The RSS Press Repository contains downloadable versions of unique publications such as Open Access books produced in collaboration with universities, supplementary or additional material for titles from our catalogue, such as Danish-language versions of texts printed in English, as well as video, audio and other content which is available for free.
Sheila Gaffney: Embodied Dreaming
Embodied Dreaming accompanies the exhibition of the same name by British artist Sheila Gaffney, held at the Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University from 4 October 2024 to 11 January 2025. It features a curatorial introduction by Marianna Tsionki, and a new essay by the acclaimed feminist postcolonial and social art historian Griselda Pollock, which situates Gaffney’s practice and Pollock’s own relationship to it in a history of women artists and their practices of making, from the 1860s to the 1970s until today. The texts are accompanied by full colour images of Gaffney’s work.
Embodied Dreaming is an Open Access publication produced in collaboration with Leeds Arts University, and can be downloaded via the link below. A limited number of printed copies are available free of charge from our bookshop, at Stevnsgade 11 in the Nørrebro area of Copenhagen, open by appointment.
Æstetik, protest og genforvilding
Samtalen Æstetik, protest og genforvilding mellem kunstnerne Morten Poulsen og Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, der blev udgivet i engelsk oversættelse i Our Future with Nature, kan nu downloades gratis på dansk.
Kyriaki Goni, Data Garden
The book Data Garden springs from the exhibition of the same name by artist Kyriaki Goni, held at the Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University from 20 January to 1 April 2023. It features an introductory essay by Marianna Tsionki, the essay Learning from Narcissus by writer Tom Jeffreys, as well as full colour images from the exhibition.
Data Garden is an Open Access publication which can be downloaded via the link below, or from the Leeds Arts University repository. A limited number of printed copies are available free of charge from our bookshop, newly located at Stevnsgade 11 in the Nørrebro area of Copenhagen, open by appointment.
Bergen/Copenhagen Papers
Bergen/Copenhagen Papers is a low-tech artistic research magazine, made fast and directly without a long and expensive process of design and printing. It is published in small print runs, measured to the circumstances, and arrives at irregular intervals, whenever the need to publish arises. It aims to facilitate a certain strand of artistic/political thinking. How can art engage in a politically charged horizon, scorched by apocalyptic abysses and systemic entanglements? How can art add creativity and vision to societal debate?
Dialogue Circles
The Bergen/Copenhagen Papers is intended to reach and create a small circle of engaged and committed readers who will be able to relate to the output in a direct, informal manner. The Papers are produced in collaboration between Kunstakademiet – institutt for samtidskunst, Kunsthall 3.14 and Lydgalleriet in Bergen, and RSS Press and SixtyEight Art Institute in Copenhagen. For each issue these institutions will host social circles, where the issues at hand will be discussed and debated.
Attendees of the dialogue circles receive a free copy of the issue being discussed. Copies of the issues that remain can be purchased at our Copenhagen address for a modest fee.
This first issue of Bergen/Copenhagen Papers was launched at Lydgalleriet in Bergen, Norway.
In Syvende etasje, Synkront by Gitte Sætre, a movement takes place and a new space widens towards a future horizon. This futuristic fable contains a political hope that seems appropriate for opening this new series of politically related artistic research.
In Birdfly, a series of 9 photos by Kent Klich, Palestinian pigeons are depicted on a middle-blue background. The format of these portraits is that of the Palestinian passport. The pigeons thus become substitutes for Palestinians who are not able to escape the deadlock of Israeli walls and restrictions.
Birdfly and Syvende etasje, Synkront share the format of the fable. Instead of describing the political issues in a direct, journalistic manner, both artworks use allegory to articulate urgent political issues, thus opening a poetic entry into a potential discussion.
The second issue of Bergen/Copenhagen Papers was launched during SixtyEight Art Institute’s summer intensive The Curatorial Thing 2019: Communities of Practice in Precarious Times, during a round table discussion with artist and editor of Bergen/Copenhagen Papers, Frans Jacobi, artist Hugo Hopping, and contributing artist Tore Hallas where they discussed his contribution to this issue’s theme of identity and religious objects.
Text: And going after strange flesh mezuzot _chaser love poem_ by Tore Hallas
Images: Herrebunad redigert (Men’s national costume edited) by Lars Korff Lofthus
This issue of Bergen/Copenhagen Papers was produced in connection with the first ANTI-WAR Festival in Bergen. Among the themes of the festival are resistance, mobilisation and peace. How is peace achieved and what does it look like?
The three contributions to the issue all deal with modes of resistance. While art historian Mikkel Bolt gives a general introduction to the variety of global struggles over the past decades, Sarah Kössler offers insight into a concrete example of practical resistance. Also included is a hand-written text by the Bergen artist Laurie Grundt. He writes about communism seen through the lens of the commune, or in Norwegian ‘kommunen’, giving the political theories a solid link to everyday life.
This issue contains texts in English, Danish and Norwegian.
Liv Schulman at Alt_Cph 18
Extract from the performance Formal Economy
26 and 27 May 2018
SixtyEight Art Institute was very pleased to announce the release of the book Infinite Bet by Liv Schulman, published by our editorial group Really Simple Syndication Press.
This was accompanied at Alt_Cph 18: Over-Existing by Liv Schulman giving the lecture performance Formal Economy, which built on themes she addresses in both The Empathy (her contribution to the Cut the Gap seminar at SMK the National Gallery of Denmark in November 2017) and in the newly published Infinite Bet.