{"title":"All Products 🎩","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur online store features books, zines, editions, and printed ephemera from artists and artist-publishers that we have worked with or just simply admire.\u003c\/span\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sable-elyse-smith-landscapes-playgrounds","title":"Sable Elyse Smith: LANDSCAPES \u0026 PLAYGROUNDS","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN 978-0-9985006-4-5\u003cbr\u003eAugust 2017, English, 7 x 10 in, 62 pages, risograph, color, b\/w, softcover\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 115\u003cbr\u003eDesign:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSming Sming Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSable Elyse Smith's \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLANDSCAPES \u0026amp; PLAYGROUNDS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/i\u003etrains its attention on the significance on two sites of fantasy: the landscape and the playground. Smith considers these sites as they relate specifically to prison environments, where landscape murals typically adorn visiting room walls, vast swaths of land often serve as a background to the campuses, and the contentious interior spaces give rise to complex emotional landscapes for those imbricated in the system. Using both essayistic and diaristic lenses, the book turns an intimate eye on the interior, the body, and the layered relationship between a father and daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/sableelysesmith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSable Elyse Smith\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in New York. Her practice considers memory and trauma while enacting an undoing of language. She works from the archive of her own body creating new syntax for knowing and not knowing, thereby marking the difference between witnessing and watching. To see is unbearable. She has performed at the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, Eyebeam, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Her work has also been screened at Birkbeck Cinema in collaboration with the Serpentine Galleries, London, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, and MoMA Ps1, New York. Her writing has been published in Radical Teacher, Selfish, Studio Magazine and with Recess Art’s Critical Writing Fellowship. She is currently working on her first book. Smith has received grants \u0026amp; fellowships from Creative Capital, the Queens Museum, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Franklin Furnace Fund, and Art Matters. She is currently part-time faculty at Parsons The New School for Design and will be a visiting Faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University this Fall in the Sculpture and Extended Media department.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSuggested Reading\/Listening:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.artinamericamagazine.com\/news-features\/magazines\/firsthand-arms-length\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\"Firsthand at Arm’s Length\" by Diana Hamilton\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJune 2018 in \u003cem\u003eArt in America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/265051951\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eArtist Talk: Sable Elyse Smith\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarch 2018 at Aperture Gallery, New York\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/aperture.org\/aperture-magazine-230\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\"Prison Nation,\" with essay by Jessica Lynne\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpring 2018 in \u003cem\u003eAperture\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sming Sming Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1605431754801,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2789\/2198\/products\/sable_elyse_smith_landscapes_and_playgrounds-1.jpg?v=1516579973"},{"product_id":"anuradha-vikram-decolonizing-culture","title":"Anuradha Vikram: Decolonizing Culture","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN 978-0-9985006-5-2\u003cbr\u003ee-ISBN 978-0-9985006-7-6\u003cbr\u003eOctober 2017, English, 5 x 8 in, 154 pages, b\/w, softcover\u003cbr\u003eDesign: Sming Sming Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003eAnuradha Vikram’s \u003ci\u003eDecolonizing Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a collection of seventeen essays that address questions of race and gender parity in contemporary art spaces. Originally published between 2013 and 2017 through\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Serving\u003c\/i\u003e’s #Hashtags column, Vikram's text considers the specifics of equality and representation in the context of current events in the field of arts and culture in the United States and internationally. The columns cover a number of racially charged incidents in arts institutions during this period that received significant press attention, but little meaningful analysis. Vikram examines how arts institutions construct space and select programming in accordance with their expectations of their audience, and how a disconnect between the realities of contemporary urban demographics and the leadership at many arts institutions has led to controversy and embarrassment on numerous occasions. Contrasting with these case studies in institutional exclusion are a number of profiles of artists and artworks that bring art’s potential for inclusivity to fruition, working within institutions as well as outside of them to bring change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.curativeprojects.