Curated by Joseph Cutts

In-House reading material curated by Joseph Cutts

As part of his ongoing research at FormaHQ, Associate Artist Joseph Cutts has curated a selection of in-house reading material at Presse Books including publications and journals aligning with some of the directions of his work, that will continually grow during his research residency at FormaHQ over the next year, manifesting in a series of public events and observations in agromining.

The selection echoes his ongoing research into the cycle and formation of electronic waste (obsolete or discarded electronic devices), as well as studies in early 20th century photographic experiments. They depict an in-depth photographic analysis of the journey from mineral to consumer item; to a fictionalised world where experiments in language cause technical malfunction; stories from an ‘unlocked’ found phone; scrutiny at airport customs; and how a garden can represent an individual and collective paradise, a place where although maintenance is required, can be transformed to become a space for healing.

The selection includes:

• Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West Lucy R. Lippard
• The Canary and The Hammer Lisa Barnard
• The Cyberiad Fables for the Cybernetic Age Stanislaw Lem
• Citizens of the Cosmos Anton Vidokle
• Balkon Orhan Pamuk
• One Year of Water Futures A/D/O Research
• Customs Solmaz Sharif
• HMRC A Guide to Import and Export Customs Clearance Tyler Townsend MIEx
• Aesthetics of the Capitalocene Nicolas Bourriaud
• Fantasies on a Found Phone, dedicated to the Man who Lost it Mahmoud Khaled
• A Slow, Contemporary Violence : Damaged Environments of Technology Culture Jussi Parikka
• Building Carbon Europe Dennis Pohl
• Sonic Urbanism: Listening to Non-Human Life Ed. &beyond collective for Theatrum Mundi
• Displacement Architecture and Refugee Andrew Herscher
• Don't Follow the Wind Nikolaus Hirsch & Jason Waite (Eds.)
• A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes Leila Darwish
• On the Necessity of Gardening: An ABC of Art, Botany and Cultivation Ed. Lauire Cluitmans
• The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey (excerpt) Ernesto Guevara (pdf)
• Traces of a Cathode Art Monthly Review (May 2023), Bob Dickinson
• au-delà du déclic film - Maurice Lemaître
• Meandering: Art, Ecology, and Metaphysics Sofia Lemos
• Metals: v. 1 John Dancy
• Thus Waves Come in Pairs: Thinking with the Mediterraneans Etel Adnan
• Trace Elemental Analysis of Metals: Methods and Techniques Thomas R. Dulski