The final iteration of Rainer's dance rant A Truncated History of the Universe for Dummies, accompanied by texts offering a real-time account of Rainer's creative process. Choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer has long investigated the ways in which movement can be a political act in and of itself—on the stage, on the screen, or at the lectern. In Revisions, Rainer pushes her interest in embodied activism to a new arena: what she calls the “dance rant.” This volume includes the final iteration of Rainer's latest dance rant, entitled A Truncated History of the Universe for Dummies. This performance piece evolved in live presentations in Dublin, Stockholm, and New York before being expanded and adapted in written form here. In this now-completed work, Rainer mobilizes her rage and bafflement at contemporary political events through the guise of Apollo, Leader of the Muses. Revisions also includes a compilation of emails and diary entries that provide a real-time account of Rainer's process of creating and workshopping a dance. “Pedagogical Vaudeville 3” reveals Rainer's consistent interest in reworking and reconsidering material across multiple mediums, formats, and contexts, and offers a unique glimpse at the working methods of one of this century's preeminent dance artists. Bookended with an introduction by artist and scholar Gregg Bordowitz and an analysis of Rainer's AG Indexical with a Little Help from H. M. by dance historian Anna Staniczenko, these texts serve not only as a revision of the conventional understanding of five decades of Rainer's production, but also as a timely manual for performance as an act of resistance.

FROM HAPPINESS election day. terminal. a cluster of predecessors in the languagei.e. cells of racist light, in verbs, tumblingBelgravia or something, an adverbthink of adjectives as refugees. you just shot em: here is a style guide – (e) a deficit line –(a) negates the interruption of the speaking I –(u) a system of collective thought –(i) unable / unwilling to find work –(o) beyond a certain tenancy of stoic disdain –I entered first. Target A was standing by the tableI hit him with the shield. Pinned Target to floorI was foul and fair, would sleep in utter musicthe bulletins, consist entirely of nervesor harmony, pure infection of thought we entered a respectful half-light, the names, we had achievedglue and murder / or we were images, monuments, gospels& in very obvious nitrates / from the English I inheritmy mean & bitter divisions, my very grievous hail –Letters Against the Firmament is a user’s report on the end of the world, a treatise against Tory terror, a proposal for a new zodiac, a defence of poetry, a hex against the devourers of planet earth. The Letters are fierce epistolary poems, a vivid account of the sheer panic and brutality of the Austerity years. They are apocalyptic screeds of black humour hammered out in an obscure corner of east London, fearful attempts to ward off the attentions of gentrifiers, bailiffs, border agents and racists. In this collection in four parts they are joined by lean versions of already well-known works The Commons and Happiness, and the incandescent new poem Lamentations.

Publisher   Nightboat Books Publication date  10 Dec. 2020 Dimensions 13.97 x 0.64 x 20.32 cm Shifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan enumerates her personal struggle to conceptualize the breadth of her own life at 95, the process of aging, and the knowledge of her own inevitable death. The personal is continuously projected outwards and mirrored back through ruminations on climate catastrophe, California wildfires, the on-going war in Syria, planned missions to Mars, and the view of the sea from Adnan’s window in Brittany in a poignant often painful interplay between the interior and the cosmic.

Paperback; 176 x 108mm; 144pp.; with black-and-white illustrations Prototype, 2023Three friends hang out and share a long and unremarkable conversation about getting dressed, headaches, ticks, compression fantasies, surgery, and personal aspirations, among other things. When two of the friends go home for the night, the remaining one watches TV, dances, and takes apart his face in front of a giant mirror.  Originally a play, Sorcerer is a book about the pleasures of being together and being alone. The characters find contentment in each other’s company, conversing in the placid, eerie rhythms of a sitcom in which conflict never arises. Unease is exported to furniture, gadgets, and bodily movements. The result is a counterintuitive kind of realism, lying somewhere between the procedural and the miraculous. There’s levitation.

Limited edition  Writer & Broadcaster: Late Junction, BBC R3. Clay: A Human History (2024). The Foghorn's Lament (2021). Writing on music, sound & clayNew publication compiled by Jennifer Lucy Allan and designed by DR.ME📕📗📘📙📓Includes five zines with Jennifer interviewing artists and musicians who work with ceramics in their practice. Interviewees include:– artist @keith___harrison– ghatam player @prathapramachandra.r– Bristol music duo @coppersounds– sound artist @gemmaluzbosch– musician @tomokosauvage- 9 loose prints of various clay instruments and a collection of fragmentsAlso included are:
– Nine risographed images of historical clay instruments
– Eight fragments featuring anecdotes, memories, encounters and quotes, by Tori Kudo, MC Richards, Michael Cardew & others.All contents were risographed and hand assembled by Jennifer and DR.ME at The Engine House Studio in Salford, housed in an archive grade box folder, screenprinted by Anchor End.

