A Guidebook of Alternative Nows, now out- published by the Journal Press
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A Guidebook of Alternative Nows
Edited by: Amber Hickey
A Guidebook of Alternative Nows
Edited by: Amber Hickey
Published by: the Journal of Aethetics & Protest Press
A survey of the creative, present possible future.
Contributions by:
Alex Kemman (The Valreep Collective) , Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens , Artist Bailout Collective , Billy Mark , Cheyenna Weber (SolidarityNYC) , Antonio Scarponi (Conceptual Devices) , Critical Art Ensemble , Ethan Miller , Fallen Fruit , Georg Hobmeier and Tommy Noonan , Howling Mob Society , Jeanne van Heeswijk , Jenny Cameron , Johannes Grenzfurthner (Monochrom) , Marc Herbst and Christina Ulke (Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Editorial Collective) , Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative , Ken Ehrlich and Kate Johnston , Llano Del Rio Collective , New Social Art School , Platform , Rori Knudtson (School of Critical Engagement) , Santiago Cirugeda (Recetas Urbanas) , Sasha Costanza-Chock , SPURSE , swearonourfriendship , T.J. Demos , Temporary Services , The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination , Precarious Workers Brigade , The Vacuum Cleaner , The Yes Men , TradeSchool.coop , UrbanFarmers , Watts House Project .
Preview and Download the PDF here. (http://joaap.org/press/alternativenows_hickey.htm)
Purchase the printed book here. $30 (http://joaap.org/press.htm#books)
(The Guidebook is using a profit-share model to distribute eventual income from the book between all parties involved: 34 contributors, 1 cover artist...etc.)
1. A Guidebook of Alternative Nows
2. About the Editor
3. Book Launch Events
4. Other books by the Journal Press
5. ETC...
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1. A Guidebook of Alternative Nows
$30- (When possible, revenue from book sales will be split equally among all parties involved. (34 contributors, 1 cover artist, 1 graphic designer, 1 editor, 1 publisher, and 1 distributor/shop)
Purchase printed book here.
Download a free PDF of the book here.
Concept: Amber Hickey - website: (amberhickey.com)
Editor: Amber Hickey - website:
Graphic Design: Angelina Köpplin (http://www.akoepplin.de/)
Cover Art: Mary Tremonte
266 Pages
Color
17 x 24 centimeters (6.7 x 9.45 inches)
Paperback
About A Guidebook of Alternative Nows
In their book The End of Capitalism (as we knew it), the theory collective J.K. Gibson-Graham state that
by continuing to fetishize capitalism as the dominant economical model in the West, we legitimize its
force and increase its power. By simply researching alternatives that are already present and currently
created A Guidebook of Alternative Nows re-interprets the present and near future as more sustainable,
diverse, just and hopeful than that which is usually depicted.
Ideas with the most visibility are often those that are those backed by the most powerful people. A Guidebook of Alternative Nows explores other ideas, undermining the powerful and expanding the possible.
The book features alternatives suggested by artist, collectives, philosophers, activists, and those who mix these roles.
Contributors
Alex Kemman (The Valreep Collective) , Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens , Artist Bailout Collective ,
Billy Mark , Cheyenna Weber (SolidarityNYC) , Antonio Scarponi (Conceptual Devices) ,
Critical Art Ensemble , Ethan Miller , Fallen Fruit , Georg Hobmeier and Tommy Noonan ,
Howling Mob Society , Jeanne van Heeswijk , Jenny Cameron , Johannes Grenzfurthner (Monochrom) ,
Marc Herbst and Christina Ulke (Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Editorial Collective) ,
Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative , Ken Ehrlich and Kate Johnston , Llano Del Rio Collective ,
New Social Art School , Platform , Rori Knudtson (School of Critical Engagement) , Santiago Cirugeda (Recetas Urbanas) , Sasha Costanza-Chock , SPURSE , swearonourfriendship , T.J. Demos , Temporary Services , The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination , Precarious Workers Brigade ,
The Vacuum Cleaner , The Yes Men , TradeSchool.coop , UrbanFarmers , Watts House Project .
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1. A Guidebook of Alternative Nows
$30- (When possible, revenue from book sales will be split equally among all parties involved. (34 contributors, 1 cover artist, 1 graphic designer, 1 editor, 1 publisher, and 1 distributor/shop)
Purchase printed book here.
Download a free PDF of the book here.
