Unbidden Tongues

Since its beginnings in 2020, Unbidden Tongues has published previously produced work by cultural practitioners busy with questions surrounding civility and civic life—particularly in relation to language and its administration. Each title is printed in black-and-white and made with the intention to keep production efforts low, easily reproducible and financially sustainable, so as to contribute as effectively as possible to a wider circulation of the work. Unbidden Tongues is edited by Isabelle Sully and the series is designed by Matt Hinkley.

Unbidden Tongues #8: Feelers

This publication brings together three photographic series by artist and activist Alexis Hunter. In a storyboard-like fashion, her ‘photo narrative sequences’ forensically detail her manhandling of artefacts of patriarchal oppression through the caressing touch of an array of characters: the Marxist's wife, an interventionist secretary and a manicured mechanic.

ISBN: 978-94-90629-29-8
Softcover, 24 pages, 120 x 220 mm
Published 2023, Retail Price: € 7,00

Unbidden Tongues #7: Continuity Girl

Continuity Girl unpacks the ‘forensic feminist methodology’ developed by writer, curator and administrator Naomi Pearce.

ISBN: 978-94-90629-26-7
Softcover, 112 pages, 120 x 160 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 9,00

Unbidden Tongues #6: Reading the New York Times

Unbidden Tongues #6: Reading the New York Times took the form of an event that unfolded over a newly conceived spoken-word version of Lorraine O’Grady’s collage series Cutting Out the New York Times.

Softcover, 12 pages, 217 x 280 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 4,00

Unbidden Tongues #5: Between the Teeth

Drawing on artist, poet and filmmaker Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s extensive and largely unexhibited archive of 'work on paper'.

ISBN: 978-94-90629-31-1
Softcover pamphlet, 110 x 210 mm
Published 2021, Retail Price: € 2,00

Unbidden Tongues #3.1

This poster, housed in the archive of Kunstverein München and announcing Piper’s exhibition there in 1992, was reprinted in February 2022 on the occasion of Unbidden Tongues’ participation in On and Off the Grid, a yearly program of presentations and events dedicated to various form(at)s of publishing at the Schaufenster am Hofgarten, Kunstverein München.

1 page (poster), 148 x 210 mm
Published 2022, Retail Price: € 3,00

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