{"title":"Sming Sming Books","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormed in 2017, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSming Sming Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a publishing studio that experiments with books as art, discourse, exhibition, and archive. Each project is created in close collaboration with artists and writers, whose works and ideas inform design, material, and printing choices.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sming-sming-books-perry-doane-carbonarc","title":"Sming sming books - Perry Doane: Carbonarc","description":"\u003cp\u003eJuly 2025, English, 9 x 13 in., 86 pages, risograph printing, silkscreened cover, screw post-bound\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 200\u003cbr\u003eDesign: Perry Doane \u0026amp; Sming Sming Books\u003cbr\u003ePrinting: National Monument Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCo-published with\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nationalmonumentpress.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNational Monument Press\u003c\/a\u003e!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerry Doane\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003elives and works in Santa Rosa, CA, at the edge of the city's designated Wildland Urban Interface and within a mile from the Tubbs (2017) and Glass (2020) Fire burn zones.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarbonarc\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ecollects images based on photographs taken near his home and former workplace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe images depict burnt trees and objects, as well as new growth appearing in the wake of the flames, manipulated through exposure, printing, and rephotographing. Interspersed are textural photos of wood panels, geometric interventions (bars, crosses, and junctions), and scans of linotype prints: abstract gestural interpretations of the scarred woodlands Doane is photographing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eTaken together, the images form a catalog and response to a life-altering first-hand experience of the effects of climate change, and the unprecedented mega-fires transforming California.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarbonarc\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis an individual reaction to and navigation through a community trauma, confronting our collective negligence while celebrating mutual resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Now place","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43616377045085,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/6481\/9037\/files\/Screenshot2025-08-27at9.42.13AM.png?v=1756312985"},{"product_id":"sming-sming-books-brian-bartz-kelley-oleary-to-hear-a-shadow","title":"Sming sming books - Brian Bartz \u0026 Kelley O'Leary: To Hear a Shadow","description":"\u003cp\u003eJuly 2025, English, 5 x 7.5 in., 204 pages, b\u0026amp;w, soft cover, spiral-bound\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 250\u003cbr\u003eDesign: Brian Bartz \u0026amp; Kelley O'Leary\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo Hear a Shadow\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis the culmination of a research project into weather satellites. Over the course of two years, artists \u003cstrong\u003eBrian Bartz \u003c\/strong\u003eand \u003cstrong\u003eKelley O’Leary\u003c\/strong\u003e used open-source radio technology and a hand-built antenna to intercept transmissions from aging NOAA satellites (officially decommissioned in June 2025). The images they found traveling invisibly through the air became the scaffolding for this book. Meanwhile, they fell down a rabbit hole, sifting through declassified Cold War era documents surrounding earth-imaging and the utility of vertical perspectives to the state. This ultimately led the artists to speculative questions surrounding the relationship between network infrastructure, militarization, and cosmic forces beyond human agency.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e________\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKelley O’Leary\u003c\/strong\u003e is an interdisciplinary artist based in Richmond, CA. Working across imagemaking, sculpture, video, and installation, she explores the relationships between media infrastructure, images and cosmic material bodies. Interested in speculative methods, she engages with both made and found artifacts that reflect how networked technologies mediate perception and restructure temporalities. She received her MFA from University of California, Davis in 2022 where she was the recipient of the Mary Lou Osborn award and the LeShelle and Gary May Purchase Prize. Her work has been shown nationally, including at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Timeshare, Pallas Gallery, Well Well Projects and Das Schaufenster.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrian Bartz\u003c\/strong\u003e is an interdisciplinary sculptor and educator living and working in Berkeley, CA. Through his work, he seeks to defamiliarize our relationship with technology, often by making electronic objects with functions that are speculative, useless, poetic, or simply for their own sake. More recently, he has been particularly captivated by the aesthetics of communication technologies such as radio and satellites, and the ways they interact across landscape and place. Some of the research interests which animate his work include depictions of terraforming in science fiction, the present day effects of cold war militarization, and, more recently, the relationship between technology, mysticism, and the cosmos. He completed an MFA in art practice at UC Berkeley in 2020, and received a BA in fine art from Reed College in 2017. His work has been shown across the United States, including at the Berkeley Art Museum, Well Well Projects, Pallas Gallery, Soldes Gallery, and more. He is currently an adjunct professor in art and design at the University of San Francisco.