Crisis Editions / Dane Press

Crisis Editions is the publishing program and main artistic output of artist Robin N., it focuses on reproducing and recirculating unprinted, out-of-print or otherwise hard to find materials. Robin's practice is rooted and printmaking and Crisis Editions is a continuation of printmaking's history as a tool of political art and a Robin's own interests in deep politics, obscure cultural artifacts and the semiotics of the real.

Dane Press is the printed aspect of interdisciplinary artist Kitt Peacock's practice. Their work focuses on reparative reading, re-circulating archival material to form new narratives of queerness.

Crisis Editions and Dane Press have appeared in every Vancouver Art Book Fair since 2018, the 2019 Printed Matter Los Angeles and New York Art Book Fairs, the 2022 San Francisco, Tokyo and New York Art Book Fairs. Crisis Editions was also featured in the 2022 Out of Bounds - Summer School for Artist Publishing at the Libby Leshghold Gallery.

Other Forms is a mobile collective working in multiple intersections of architecture, graphic design, and publishing. Other Forms is committed to an understanding of research and design as practices both shaped by, and capable of critiquing the material conditions, and social relations of production within which it is situated. Other Forms approaches discourse and knowledge production as material practices and, reciprocally, media production and circulation as being fundamentally and necessarily critical, discursive, and therefore ‘political.’

Along with an array of booklets and pamphlets by individual authors, Other Forms publishes the journal Counter-Signals which brings together critical writing on art, design, theory and the political economy of media, especially print media. We have also produced, Making Room: Culturial Production in Occupied Space, an anthology of activist research on art and culture in squatting and radical urban space movements from the Squatting in Europe Research Kollective, and continue to be involved with engaged scholarship and collaborations with social movement organizations. We organize collective reading events

We are there for interested in the political economy of the media forms that we work with and

Other Forms operates from a position of precarecarity and acutely incomplete autonomy, subject to multiple regimes of value, structures of knowledge, and most hopefully, political projects.