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Life Before_
If something was to wake up a species from a downward evolutionary spiral, you wouldn’t want it to be climate change. Because that is a very firm planetary reset button. And by the time climate equilibrium has been tipped, it is too late to avoid losing and never getting back ecosystems, weather, landscapes, creatures and plants this species takes for granted.
But here we are.
Facing the risk of survival on an increasingly uninhabitable Earth.
Climate change is more than a series of cascading problems to be solved. It represents an existential opening towards real chaos, renewal and recovery. Living with climate awareness is a hack into an initiatory experience, not a fixed trajectory for success or failure.
Mark Suciu formulates a query in the introduction to the Life Before book: “how can we explore the idea of a life before a weaponized climate starts to change our relationship to the world?” This question is examined by a group of fourteen artists and writers - friends of the publisher coimbatoreshoppe- in the book Life Before_.
coimbatoreshoppehas been making artist lead publications and apparel since 2014. The initiative works through a slowly expanding community of people from very different walks of life and with equally diverse forms of aesthetic expressions. From photography, painting, essays, interviews, fashion, and poetry, the aspiration of coimbatoreshoppehas been to hold open space for popular culture to encounter radical ideas. There are thirty-five of such projects and this is one of the last.
Adidas have partnered up with coimbatoreshoppeto create a publication for artists and writers to express themselves freely on matters of ecological unraveling. What formed is an assembly of citizens’ expressions. An incomplete guide that might direct towards hidden paths beneath the dominant battlegrounds.
It is natural and ok to feel anxious about the many forms of devastation brought about by the hands of the powerful. To feel unfit in a world where information systems steer everything they encounter to become consumers - the real world paperclip AI - could be a sign of mental health. To be unsettled about the ways more and more technological capabilities create growing levels of ecological instability and uncertainty - a high-tech new dark age - also seems reasonable. It is not unusual or wrong to feel bad about the larger predicaments of the present day, but it is also not enough.
It is important to know that these reactions are shared by many. If this is a first encounter for you with attempts at highlighting the emotional consequences of climate change, this project should be seen as one of many. There are growing communities of people who are sharing emotional intelligence across the world. Inventing psychological methods, therapeutic approaches, rituals, organizations and pushing for positive climate actions in more ways than can be summarized here. Good places to go further is to dive into sources such as Gen Dread, Heated, Hot Take, We can Fix It, Eco-Anxious Stories , and Good Grief.
We believe it is through our capacities to work with the emotions rising in us in these years and decades that important answers to questions of sustainability, equity and resilience will come through action. The sources above have already started this work and gone far in a very short amount of time. Hopefully they will continue to open up spaces for identifying and working with climate emotions. What Life Before has to offer in this regard is an aesthetically ambiguous plot - a starting point with multiple histories and possible aftermaths.
by Aslak Aamot Helm
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Koki Sato's second book, Nostalgia is a story told of juxatposed landscapes, still-lifes and abstractions. The work was shot solely in New York City.
As Theophilos Constantinou writes,
"Analog nostalgia
reveals graceful fragility
in eclipsed dreams.
[...]
Offset permanence
as discipline yields patience
and time develops mastery.
Koki Sato honors remembrance. "
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LOUD MONEY is a publication featuring a series of collaborative new works from New York City-based artist Curtis Kulig and poet Max Blagg. What began as a random assemblage of various images, paintings, poem fragments, correspondence, photographs, and drawings between these Downtown neighbors, quickly acquired a solid artistic coherence. Originally slated for release in the Spring of 2019, the arrival of the pandemic and lockdown delayed this vigorous experiment. The original intention of a rapid-fire zine has evolved into the production of an exquisite, offset printed clothbound 104-page full-color monograph. A seamless harmonic convergence between artist and poet, blending Kulig’s elegant visual vernacular with Blagg’s singular poetic expression, and further embellished by a brilliant Afterword and ringside commentary by renowned artist Jamie Nares.
