9 × 9 inches, 144 pages, hardcover
ISBN 978-1-941753-93-4

Design by Ben Denzer

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In the early 1990s, when personal computing was young and artificial intelligence was not yet in the popular imagination, artist Janet Zweig created something extraordinary and prescient: sculptures that married early computers, simple algorithms, and dot-matrix printers with mechanical parts to auto-generate streams of poetic text that moved objects.

Essays by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Jena Osman, and Johanna Drucker reveal how Zweig's witty contraptions were an early premonition of our current technological reality: an atmosphere of disinformation, fake news, and digital hallucinations. As Osman writes: “AI robs us of our imaginative faculty. Zweig’s sculptures, by contrast, gave us what we still very much need: opportunities for explorative play, the recognition of our own thought processes…and the potential to see the world as a site for creative collaboration.”

Richly illustrated, Recursive Apologies: Janet Zweig’s Text Generating Sculpture presents these works alongside the sources that inspired them. With a recursive design by Ben Denzer that mirrors the very concepts it explores, the book offers both a visual archive and a reflection on our ongoing relationship with thinking machines.

8.5 × 10 inches, 112 pages, softcover

ISBN 978-1-941753-96-5

Design by IN-FO.CO
Published by Inventory Press & Mississippi Museum of Art

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5.5 × 7.75 inches, 320 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-1-941753-87-3

Design by Scott Vander Zee

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"Jan Tumlir’s The Endless Line uncovers the concept, language, and theory of gesture in painting as it transitions through time—within and beyond the medium—evolving from the very site where such ruminations and pictorial experimentations begin: the classroom. I found this book to be an excellent resource and recommend it to painters at every stage of their development, from those just beginning to those with long-established practices."
—Laura Owens

"This is an extraordinarily rich and ambitious book, wide-ranging yet thoughtfully constructed and in control of its arguments. Tumlir is a lucid and engaging writer and the text, while admirably erudite, is never stodgy or drily academic. The result is a major contribution to the philosophy and theory of art, art criticism, and the historiography of art—to say nothing of its implications for media studies, film studies, and a broad array of further disciplines."
—Molly Warnock

Jan Tumlir’s The Endless Line furnishes us with a general theory of gesture alongside a complementary, and slightly more nuanced, theory of aesthetics. The collateral theories look both backwards and forwards, reconciling the thoughts of such figures as Immanuel Kant and Clement Greenberg, on one end, with those of André Leroi-Gourhan and Gilbert Simondon, on the other. Along the way, philosophical musings on the nature and purpose of art are correlated with the realities of our contemporary technocratic condition. A crucial insight of this book is that gestures bridge the gap between the human and nonhuman spheres.

The conventional progression of figuration is insistently problematized, as Tumlir demonstrates that gestures do not have clean edges and cannot be reduced to purely subjective constructs. These are forms of expression that emerge from individual interiors only to receive the imprint of their worldly surroundings. From this perspective, the gestures that take shape within painting cannot be confined to the medium; they travel between a wide range of media; and Tumlir maps aesthetic philosophy unto the social sciences covering linguistics, information theory, media studies, and cybernetics. Tumlir’s ambitious book tracks forward and backward through time as the ultimate gesture, is that of searching. 

5.5 × 9.5 inches, 392 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-1-941753-99-6

Design by Ninotchka Regets
Published by Inventory Press

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In this comprehensive survey of his writing to date, Joe Day examines the intersections of architecture, contemporary art and urbanism as interdependent visual and spatial disciplines. Including pieces for both academic and general readership, letters, reviews, public addresses and responses, Essays offers a full account of Day’s thirty-year critical development, and a revealing look at L.A.’s built environment and intellectual climate at the turn of the millennium. Organized in three chronological sequences—“Transgressions,” “Situations” and “Reactions”—this collection begins with nominalist observations on art and architecture, turns then to writing on cities, and concludes with responses to major works and figures including Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman, Mike Davis and Rosalind Kraus, as well as many more recent protagonists.