edited by Chris Oldham  200 pages Language English Publisher Rough Trade Books 30 Oct. 2023 20.32 x 23 x 29 cm Curated and edited by designer and author Craig Oldham, In Loving Memory of Work tells the story of the UK Miner's Strike 1984-85 through a record of the visual culture of the working class affected during this pivotal period. Photographs, posters, badges, banners and more are presented here alongside contemporary commentary that creates both a fascinating document of a specific historical period, as well as an exploration of dissent more broadly, and the vital role visual material can play in the radical, even revolutionary, moment. Originally published in 2015, this revised and updated Rough Trade Books edition features a raft of brand-new material to mark the upcoming 40th anniversary of the dispute, celebrating the breadth of working-class creativity while simultaneously paying homage to a devastated community. Alongside a foreword from acclaimed film director Ken Loach, are original contributions from comedian Alexei Sayle, Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller, as well as notable designers including Ian Anderson (The Designers Republic), Jonathan Barnbrook, Ken Garland, and design critic Rick Poynor. Featuring rare visual material from the collections of the Working Class Movement Library, the National Union of Mineworkers, and artist Darren Coffield, the book also includes recollections and material from Women Against Pit Closure's co-founder, Anne Scargill (former wife of the NUM leader during the strike, Arthur Scargill), alongside female activists Betty Cook and Aggie Currie, as well as political cartoonist Alan Hardman, banner artists Ed Hall and Andrew Turner, filmmaker Yvette Vanson, Mike Mansfield QC, and designer Paul Morton. The book also explores one of the strike's most iconic and enduring images, that of the defenceless Lesley Boulton, about to be struck by a mounted policeman during the now infamous 'Battle of Orgreave' through interviews with both Boulton herself and photographer, John Harris

Paperback Sternberg Press, June, 2024 112 pp., 5 x 7 in, 26 color illus. Nikil Saval is an editor, writer, and community organizer. He was co-editor of n+1 and a contributing writer for The New Yorker, and is a frequent writer for the New York Times, covering architecture, urbanism, and design. He is the author of Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace, and he is currently working on a book titled Everything is Architecture, a study of the politics of industrial design. He co-founded Reclaim Philadelphia, a progressive organization, and is the first Asian American to be elected Democratic ward leader in Philadelphia.Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval tells the story of an unlikely partnership between June Jordan and R. Buckminster Fuller, and their attempt to reimagine Harlem in the wake of the 1964 riots. In the tense days leading up to the 2020 American elections, then-candidate for Pennsylvania State Senate Nikil Saval addressed a virtual audience at the Harvard GSD to tell a story about Black feminist writer June Jordan and a little-known project that resulted from the aftermath of the 1964 Harlem riot. The events of police brutality and community grieving made a lasting impression on Jordan, who, while known for her work as a poet, playwright, and activist, responded with a proposal for a multiple-tower housing design. Through an unlikely partnership with R. Buckminster Fuller, Jordan's “Skyrise for Harlem” project offered a Futuristic vision for Harlem that argued for environmental redesign: “it is architecture, conceived of in its fullest meaning as the creation of environment, which may actually determine the pace, pattern, and quality of living experience.” Jordan was not an architect in the conventional sense, Saval says. “But in the understanding of someone who sought to propose and build interventions in public space, she was.”

Víctor Jara (1932-73) was a legendary Chilean singer, songwriter, guitarist and theatre director. A leader of the New Song Movement, in the aftermath of the military coup of 1973, Jara was arrested, imprisoned and executed. Martín Espada has published more than fifteen books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator, including the poetry collection Crucifixion in the Plaza de Armas (Smokestack, 2008).His Hands Were Gentle brings together, for the first time in both Spanish and English, the best of Víctor Jara’s lyrics, from early songs like ‘El arado’ (‘The Plow’) to ‘Estadio Chile’ (‘In the Stadium’), written in the hours before his execution.  They reveal Jara as an ardent political poet, an eloquent advocate for the peasantry from which he arose, a socialist visionary and a poetic balladeer of the highest order. Translations by Martín Espada, Eduardo Embry, John Green, Joan Jara and Adrian Mitchell. Foreword by Joan Jara, Preface by Emma Thompson, Introduction by Martín Espada. Smokestack Books, 16 Mar. 2012

