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“And what would we eat? Lizards?” A fiction of love, labor, and exorcism on the factory floor. With images by the author., https://www.librarystack.org/my-life-as-a-lithium-sex-demon/?ref=unknown

The Word for World is Forest proposes a future that values conscious symbiosis. It invites the audience to envision an existence of mutual respect, care, and survival. Artists Sofía Córdova, Beatriz Cortez, Candice Lin, Allison Smith, and Patrick Staff provide lenses for viewing time as malleable and circular—constructing a world where the future is, in fact, possible and within reach. This exhibition takes its name from Ursula K. Le Guin’s novella The Word for World is Forest. In the 1972 work, Le Guin imagines a future scenario where humans have created a colony on another planet to exploit the native ..., https://www.librarystack.org/word-for-world-is-forest-the/?ref=unknown

The materials in Toolkit for Cooperative, Collective, & Collaborative Cultural Work trace a process we have been working through for over a year with over 25 collaborators, mentors, and friends whom we admire. As we reached the final stages of compiling this project to share and distribute publicly, we suddenly found ourselves within the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented global health crisis that has shaken our community, our process, and every aspect of our lives. In the wake of the pandemic, we are reminded that at the heart of our work lies the understanding that wellbeing, integrity, equity, and care is ..., https://www.librarystack.org/toolkit-for-cooperative-collective-collaborative-cultural-work/?ref=unknown

A book of theory, essays, stories, and poems released in association with the exhibition Hyperobjects at Ballroom Marfa, which explores the overwhelming scale of today’s ecological crisis., https://www.librarystack.org/hyperobjects-for-artists/?ref=unknown

The artists included in Material Deviance use the quotidian, unassuming stuff of life and its circulation as a means of engaging larger social and infrastructural processes. They look to irregularities, gaps, residues, and altered states, whether found or enacted, as material traces of latent histories and underlying systems of power to expose the invisible forces of regulation, value, and control. While such systems inevitably shape the movement of bodies and things through the world—from the level of the individual to the social—the works on view reveal the cracks through which deviant modes of being and perceiving can emerge…, https://www.librarystack.org/in-practice-material-deviance/?ref=unknown