Antenna Press is proud to announce the release of Abolition Film Society: Flipbook Cinema by Kriss Li & Amber Kim, Kriss Li was one of the recipients of the 2022 Paper Machine residency. Abolition Film Society: Flipbook Cinema2024, 5” x 6.25” x 2.75” Box with 5 flip books and 1 interview book, all perfect bound.$94Available … Antenna Press book release
Ghost Orchid is an artist book inspired by the ghost orchid, Dendrophylax lindenii, the highly coveted and elusive flora native to the South Florida Everglade and the wetlands of Cuba. The book uses prose, imagery, and holographic papers to narrate a fever dream from the perspective of the orchid and its pollinators. Cristina Molina hails … Ghost Orchid
The first book of prose from Kalamu ya Salaam, the prolific New Orleans writer and activist. In Love and Struggle is about complicated relationships and oppressive structures and where we situation ourselves as human beeings when confronted with life’s darkness. The book includes an interview with Kalamu’s daughter Kiini Ibura Salaam, who also contributed the … In Love and Struggle
Weaving together words and images, Paper Portals winds through the migration of the artist’s family, the emergence of their political consciousness, and their work in/for beloved community. Part poem, part visual meditation, part fragments of spells, the work reflects the author’s relationship to New Orleans on a personal, historical, and metaphysical level. Paper Portals invites … Paper Portals: A braided spellbook
We are so excited to host New Orleans artist Cristina Molina as the June resident at the Paper Machine. Cristina will be working on a book project based on the mysterious ghost orchid, native of the South Florida Everglades and the Wetlands of Cuba. The book will combine prose, imagery, and luminous materials to narrate … Cristina Molina: June Paper Machine Resident
Gladiator School documents Theral Harris’ time from ages 13 to 17 incarcerated in Baltimore’s juvenile justice system in the 1990s. Through first-hand narrative, recovered photos, and ephemera, the book exposes the effects of criminalizing youth in a system “designed to break your spirit.” Tammy Mercure is a photographer and book artist. Theral Harris is a … Gladiator School
Through layers of translucent vellum, (Morir es Vivir) uses drawings, photos, and the collected language of the New Orleans community to consider interconnectivity, individuality, death & living, learning from the past, inheritance, children & families, housing, labor, fossil fuels, prison, revolution, and imagination, all in response to the question: “What must die (institutionally, personally, relationship-wise, … (Morir es Vivir)
Membering brings together documents, conversations and images of a search to understand a psychological inheritance that includes the enslavement of hundreds of people. The work includes six handsewn pamphlets enclosed in a paper slipcase that weave the documents and photographs into layered narratives around the themes of ownership, power, privilege and identity. Meredith Davenport is … Membering
Bail Outs, Banners, and Shredded Criminal Records Opening Reception: 6pm Tuesday February 26 @ Paper Machine 6330 St. Claude Ave Join us for the current exhibition at Paper Machine by the People’s Paper Co-op and Reentry Think Tank. The exhibition features multi-year projects made in collaboration between artists, lawyers, and formerly incarcerated men and women … Bail Outs, Banners, and Shredded Criminal Records