DAVID KATZ has written about the sounds and culture of Jamaica since 1984. His work has appeared in the Guardian, Newsweek, Mojo, Q, Wax Poetics, and The Wire, and in various music books. He has produced documentaries for radio, contributed to documentaries and feature films, and remains active as a vinyl DJ. Originally from San Francisco, he currently lives in London. Publisher ‏ : ‎ White Rabbit (14 Dec. 2021) Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 688 pagesArguably the most influential force in Jamaican music, Lee Perry brought Bob Marley to international stardom and has since collaborated with artists such as Sir Paul McCartney, The Clash and The Beastie Boys. The book delves behind the myth of Perry to give a fuller examination of his life and work through extensive interviews with family members, fellow artists, friends, lovers, enemies, as well as the man himself to present a complex portrait of a unique soul driven by unseen spiritual forces. This revised and expanded edition has been thoroughly updated and completely overhauled to render a more nuanced, accurate and accessible read, with new information on Perry's later years, including his Grammy Award, cessation of herb smoking and final passing, as well as previously unpublished information about his early life, his unique relationship with Marley, and his fabled Black Ark studio.

Published: Jul 04 2024 Pages: 688 196 x 130mm ISBN: 9781399606141 Solid Foundation is the definitive history of Jamaica's holy music: reggae in all its forms, from the earliest ska and rock steady pioneers to the dancehall and reggae revival stars of the twenty-first century. Woven together into an engrossing narrative, this is an extensive history charting the progression and development of the music, with all the glorious highlights and the controversies and feuds in between. First published in 2003 and including interviews with over 200 of the genre's key artists, Solid Foundation has been revised and updated with abundant new material and an introduction by award-nominated novelist, Jacqueline Crooks, reissued as part of White Rabbit's Deep Cuts series.

Paperback 264 pages Published April 15th 2014 by Reaktion Books   ISBN: 1780231997(ISBN13:9781780231990) Edition Language English   Dub is the avant-garde verso of reggae, created by manipulating and reshaping recordings using studio strategies and techniques. While dub was one of the first forms of popular music to turn the idea of song inside out, it is far from being fully explored. Tracing the evolution of dub, Remixology travels from Kingston, Jamaica, across the globe, following dub’s influence on the development of the MC, the birth of sound system culture, and the postwar Jamaican diaspora. Starting in 1970s Kingston, Paul Sullivan examines the origins of dub as a genre, approach, and attitude. He stops off in London, Berlin, Toronto, Bristol, and New York, exploring those places where dub had the most impact and investigates its effect on postpunk, dub-techno, jungle, and the dubstep. Along the way, Sullivan speaks with a host of international musicians, DJs, and luminaries of the dub world, from DJ Spooky, Adrian Sherwood, Channel, and Roy to Shut Up and Dance and Roots Manuva. Wide-ranging and lucid, Remixology sheds new light on the dub-born notions of remix and reinterpretation that set the stage for the music of the twenty-first century.

Paperback,320 pages Published February 22nd 2001 by Serpent's Tail   ISBN: 1852427434(ISBN13:9781852427436) Edition Language English Ocean of Sound begins in 1889 at the Paris exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed. An ethereal culture developed in response to the intangibility of 20th century communications. Sun Ra, Brian Eno, Lee Perry, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Brian Wilson are interviewed in this extraordinary work of sonic history. It travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to virtual Las Vegas; from David Lynch's dream house high in the Hollywood Hills to the megalopolis of Tokyo.

originally published in Palestinian Affairs, Issue #6 Translated by Hazem Jamjoum, with an introduction from Layan Sima Fuleihan and an afterword from Maher Charif published 1804 Books, 2023 GHASSAN KANAFANI was a political activist, artist, and writer who gave his life for the Palestinian people. He took part in founding the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and is the accomplished author of many short stories, novels, plays, articles, and studies. Kanafani was assassinated in Beirut by the Israeli Mossad in 1972.Ghassan Kanafani’s pivotal text in a new English edition. Kanafani presents a concrete analysis of the mass uprisings against Zionism, and for independence from British colonialism, taking place in Palestine from 1936 to 1939. With a methodical yet illustrative approach, Kanafani examines the economic, political, social, and cultural conditions that contributed to, and limited, the anti-colonial struggle in this period.

Joan Jara is a British-Chilean dancer and activist, and wife of the Chilean poet-songwriter and theatre director Víctor Jara. Joan Jara is the founder of the Víctor Jara Foundation. LeftWord Books, New Delhi, 2023 323 pages 5.5 x 8.5 inchesVíctor Jara was a Chilean poet, singer, theatre director, and communist activist. He was tortured and killed after the coup of 11 September 1973, which overthrew the Salvador Allende government. This is the story of his remarkable life, told lovingly by his wife and fellow artist.

