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Amant’s Bookstore is a social space where visitors are invited to browse, relax, read, and converse. Our selection changes seasonally, with a focus on books from independent presses that reflect the themes explored in our exhibitions and public programs. We stock a variety of subjects, connecting contemporary art with poetry, literature, design, music, and theory.
Published by Amant
On Education
On Education brings together commissioned essays and artist projects by ten contributors, including a text by Che Gossett on past forms of university mobilizing in the 1960s, early childhood photographs by Marissa Delano exploring trauma, adolescence, and memory, and an in-depth essay on the exhibition by the curators. Echoing the design of educational manuals and yearbooks, the publication invites readers to explore the aesthetic and material traces of learning, and to reflect on how schools and universities remain contested spaces—sites of oppression, resistance, and, at times, liberation—set against the current landscape of education in the US and other geographical contexts.
Published by Amant on the occasion of On Education.
SIREN (some poetics)
Edited by Quinn Latimer
SIREN (some poetics) examines what lies beyond borders and binaries—ancestral, technological, epistemological, literary, patriarchal, corporeal, emotional, or otherwise. Devoted to the voice—as aesthetic signature or the production of self and sound—and the avatar-like bodies we build and break around it, the exhibition considers technologies of myth and mouth, earth and alarm, gender and poetics. Through the work of approximately seventeen artists and poets of various generations and geographies, the show posits practices that employ a grammar of sign and sound systems, at once figuring, resisting, writing, and voicing the visual field.
Moving away from the cool, clinical, conceptual, and mostly two-dimensional exhibitions that have so often stood for language and poetry as a visual art practice, with the white cube standing in for the pale architectonic page, SIREN is situated in the dank earth and its kaleidoscopic ecosystems. Both human and nonhuman forms of language-making and poetics are put forth, from precolonial myth to ludic science fiction, the bootlegged oracular line to critical fabulation, fungal networks to gut bacteria, text to textile to poem to prism to algorithm. Indeed, the works on view in this book often emit and evidence a kind of parapoetics: poetry as opaque metabolic structuring, or as some wild surfacing.
Published by Amant and Dancing Foxes on the occasion of SIREN (some poetics).
Cuentos de Cuentas
Carla Zaccagnini
Cuentos de Cuentas brings together six recollections from Carla Zaccagnini’s childhood in Brazil and Argentina in the 1980s that are relayed by a narrator who questions her own ability to adequately remember what happened. Each episode is structured around a specific object—a tent, a jar, a vest, a dollar bill-that is pivotal in enabling secret economic transactions. Ultimately, they bring the reader to ask: How can we really determine value? How can we distinguish what is true from what is false? Zaccagnini’s texts are punctuated by childhood drawings, magazine and press clippings, and photographs from her family archive.
Published by Amant and K. Verlag, on the occasion of Cuentos de cuentas / Accounts of Accounting.