S T U P E N D O U S offers graphic design services and production in exchange for content, providing artists and authors the means to transform their work into printed objects. Each publication is generated collaboratively via a joint process between the artist and the designer.
Submissions welcome.
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Roth's latest work commemorates and eulogizes the closure of her trailer/studio in Gilberton, PA. The artist purchased a small plot there in 2011 and in August 2021 she sold it, along with her trailer. In June 2020 mysterious waters rose from the ground beneath the trailer—a man-made disaster which simulated a natural one. The Flood honors collective grief, healing, and the potential catharsis made possible through the act of total acceptance.
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Mons Pubis takes you on a disassociated, druggy, New York City bus ride, slowly barreling into the future as old date spots, urban detritus, and the lives of so many strangers pass out of view. In the collection the poet drinks nutcrackers on the beach, notices the figures of women, ponders visiting a happy ending massage parlor, and overindulges in dissociative powders.
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eco(mode) features Plummer reading a selection from Mons Pubis set on top of a spectral swirl of synthesizers, drum circles, and field recordings; produced by Devon Welsh.
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Voice to Skull Technology is the transcript of a 2016 interview conducted by artist Alex Roth with ex-Police Chief of Gilberton, Pennsylvania, Mark Kessler. It is the first compendium to be released as part of the ongoing project documented in Please Make Sure Your Camper Is Secure.
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Reading Please Make Sure Your Camper is Secure is for me, at moments, like reading Michel de Certeau's “Walking in the City,” or Guy Debord's Psychogeographic Guide to Paris. At other times it is like the best moments from Annie Dillard's Teaching a Stone to Talk, or the various atlases of Rebecca Solnit. But at bottom it reminds me, and is as thrilling and troubling, as Jayne Anne Phillips' Black Tickets or Joan Didion's The White Album. Ultimately, comparisons fall short of describing just what this book is and who Alex is as a person and artist.
—David Griffith, from the foreword
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Dark Alcoves, Hidden Niches, and Cozy Corners looks at the appeal of the alcove as a retreat within social spaces, satisfying dual needs for privacy and a sense of belonging. Kelley explores the architectural device's history and use over the past two centuries, even during modernism's push for open, uninterrupted space.
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