Quiet Village is a very personal journal that may also be the foundation work on a new genre: Polynesian Monster Horror. It is filled with collages, mixtape playlists, notes, palm trees, alligator-monsters and other hybrid creatures, tribal warriors, ruminating rock stars, and beach-bound misfortunes. It's accompanied by a 30-minute soundtrack CD that Monteavaro produced with her old band Beings. Audio and visuals work in symbiosis to fill in not just the spooky atmosphere of Polynesian nightmares but to charge the air with the subtle melancholy that wafts through them.

Quiet Village

Beatriz Monteavaro

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Source collects a growing archive of images that Christy Gast has been gathering over the past decade in her travels. The book is a bank of photographs of objects and assemblages that, as Gast says, are like sculptures but aren't sculptures: the rusted hulk of a shipwreck, a sheepskin left to cure on a pole, an array of beaver tails nailed to a timber, a loose arrangement of objects at a flea market. In some way, they are the counterparts to the objects that she produces in the studio; they are found raw source material that Gast tweaks and tinkers with--physically and conceptually. 

Source

Christy Gast

Preface to the Four Nights. Last Spring, members of the Cascadian School gathered for a discussion on abattoirs, illumination, and misanthropy. Our findings tended not to reveal anything we didn't already suspect, which is as good an excuse as any for reconvening, one year later. And so Daniel, Nicola, Alex, and myself have gathered here for four nights, to talk about mysticism. Our take-off point is a short text by François Laruelle entitled Du Noir univers, published in 1988 in the journal La Décision philosophique. The text has four parts, and each of us have decided to speak alongside each of those four parts, on four consecutive nights.--Eugene Thacker

Dark Nights of the Universe (Novo Pan Klub)

Eugene Thacker

Daniel Colucciello Barber

Nicola Masciandaro

François Laruelle

Aaron Metté

Alexander R. Galloway

The book collects a series of efforts to bring together personal snapshots of tropical backyards and other greens spaces with recovered--through digital reproduction-- geometric exercises of the sort that once indexed modernism's progressive impulses. The strange combination of these two distant worlds--the photographs suggesting not a only an autobiographical register but a link to the Caribbean and its complex history and the hard-edged overlays--generates the tension that holds the book together and begins to probe the strange hybridizations that happen at geographic and discursive edges, the jerry-rigged conceptual assemblages that often tease potentials from the seemingly-spent forms that have been left behind. Things supposedly expired, geometric abstraction, and things supposedly minor, personal photographs, are twined here into new compositions, which, in their quiet way, pipeline to the surface the increasingly-effaced histories of both the Black Atlantic and the modernist project. And more than this: they pipeline back into the picture the vital translations that major forms undergo in their passage from the Metropolis to the unruly territories of the margins.

Scenes From a Verdant Place

Adler Guerrier

The Appearance of Black Lives Matter

Carl Pope Nicholas Mirzoeff

An Impulse to Keep: Greenwood Art Project

Rick Lowe william cordova

Catalogue documenting cultural projects associated with the Greenwood Art Project in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in commemoration of the hundred years anniversary of the Black Wall Street massacre.

Rick Lowe Gean Moreno william cordova

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