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Sharjah Art Foundation

The Fast-Growing Stinking Escaped Waste-Loving Wall-Breaching Self-Cloning Other-than-Natural No-Man’s Tree

Areej Ashhab , Ailo Ribbas

€20.00

The fast-growing stinking escaped waste-loving wall-breaching self-cloning other-than-natural no-man’s tree is a 4000-word bilingual English-Arabic photo essay examining the ecological, political and historical significance of ailanthus altissima (tree of heaven) in occupied Palestine. Introduced by the Jewish National Fund during its Jerusalem Forest afforestation projects from the 1960s to 1980s, this tree flourished across various urban fringes, roadside areas and seemingly abandoned land. Known for its pungent odour, which earned it the nicknames ‘tree of hell’ and the ‘stinking tree’, it is now classified by the Israeli Ministry for the Protection of the Environment as an invasive species. 

Drawing on her formative experiences in Palestine and an interest in trees as political agents, Palestinian architect, artist and researcher Areej Ashhab provides a first-hand account of the invasiveness embodied by this unregulated, fast-growing weed-tree. The text is enriched by annotations by Catalan-British trans writer, researcher and community organiser Ailo Ribas, who unpacks the concepts of 'weediness' and explores issues of belonging and resistance within Palestine’s settler colonial context. Accompanied by recent photographs of the tree across Palestine, the publication lays bare the intricate root system and complex ecologies that underlie our geopolitical narratives.

This publication was realised through the support of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual publishing grant (2023). 

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O Fortuna

Jacob Dwyer

Fiction €10.00

In 2015, Jacob finds himself wandering the streets, swamps and cemeteries of New Orleans. Through his search for a man named Ignatius, 'O Fortuna' tells the story of his attempt to make a film. We discover the city’s unique atmosphere and meet a bizarre cast of characters who assist Jacob with his uncertain attempts at shooting scenes of DAT LIKWID LAND.

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Galerie

Animal - Family - Bad Mood Audience - Sleeping Bad Mood

Krõõt Juurak

The first comprehensive monograph on the work of Krõõt Juurak

In the past fifteen years, Krõõt Juurak has developed a series of practices and performances that do not necessarily take place in a theatre or a gallery, at a predictable time or space, but rather come to existence as performative conditions through certain other triggers. This volume is both a record and a performative expansion of Juurak’s practice. Through four themed chapters (Animal, Family, Bad Mood Audience and Sleeping Bad Mood), the publication features a rich array of text-based works, essays, interviews, documentation and ephemera that will provide an insight into Juurak’s singular body of work including Internal Conflict, Sleeping Performance, Autodomestication, Performances for Pets and Bad Mood.

Edited by Galerie / Adriano Wilfert Jensen and Simon Asencio

Text contributions by Krõõt Juurak, Alex Bailey, Kate Strain, Noor Mertens, Suzan D. Polat, Jessica Ullrich, Guendalina Pirelli, Donny Mahonney, Simon Asencio and Adriano Wilfert Jensen.

Published October 2020

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Simon & Schuster

Runes and Chords

Alice Notley

Poetry €25.00

Ephemeral and anarchic, Runes and Chords is the first collection of artwork by famed poet, critic and artist Alice Notley. These sketches, drawn on an iPad and first serialized on Notley’s Twitter feed, are a fascinating window into an evolving practice, collages of flowers and poetry, the white space of digital creation and overlaid colors erupting from the page.

They defy containment and category, much like their creator—each a second in a day, an afternoon or evening in Paris, a thought so transient it can only exist in the medium of social media. With this collection, one of America’s most influential living poets and artists continues to prove her worthiness of that title.

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Abstract Supply

Entropia Vol. 1 & 2

Habib William Kherbek

Essays €22.00

Entropia (vol. I & II) – written by William Kherbek and edited in collaboration with Jack Clarke – is a publication which seeks to recount and re-examine a decade of artistic curation, production, and critique between London, Berlin, and other urban art centres from 2010 to 2020.

Comprised of two volumes, this publication contains a compendium of over one hundred reviews and interviews with luminaries of contemporary art (Vol I), as well as a speculative attempt to create a newly generated algorithmic art(ificial) critic (Vol II). Together they serve to document, excoriate, and theorise an art world which is simultaneously hegemonic and precarious, complicit and constructive, driven by values, yet fed by extraction, all filtered through Kherbek’s precise, aphoristic, acerbic, lens.

The publications include contextual contributions from both Josie Thaddeus-Johns, writer for the New York Times, The Financial Times, Frieze; and Rozsa Farkas, director of London-based gallery Arcadia Missa.

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Goswell Road

Fous Moi La Paix

Vava Dudu

Goswell Road presents Fous Moi La Paix a book of drawings by multidisciplinary artist Vava Dudu. Vava made 37 exclusive drawings for the publication, which launched at Paris Ass Book Fair 2024 at Palais de Tokyo. The drawings are offset with her texts, poems and several images of her iconic clothing and accessories.

"The multidisciplinary artist Vava Dudu refuses to follow convention: she draws and writes poetry, makes clothes and accessories, and builds furniture and guitars. She asserts her position as an outsider in contemporary art by stating that she “prefers extremes to the middle ground.” Her work as an independent stylist goes hand in hand with her activity as a singer in La Chatte, an electro-zouk punk new wave band founded in 2013 with Stéphane Argillet and Nicolas Jorio, aka “Nikolu.” Her underground artistic world, which joyously combines text and image, is expressed through various media.

Vava Dudu was born in 1970 in Paris, where she lives and works."

Text from Lafayette Anticipations website