“Maintenance, Methods, Moves – these three elements calibrate our perspective into the sites and relations of knowledge production and examine issues like survival tactics, operation, care, relearning, sociopolitical engagement, and activism. It is a contextual adaptation of Hannah Arendt’s definition of vita activa – labour, work, and action.
As a means of knowledge and aesthetic production, publishing is both about making publication (artefacts) and making the public (relations). In this understanding, Vol. 1 features artists behind three resilient self-publishing projects – Prickly Paper, Nomad Papaya Books, and Reading My Panties / Not Just A Collective.”
The first part of “a series of conversations with independent publishers and public-makers in Asian diasporas”, featuring reproduced interviews with bookmakers of Asian diasporas about their approach to and experiences in publishing, illustrated with b/w photographs.
Saddle stitched, 21 x 14,5 cm, 48 pages, 1st ed/200, Eindhoven 2025
