Isabel Hood
May 25th 2022

SPECIAL EDITIONPerimeter Editions and Lenard Smith have produced a special edition of 25 copies of 'Melancholy Objects'.It’s no mistake that Lenard Smith’s new book borrows its title from Susan Sontag’s 1977 essay of the same name. Melancholy Objects – the Los Angeles-based Artist grounds the photographic endeavour in the surreal, the introspective, and the referential. Working in the tradition of the ragpicker, Smith sifts through personal and found objects to create formal compositions that gently intersect sculpture with the still life - broaching new purposes and hierarchies, and pulsing with a sense of humour, play, and solemnity.Unlikely materials and choreographies elicit a furrow or a smirk. While history and function inspire each photograph, it is the imagination that subverts and ungrounds them. In the spirit of Dadaism, we’re left happily adrift in their presence.110 pages21 x 12.5 cmSoftcover Perimeter Editions

Thin band with multiple silver droplets. Each of those bands is one-of-the-kind, hand sculpted in wax using 3D modelling software.Made from silver 925.All the way from Warsaw, Poland - Fruiting Bodies is a contemporary jewellery brand designed and made by Martyna Dymek and Marcin Sieczka. Their pieces are natural, organic and surreal, often using digital software to generate their exquisite forms.

Assembling a Black Counter Culture is a general history of techno and adjacent electronic music genres, with a focus on Black experiences in industrialised labour systems. It confidently explores the development of on-the-ground culture in relation to a uniquely American art form.Revisiting Detroit’s techno roots through the 1980s, writer and musician DeForrest Brown, Jr. follows the extended thinking and techniques behind key early players and places them in conversation with the African-American working class in the historically emblematic Motor City. From The Belleville Three to today’s international club floor, 'Assembling a Black Counter Culture' illuminates the mechanics of American mainstream cultural production and reinstates electronic music from a Black theoretical perspective.A critical reconsideration emerges with references to Theodore Roszak’s Making of a Counter Culture, writings by African-American autoworker and political activist James Boggs, and the 'techno rebels' of Alvin Toffler’s Third Wave, among others, tracing parallels between movements in Black electronic music and attempts to evade and subvert the race and class-essentialist status quo established by American technocratic distribution of labor and capital.128 pages, 17.5 x 10.5 cm, softcover, Primary Information (New York).

WINDOW < IKKUNA > ARTIST BOOK by Miri BadgerMiri spent 2012 in Turku, Finland and after 10 years, in August 2022, she found herself there again as an artist in residence at Fiskars Village. She became interested in the way recollections of place and experience mutate over time, in particular the rewiring of her memories from 10 years ago. This culminated in the series of paintings, poems, journal entries and watercolour drawings on handmade paper, made over a month-long residency.Miri then collaborated with Marilena Hewitt ( Platypus Publication) to create this artist book. Creating a dialogue between written and painted work in an attempt to extend the research begun during her 2022 Finland residency.Limited edition artist book, printed in Meanjin (Brisbane) by Printcraft. Soft cover edition 240 x 320 mm Portrait.

A spectacle, a theatre, a multi-dimensional document. An effort to merge language and formlessness in a yearning for a cyclic work. A stage for these merges to play out. A reminder that when we grow we don’t only grow upwards. The already porous membrane seemingly separating dark from light, pain from joy, and active from passive becomes intensely insignificant when we occasionally get a chance to observe ourselves from the other side of the mirror. The Archive of Dark is a book project acting as an epilogue to a body of work investigating darkness that included two separate yet coherent exhibitions; Influenza, Theatre of Glowing Darkness, 2017 and Renaissance of the Night, 2018. The book weaves together a dense collection of historic imagery into an organic and emotive narrative. It features a series of letters from a variety of contributors that include perceptual, intellectual, spiritual, scientific and artistic reflections.The book is case-bound with a linen cloth and has four cover variations, each with a different combination of plate-sunk images.304 pages21.5 x 30cmHardcoverInOtherWords (London).

20231400 x 1400mmGiclee print on polyester chiffonIsabel Hood (she/her) is a digital artist and designer living and working in Meanjin/Brisbane. Her practice explores alternative approaches to data collection and display, to ultimately question ideas of data ownership, vulnerability and decontextualisation.The speculative design nature of Hood’s practice recognises ideas of data reclamation and emphasises the already inherently biased and flawed existence of typical data collection and presentation processes. Hood intends to embed a more contextual and vulnerable display of data, through screen-based, print and sculptural mediums.