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Now place","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43616377503837,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/6481\/9037\/files\/Screenshot2025-08-27at9.45.44AM.png?v=1756313236"},{"product_id":"sming-sming-books-deborah-lefalle-diamonds-among-us","title":"Sming sming books - Deborah LeFalle: Diamonds Among Us","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarch 2025, English, 3.25 x 5 in., 32 pages, two-color riso, softcover, staple-bound\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 300\u003cbr\u003eDesign: Sming Sming Books\u003cbr\u003ePrinting: Irrelevant Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith illustrations by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLizzetta LeFalle-Collins\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDiamonds Among Us\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ewas inspired by writer\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeborah LeFalle\u003c\/strong\u003e's hiking adventures over the past several years with older adult groups, mostly in California’s Santa Clara Valley. In the collection, LeFalle reflects on what she has seen, heard, smelled, felt, vocalized, learned, experienced, and imagined on trails in open spaces that we human beings share with other forms of life. Patterned after the \u003ci\u003eeintou\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eseptet, 32-syllable structure,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLeFalle's words offer a reminder of the gems we can find in nature, if only we will look for them. Enjoy the trek!\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeborah LeFalle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehas walked the earth for more than seven decades and writing is one of her favorite things to do. Her work has appeared in various journals, magazines and anthologies; and she has authored one full-length book of poetry (\u003ci\u003eHomage\u003c\/i\u003e), two chapbooks (\u003ci\u003eWorthy\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLittle Suites\u003c\/i\u003e), and one children’s book (\u003ci\u003eBitty Brown Babe\u003c\/i\u003e). Beyond writing, LeFalle enjoys engaging in the arts, digging into her family’s past, and spending time outdoors communing with nature. 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The\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eOttodokki\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ecan be used to guide reflection, get to know a stranger, help structure a dream sequence in a tabletop role-playing game, or for telling collective stories with a twist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eReveal in whatever way you choose. Ponder the cards one at a time, or line them up in sequence to form a calendar. What do you see? Might be a reflection of you. Might be a reflection of me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eOttodokki\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein full, with all its doors and many decks, can only be found at the heart of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAzguyaenquainan!\u003c\/i\u003e—a living wunderkammer for psychomagical parlor games created and run by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatrick Michael Ballard\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatrick Michael Ballard \u003c\/strong\u003eis a food closet filled to the brim with perforated, mummified, and erewhile anti-treats. He beguiles his own navel between Santa Cruz and Los Angeles with ample mirrorgazing and lint sifting, populating the scar of his own origin with the embers of artist conch. He primarily focuses on developing techniques for revealing endangered processes of nuance in gradients of nonsense: forging speculative dowsing rods, symbolic resonators, and atmospheres for the orchestration of psychomagical parlor games and performances.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Now place","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43616383664221,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/6481\/9037\/files\/Screenshot2025-08-27at9.59.02AM.png?v=1756313956"},{"product_id":"sming-sming-books-rebecca-devika-dharmapalan-my-pen-is-sharp-like-the-gun-in-my-hand","title":"Sming sming books - Rebecca Devika Dharmapalan: My Pen Is Sharp like the Gun in My Hand","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN 978-1-953189-19-6\u003cbr\u003eApril 2025, English, 5 x 7 inches, 126 pages, softcover, spiral-bound\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 300\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMy Pen Is Sharp like the Gun in My Hand: On the Revolutionary Feminism of the Tamil Tigers\u003c\/strong\u003e,\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eRebecca Devika Dharmapalan challenges the legal frameworks that form an otherwise narrow understanding of the women who participated in the armed resistance movement Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE or Tamil Tigers) during the armed conflict in Sri Lanka from 1983–2009. As an archival project,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMy Pen Is Sharp like the Gun in My Hand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ecenters the voices and lives of women of the LTTE as they respond to genocide, and considers their creative output in relationship to their armed resistance. In addition to Dharmapalan's feminist analysis of the movement, the book includes historic photographs by Roger Parton, poetry by LTTE women originally compiled and translated by Dr. N. Malathy, as well as a recent interview between the author and K., a member of LTTE. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/rebeccadharmapalan.