Rosanna Puyol
Rosanna Puyol is an editor, poet and curator. She cofounded Brook, an independent press based in Paris, publishing writers such as Laura Mulvey, Shulamith Firestone, José Esteban Muñoz, Stefano Harney & Fred Moten and Cecilia Pavón.
1. The Undercommons translation workshops at Treize and Melissa Tun Tun’s studio at Cité internationale des arts, Paris
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study is a theoretical and poetic work proposing modes of social experiments to resist racial capitalism and its tools (such as credit and governance). The collective translation into French, still in progress, is a fascinating piece of research and writing process.
2. Sarah Abu Abdallah’s painting ‘Bad Hunches’ at the Kunstverein in Hamburg
On the occasion of her solo exhibition For the first time in a long time, the artist showed a very long canvas: images, small drawings, screenshots, iphone pictures and photographs found online are displayed onto the dark background. Nights lit by blue screens unfolds into a cosmic routine, in between fiction and anecdote, tracks on a map with no territory.
3. Fétichisme et curiosité, by Laura Mulvey (translated by Guillaume Mélère, Brook, 2019)
I can’t resist telling you about the first book published by Brook press: Fétichisme et curiosité by Laura Mulvey. This series of essays, first published in the UK in 1996, is translated into French, with a preface by Clara Schulmann. Laura Mulvey is the feminist writer, film critic and researcher who developed the notion of the male gaze. She is also a fantastic filmmaker.