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eAnuradha Vikram\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a Los Angeles-based writer, curator, and educator who has guest-curated exhibitions for the Craft Contemporary (formerly CAFAM), Shulamit Nazarian, Mills College Art Museum, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, ProArts, and the DeYoung Museum Artist Studio, and held curatorial positions at 18th Street Arts Center, UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice, Headlands Center for the Arts, Aicon Gallery, Richmond Art Center, and in the studio of artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Vikram is the author of \u003cem\u003eDecolonizing Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of seventeen essays that address questions of race and gender parity in contemporary art spaces (Art Practical\/Sming Sming Books, 2017). As a writer, she has contributed to \u003cem\u003eARTnews, Leonardo, KCET Artbound, Artillery, Hyperallergic, Daily Serving, Art Practical, The Brooklyn Rail,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOPEN SPACE\u003c\/em\u003e, the blog of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; to catalogues on the work of Young Joon Kwak, Kal Spelletich, Sonya Rapoport, Chitra Ganesh, Ana Mendieta, and Om Prakash; and to the Paper Monument collection As radical, as mother, as salad, as shelter: what should art institutions do now? Vikram holds an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts and a BS in Studio Art from New York University. She is faculty in the UCLA Department of Art, USC Roski School of Art and Design, and Otis College of Art and Design, a member of the Editorial Board of\u003cem\u003e X-TRA\u003c\/em\u003e, and a member of the Board of Directors of the College Art Association.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSuggested Reading\/Listening:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.smingsming.com\/blogs\/news\/press-%E2%9C%A8-decolonial-strategies-anuradha-vikram-michelle-dizon-and-vi%E1%BB%87t-le-on-art-practical-audio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDecolonial Strategies: Anuradha Vikram, Michelle Dizon, and Việt Lê\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eFebruary 2018 at Other Books, Los Angeles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.smingsming.com\/blogs\/news\/press-%E2%9C%A8-anuradha-vikram-and-vivian-sming-on-art-practical-audio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eAnuradha Vikram and Vivian Sming\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eOctober 2018 at CCA, San Francisco\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Art Practical + Sming Sming Books","offers":[{"title":"PAPERBACK","offer_id":31596173197361,"sku":"","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"E-BOOK","offer_id":31596172378161,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2789\/2198\/files\/anuradha-vikram_decolonizing-culture_1.jpg?v=1683562190"},{"product_id":"kang-seung-lee-absence-without-leave","title":"Kang Seung Lee: Absence without leave","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN 978-0-9985006-1-4\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eMarch 2017, English, 8.5 x 11 in, 28 pages, b\u0026amp;w, softcover\u003cbr\u003eDesign: Sming Sming Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKang Seung Lee\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e's exhibition\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbsence without leave \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e(2017) at Commonwealth \u0026amp; Council (Los Angeles) employs various display methods: scanned and enlarged photographs of drawings, printed fabric draped in the form of a chair, a framed drawing hung on a mural. Each image conjures the departed through absence. Lee has altered and redrawn iconic representations of male bodies in public and domestic spaces documented by photographers. In some photographs, the bodies remain anonymous (work by Alvin Baltrop, Leonard Fink, and William Yang); others profess an intimacy with their subject (portrait of David Wojnarowicz by Peter Hujar and Martin Wong by Peter Bellamy) or are examples of the artist’s oeuvre (Isaac Julien’s film noir staircase and Robert Mapplethorpe’s self-portrait).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/kanglee.net\/\" target=\"_new\"\u003eKang Seung Lee\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e(b. South Korea) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Kang has had solo exhibitions at Pitzer College Art Galleries, Pitzer College (Claremont, CA), ArtPACE (San Antonio, TX), Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles, CA), Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (Los Angeles, CA), Centro Cultural Border (Mexico City), and group exhibitions at Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNCG (NC), SOMArts (San Francisco, CA), LAXART(Los Angeles, CA), Raymond Gallery at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA), among many others. His work has been reviewed and featured in Artforum, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Artnet Magazine, LA Weekly, Hyperallergic, Artillery Magazine, KCET Artbound and Glasstire. He received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sming