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In his first collection of poetry, titled Rodeo Wasteland, Gabriel Morgan explores themes of nature and technology, fading wilderness, politics, and life as a member of the internet generation. Long fascinated with placing himself in nature, much of Gabriel’s work stems from lengthy solo camping trips away from the city. Stemming from this same practice, a selection of sumi ink prints taken from Lake of the Woods, Ontario and New York City position themselves as a physical reference point to the work. With a belief that poetry can be a sort of shared map through the cognition of experience, Rodeo Wasteland is meant to create a testament to finding in the contested wilds of our contemporary world.
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Gwen Smith’s The Black Women Project (Vol. 1 & 2) is a collection of her painted portraits of renowned Black Women. Smith uses selfies to reference each time she entered her studio over a period of 2.5 years, creating a rhythm by merging her identity as a Black Woman with her subjects. Some of the women Smith chooses to paint are artists, scientists, educators, politicians, writers, poets and performers. All are respected by Smith and provide the impetus for her ongoing self exploration.
Volume 2 was finished in a matter of six months during the novel coronavirus lockdown in New York. The pandemic brought on a profusion of exposure to Black Women through the global protests against the murder and subjugation of black lives.
Smith evolved from one volume to the other, as her commitment and practice formed a system of documentation akin to a growth chart. She refined her instrument to visualize and vocalize the abundance of Black Women’s contributions, and their ability to endure and thrive against the odds.
In her earlier publications, Tropic, Cancer and Edgy, Gwen Smith’s lens-based focus deconstructs concepts of leisure to share her concerns, joys and passions. Her zine, The Yoda Project, records 16 years with her partner Haim Steinbach and their son River. The collection is a testament to their relationship and artistic practice, creating multiple inquiries through humor, ritual, graphic design, and chronology.
The Black Women Project furthers the intimate realizations Smith’s books provide, revealing her connections to a community of women by adding her own voice and image to the collective of Black Women deserving respect and admiration.
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Gwen Smith’s The Black Women Project (Vol. 1 & 2) is a collection of her painted portraits of renowned Black Women. Smith uses selfies to reference each time she entered her studio over a period of 2.5 years, creating a rhythm by merging her identity as a Black Woman with her subjects. Some of the women Smith chooses to paint are artists, scientists, educators, politicians, writers, poets and performers. All are respected by Smith and provide the impetus for her ongoing self exploration.
Volume 1 took two years to complete (2018 – 2020) and was originally conceived as a device to keep track of her progress in her studio practice.
Smith evolved from one volume to the other, as her commitment and practice formed a system of documentation akin to a growth chart. She refined her instrument to visualize and vocalize the abundance of Black Women’s contributions, and their ability to endure and thrive against the odds.
In her earlier publications, Tropic, Cancer and Edgy, Gwen Smith’s lens-based focus deconstructs concepts of leisure to share her concerns, joys and passions. Her zine, The Yoda Project, records 16 years with her partner Haim Steinbach and their son River. The collection is a testament to their relationship and artistic practice, creating multiple inquiries through humor, ritual, graphic design, and chronology.
The Black Women Project furthers the intimate realizations Smith’s books provide, revealing her connections to a community of women by adding her own voice and image to the collective of Black Women deserving respect and admiration.
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Hüldra Hare is a collection of works by Sofia Leilani, a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Leilani’s debut art book is an exploration of media and technique in an effort to convey a synthesis of nostalgia, sexuality, psychedelia, and horror. The hüldra is a Swedish mythical creature who encapsulates this: a beautiful woman who lures men in to devour them through a cavernous hole in her back all while cocooning an innocent bunny rabbit.
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Drew Jarrett's third book, Jungle Dreams is an intimate look at Muay Thai boxing in the jungle of Krabi. The work was shot in 2001 when Jarrett was getting clean from years of heroin abuse. As Mario Sorrenti writes, "As a photographer you are always conscious of the machine, of the camera, of the lens, of the exposures and technical aspects of the medium. Here we break through what is taught to us, to create something that reflects what we are feeling inside and break away from those material aspects into something emotional."
