We have received a copy of "Bartlebooth" a fifth editorial experiment, launched in November, "Production: four minor strategies." And we recommend you as a reading and possible gift these days.

This issue titled "Production: four minor strategies" is a collective reflection on art and architecture, made by its editors (Antonio Giráldez López, Begoña Hermida Castro and Pablo Ibáñez Ferrera), focusing on alternative or resistant production mechanisms, which do not start from the tabula rasa, but are built from the rubble previous.

The fifth  Bartlebooth is an edition very carefully and printed in two inks (black and blue) that organizes its contents based on twenty reflections around four strategies: scrapping, hacking, sampling and not doing. Through these four strategies, the different articles, propose different tactics, examples and reflections to other ways of doing and creating that resist being objectified or converted into merchandise, where the authorship is diffuse and the interferences and references become the basic material. From a mash-up to physical intervention on object-books, journeys through the Madrid periphery in search of forgotten pieces, literary obsessions, fragmentary reflections...

In total, 298 pages to question, question and propose alternative mechanisms of production by twenty guests: Mengya Yang, Sara Escudero, Pedro Hernández, Manuel Sendón and Ángel Martínez, about scrapping; Uriel Fogué, Núria Güell, Davide Tommaso Ferrando, Roberto Equisoain, Francisco García Triviño and Joaquín García Vicente, about hacking; Atxu Amann + Rodrigo Delso, Santiago Sierra, Yolanda Pérez Sánchez, Juan Creus and Virginia de Diego, about not doing; and Miguel Mesa del Castillo + Juan Carlos Castro, Tatiana Poggi, Luis Díaz Díaz and Eduardo Navas, about sampling.

Excerpt from the editorial:
 
“Frente al objeto pulido y terminado, multitud de procesos precarios. Frente al nombre, los verbos. Frente a la creación individual proponemos ensamblajes y producciones colectivas, donde la autoría carezca de cualquier sentido. Frente a la Arquitectura, las arquitecturas menores. Frente a la tabula rasa, proponemos visitar el desguace o basurero en donde encontraremos todos los materiales necesarios que alterar, hackear, subvertir, procesar, samplear, modificar, amputar, reorientar, retocar, destruir (parcial o totalmente), diseccionar, profanar, demoler, derribar, retocar, manipular, desterritorializar, suprimir, ensamblar, injertar. Todos ellos, modos de producción que se resisten, cuando no rechazan de pleno, las lógicas de un sistema, capaces de convertir cualquier producto en una mercancía disponible al mejor postor. Miremos con atención en las posiciones marginales, en los pliegues y en el corazón mismo del propio sistema, pues allí encontraremos prácticas de resistencia, individuales o colectivas, con el único propósito de generar estrategias alternativas, incapaces de ser capturadas.

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De entre todos los mecanismos posibles, escogeremos tan sólo cuatro. Cuatro maneras diferentes de manipular lo preexistente, de proponer nuevas lecturas y nuevos usos. Cuatro estrategias menores serán suficientes para articular una reflexión conjunta que permita esbozar un nuevo panorama, un nuevo set de herramientas que reconocer, poner en valor y a disposición de cualquiera que desee emplearlas.”
 
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