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Silent Whale Letters - A long-distance correspondence, on all frequencies

Sternberg Press 2023 ISBN 9781915609021 Acqn 33502
Pb 13x19cm 128pp ills £14.50

An experiment in listening to frequencies beyond human sensorial range, Silent Whale Letters is
a long-distance correspondence intimately attuned to the infravoice of a blue whale, a document
held silent in the sound archive, and other so-called 'silent' subjects.

As part of an ongoing collaboration between Ella Finer and Vibeke Mascini the letters consider
how the silent document shifts the logic of the archive, figuring listening as a practice of
preservation.

As the letters attune to the ocean loud with communications across time and space, the authors
write about the movement of matter, of energies, wavelengths, currents and how the ocean
preserves as it disperses what it carries. How does working with what we cannot see, or even
hear within range, shift the parameters of attention? How does the energetic archival space of the
ocean agitate and disrupt claims to knowledge, history, and power?

Moving through three years of call and response the book unfolds through "a joint meditation on
the transformative potential of a note, a voice, carried from saltwater into the archive" (Rebecca
Giggs).

They chart a process that is equally conceptual and intimate, theoretical and deeply personal,
moving through discussions of (amniotic) undercurrents, call-and-response mechanisms,
energetic wavelengths, oceanic and archival memory, mysterious scales, and the watery acoustic
commons.

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Pedro Neves Marques - Vampires in Space

Sternberg Press Ltd 2023 ISBN 9783956796562 Acqn 33610
Hb 19x31cm 216pp col ills £23.50

Exhibition catalogue of Pedro Neves Marques's solo project 'Vampires in Space' at the
Portuguese Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2022.

"In space it's always night." A family of vampires travels through space, carrying life to a faraway
planet. Alone, they recall their past, offering an open-ended narrative about the role of fiction in
our lives, with a special care for transgender experiences.

This book includes an interview, film scripts and poetry by Neves Marques, curatorial texts by
Joao Mourao, Luis Silva, alongside visual documentation and other contributions by Manuela
Moscoso and Filipa Ramos.

Contributions by Manuela Moscoso, Joao Mourao, Filipa Ramos, Luis Silva.

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Sahara - A Thousand Paths Into the Future

Sternberg Press 2023 ISBN 9781915609205 Acqn 33628
Pb 21x26cm 288pp col ills £22.50

Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the Future is devoted to the ideas, images, poetics, politics,
fictions, and movements of this vast desert and its myriad voices. Focused on the cultural
productions, lines of political and aesthetic thought, and multiple epistemologies and cosmologies
of the Sahara, and the accompanying Sahel, this book understands the region as both an ancient
space of connection and circulation-from its northern to southern shores, its dunes and volcanic
mountains, to its lusher savannahs-and as a contemporary site of exchange between strikingly
singular societies and communities on all sides of the desert, that aspect of the Sahara most
often imaged and imagined. If the Sahara is habitually narrated as a space of radical heat and
intense light, and of barren-like emptiness, this anthology approaches the region with a decolonial
lens that privileges the Saharan communities and nonhuman entities who live within all aspects of
its circadian rhythms, including the constructive opacity of the desert night. The violence of
enlightenment and its imperialisms have often been practiced under the glare of some narcotic
sun-the imaginaries of coloniality still do-yet in the desert, it was the elaborating darkness of its
night skies, with their spectral constellations, that often directed caravans on their historical
routes. They still do. Thus the thinkers, artists, poets, choreographers, composers, activists,
elders, novelists, historians, and translators whose voices and sensibilities score and structure
this anthology create a more full-spectrum and polyphonic sense of what the Sahara means, in all
its waves and forms. Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the Future indicates a prismatic space of
cultures, ecologies, knowledges, conflicts, languages, lights, and relations. That is, of numerous
pasts and possible futures.

Contributions by Moussa Ag Assarid, Badi, Tewa Barnosa, Sam Berkson, Serge Aime Coulibaly,
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Binta Diaw, Mustafa El-Kattab, Rahima Gambo, Hindou Oumarou
Ibrahim, Monique Ilboudo, Asmaa Jama, Maryam Kazeem, Benaouda Lebdai, Nisrine Mbarki,
Achille Mbembe, Yara Mekawei, Radouan Mriziga, Dorothee Munyaneza, Amy Niang, Temitayo
Ogunbiyi, Ben Okri, Beya Othmani, Felwine Sarr, Esther Severi, Jonas Staal, Mohamed
Sulaiman, Wole Talabi.

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Joar Nango
Sternberg Press 2023 ISBN 9783956796173 Acqn 33666
Pb 17x24cm 480pp col ills £27

Centering on a notion of nomadic space, this publication offers the first in-depth overview of the
projects, photo archives, and architectural investigations of Sami architect and artist Joar Nango,
and includes a series of essays and conversations with long-time collaborators and discussion
partners.

Conceived as platforms that consciously create autonomous spaces in which Sami and
indigenous cultures can grow, Nango's projects seek encounters and open processes,
developing new forms of expression and alliance with non-Sami contexts. Often developed in
collaboration with practitioners from a range of fields including architecture, art, theory, and crafts,
Nango's practice operates between institutional and public spaces.

Featured projects include ongoing discursive social platforms such as the mobile Sami
architecture library Girjegumpi, a series of films and conversations titled Post-Capitalist
Architecture TV, image archives documenting contemporary expressions of Sami architectural
principles in Northern Scandinavia and beyond, and European Everything, first presented at
documenta 14, for which Nango traveled by van along the borders of Europe from his home in
Tromso, Northern Norway to Athens in Greece, mapping the fringe and the excluded of this
political and cultural terrain.

Joar Nango is an artist and architect. His projects explore the boundaries between architecture,
design, and visual art as an investigation of Indigenous space. He was trained at the Norwegian
University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, the Bergen School of Architecture and
Weissensee Kunsthochschule in Berlin. He is a founding member of the architecture collective
FFB and is currently setting up a nordic network of Sami architects. Nango has exhibited
extensively internationally, including at documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, Nasjonalmuseet
Oslo, Kiasma-Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, the Toronto Biennial of Art and Bergen
Kunsthall. In 2023, he will present a solo exhibition in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennial of
Architecture.

Contributions by Mathias Danbolt, Candice Hopkins, Tone Huse, Joar Nango, Vivi Noahsen,
Taqralik Partridge, Sofia Singler, Sigbjorn Skaden, Axel Wieder.

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