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Alex Olson’s debut photo book, RED is the first in a series that he will explore: the 7 colours of the spectrum. His first work features 56 pages, an introduction by Craig Stecyk III, and 100 editions with a limited signed postcard exclusively sold at Beams T Harajuku. As Stecyk writes, "And in 2020 …In the matter of RED… First in a sequence…the next one’s BLUE. GREEN would be complimentary. And YELLOW is someplace else. Collective musings. Publications in search of a form."
ALL PROCEEDS BEING DONATED TO PATH [Greater Los Angeles] AND ARTS FOR INCARCERATED YOUTH NETWORK
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Cam Hicks’ debut photo memoir, For the Porch is a vibrant reflection of the photographer’s first four years immersed in the underground scene of New York City. Featuring 240 pages, over 400 photos and visuals, and 100 editions signed by the artist himself at Dover Street Market New York, this stunning work of visual storytelling opens a portal into the life of an underground artist navigating his way through a vast, eclectic, and often exploitative culture. For the Porch is a representation of the kind of talent and breed that can’t be bought nor replicated: born in the age of social media, wholly immersed in Black culture, and molded to become the bridge between worlds.
The centrality of the internet and social media to the so called “culture industry” has accelerated and intensified the exploitation of youth culture by large corporations and legacy high fashion institutions. At its core, For the Porch is a cautionary tale told from a touchingly personal point of view, angled from the center of this industry. It’s a triumph of dedication, skill, and self-possession, chronicling the consequences of falling prey to external pressures, and the creation of a “personal brand,” or persona, instead of focusing on the refinement of a skill set or craft. Showcasing work with Louis Vuitton, Nike, New Balance, The North Face, and Engineered Garments, Cam looks back on these projects and considers the motives and meaning of a cultivated power and skill honed to move freely across cultures from an avante-garde perspective.
“Cam Hicks has created a feature-length visual exploration of the dizzying highs and bottomless lows of the Clout Era, where energy is the only currency. Were you there when all the energy gathered up and then spontaneously combusted? Cam was. I know because I saw him. He had his camera with him. I guess everyone else had their iPhones up, too, but the difference between For the Porch and so many Instagram Stories, group chats, and afterparty tall-tales is Cam's version includes the doubt spirals, the lonely UberX rides home, the ends that never met. For the Porch is a document of the link-up and the fallout. It's the whole story. I can feel this book.”
Will Welch - Editor in Chief, GQ
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Documented over a seventeen-year period by filmmaker/photographer Greg Hunt, Ninety-Six Dreams, Two Thousand Memories is a in-depth visual study of iconic skateboarder Jason Dill. Beginning at the height of Dill’s pro career, the book follows his world travels, his life at home, and the period of rebuilding after his nearly dying from drug & alcohol abuse. “Jason and I met as teenagers and sponsored skaters in the 90’s but eventually took different paths,” says Hunt, “so when reconnecting years later I had this immediate fascination with who he’d become. That’s when I started photographing him.” The book weaves photos with motion picture stills and ephemera, as well as additional pictures and drawings by Dill himself. It is the first full-length published work by Hunt.
**Official launch and signing w/ Greg Hunt & Jason Dill on June 14 at Dover Street Market NY
**Available to purchase online June 15 through PARADIGM, Fucking Awesome, and in Japan with Supreme
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LOVE Park (1965-2016), also known as John F. Kennedy Plaza, was located in the center of Philadelphia. Architect Vincent Kling drafted the mid-century urban design, which was then implemented by city planner Edmund Bacon. Although it was not designed for skateboarding, the plaza was host to a wave of skateboarders who first discovered its granite expanses as early as the 1980s. It was raised to global renown in the late ’90s with a surge of media coverage. Today, LOVE Park is remembered as one of the foremost landmarks of street skateboarding.
