The Mushroom at the End of the World
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.
A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. These companions also lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human destruction.
By investigating one of the world’s most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination into the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth.
352 pages.
Published by Princeton Press.
The Glacier is a Being
This book project examines the many ways of glacial expression, the diverse shapes and colors they assume, how they influence their surroundings and how they mingle with it. Swiss photographer JULIAN STETTLER looks at glaciers as living beings, as active protagonists in the web of reality. Glaciers are born out of the permanent metamorphosis from snow to ice. They are uniquely dynamic; viscous and brittle at the same time. From the human perspective, we can only ever perceive slices of them; they exist in a different time dimension, so vastly different that it goes beyond human grasp. With bacteria and algae teeming on their backs, they make their way down.
The main part of the fascinating book contains 90 abstract glacier photographs, as well as a 14-page poem by poet, artist and writer Daniela Naomi Molnar. In addition, three texts by journalist, researcher, poet Anne-Sophie Balzer, Gian-Luca Kämpfen (landscape architect) and David Touchette (microbiologist) will be part of the book.
The photographs were taken between 2021 and 2023 on twelve Swiss glaciers.
144 Pages, 90 Images.
Published by Sturm & Drang
Staying with the Trouble
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices. The Chthulucene, Haraway explains, requires sym-poiesis, or making-with, rather than auto-poiesis, or self-making. Learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means to building more livable futures. Theoretically and methodologically driven by the signifier SF—string figures, science fact, science fiction, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, so far—Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring and original thinkers of our time.
312 Pages.
Published by Duke University Press.
The Spell of the Sensuous
In The Spell of the Sensuous David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand of magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which–even at its most abstract–echoes the calls and cries of the earth. On every page of this lyrical work, Abram weaves his arguments with a passion, a precision, and an intellectual daring that recall such writers as Loren Eisleley, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez.
Published by Vintage.
368 pages.
I Love Artists
Drawing on four decades of work and including new poems published here for the first time, this selection of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s poetry displays the extraordinary luminosity characteristic of her style―its delicate, meticulous observation, great scenic imagination, and unusual degree of comfort with states of indetermination, contingency, and flux.
154 Pages.
Published by University of California Press.
Hello, the Roses
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s Hello, the Roses opens up poetic form into long, shimmering lines shaped by the beauty and phenomenal fullness of the natural environment. She begins by exploring an array of unities perceived between myth and landscape, fashion and culture, experience and forgetting, boys and ravens. The poems of the middle section shift into an invisible world where plants, animals, and the self communicate and coexist through a process of mutual healing and imagination. Images of her New Mexico mesa suffering drought become walks through forests and gardens, and flow into the concluding poems where the individual’s relationship to night, weather, and cosmological time form a karmic temporal continuum, a mandala of perception bridging quartz and quantum bond. Throughout are the roses, transforming slowly, almost imperceptibly, deepening awareness, creating fields and nests, a rosette of civilization that reveals the embeddedness of all living things.
112 pages.
Published by New Directions Publishing.
Doomstead Days
Doomstead Days by Brian Teare, published by nightboat books.
Site-Specific Poetry by Brian Teare.
176 pages.
Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics
Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics.
Edited by Emily Eliza Scott and Kirsten Swenson.
Published by University of California Press.
272 Pages.
Concordance
Concordance by Mei-Mei Berssenbruge and Kiki Smith, published by Kelsey Street Press.
42 pages.
CHORUS
CHORUS by Daniela Naomi Molnar, published by Omnidawn Publishing, Inc.
Poetry by Daniela Naomi Molnar.
110 Pages.
Alive and Destroyed
Alive and Destroyed: a Meditation on the Holocaust in Time by Jason Francisco.
160 pages.
Photography by Jason Francisco.
Writing by Menachem Kaiser.
A Treatise on Stars
Poetry by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge.
Published by New Directions Publishing.
101 pages
GEOHAPTICS: Sensing Climate
$15.00
Essay by Daniela Naomi Molnar
Poems by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Sawnie Morris
70 pages
Curated by artist, writer, and educator Daniela Naomi Molnar, Geohaptics: Sensing Climate features international, national, and regional artists that include Athena LaTocha, Mitsu Salmon, Beili Liu, Ella Morton, Alexis Elton, Jason Francisco, Carol Padberg, Jonathan Marquis, Heidi Gustafson, and Sarah Gerats. Artworks range from investigating the Arctic region to New Mexico’s atomic histories, expressed through organic sculptural forms, video, performance, paintings, photography, and multimedia installation.
Fluid Gaze T-shirt
$20.00
This t-shirt was designed by our friends Luis and Roberto at IMEC in Nob Hill in conjunction with the exhibition Fluid Gaze (September 30–December 30, 2023).
Walls of Resistance / Walls of Pride
$12.95
Introduction by Deborah Jojola
28 pages, 24 postcards
Published: 2022
Twenty four full-color reproductions of some of New Mexico’s most beautiful and significant murals by indigenous artists, all in postcard form. Each page is perforated so the postcards can be easily removed. Introduction by Deborah Jojola (Isleta Pueblo/Jemez Pueblo), a painter, fresco artist, lithographer, teacher and curator.
Art Meets History New Mexico
$15.00
Introduction by Ric Kasini Kadour
47 pages
Published: 2022
The catalog for the two-part exhibition, Art Meets History: Many Worlds Are Born and Technologies of the Spirit, is now available from 516 ARTS, while supplies last. It features essays by co-curators Ric Kasini Kadour and Alicia Inez Guzmán, PhD, text about each of the artists, and photographs from the Albuquerque Museum Photography Archives.
Radical Reimaginings
$20.00
Introduction by Ric Kasini Kadour
96 pages
Published: 2020
Radical Reimaginings is a survey of artists working with collage who were asked to reimagine the world in response to unprecedented change taking place in the world in 2020. Forty artists from nine countries and multiple Indigenous peoples–Salish-Kootenai/Métis-Cree/Sho-Ban, Tlingit/Nisga’a, Oglala/Lakota, and Seneca Nation–offer a variety of perspectives. The voices of Black, Latinx, Native, and white Americans mingle with those from Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Canada, France, and Germany.
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry
$15.00
Collected and with an Introduction by Joy Harjo, 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate
Forward By Carla D. Hayden, Librarian of Congress
240 pages
This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project—including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, and Layli Long Soldier, among others—to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. The chosen poems reflect on the theme of place and displacement and circle the touchpoints of visibility, persistence, resistance, and acknowledgment.
Feminisms Exhibition Catalog
$8.00
Feminisms
Exhibition Catalog
28 pages
Dialogue with curator Andrea R. Hanley & writer Lucy R. Lippard
Species in Peril Along the Rio Grande Exhibition Catalog
$20.00
Land Acknowledgement by Rosie Thunderchief with Roger Fragua and Brophy Toledo
Preface by Suzanne Sbarge, Executive Director of 516 ARTS
Essays by curators Josie Lopez, PhD and Subhankar Banerjee & journalist Laura Paskus
Species in Peril Tote Bag
$10.00
Tote Bag designed by Albuquerque artist Nina Elder
Printed by 111 Media Collective
Silkscreen on heavy cotton canvas
516 ARTS Tote Bag
$10.00
516 ARTS Tote Bag designed by artist Karl Hofmann
Silkscreen on heavy cotton canvas