176 pages, Paperback, a little smaller than A4 Published January 1, 2013, Mountain PressDanny Hayward’s People is a ruthless criticism of existing social relations and a dissection of the subjects who live them. It is a compendium of poems, essays, and drama, opening with a hallucinatory foreword by the author: ‘It was at the street demonstration I think that I first noticed the pipe in my throat. It was a sunny day in Kwai Chung, the security staff were feasting at the Tree of Knowledge, Nuriel was saying something merely impossible.’Hayward’s throat inflates and constricts beyond impossibility in the hundred-page dramatic poem, ‘The Consumption of Extremes: A Family Drama’; in the conceptual polemic on the production of value, ‘A Mediocre Galore’; in the lyric sequence, ‘PMS PBLC ND PRSNL’; and in the Byronic atrocity, ‘Don Discontinuity’. The three essays ‘The Comedy of Domination’, ‘Transitional Poetry’, and ‘By Impossibly Popular Demand’ address diverse subjects including Brecht, Catherine Wagner, Trotsky, William Bowles, and G. K. Chesterton.

180 x 255mm, 24 pages, two colour risograph printed interior, saddle stitched, letterpress printed softcover, 2023   Published by The Grass is Green in the Fields for YouTHEY SAID! simmers, boils and simmers again on the 1981 solo vocal composition Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc. Language, listening and voice are at the core of the essay. As is the relationship between Julius Eastman and Joan d’Arc which, as readers, we’re invited not to divide into two individual histories but encouraged to consider a singular position which both figures may have inhabited across distances. The essay opens with an exclamation mark which weaves through the text, alive with an open sense of speculation and inquiry as we explore the many facets of Prelude. Letter (writing) is a central reference — given Eastman’s penchant to put pen to paper, bringing the personal into the open — and the text itself reads like a letter being written or a conversation unfolding. It is swift and agile, carrying us along as it joins the dots, while breaking at times for a moment of improvisation, silence, or a prompt to speak. Formally, we hear the voices not just of Jessica, but of Eastman (of course!), Joan of Arc, Gertrude Stein and scholars of Eastman’s life, which offer a gentle introduction for those who may not be familiar with his life and work. An engagement with letters — as in correspondence as well as units of language — are at the core of our reading of the song. Complexity and simplicity were central to Eastman’s practice and character in the same way a letter can “tell all”, an exclamation mark can give a little more.

Drawings, collages, fabric work and more contributed by 20 artists in support of resistance. All proceeds donated to Palestinian Youth Movement. Published by The Grass is Green in the Fields for You in the UK and JABS in the US, if you are from the United States, order there. 180mm x 250mm, 32 pages, red, black and green risograph printed, saddle stitched, edition of 250, 2024    "Grow up grow up grow up yr meant to be able to deal with this, or let politicians walk you through the valley of the shadows etc smiling and profiling. So make a fucking zine... So this is a zine with that feeling a zine that kicks against the insane redundancy of our politicians and leaders that do not work... A zine that grows a tumour like a flower blossoming in the military brain of hate,, this is your war status says what/????"— Chris Rowley, from the introduction to YOUR WARTIME STATUS SAYS WHAT Contributors: Chris Rowley, Chelsea Rose Amato, Daniel Keys, Michael Hambouz, M P Landis, Helen Shrag, Aisha Boudjillouli, Guy Bruit Direct, Love in Hell, Rachel Holborow, Noah W@rm & Duna Haller, Hugh McElroy, Martin Wong, Kilynn Lunsford, Laetitia Paviani, J.K. Hale, Vanya Swift, Asher Case, and Phil Rodriguez.

135 x 210mm, 24pages, risograph printed, saddle stitched and glued into a fold out cover, first edition of 125, 2024 raspberry raspberry is a series of pamphlets publishing performance texts and texts on performance by artists working at—and with—the intersections of sound, music and the voice. Published by The Grass is Green in the Fields for You"And you, over there in the trojan horse have a few things to say in defence of preparation, and words like “rehearsal”, “becoming”, “contingency” and “arrival”, but you’re biding your time, for now."I AM WRITING A MONOLOGUE is a performance about a fictional monologue and the voice that delivers it. As the monologue tries to convince the people in the room that they are future versions of themselves, the voice grapples with the structural politics of the performance itself, oscillating between the art of persuasion and the craft of vulnerability. Combining spoken word performance and sound collage, the piece snakes through the imagined spaces of living rooms, kitchens, buffet foods, the bucket of a window cleaner, the confines of the “well regarded institution” and the symbolic passenger seat of a car.