Sming Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1633583857713,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2789\/2198\/products\/kangseunglee_absencewithoutleave-1.jpg?v=1516768681"},{"product_id":"night-moves","title":"NIGHT MOVES","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJune 2017, English, 5 x 7.75 in, 32 pages, b\u0026amp;w, softcover\u003cbr\u003eDesign: Sming Sming Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNIGHT MOVES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, outdoorswoman \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bergundwald\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003eKatharina Pierini\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e uses motion-activated infrared trail cameras to create intimate portraits of the bobcats and mountain lions living in the mountains of Central Coast California. Taken between 2014-2017, Pierini's photographs offer a rare glimpse into the lives of these incredible cats and their late-night\/early-morning activities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNIGHT MOVES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis part of a series of zines by Sming Sming Books created in collaboration with professionals, hobbyists, and enthusiasts working in fields outside of art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sming Sming Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1633755693105,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2789\/2198\/products\/nightmoves_1.jpg?v=1664773376"},{"product_id":"three-cirrus","title":"Three: Cirrus","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN 978-0-9985006-0-7\u003cbr\u003eJanuary 2017, English, 4.25 x 5.5 in, 194 pages, b\u0026amp;w, softcover. Edition of 100.\u003cbr\u003eDesign:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSming Sming Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eCirrus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003efeatures 94 photographs shot over the course of 8 months by Bay Area artist \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThree\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e. The project is a part of the artist's ongoing photo diary that considers contrails as found objects. Using the vastness of the sky, Three highlights the crystalline trails left by a plane's exhaust as a form of abstract drawing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sming Sming Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1633766834225,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2789\/2198\/products\/three_cirrus-1.jpg?v=1516575709"},{"product_id":"alice-wang-untitled","title":"Alice Wang: Untitled","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eOctober 2017, English\/Chinese, 5.5 x 4.75 in, 60 pages, b\u0026amp;w on silver paper, softcover\u003cbr\u003eDesign: Sming Sming Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003eAlice Wang's \u003cem\u003eUntitled\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e exemplifies the artist's interests and explorations into the alchemical transformation of materials. The book, made entirely of silver paper, contains a collection of inverted stills from performances by Olympian synchronized swimmers. Together, the stills create a choreography of bobbing and rhythmic movement that perplexes one's bodily sense of gravity. Featuring text by btr in Chinese (translated into English by Mike Fu), the book is designed to open both left-to-right and right-to-left for readers of either language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/llllllllllllllllllllll.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eAlice Wang\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(b. 1983) was born in Xi’an, China. She makes sculptures, prints, videos, drawings, and experimental films. Wang received her BS in Computer Science and International Relations from the University of Toronto, BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, and MFA from New York University. She was a fellow of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2012, a Villa Aurora fellow in Berlin in 2013, and the recipient of the Project Grant to Visual Artists from the Canada Council for the Arts in 2016. Wang has presented work at ltd los angeles, Human Resources (Los Angeles), LACE (Los Angeles), Immanence (Paris), Chronus Art Center (Shanghai), the Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena), 80WSE (New York), the Art Gallery of Mississauga (Canada), and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, among others. 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Allegra studies the weave structure of police uniforms alongside statements made by families of those lost to police violence including: Aiyana Stanley-Jones (7), Tamir Rice (12), John Crawford III (22), Amadou Diallo (23), Tarika Wilson (26), Eric Garner (43), Yvette Smith (45), and Eleanor Bumpurs (66).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/indiraallegra.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eIndira Allegra\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e's work explores memorial as a genre and a vital part of the human experience. Allegra re-imagines what a memorial can feel like and how it can function through the practices of performance, sculpture, and installation. The three practices are intertwined - with sculptures at times initiating performances, performances creating sculptures and sculptures expanding into installation environments. Deeply informed by quiet, inner life and the ritual, relational and performative aspects of weaving, Allegra explores the repetitive crossing of forces held under tension be they material, social or emotional.