**Signed Edition comes with 8" x 10" fiber based silver gelatin print. Edition of 20
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Featuring: Noam Chomsky | Maxime Büchi | Arto Saari | Erik Brunetti | Les Stroud | Mikael Kennedy | Marie-Fleur Charlesworth
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My Life, You Heard? by Bloodsport is a memoir of his life written from Rikers Island. Bloodsport’s experiences help us further understand how, “Those individuals who deviate from this self-perpetuating cycle of tradition, the ones who deviate from the path of the righteous, those are the ones we consider fair game to the maleficent forces of life. Those are the individuals we look at but don’t see, the ones we touch but don’t feel, the ones we read about in the news, the ones we blindly maneuver around on the sidewalk, the ones who operate in that invisible realm of darkness festering just beneath the surface of our sunlit reality.” Bloodsport’s objective is to help people, to guide people, to mentor people. He is no martyr, simply a storyteller sharing his life experiences.
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LAMB explores obsessions with our current political climate’s representation of the migrant body. It is an examination of sacrifice, profiling those who continue to live their ancestral history through experiences and chronicles of migration.
Over the years, I have seen loved and known ones, as well as those new in connection express how much their families have surrendered, to lend hope to their present and forge a future. Interestingly, these conversations led to an exploration into the role of martyrdom in my own narrative.
This publication is dedicated to anyone who has left their home out of curiosity about the world, or pursuing spiritual discovery but perhaps even more so, to those who are displaced and forced to seek refuge: barred from having a place to call home.
***Each book is hand-bound in Philadelphia, PA***
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Charlie Brown Rules The World, is a comic book satire featuring a grown-up Peanuts gang, collaged from ready-made bits appropriated for Google.
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Run the Jewels is a selection of images published in the New York Post daily crime blotter. Collected over several years, the photos of alleged criminals, victims, and stolen loot uncovers an underbelly of New York City examining the issues of power, surveillance, and self-preservation in America. Run the Jewels is Jeremy Zini’s second publication with coimbatoreshoppe.
Jeremy Zini is a conceptual artist born and raised in New York City. While balancing the line between obsessive compulsiveness and protest, he practices mediums such as painting, printmaking, and sculpture. His work exposes layers of the city engaging in subjects such as time, politics, mysticism, and identity.
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Marie Tomanova’s debut monograph Young American celebrates an idea of an “America” still rife with dreams and possibilities, hope and freedom. As a Czech immigrant struggling in a new environment to belong, to come to terms with her repressive past and her uncertain future, the portraits taken between 2015 and 2018 in New York City visualize an America in which individuality is valued as uniqueness and not judged as a lack of sameness.
Young American resonates with directness, presence, and the ability to see deeply an individual with whom we can somehow identify. It is about optimism, youth, and the connection between people—the humanness that is essential to us all. To look deeply at Tomanova’s portraits and to see them looking deeply back at you is the heart of this work. Young American asserts the hope for a better future as an antidote to an oppressive and intolerant social and political situation in the United States and, perhaps, globally. Young American points not only to youth empowerment and the potent voice and presence that has emerged with it, but also to the welcome disintegration of any sort of set idea about identity. One could contextualize Tomanova’s Young American in the increasingly important and powerful voice of youth culture that is in the process of vitally reshaping gender, society, culture, and igniting a much-needed ideological revolution.
As photographer Ryan McGinley writes in his introduction to Young American, “This is a future free of gender binaries and stale old definitions of beauty. In Marie’s world people can just simply be. I wish all of America’s youth culture looked like Marie’s photos of Downtown, diverse and inclusive.
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Safety in Numbers is about family, because it is the bedrock. It’s about sisters, because they are the most intuitive. No one is as close to my experience as my sisters. They share my mind. Sometimes we are called to support each other, which are always the most challenging moments. This is when we rise for our sisters. Together we are strongest.
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Harlem Remembers the Bronx is the equivalent of Stand By Me meets Pulp Fiction. Harlem, the protagonist, meets everyday challenges, while madness is always right on his heels. Harlem's childhood friends all turned out completely different from one another but they have each other's backs as jaw-dropping events unravel simultaneously.
