This title will be available soon. Mario Bellatin is a writer who wants his books always on hand, not only the texts but the books themselves. What he wants then is a section of his studio where at all times there will be thousands of physical copies, one hundred thousand, to be exact, of the books written during his lifetime. From now on he will count the years of his life in books and not in years as most do. He will turn books and not years, so to speak. He will compose one hundred titles, with a first edition of one ...

This title will be available soon. Tiresias the diviner was turned into a woman by the supreme goddess Hera, having committed the sacrilegious act of killing two copulating snakes. After serving seven years as a priestess and a prostitute, and giving birth to a daughter named Manto (a diviner herself), Tiresias was permitted by the goddess to become male again. One day, Hera and her husband, Zeus, asked Tiresias who had more pleasure in sex, men or women, since he had experienced both womanhood and manhood. He replied that feminine pleasure was infinite, whereas male pleasure was finite, the opposite of ...

This title will be available soon. Saturday, November 6, 2010 New York City Dear Bettina, It’s been more than a month since we had coffee and the whole time, I’ve been thinking about how to best enact your suggestion: claiming UbuWeb as an artwork, perhaps the most significant art- work I will ever make. Or else to try to weave the various strands into my practice as a Gesamtkunstwerk. For the past fifteen years, I’ve been working daily on UbuWeb, a completely independent re- source dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts. And although the site gives the smokescreen of ...

This title will be available soon. For the past six years, I have been retracing some of Paul Gauguin’s steps. He led a famously peripatetic life, and I did not attempt to follow him systematically or in the order of his moves. More simply, I took advantage of lectures and conferences and organized vacations so as to see not only his works, as closely as possible, but also the places and things he had seen and sometimes represented. Since this exploration had to be performed over an extended period and in a sequence contingent on extraneous circumstances, it was important that ...

This title will be available soon. If there is a poem Sitting here In my chest May it irrigate Populate Intention If there is a story Let it wander Through this being Emerge into the land Seeing Let the water flow Rush like blood A great flood eternal …

This title will be available soon. On Saturday, September 28, 1889, representatives of eighteen countries gathered in Sèvres, outside Paris.They were there to bring the world under the measure of a single meter known as M and a single kilogram, K — to bless a particular ruler and a particular weight.The conference arbitrarily chose one meter stick and one sample weight from thirty nearly identical copies, declaring: “This prototype of the meter will from now forward represent, at the temperature of melting ice, the metric unit of length. . . .This prototype [of the kilogram] will be considered from now on ...