A quasi-open-access publisher run by members of No Collective, dedicated to consummating the age to come by making available unprecedented texts that question the boundaries of performance and fiction, primarily via the medium of language. Each volume is richly illustrated and makes an original contribution to research in its field.
December 2020 | 110 PP (Full Color)
How Kids Explore the World
When 9-year-old Aevi learned that he was going to have a little brother, he decided to write a book for his baby sibling that explained how kids explore the world. The result is a fantastic guidebook of what children go through in the first 10 years of their lives, sorted out in four critical topics per year and beautifully illustrated by the author. In this quintessential children’s book written by a kid as a loving gift to another kid, the readers will learn many important things about life in this strange world of ours, including how to distinguish dream and reality, what makes parents’ rules unfair, why friends are important, how to deal with complicated things, and which elementary school grade is the hardest of them all.
December 2019 | 60 PP (Full Color)
PROVERBS
Between 2016 and 2018, Aevi, who was six and seven at the time, began reporting observations he had made about the world. Some of these were quite brilliant, some were strangely profound, others were plain funny, and still others utterly puzzling. But no matter what he said, he always spoke with a tone of confidence and authority as if he were revealing a higher truth that others were blind to. These observations were written down as "proverbs," short sayings of anonymous origin that convey some general truth about the world, since that’s what Aevi made them sound like. Compiled here is a selection of these proverbs, each beautifully illustrated by the same child reporter.
January 2017 | 210 PP (Full Color)
MATTERS OF ACT: A Journal of Ideas (A)
A periodical compiled by No Collective assembling materials that probe the density of various unrealities. Includes a detailed report on "Site-Specific Fictions" by the group "Robert Smithson without Robert Smithson," an attempted restoration of the exhibition "Unconditional Restoration," a compilation of odd proposals sent to Movement Research in 2013, an observation journal on how human beings grow, interview with a reclusive poet who makes his works by re-shelving books in libraries and is upset about conceptual poetry not being conceptual enough, and many more peculiarities.
December 2016 | 112 PP (Full Color)
ARE WE HERE YET?
Here are answers to everything you always wanted to know but never dreamed of asking (a four-and-a-half year old): What is the last number? Why do crayons have color? Who made God? Why do I like things? What happens when you die? These and many more age-old conundrums answered and illustrated for the very first time!
November 2015 | 262 PP
MUSEUM OF UNHEARD (OF) THINGS
Museum der unerhoerten Dinge is a world-famous "literary cabinet of curiosities" curated by Roland Albrecht which displays unique things and their unheard (of) stories, and holds the record of being the most visited museum in Berlin (if one offsets the number of visitors to the square meters of the exhibition space). This book is the first catalogue raisonné of the museum, assembling its entire current inventory, translated into English for the first time.
Reviewed in:
Compulsive Reader
Historical Novels Review
Midwest Book Review
May 2014 | 174 PP (Full Color)
ELLEN C. COVITO: WORKS AFTER WEATHER
The first and definitive overview on the output of maverick Argentinian composer/choreographer Ellen C. Covito, "a rising star in the radical musical traditions" (TDR, MIT Press), widely known for her "Composed Improvisation" and "Improvised Composition" series performed all over the world. This book brings together all of Covito's major works, along with three essays that analyze her idiosyncratic approach in depth, and an exclusive interview with the artist herself.
Reviewed in:
TDR (MIT Press)
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