Publications
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FOR WAR, NOTHING
New York: Fugitive Materials, 2023. In illustrated wraps. 82 pp. 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. Artwork by Shiva Addanki.
For War, Nothing is an analysis and critique of the 2016 peace agreement signed between the Colombian government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), the country’s oldest guerrilla organization. The book was written by Colectivo Contrainformativo Sub*Versión—an anarchist media, editorial, and political collective based in Bogotá. Debates about the peace agreement dominated Colombian politics in the mid-to-late 2010s; its terms were set by conservatives and the extreme right, while liberals, progressives and NGOs, and the organized left struggled to intervene in the debate. Originally published in Spanish in 2017, For War, Nothing levied an anti-capitalist and anti-statist critique of the accords and the process that produced them, showing that neither the armed conflict, the accords themselves, nor the recent history of Colombia can be understood absent a critique of capitalism.
War Notes
A limited-edition facsimile of Pulitzer Prize-nominated photojournalist Cheney Orr’s album of portraits and interviews taken during his time in Ukraine in Spring 2022, and co-created with Ukrainian citizens during wartime.
War Notes is a project of memories in the making, chronicling the photographer’s encounters over six weeks traveling through Lviv, south to Odesa, through Kiev, and east to Zaporizhia and Kherson, collecting a total of 53 portraits and interviews. Per participant, a single Fuji FP-100c polaroid was made. Orr then asked each participant to write their memories and emotions on a separate unexposed blank polaroid and conducted an in-depth interview. The polaroid portraits and written stories were collected in a single photo album that the artist carried with him as he traveled the country. War Notes is accompanied by a limited-edition zine containing translations of each participant’s writing and further information from the interviews. The album includes one original Instax polaroid photographed and inscribed by the artist, one archival pigment print of the front cover of the original album, and an archival pigment print from holograph by the artist briefly explaining the project.
Made in an edition of 24 to honor the 24th of February 2022, when Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
20% of proceeds from War Notes will be donated to 24.02 Fund, supporting Ukrainian journalists in the line of duty.
WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED: THE CCNY STUDENT STRIKE OF 1949
Our first zine details the events of a 1949 protest at the City College of New York that has remained largely unstudied and unrecorded but undoubtedly helped prepare for student activism in New York and across the country in the 50s and 60s.
Work is Hell…Let’s Go To War!
A selection of anti-war flyers and posters produced by Arch D. Bunker, an anonymous artists’ collective that mobilized in the early 1990s in response to the First Gulf War. The short-lived group detourned and criticized the distant and calculating language of military officials, arms dealers, politicians, and corporate media pundits. Produced in the first decade of cable news and the 24-hour news cycle, these prints also brought early attention to disinformation and the distorted ways in which most Americans were being shown the conflict, on television: the spectacle of war.
Chinatown Needs Housing Not Jail
Chinatown Needs Housing Not Jail explores the history of the Lower Manhattan jail site, the "Tombs" and the interwoven histories that led to the current mobilization against jail expansion. Sparked by the discovery of four placards worn by demonstrators against Mayor Ed Koch's expansion of the jail in 1982, the publication includes documentation of the signs along with archival images and texts about the history of the site by Daylon Orr and Canal Street Research Association.
MATERIALS
Fugitive Materials Tote Bag
The new double-sided Fugitive Materials tote bag, repurposing the cover image from Black Mask No. 9, originally taken from the 1913 French film Juve contre Fantomas.
Fugitive Materials can be found at:
Printed Matter (NYC) and Printed Matter St. Marks (NYC)
Better Read Than Dead (NYC)
Topos Bookstore (NYC)
Aeon Books (NYC)
CARA (NYC)
Fungus Books (Pittsburgh)
Idea House 3 at Walker Art Center (Minneapolis)
These Days (L.A.)
Tomorrow Today (L.A.)
Spectator Books (Oakland)
INGA (Chicago)
Tenderbooks (London)
Art Metropole (Toronto)
Volcana Lugar Común (C.D.M.X.)
Casa Bosques (C.D.M.X)
More coming soon…
Fugitive Materials will be publishing new works in translation, showcasing some of the rare historical documents we dig up, and much more.