Juan de la Cosa/John of the Thing
An ongoing collaboration between Tania Pérez Córdova and Francesco Pedraglio, the publishing project JDLC/JOTT started as a personal collection of experimental writings in translation.
Over the past years, we have been publishing books and pamphlets by: Luis Felipe Fabre, Paul Becker, Jesper List Thomsen, Bob Kil, Kate Briggs, Diego Gerrard, Francesco Pedraglio and Dan Fox.
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Mark Geffriaud, The Curve of Forgotten Things, 2012
Commission: The Time Machine; Price: £8.00; 68 pages; Edition: 1,000 copies; Editors: Everall, Gavin; Pedraglio, Francesco; | Designer: Atelier Dreibholz
Although the moment of time travel in literature is known to be a solitary experience, the distance and movement is always measured face to face. In a sense, a conversation always occurs, whose aim is to corner an object, as if turning around it made the object appear.
More concerned with the movement and duality of turning around the object, the book takes the reader and writer on two opposite journeys, from the preface and in reverse from the postface. Each frame, or briefly meet halfway, a central discussion with the anthropologist Maurizio Gnerre about a ceremonial dialogue between two people of a Jivaroan tribe performed when a man visits another member of the tribe.
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Alex Cecchetti, A Society That Breathes Once a Year, 2012
Commission: The Time Machine; Price: £8.00; 88 pages; Edition: 1,000 copies; Editors: Everall, Gavin; Pedraglio, Francesco; Designer: Atelier Dreibholz
A man and a woman begin the project of building an isolated, self-sustainable farm, cut off from civilisation. Against all expectations the first thing they have to confront is the construction of a road, and the constant reminder of the present left behind.
Through a non-linear narrative, the two protagonists drive through the tawdry present, only to realise a future set deeply in the past. Their meagre provisions and inexperience places them at odds with survival, but at one with a mesmerising fiction. Haunted by the spectres of dead rabbits and a prophetic bear the couples utopian dream is delivered in a rapid, dense stream of language as if the text itself wants to return to the pace of present.
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Kit Poulson, The Ice Cream Empire, 2012
Commission: The Time Machine; Price: £8.00; 104 pages; Edition: 1,000 copies; Editors: Everall, Gavin, Pedraglio, Francesco; Designer: Atelier Dreibholz
An experimental narrative, in which three characters freed from the flow of causality, inter-twine through the experience of conversation. Arguing that building is not a structure but an activity of thought – less concrete, more porridge – the Alien Architect encounters the Persistent Midwife, fucked-off with toyshop utopias and declaring herself a suspension – an Ice Cream Empress – and Lou Loa, perhaps the most difficult to understand, not least, or in part, because he claimed to have been present at the creation of the White Horse of Uffington, and to hold the stuff of his being in a leaky bucket of black ink.
It's moving from I to It - The Book
Edited by: FormContent; Designed by: Atelier Dreibholz; With contributions by: Åbäke, Adam Avikainen, Paul Becker, Irina Botea & Nicu Ilfoveanu, Ben Cain, Julia Calver, Jeremiah Day, Manon De Boer, Jochen Dehn, Tim Etchells, Fitts & Holderness, Aurélien Froment, Mark Geffriaud, Goldin+Senneby, Douglas Gordon, Martin Gustavsson, Marine Hugonnier, Andrew Kerton, Ian Kiaer, Chosil Kil, Július Koller, Phillip Lai, Oliver Laric, Gil Leung, Sylvère Lotringer, Michael Newman, Beatriz Olabarrieta, Miklos Onucsan, Siôn Parkinson, Amanda Ross-Ho, Chris Sharp, Pilvi Takala, Harald Thys and Jos de Gruyter, Peter Waechtler, Katherine Waugh, Ian White.
At times documentation, at times artists’ book, the publication brings together a body of original documents and commissioned texts actively mirroring the process and the questions that had organically developed into It’s moving from I to It as we know it today.
Reto Pulfer, DER THEMENKATALOG
Authors: Francesco Pedraglio, Reto Pulfer; Edited by Francesco Pedraglio; Publisher: Archive Books, Berlin and FormContent, London; Year: 2010; Pages: 48
Artist’s book with 132 colour reproductions of Pulfer’s artwork.
With a critical text by Francesco Pedraglio (English) and short stories by Reto Pulfer (English/German).
The Responsive Subject: from OOOOOO to FFFFFF
Publisher: FormContent; Language: English; Pages: 151; Editors: Francesco Pedraglio, Caterina Riva, Pieternel Vermoortel
With contributions by: Guy Mees, Andrea Büttner, Michael Dean, Beatrice Gibson & Will Holder, Gyan Panchal, Ian Kiaer, João Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Andrew Renton, Nick Thurston, Nanni Balestrini, Ruth Höflich, Bridget Penney, Tom Benson, Simone Menegoi, Philomene Pirecki and Shaan Syed
The Responsive Subject is a publication produced in relation to the homonymous exhibition that took place at MuZee (Ostend, BE) and that presented Belgium artist Guy Mees (1935—2003) in relation to works by Gyan Panchal, Ian Kiaer and João Gusmão & Pedro Paiva.
FormContent decided to edit the book as a reader, inviting different contributors and asking them to look back at their own practice through a free respond to Mees’ work.