Concept: Amber Hickey - website: (amberhickey.com)
Editor: Amber Hickey - website:
Graphic Design: Angelina Köpplin (http://www.akoepplin.de/)
Cover Art: Mary Tremonte
266 Pages
Color
17 x 24 centimeters (6.7 x 9.45 inches)
Paperback
About A Guidebook of Alternative Nows
In their book The End of Capitalism (as we knew it), the theory collective J.K. Gibson-Graham state that
by continuing to fetishize capitalism as the dominant economical model in the West, we legitimize its
force and increase its power. By simply researching alternatives that are already present and currently
created A Guidebook of Alternative Nows re-interprets the present and near future as more sustainable,
diverse, just and hopeful than that which is usually depicted.
Ideas with the most visibility are often those that are those backed by the most powerful people. A Guidebook of Alternative Nows explores other ideas, undermining the powerful and expanding the possible.
The book features alternatives suggested by artist, collectives, philosophers, activists, and those who mix these roles.
Contributors
Alex Kemman (The Valreep Collective) , Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens , Artist Bailout Collective ,
Billy Mark , Cheyenna Weber (SolidarityNYC) , Antonio Scarponi (Conceptual Devices) ,
Critical Art Ensemble , Ethan Miller , Fallen Fruit , Georg Hobmeier and Tommy Noonan ,
Howling Mob Society , Jeanne van Heeswijk , Jenny Cameron , Johannes Grenzfurthner (Monochrom) ,
Marc Herbst and Christina Ulke (Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Editorial Collective) ,
Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative , Ken Ehrlich and Kate Johnston , Llano Del Rio Collective ,
New Social Art School , Platform , Rori Knudtson (School of Critical Engagement) , Santiago Cirugeda (Recetas Urbanas) , Sasha Costanza-Chock , SPURSE , swearonourfriendship , T.J. Demos , Temporary Services , The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination , Precarious Workers Brigade ,
The Vacuum Cleaner , The Yes Men , TradeSchool.coop , UrbanFarmers , Watts House Project .
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2. About The Editor
Amber Hickey is an artist and organizer born in California and currently based in Zurich. Her work is focused on creatively challenging “inevitable” structures—“profit” based economies, unjust hierarchies, gender roles, and so forth.
She is currently developing two other books: Power in the Age of Instability (youandmebaby press), and The Curinity Project (both are co-edited with Lindsey Sharman). She is co-founder of the mobile interventionist art space, White Bike Zurich; (co)organizes workshops (including Disobedience Makes History, Tate Modern, 2010); (co)curates interdisciplinary events (including What is Power Today?, Salon Populaire, Berlin, 2012); is co-editor of and contributor to a forthcoming issue of the web journal OnCurating, “Total Abstraction;” and participates in exhibitions and festivals internationally (most recently, Bank Machine as a part of “Title,” Zurich, 2012, and Polis at ENCANT festival, Glasgow, 2012). In September 2012 she will begin a Ph.D. in the Visual Studies program at the University of California Santa Cruz.
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3. Book Launch Events
Los Angeles: The Last Bookstore, July 28, 2012 (lastbookstorela.com/)
Copenhagen: PB43, date tbc (pb43.dk)
Please check the website for updated info (www.alternativenows.net).
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4. Other books by the Journal Press
Issue 8 is still for sale,
Best ye buy it online, but the issue is also available at Skylight Books (LA), Quimby's (Chicago), Modern Times (San Fran), Bluestockings (NY), Red Emma's (Baltimore), McNally Jackson (NY), Half Letter Press, Section 7 Books (Paris), ProQM (Berlin), Archive Books (Berlin) Malmo Kunsthall (Malmo Sweden), News From NoWhere (Liverpool), The Book Society (Seoul Korea) and other great bookshops around the globe.
Printed with support from the Metabolic Studio
This is a project of the Armory Center for the Arts’s Fiscal Sponsorship Program.
Printed with support from the Metabolic Studio
This is a project of the Armory Center for the Arts’s Fiscal Sponsorship Program.
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5. ETC...
a. Thanks to Mzin in Leipzig and Archive Books in Berlin for recent events.
b. Our frequent contributor Gavin Grindon has organized a conference at the TATE in Britain.
How do you do that? Ask Gavin. , The politics of the social in contemporary art
Tate Modern; Thursday 19 July, 18.30 – 21.30 and Friday 20 July, 10.00 – 17.30
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