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eTheir work has been featured in exhibitions at Museum of Arts and Design, The Arts Incubator in Chicago, John Michael Kholer Arts Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Center for Craft Creativity and Design, Weinberg\/Newton and the Museum of the African Diaspora among others. Their commissions include performances for SFMOMA, de Young Museum, The Wattis Institute, City of Oakland and SFJAZZ Poetry Festival. Allegra’s work has been featured in ARTFORUM, BBC Radio 4, Art Journal, San Francisco Chronicle and Surface Design Magazine. They have been the recipient of the Artadia Award, Mike Kelley Artist Project Grant, MAP Fund, Windgate Craft Fellowship and Jackson Literary Award among others. They are the 2019\/2020 Burke Prize winner, Fleishhacker Eureka Fellow and a triennial 2019-2022 Montalvo Art Center Sally and Don Lucas Artist Fellow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sming Sming Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1661967269937,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2789\/2198\/products\/indira_allegra_blackout_book-1.jpg?v=1516581785"},{"product_id":"lauren-steinberg-the-basement-archive","title":"Lauren Steinberg: The Basement Archive","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN 978-0-9985006-3-8\u003cbr\u003eJuly 2017, English, 4.25 x 10 in, 135 pages, color, softcover, glow-in-the-dark coil binding\u003cbr\u003eDesign: Sming Sming Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Basement Archive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a collection of film stills, exploring the archetypal space of the basement. 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Her images lay the white gaze bare, unearth a genealogy of a racist visuality, and work in the gap between image and text to write against the grain of imperialist narratives. Artist and writer \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003eViệt Lê\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e uses Dizon's images from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhite Gaze\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as a starting point for his poetic exploration of the legacies of war and imperialism. Lê's text performs a dual work, both contextualizing Dizon's images in the history of empire and unleashing a rhythmic play with language, both visually and aurally, to cut to the core of how meaning is produced. His text speaks to absence as much as presence with a story of war and empire told in fragments, phrases, words hanging on the page—an index of both the trauma and resistance experienced by those subjected to the violence of empire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.michelledizon.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichelle Dizon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e is an artist, filmmaker, writer, theorist, and educator based in Los Angeles, California. Born in the United States as part of the Philippine diaspora, Dizon’s life experience has been shaped by the politics of migration across the Pacific Rim. The violence of imperialism and the intimate spaces of resistance within globalization form central pivots in her work which take the form of multi-channel video installations, expanded cinema performances, essay films, photographs, discursive events, pedagogical platforms, and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDizon has exhibited and lectured internationally at venues such as the Center for Women’s Studies (Zagreb, Croatia), Caixaforum (Barcelona, Spain), Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Copenhagen, Denmark), Jeu de Paume (Paris, France), IASPIS (Stockholm, Sweden), Metropolitan Museum of Art (Manila, Philippines), Sumaryo Art Space (Jakarta, Indonesia), Vargas Museum (Manila, Philippines), Para\/site Art Space (Hong Kong, China), Queens Museum (Queens, United States), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, United States) and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, United States).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDizon is the founder of at land’s edge, an experimental platform for visual research and catalyst for decolonial thought and action.  She has taught courses on documentary, visuality, postcoloniality, globalization, war, feminism, and ecology at the California Institute of the Arts and served as co-chair and core faculty in the Visual Art program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.  She earned an MFA in Art with specialization in Interdisciplinary Studio at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric with designated emphases in Film and Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.vietle.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eViệt Lê\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e is an artist, writer, and curator. Lê is an Assistant Professor in Visual Studies at California College of the Arts. He has been published in positions: asia critique; Crab Orchard Review; American Quarterly; Amerasia Journal; Art Journal; and the anthologies Writing from the Perfume River; Strange Cargo; The Spaces Between Us; Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art; among others. Recent solo exhibitions include lovebang! 