Essays joins Day’s previous monographs, Arrays (SCI-Arc, 2016) and Forays (ORO, 2021), which gather his prolific diagraming and design work, respectively. His earlier book, Corrections & Collections: Architectures for Art and Crime (Routledge, 2013), explores the evolving polarities in contemporary exhibition and incarceration.

6.5 × 9.5 inches, 210 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-1-941753-74-3

Design by IN-FO.CO
Published by Inventory Press & Press Enter

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Part-reader, part-monograph, part-visual essay, She Moves Me: Performance, Moving Image, and Lynne Marsh’s Lens enacts a curatorial logic: focusing on movement and experience, it enlists the book as site/context to present exciting juxtapositions of works and ideas inspired by the practice of Los Angeles-based Canadian artist Lynne Marsh. The publication draws the shifting, elusive contours of installation, moving-image, and performance productions in recent art by sequencing textual and visual interventions that circle around, run through, and expand the conceptual, historical, and material concerns that course through Marsh’s work.

Edited by Sylvie Fortin, the book is as speculative as it is lucidly of the present. Fully aware of the complex histories we share and the crossroad we sense, it nevertheless dares to open itself to a future fully unknown. In the process, it reconsiders Marsh’s committed practice—25 years of ambitious projects—in the present. She Moves Me: Performance, Moving Image, and Lynne Marsh’s Lens constellates probing texts by Sabeth Buchmann, Nora N. Khan, Gean Moreno and Stephanie Wakefield, Rachael Rakes, and Marina Vishmith to articulate connections between artistic debt, the residual potential of gesture, rehearsal as artistic and social experiment, the criticality of infrastructure and infrastructural critique, collective labor and spatial expansion, the technological image, surveillance, and capitalist extraction, and much more.

7.5 × 10.75 inches, 104 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-1-941753-97-2

Published by Inventory Press & The Huntington 
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British artist and writer Edmund de Waal (b. 1964) is known for the his installations of exquisite porcelain vessels in historic spaces and his engagement with the potential of ceramics. At The Huntington, de Waal’s interventions and artworks explore the movement of ideas, people, and objects—what Chinese poet Bei Dao calls the “eight directions of the wind.” Three interactive and contemplative spaces in the Chinese and Japanese Gardens—on porcelain and on shadow—and the Art Gallery—on sanctuary—encourage visitors to consider the implications of migration and exile, the material history of porcelain, and the power of sanctuary, resulting in fresh perspectives and new experiences of The Huntington’s collections.

Fully illustrated, the catalogue also includes an in-depth conversation between de Waal and cultural historian Josh Kun about the project’s connection to Los Angeles’s mix of cultures and the transmission of ideas. A selection of poems on exile that speaks to global histories of migration completes this thought-provoking tour through The Huntington’s iconic spaces.

8 × 10 inches, 304 pages, hardcover

ISBN 978-1-970449-04-4

Design by Omnivore
Published by Inventory Press

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6 × 9.25 inches, 368 pages, softcover

ISBN 978-1-941753-92-7

Design by IN-FO.CO 

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Roundtables, Rallies, Raves: 50 MoMA R&D Salons examines the many forms of productive gatherings, from formal conferences and roundtables, to impromptu rallies and raves, celebrating what is gained when we come together in physical space and walk away with unintended outcomes, insights, and wisdom. Launched in 2012, MoMA Research & Development explores the potential and responsibility of museums as public actors and as a testing ground for ideas. The R&D Salons, which have brought together over 400 contributors to date, generate a lively discussion that not only informs the museum and its program, but also a wider conversation in the outside world, acting as both crucibles and catalysts for new ways of thinking and doing in cultural institutions. This volume combines new essays with highlights from the extensive MoMA R&D Salon archive, looking both backwards and forwards to tackle topics as diverse as Revolution, Hair, Anger, Dogs, Gastrodiplomacy, and Death. The result offers the museum as a unique place for conversation, and artists and designers as singular interpreters of complex realities.

