After 8 Books/Publication Studio Paris

Promoting, circulating and discussing contemporary book practices, After 8 Books deals with the pragmatics and poetics of publishing. We develop projects with artists, graphic designers, writers, editors, with intellectual as well as sentimental attention. With its branch Publication Studio Paris, After 8 Books is also part of a network of printing and publishing studios spanning 4 continents, sharing responsibility for the production and distribution of their catalogue.

Nick Mauss, DIspersed Event, After 8 Books, 2024 © Nick Mauss

Dispersed Events brings together for the first time Nick Mauss’ essays from the last fifteen years. Shimmering with the urgency of a new generation of queer thinkers, Mauss’ writing refracts contemporary art through histories of decorative art, film, theater, and dance.

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Can critical thinking spring from both a fortune cookie and Jacques Lacan’s most obscure seminar footnote? Estelle Hoy says yes. In saké blue, overpriced cheesecakes are the starting point for an essay on art writing; shoplifting in Berlin opens to a reflection on the economies of activist practices; fiction allows us to discuss the legacy of institutional critique, queer mélanges, or quiet melancholy. To her, the story of art becomes more nuanced in light of lyrics by Arthur Russell, the posthumous sorrow of Sylvia Plath, or a poem by Yvonne Rainer.

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