Limestone Books

Limestone Books is an art book platform founded by a curatorial collective Jhen Chen, Liang-Kai Yu, Emily Shin-Jie Lee, Hsieh I Hsuan, and Chang Yu-Hsin in Maastricht. They are dedicated to art publishing and contemporary art, with a collection of titles that promotes non-western-centric perspectives, underrepresented voices, and the diasporic community.

Tropical Reading: Photobook and Self-Publishing

The book illustrates the photography practitioners and artist collectives from each city in Southeast Asia, examining why they chose to get into self-publishing. It explores how independent art bookstores came to be the social parlours of the self-publishing crowd.

ISBN: 978-90-83361-163-5
Softcover, 344 pages, 140 x 200 mm
Published 2024, Retail Price: € 28,00
Three different covers: yellow, magenta, green

Perverted Norm, Normal Pervert

Authors: Ku Kuang-Yi, Dr. Joris M. Koene
Graphic design: Yu-Tzu Huang

In this project, Ku first focuses on four particularities of “sex” to compare and contrast the sexual activities between snails and humans, taking scientific knowledge as the basis, for the following visual art creations.

ISBN: 978-90-83361-162-8
Softcover, 144 pages, 120 x 190 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 22,00

ICUM

Welcome to ICUM, an audacious zine dedicated to the unapologetic exploration of ku’er, transcending traditional art spaces with an ethos defined by the intersectionality of global connections. In this inaugural issue, ICUM invites readers to revel in the versatility of queer art and curation.

Softcover, 56 pages, 185 x 255 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 15,00

Cut from a Bigger Cloth

Text and editorial: Addoley Dzegede

Explorations in Batik, Dye and Wax Print.

ISBN: 978-9-0833616-1-1
Softcover, 152 pages, 200 x 270 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 40,00

Goodbye to the Art

Authors: Sooji Lee, Chen Chen, Marjolein van der Loo, Jihyun Shin

Documents the journey of dismantling and disposing of two machines.

ISBN: 978-9-0833616-0-4
Softcover, 152 pages, 120 x 195 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 20,00

Making Love in the Zoo

Authors: Ku Kuang-Yi, Thijs de Zeeuw and Anne-Florence Neveu

Making Love in the Zoo explores stories of sexuality in the environment of captivity in the Zoological garden.

ISBN: 978-94-93148-94-9
Softcover, 56 pages, 210 x 297 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 16,50

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