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRebecca Devika Dharmapalan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an interdisciplinary artist, archivist, and social theorist. Dharmapalan’s practice engages in conversation on memory, resistance, ontological genocide, and trauma. Her interest in revolutionary movements was sparked when she first learned about the Black Panther Party’s foundational work in the city she was born and raised in: Oakland, California. Seeing overlaps with the armed revolutionary movement of her own people, her work observes the patterns and overlap of oppressed communities globally. From the Black Panthers to the Tamil Tigers, Dharmapalan strongly believes that women who participate in revolutionary struggles are fighting for the future of feminism, and their participation in these movements should be carefully and meticulously archived. Dharmapalan has her bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of California Berkeley and her master’s from SOAS University of London where she studied Human Rights Law. Dharmapalan was\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e’s College Woman of the Year 2017, awarded\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTeen Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e’s 21 Under 21, and an OZY Genius Award winner 2018. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Now place","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43616395067485,"sku":null,"price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/6481\/9037\/files\/Screenshot2025-08-27at10.12.22AM.png?v=1756314806"},{"product_id":"sming-sming-books-indira-allegra-dispersal-of-a-feeling-bloodnotes-on-choreography-and-illness","title":"Sming sming books - Indira Allegra: Dispersal of a Feeling: Bloodnotes on Choreography and Illness","description":"\u003cp\u003eOctober 2024, English, 4 x 8.5 in, 28 pages, b\u0026amp;w, softcover, spiral-bound\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 200\u003cbr\u003eDesign: Sming Sming Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat can an intergenerational conversation between three sick and disabled femmes reveal about the nature of choreography? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eDispersal of a Feeling: Bloodnotes on Choreography and Illness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a poetic treatise on choreography, moving the reader between spaces haunted with loneliness and the overwhelm of communion. The rhythmic phrases here discover how dance can be found in everyday survival.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommissioned by The Lab, San Francisco, with funding from the Gerbode Foundation and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation with additional support by DisArt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eDispersal of a Feeling\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“a rich poetic weaving…merges the logics and feelings of dance and writing, blending them beautifully into one humming rhythm…Indira Allegra’s poetic prose sucks you in and spits you out.” —Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, author of\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eknot body\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Good Arabs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIndira Allegra\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eis a conceptual artist and founder of Cazimi Studio. Cazimi Studio uses weaving as a framework to creatively transform tension within different sites. The studio is unique in its emphasis on performance, publication and the integration of spiritual care as preferred design solutions. Allegra’s work has been featured in \u003cem\u003eThe Art Newspaper, Artnet, Art Journal, BOMB Magazine, SF Chronicle, All Arts,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eARTFORUM\u003c\/em\u003e and in exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design (New York, NY); Center for Craft Creativity and Design (Asheville, NC); John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI); Gray Area (San Francisco, CA); the Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco, CA) and San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles (San Jose, CA) among others. Allegra’s writing has been featured in \u003cem\u003eTheater, TEXTILE: Cloth and Culture, American Craft Magazine, Panorama Journal, Leonardo, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eMaterial Intelligence,\u003c\/em\u003e among others. They have been the recipient of numerous awards including the Burke Prize, Creative Capital, United States Artists Fellowship, Gerbode Choreographer Award, Art Matters Fellowship and CripTech Metaverse Fellowship. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/indiraallegra.com\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1719362007472000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw2BIYrii3tLnzjnyZjrXfAI\" href=\"http:\/\/indiraallegra.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eindiraallegra.com\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/cazimistudio.space\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1719362007472000\u0026amp;usg=AOvVaw1SQC0RrXzGW5-hEA7QhSNZ\" href=\"http:\/\/cazimistudio.space\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ecazimistudio.space\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e@indiraallegrastudio\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Now place","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43616397230173,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/6481\/9037\/files\/Screenshot2025-08-27at10.14.47AM.png?v=1756314902"},{"product_id":"sming-sming-books-indira-allegra-dispersal-of-a-feeling-bloodnotes-on-choreography-and-illness-copy","title":"Sming sming books - Sholeh Asgary: آبـان (Aban) - Tape","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eCMS-DI-08 \u0026amp; SSB003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOctober 2024, cassette (transparent red), digital\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 150\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCo-released with\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/crystallinemorphologies.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ecrystalline morphologies\u003c\/a\u003e! \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCassette orders include digital album. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach composition in \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSholeh Asgary\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e’s electro-acoustic album\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eآبـان\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAban\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e moves the listener through a series of unpredictable atmospheres, where tonal and sonic events erupt from sustained and reverberating textures. The album’s pulsating colors are punctuated by shifting timbres, moments of silence, and Asgary’s voice, which appears both human and ghostly—fragments of wailing and singing emerge from an adjacent world. Informed by Iranian cosmologies, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eآبـان Aban\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is engrossing and gratifying with its myth-making and spatial invention, created as a regenerative form of resistance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003eTrack Listing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eAban (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e8:39)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNectarine (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e7:07)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5 (9:04)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eAnahita (6:40)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-96df7f7d-7fff-99d7-eb7c-277053919edd\"\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sholehasgary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSholeh Asgary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(b. Iran) is an artist engaging in performance, interdisciplinary forms, and collective processes. Situating the body as a site of knowledge, her practice concerns how we understand our sonic relationships and the translocal and transtemporal conditions that shape them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Now place","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43616398901341,"sku":null,"price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/6481\/9037\/files\/Screenshot2025-08-27at10.15.48AM.png?v=1756315040"},{"product_id":"sming-sming-books-johanna-hedva-minerva-the-miscarriage-of-the-brain","title":"Sming sming books - Johanna Hedva: Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"shopify-section-template--23191379443905__main\" class=\"shopify-section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-content-container bg-scheme-background px-section-horizontal-spacing text-scheme-text lg:col-span-6\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-block-area py-section-vertical-spacing lg:sticky lg:top-sticky-header w-full\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecond Edition:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 978-1-953189-05-9\u003cbr\u003eOctober 2022, English, 5 x 8 in, 196 pages, b\u0026amp;w, softcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst Edition:\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-953189-00-4\u003cbr\u003eE-ISBN: 978-1-953189-01-1\u003cbr\u003eSeptember 2020, English, 5 x 8 in, 194 pages, b\u0026amp;w, softcover\u003cbr\u003eAudiobook: 47 tracks, 4 hrs 46 min\u003cbr\u003eDesign: Sming Sming Books\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations: Isabelle Albuquerque\u003cbr\u003eCo-published with\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/em-wolfman-books.square.site\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWolfman Books\u003c\/a\u003e!\u003cbr\u003eDistributed in the UK and Europe by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/parrhesiades.com\/editions\/johanna-hedva\/MINERVAthemiscarriageofthebrain.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eParrhesiades\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMinerva the Miscarriage of the Brain\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ecollects a decade of work from artist, musician, and author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Hell\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohanna Hedva\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e. In plays, performances, an encyclopedia, essays, autohagiography, hypnagogic, and hypnapompic poems—texts whose bodies drift and delight in form—\u003cem\u003eMinerva\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etunnels into mysticism, madness, motherhood, and magic.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMinerva\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003egets dirty with the mess of gender and genius. She does the labor of sleep and dreams. She odysseys through Los Angeles, shapeshifting in stygian night and waking up to wail in the light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe audiobook is narrated by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohanna Hedva \u003c\/strong\u003eand features tracks from\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnja Kanngieser\u003c\/strong\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeneva Skeen\u003c\/strong\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePauline Lay\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGabie Strong\u003c\/strong\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Fowler Collins\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“Purchase or thrash: ‘genius.’ Relocate an ‘Ancient Greek text’ to ‘contemporary Los Angeles.’ Does a geographical cure excrete ghosts, ‘visions of strange bodies poised and moving,’ or does it produce a ‘deep, reverberating sound?’  Johanna Hedva’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMinerva\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebegins in this place and we go there, which is to say a reader does. Or might: float\/trust this process of alchemical, pelvic, infinite, sub-maternal, and ceramic change.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eBhanu Kapil \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“Reverberations of this book outlast everything else in our ears, ‘what felt like a skinned, feral cat breaching from my chest.’ Definitely Minerva, goddess of genius and poems! Celestial messenger Johanna Hedva gives up gold after the cult following of their book\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Hell\u003c\/em\u003e. A (god)dess-sized reconstruction of the world we only thought we knew! Welcome home, poets!”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eCAConrad\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhile Standing in Line for Death\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“Blood is spilled: the writer, the reader, the family, and the lovers are all brutally disemboweled. Abandonment, undeath, catharsis, and genius are all held to trial. Theatre, ritual, and memoir are cleaved open by sex, race, and the (mortal) body. \u003cem\u003eMinerva\u003c\/em\u003e, as in all their writing, sets Hedva’s astounding, somatic wisdom against an urgent, anarchistic wound. Let yourself belong to it.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003ePatrick Staff \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“Can an artist’s personal history of their performances be a history of performance art?\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMinerva the Miscarriage of the Brain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etraces both a decade of Johanna Hedva’s performed works and the edges of that genre’s history: bringing the intimate, fearful, feminine, traumatized, queer, and real-life-lived to look and admire and poke at the assumptions about what performance art has been: genius, unreachable, masculine, and hermetic. Hedva is both a wonderful writer in the school of Helene Cixous, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Clarice Lispector: and like them, a creator of spaces we didn’t know that we’re allowed.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eAlexandra Grant\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“This text is a trouble-maker. Well, that’s not quite right. The trouble was already there, we were just trying to hang a tapestry over it, maybe shove it into the dirt of our potted plant. Hedva has that knack, though, for revealing, for turning something we'd rather keep silent into a beautiful wail.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eJessa Crispin\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Dead Ladies Project\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eA book about viscera and black ash; ‘Blood and guts… soul and tears.’ Dark matter and sea foam blessed by ‘the tentacles of sea plants when they move…’ This is the literature of THE VOID. I will treasure\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMinerva\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eas I do the most revelatory writings of Artaud.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eLara Mimosa Montes\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThresholes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“I have this fantasy that upon our deaths, we each are replaced with a museum. And that in the museum, is a record, in relics, of what we made, tried to make, failed to make, and what made us. Johanna Hedva’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMinerva\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eaffirms and animates this fantasy, overlapping rapturous corporeality with the posthumous archive. It is the nomination of a life’s work of laying bare negative space by way of the nebulization of the body into a museum. (Minerva, by the way, is the goddess of everything.)”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eBrandon Shimoda\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of The Grave on the Wall\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ca title=\"Johanna Hedva\" href=\"https:\/\/johannahedva.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eJohanna Hedva\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a Korean-American writer, artist, musician, and astrologer, who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches, and now lives in LA and Berlin. They are the author of the novel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Hell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2018). Their work has been shown at The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Performance Space New York, the LA Architecture and Design Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon. Hedva’s writing has appeared in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTriple Canopy\u003c\/i\u003e, frieze, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and is anthologized in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDocuments of Contemporary Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eseries by Whitechapel. Their essay “Sick Woman Theory,” published in 2016 in Mask, has been translated into six languages. Their albums are\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sun and the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2019) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2020).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"shopify-section-template--23191379443905__related-products\" class=\"shopify-section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"related-products-container border-b-gridline border-gridline-color\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"border-b-gridline border-gridline-color bg-scheme-background px-section-horizontal-spacing pb-theme pt-theme-double text-scheme-text lg:flex items-end justify-between\" data-color-scheme=\"scheme1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Now place","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43616399392861,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/6481\/9037\/files\/Screenshot2025-08-27at10.18.59AM.png?v=1756315159"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/6481\/9037\/collections\/Screenshot_2025-08-27_at_9.41.19_AM.png?v=1756312898","url":"https:\/\/01rm4m-iu.myshopify.com\/collections\/sming-sming-books.oembed","provider":"Now place","version":"1.0","type":"link"}