrab.net
#rabrabpress #sylvaingeorge #obscurenight #linnealindgren #sezginboynik
The conversation with artist Minna Henriksson focuses on how art workers participate in different protest campaigns in Helsinki. We will discuss movements, demonstrations and protest cycles that have taken place over the past decade. We will examine how different protest movements are often intertwined, and how one grassroots initiative can become a springboard for others. We will talk about how artists participate in broader social movements, and how art workers mobilise in order to defend their own interests, for example by organising protests against funding cuts in the cultural sector.
Minna Henriksson is a visual artist based in Helsinki. Henriksson’s artistic practice is often based on extensive archive research. One of the fields of focus in her work has been the dynamics and power-positions within the art scene.
Publishing as Scaffolding Talks # 6 : Sarasija Subramanian presenting Reliable Copy
Wednesday, January 28th | 18:00 - 20:00
Museum of Impossible Forma
Welcome to a talk by @sarasija.subramanian on @reliablecopy organized by Rab-Rab Press at @museumofimpossibleforms .
Sarasija will introduce Reliable Copy’s publishing practice over the years, focussing on their (Fine) Arts Dissertations Series, facsimiles of graduate-level college dissertations by artists from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (Gujarat, India), the first art college established in India post-Independence. Functioning as an early mode of artists’ writing which encouraged articulation, research, reflection, rigour, and documentation as key modes of learning within the largely studio-based programme, the dissertation was—and continues to be—a component which encouraged students to reflect on their studio practice and processes.
She will also discuss their book ‘Modernism/Murderism: The Modern Art Debate in Kumar’ which compiles (and presents for the first time in English) a debate around modern art’s emergence into the Indian subcontinent from 1959 to 1964 between Jyoti Bhatt, then a young artist in Baroda, Pherozeshah Mehta, an art connoisseur and writer from Karachi, and readers and respondents of the Gujarati periodical ‘Kumar’.
Sarasija Subramanian is an artist based in Bangalore, India, where she is also the editor of Reliable Copy, a publishing house and curatorial practice for works, projects, and writing by artists. Reliable Copy was founded in 2018, and publishes books and documents, curates exhibitions and screenings, undertakes research projects, and hosts a wide variety of public programming. It is represented by the artists Nihaal Faizal and Sarasija Subramanian.
This is the sixth Publishing as Scaffolding talk organised by Rab-Rab Press.
The talks are supported by the Kone Foundation @koneensaatio
Dimitra Kationi — Loomad-taimed
Tõlkinud Karoliina Kagovere, toimetanud Liisi Rünkla, kujundanud Ott Kagovere
Dimitra Kationi on kreeka luuletaja, kelle sõnul ainus oluline info, mida temast tagakaanele kirja panna, on tema sünniaeg ja -koht: 1983 ja mereäärne Kavala linn Kreekas, sest just need kaks panevad kõige täpsemalt paika tema päritolu ja identiteedi nii ajas kui ruumis.
Samamoodi ütleb Dimitra ka luules välja ainult hädavajaliku: tema lühikesed proosaluuletused kirjeldavad nappide sõnadega, ent seda täpsemalt maailma, kus lisaks loomadele ja taimedele on olulisel kohal veel keel, mälu, religioon, emadus, „aeg füüsiku ja armastus naise seisukohalt”. Kord mängulised, kord tõsised, vaevu paarirealised luuletused sähvavad otsekui välguvalgel pildina lugeja silme ette või siis mõtisklevad abstraktsemalt nii argisest kui ka ajaülesest, avades meie ees luuletaja elu ja omailma kildude kaupa, mis on nii täpsed ja tabavad, et muudavad isikliku üldinimlikuks.
Saadaval OPA! veebist ja kohe-kohe ka raamatupoodides!
#dimitrakationi #loomadtaimed #karoliinakagovere #liisirünkla #opapublishing opa luule poetry
Laura Merendi curated a calendar this year as well. Each week is designed by a different local designer. What a great way to document a scene. Some copies still available, ask @lauramerendi
My drawing celebrates the day of sewing socks – it’s 18.09, in case you did not know.
