Residency Program
Artist’s Publications
2023
We are excited to share the work of our 2023 EUREKA! and Penumbra Foundation Risograph Print & Publication Residents. Please consider purchasing a book, and supporting the continued growth of this program into the future.
Limited quantities of all publications will be available directly from Penumbra at the book launch:
Thursday, October 5th, 6–8pm, at Penumbra Foundation.
EL GOBIERNO TE ODIA
Christopher Gregory-Rivera
“By understanding the state's gaze can we come to understand the current civil society it built? If so, does that allow us to dismantle its control over us now?
These questions are at the center of the book El Gobierno Te Odia (The Government Hates You). Rescuing a never before seen state surveillance archive, it reconstructs the visual history of one of the longest continuous surveillance programs on US citizens by their own government. From the 1940’s until 1987 a secret police unit was tasked with politically persecuting those advocating for independence from the US, feminists, labor organizations and environmental activists under the guise of national security.
The book appropriates images from the secret police archive, the manual they supplied their officers on how to watch as well as present day surveillance footage. It recontextualizes this largely forbidden and forgotten political history using the very receipts of its criminalization at a crucial time as Puerto Rico grapples with the suffocating effects of its colonial reality.”
–Christopher Gregory-Rivera
Pages: 92
Binding: Screwpost
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, and Carnival
Size: 9" × 12"
Edition: 150
Printing: Risograph (Black), Foil Stamp (cover)
Design: Alejandro Torres Viera
Typeface: Quadrant Text – Vincent Chan & Public Sans – USWDS
Price: $75
How to grow una flor en el desierto
Alina Patrick
“How to grow una flor en el desierto examines the intergenerational trauma of spousal abuse; violence against women, and how memories of people seep across new places and generations. In my mother’s old family albums, the women – especially my grandmother Tillie – are demure and lovely. However, after viewing them as an adult with an awareness of the violence Tillie and the other women in my family were subject to, the photographs appear hollow and incomplete. Photography is a dangerous way to remember people — it is often untrue, glossy, and misleading. This project is a radical intervention into both the family photo album and the practice of remembering. In How to grow una flor en el desierto, Tillie’s absence is made visible in image as her form merges into the land where she died. Bodies and geographies from old family photographs melt together and are mixed with new images of New Mexico that I made with an informed perspective and an active yearning to fully remember. The inclusion of poetry invites the reader further into these family stories and provides an outline to the events which the images subtly portray. Places do live inside us as memories do, and in revisualizing the images – which only told half truths about vulnerable family members – this work is an attempt to look at homeland and the past with an honest stare.”
–Alina Patrick
Pages: 88
Binding: Perfect
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, and Via
Size: 9" × 12"
Edition: 96
Printing: Risograph (Black, Red, Yellow, Purple, Gold), Foil Stamp (cover)
Typeface: Adobe Jenson – Robert Slimbach
Price: $75
How to Understand a Rock
Kate Schneider
“How to Understand a Rock is a deconstructed field guide that employs play, touch, and intimacy to discuss the relational disconnect between humans and the more-than-human world.
The rocks in this series come from a shield of Precambrian granite that blankets much of Canada (commonly known as the Canadian Shield) and ranges from 2 to 3 billion years old. While holding these rocks, most of which come from my childhood rock collection, I am struck by the incomprehensibility of deep time and the inexact and absurd ways we try to understand their life and formation. We know the basic structure of our planetary evolution, but when it comes to knowing the exact birth of a rock, we can only say it took between 10 minutes to 4.5 billion years to create.
Moving beyond scientific certainty, I want to know how it feels to cradle an inanimate and essentially unknowable object. Is it comforting? Whimsical? Or even familial? Attempting to relate to something outside the human time scale is a contradiction; however, that contradiction makes human-geological intimacy fascinating. Through images and poetry, I ask what a relationship with the more-than-human can teach us about our ways of being.”
–Kate Schneider
Pages: 72
Binding: Perfect
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Via, and Keaycolour
Size: 9" × 12"
Edition: 100
Printing: Risograph (Black, Red, Purple, Yellow), Screenprint (cover)
Design: Cristian Ordóñez
Cover Printing: Jo Yetter
Typeface: Domaine – Klim Type
Price: $75
Partner
The 2023 Risograph Publication Residency program is conducted in partnership with EUREKA! – an arts organization founded in 2020, in Kingston, NY. The mission of the organization includes connecting and expanding the community; providing artists with an alternative platform for showing work and making new site-specific work, hosting education and skill-based workshops, and publishing free zines and art publications.