Mutant Perspectives 2022

Friday 22

• 6 pm - Audimat

  Since 2012, the French collective Audimat has been exploring the political and social dimension of music outside restrictive promotional and academic boundaries, and in 2020 it branched out into independent publishing. At this special edition of Libros Mutantes, they will present their first Spanish-language book—co-published with La Casa Encendida and designed by Pierre Vanni—with essays by Kemi Adeyemi, Ellen Willis, Wayne Marshall, Catherina Guesde and Frances Morgan.

  The launch of the first volume in this collection will be hosted by its editor, Guillaume Heuguet, and Mónica Carroquino, deputy director of La Casa Encendida.

• 7 pm - Tabloid Press

  Tabloid Press are poets just talking, playing with talking. Founded in Berlin in 2014 by Zoe Darsee and Nat Marcus, Tabloid Press wrote poems that could bridge a “scene” or slice open a “club”,  wrote to enter a dancefloor as a poet and let the dancefloor enter the poem. Since then, Tabloid has released numerous publications and expanded its activities to include facilitating poetry workshops, designing books and clothing, and organising readings and parties. Regardless of format or function, this press’s activities always aim to innervate the body with a force called “lyric”. Nat Marcus will tell us how Tabloid’s relationship with the body, whether individual or collective, has changed since its inception.

• 8 pm - FLEE Project

  A hybrid initiative that functions as a record label, publishing house and exhibition organiser, FLEE Project (France) attempts to shed light on specific phenomena and subcultures, such as pearl diving in the Arabian Gulf. Its residency programme Extra Muros, which has been held in Italy and Kenya, brings musical artists together to cross references and experience new sounds. For each issue, FLEE releases a vinyl record along with a printed publication, helping its audience to grasp the essence of the featured movements.

  At this year’s Libros Mutantes fair, FLEE will also take us on an audible journey through different regions and cultures to highlight lesser-known genres and approach them from multiple angles. Ritual music, work songs, relaxation anthems... a selection that underscores the socio-economic dimension of music and how it structures local contexts.

Saturday 23

• 6 pm - Wendy's Subway

  Wendy’s Subway is a reading room, writing space, and independent publisher in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Wendy’s Subway interdisciplinary program includes free readings, talks, performances, and reading groups, as well as sliding-scale writing workshops and intensives. We offer residencies designed to uplift artistic and scholarly research, archival and library projects, and independent publishing practices. Wendy’s Subway publishing initiative includes artist’s books, poetic texts, and hybrid-genre works by time-based artists. Wendy’s Subway non-circulating library, open to the public, holds a collection of over 3,000 titles, ranging from poetry and fiction, to criticism and art books. 

• 7 pm - Kristýna Kulíková

  The work of Kristýna Kulíková, a graphic designer based in Prague, is fundamentally linked to the music scene. Her projects blend the formal language of speculative design with deconstructed typography media and combine URL deposits with craftworking methods. Information overload becomes spatial hallucination.

• 8 pm - Tres Tipos Gráficos

  The activities of this Madrid-based creative studio range from publishing, venue and exhibition design to typography and artistic direction on illustration, photography and video projects. Their work has received numerous distinctions, including the Gràffica Award for the Best in Graphic Design and Visual Culture (2015), a D&AD Award (Wood Pencil, London, 2015), several ADG Laus Prizes (Barcelona, 2010–2019), the Fedrigoni Top Award (Parma, 2013), a diploma from the Type Directors Club (New York, 2012), and the PHotoESPAÑA Best Photography Book of the Year Award (2012). The studio partners also have extensive teaching experience at a variety of educational institutions.

With the support of: Centro Checo de Madrid, Embassy of Switzerland in Spain, Goethe-Institut and Institut français