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“From a motorcycle journey through Bali fleeing an erupting volcano, to traversing the jungle landscape of Indonesia by boat and bus from Surabaya to Java and Jakarta, flying over oil fields in Kuwait to two dawns and an evening in Qatar spent walking around aimlessly under a pomegranate sky, to visiting a sister and grandmother in Taiwan, riding scooters through pineapple fields and rainforests in Hawaii, going on countless hikes through the fire damaged regions of Ojai, driving from one coast to the other across the US, along with a multitude of trips throughout the Southwest, either in Navajo Nation, Apache County, or the numerous National Parks and Monuments strewn about the region; each image created tying back to the narrative strands that had begun to thread their way through my life last year: losing a lover after nearly half a decade, the fathers of both my parents coming close to death, one who I know intimately and another I only recently learned the name of, a desert rising within them while simultaneously throughout it all, I had begun to experience the petals of a new love like I’d never known. One life lost, two others rising, and another that had just rose.”
Desert Rose, the latest artist book from Jason Jaworski, combines images created throughout the latter seasons of 2017, along with the most recent ones in 2018, from travels on both hemispheres across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
The book’s design and construction were formed by the idea to combine physical elements from the artist’s recent travels, starting with the simple manila envelope that houses the book with the title written by hand in white charcoal, which is the same that triage centers in Bali handed out to persons to hold their passports stranded from the erupting Mt. Agung nearby. The book’s cover is a piece of transparent film meant to mimic a car window, each of which was sun baked in desert dirt over a week’s period whose fragments of earth are designed to dissolve and be pressed upon the pages of the book as each reader looks through it, displacing the dirt throughout the matte black pages and the 85 digital dry prints hand placed and tipped in by hand. In addition, a dehydrated rose petal from bouquets grown outside the artist’s studio adorns the first page, along with the title once again written by hand on top of film-based correction tape. As a further interactive element, the book contains a loose-leaf colophon insert, along with a “Rose Ticket” housed inside a coin envelop which readers can send in to receive a personalized mail art piece in the form of a textwork letter from the artist.
Jason Jaworski (b. 1987) is a writer, photographer and artist best known for his intimate portraits, sprawling textworks, large scale performance projects, and deeply personal artist books, all of which have been published and shown in numerous exhibitions around the world, along with having been performed privately to persons as wide ranging as Ringo Starr and Werner Herzog. His 2015 solo exhibition, Thinking Of You, was nominated for an ICP Infinity Award in the arts category, while an artist book he created to accompany the exhibition was chosen as one of the top ten photobooks of the year by 10x10 Photobooks. Recently, his artist book Inshallah was nominated for the 2017 MACK First Book Award. He also runs SSK Press.
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Fascinated with endless, dream-like landscapes since his childhood in Mammoth Lakes, California, photographer Joshua Olley’s Cry Like a Man explores the reality of social and economic structures of the American West. Through visuals of vast deserts, mountains and man-made structures, Cry Like a Man observes how humans interact with these harsh environments.
Olley’s work aims to merge a lineage of social documentary with abstract narratives and visuals. An instinctual aesthetic appreciation, rooted in a hyper-vigilant observation of the world, has led to a fascination in social patterns, constructed identities and intuitive human behaviors. He currently lives and works in New York City.
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Clouds made of birds drift over the rooftops of the neighborhood. Some of the last pigeon keepers in New York City live here, in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Throughout the day their birds fly over the block, drawing unnameable shapes across the sky. Patterns of soul and patterns of survival. Some of the birds are the color of ash, others are the color of bright snow and apricots. Some of the birds look like longings. All of the birds are more colorful than they appear. When the birds fly it’s like watching a heartbeat, or ocean waves, and the shape of each flight pattern is different than the one that comes before and after.
Sometimes I photograph the birds from the corner of my street. Other times I photograph them from my kitchen window, but mostly I don’t photograph them at all. I just sit by the window, and I watch them fly. I imagine that somehow they will always be flying, because these birds don't require the holiness of doves. I imagine someone will always be raising them, and all the things like them. Somehow, somewhere, someone will be caring for every current and every acre and everything that drifts in the air and across the sea. Somehow everything will survive, and everything imaginable will someday exist.
Jordan Sullivan is an artist based in Los Angeles and Brooklyn, NY. His work explores the borders that exist between abandonment and loss, hope and resilience.