2700 g, 17 x 24 cm, English

In this special package deal, purchase a curated selection of recent publications from Sonic Acts Press. This bundle is perfect for those interested in Ecoes, our periodic magazine on ‘art in the age of pollution,’ along with captivating artist books and Sonic Acts readers that push the boundaries of critical thought across ecology, art, and science – available at a significant discount!

Ecoes #1

The debut issue of Ecoes weaves together explorations of mining, microplastics, Indigenous interpretations of the blues, Cold War toxic legacies, invasive species, and deadly clouds haunting the Russian Arctic – an epicenter of extractivist devastation. Serving as a platform for the OVEREXPOSED residency, the issue delves into the unsettling scales of pollution across time and space.

Ecoes is a magazine from Sonic Acts Press that unpacks alternatives to the anthropocentric perspective that approaches the nonhuman as a resource. A portmanteau of ‘ecology’ and ‘echoes’, this periodic magazine about ‘art in the age of pollution’ showcases compelling artistic and critical perspectives that engage with the past, future or afterlives of environmental harm, toxicity, extraction, and waste.

Ecoes #2 

The second issue of Ecoes immerses readers in the tangled realities of creating and surviving in a polluted world, where language often constrains our capacity to grapple with toxicity and climate collapse. It unearths the monstrous taxonomies of early science, traces the haunting journeys of discarded clothing in Senegal, and deciphers the subtle responses of plants to pollutants.

Ecoes #3

Serving as the Sonic Acts Biennial 2022 reader, this edition is a fascinating compendium of the programme. Images and texts combine to reveal the elemental forces, both synthetic and natural, that create tension in the world around us. This issue reconsiders the 'normal', following the journeys of microbes, eels, and glaciers. Sirens are reimagined in an age of complex and durational disasters, with one inlay featuring a map to navigate non-normative time.

Ecoes #5 

Taking shape around the theme of water, this issue whorls through its many cycles. Sometimes these are heavy with ‘toxic muck’ and sometimes as light as bubbles, crystals of ice, or the hair on coral larvae. Occasionally they will speak to a feeling, but will often address a very specific port. Most importantly, all of them are the results of artists’ experiments and artistic meandering around the topic of water.

All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film – Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner

A narrative collage of prose and image, this art book weaves together the personal, historical, and theoretical, deepening the authors’ exploration of the curious role of monstrous taxonomies at the heart of Early Modern European science. Drawing from the Latin root monstrare – meaning ‘to show’, ‘to demonstrate’, or ‘to reveal” – it examines monsters as lenses for understanding and interpreting the natural world. 

HEREAFTER

This book reflects on Sonic Acts’ quarter-of-a-century festival ‘celebration’, but instead of merely looking back, it focuses on confronting the brutality of the present. It offers a rare collection of critical essays on political and climate realities, the colonial legacies of European projects, and the racial and gender biases embedded in contemporary technologies. Through visual and textual contributions, it blends field notes and memoir to capture the process of creating work driven by research.

Travelling Time

This volume explores the elusive nature of time and our shifting experience of it. Time, a concept long interrogated by relativity theorists and quantum mechanics, remains a mystery at the core of human understanding. Art, film, and music make the abstract palpable, but as technology evolves, it continuously disrupts and redefines our relationship to time. This book is a homage to the human experience of time—half filled with essays on its conceptualization in technology, culture, and literature, and the other half with intimate interviews with composers and musicians about their work with time.

Unsorted

A small, irregular publication entirely dedicated to the new art forms that emerged in the early 2000s, amidst the burgeoning information society, where data profoundly influences how we navigate the world. These ‘information arts’ – often computer-generated or algorithmic – challenged traditional paradigms, categories, and labels that had long defined artistic practices. Through interviews, articles, and essays featuring, amongst others, media theorist Lev Manovich and conceptual designer Stephen Wilson, Unsorted serves as a dynamic companion to the then- and still-evolving landscape of technological art.