Featuring contributions by Carly Busta, Gustavo Caboco, Joshua Citarella, Es Devlin, Brunno Douat, Bobbito Garcia, Theaster Gates, Kimberly Jannarone, Jamal Joseph, Ailton Krenak, Sylvia Lavin, Shannon Mattern, Yancey Strickler, Sumayya Vally, Mckenzie Wark, Harvey Whitehouse, Dong-Ping Wong, in addition to Antonelli and Moushoul.

8.5 × 10 inches, 128 pages, hardcover

ISBN 978-1-970449-06-8

Design by IN-FO.CO 

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Songlines traces the arc of the last ten years of the artists practice with attention to its material structure and the conceptual underpinnings. Working at a large-scale, in a process she describes as “painting with paper,” Berrío builds scenes out of meticulously cut and torn papers that blend myth and folklore with the contemporary world. At a time when we are losing the stories which once gave our lives meaning, Berrío embraces multiple storylines, inspired by personal and shared mythologies drawn from across time and geography, from the Colombian countryside of the artist’s birth, to Greek mythology, the contemporary immigration crisis, a changing climate, and others. These many references coalesce into vibrant, poetic folktales opening onto new worlds.

Published on the occasion of a nationally touring exhibition, Songlines includes texts by Berrío, Katherine Brodbeck, co-curators Lauren Schell Dickens and Leslie Ureña, and an interview with the artist by Valéria Piccoli, alongside copious illustrations and details of Berrio's worldbuilding work.

7.625 × 10.5 inches, 256 pages, softcover
978-1-941753-37-8

Design by IN-FO.CO
Co-Published by Inventory Press
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Milford Graves (1941–2021) was a revelatory force in music beginning in the mid-1960s, liberating the drummer from the role of time-keeper to instrumental improviser. A pivotal figure in the free jazz movement, he created groundbreaking work with Albert Ayler, the New York Art Quartet, Min Tanaka, and John Zorn, and led the way in artistic self-production. But his kaleidoscopic genius was not bound by music, and it led him to develop an oeuvre unprecedented in its breadth—from healing arts to botany, cardiac research to martial arts.

This fully illustrated catalogue includes documentation from the exhibition A Mind-Body Deal, including hand-painted album covers and posters, idiosyncratic drum sets, recording ephemera, multimedia sculptures, photographs, costumes, and artifacts from his scientific studies. This first-ever overview of Graves as a creative polymath attempts to unlock his unique habitat by gathering his intricate, multifaceted work and exploring the practices and predilections of this extraordinary jazz mind.

6.5 × 9.5 inches, 272 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-1-941753-76-7

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Co-published by Inventory Press & The Brick

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Inspired by four decades of ecofeminist thought and action in art, Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism presents first-hand accounts and critical assessments of the life and work of artists associated with the movement and methodology. Through its survey approach, Life on Earth addresses an impressive breadth of ecofeminism’s concerns, including social ecologies, the commons, indigenous cosmologies, queer kinship, witchcraft, hydrofeminism, plant knowledge, science fiction and speculative futures, among others.

Edited by Catherine Taft and Jane McFadden, the book contains essays, poems, artwork, and archival material from Myriam Bahaffou, Heather Davis, Silvia Federici, Amy Gerstler, Audre Lorde, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Lola Olufemi, Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodriguez, Himali Singh Soin, Anne Waldman, and others. Artists include Alliance of the Southern Triangle (A.S.T.), Alicia Barney Caldas, Meech Boakye, Beverly Buchanan, Carolina Caycedo, Judy Chicago, Agnes Denes, Francesca Gabbiani, Helen and Newton Harrison, Masumi Hayashi, Institute of Queer Ecology, Kite, Leslie Labowitz Starus, Ana Mendieta, Otobong Nkanga, Alicia Piller, Jaune Quick To See SmtihJaune Quick-to-See Smith, Aviva Rahmani, Tabita Rezaire, Yo-E Ryou, Emilija Škarnulytė, A.L. Steiner, Diana Thater, and Cecilia Vicuña.