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He co-organized the 2015\u003cem\u003e Artistic Interventions\u003c\/em\u003e conference (Ph.D. workshops and symposium) in Hong Kong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eLê received his M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine, where he has also taught Studio Art and Visual Culture courses. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California (Department of American Studies \u0026amp; Ethnicity).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSuggested Reading\/Listening:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.1000wordsmag.com\/michelle-dizon-viet-le\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\"Michelle Dizon \u0026amp; Việt Lê: \u003cem\u003eWhite Gaze\u003c\/em\u003e\" essay by Daniel C. 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During this time, Khomeini forbade women from singing solo in public because of \"the seductive quality of the female voice\"—a law which is still in effect today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHelga Fassonaki\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e began the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKhal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eproject in 2014 while living in Tabriz, Iran. Because the use of her voice as a woman in public performance was restricted, Fassonaki sent compositions in the form of sculptural scores to sixteen female artists and musicians living in different cities and parts of the world. The scores were interpreted and performed publicly by these artists in lieu of Fassonaki’s ability to do so.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese living scores were then passed on to additional female artists and musicians, creating an open book of socio-spatial exchange. As the series unfolds from one event to another, a cumulative composition of voices and actions will continue to grow until the law inhibiting artistic expression ceases to exist. This ongoing exchange and peaceful protest refers to the derogatory use of the Farsi word “khal,” coined to describe the passage of Iranian pop music in the form of homemade mixtapes. Once pop music was no longer being produced or sold in Iran after the Islamic Revolution, the Los Angeles Persian community sent mixtapes to residents in Iran so they could listen to their own country’s pop stars. Fassonaki remembers partaking in this movement when she was a kid residing in Los Angeles. 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Her work crosses fields of nature, sound, video, performance, and installation. She performs solo as yek koo, a project begun in 2006, exploring the body as a vehicle for the movement of sound and duo in Métal Rouge (with Andrew Scott), formed in 2005. In 2017, Fassonaki founded untune, a socio-curatorial project with a series of programming dedicated to the term “Social“. Her work solo and in collaboration, has been presented at MOCA (Los Angeles), LACA (Los Angeles), Whitney Museum of American Art (as part of the Whitney Biennial 2014), LACE galleries (Los Angeles), Human Resources (Los Angeles), Audio Foundation (Auckland), Blue Oyster gallery (Dunedin), Box Gallery (Los Angeles), Disjecta (Portland), Zebulon (Los Angeles), Café Oto (London), Vox Populi (Philadelphia) among many others. 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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 \u003cem\u003eThe Dead Ladies Project\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\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 \u003cem\u003eMinerva\u003c\/em\u003e as I do the most revelatory writings of Artaud.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eLara Mimosa Montes\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThresholes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“I have this fantasy that upon our deaths, we each are replaced with a museum. 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Originally performed by Gemma Castro, Molly Pease (soprano), Vera Lugo, and Rosalie Rodriguez (alto)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eProduced by Axel Krygier. Mixed by Manuel Schaller. © 2020, Axel Krygier.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/jimenasarno.com\/\" title=\"Jimena Sarno\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eJimena Sarno\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a multidisciplinary artist and educator from Buenos Aires, Argentina. With a focus on spatial and sonic experience she works across a range of media including installation, sound, video, text and sculpture. 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For the first time Axel was able to record his own compositions, and without depending on anyone else, because he played all the instruments himself. From the early to mid-'90s Axel played with the group La Portuaria, though he dedicated himself to writing and creating original repertoire throughout that time. He wrapped up his time with La Portuaria in 1996 and dedicated himself full-time to the development of his solo career. That work paid off in 1999 when he released his debut as a solo artist, entitled Echale Semilla on the Los Anos Luz label, making its way to European audiences via HiTop Records. The project was showered with praise, being called \"revelation of the year\" by several publications. Axel had composed soundtracks for films and created backing music for dance companies for many years, but had not released those works in album format before the 2003 release of Secreto y Malibú. 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