1+1=11 (Roberto Equisoain), 42 Líneas (EA Oviedo), Adrian Tyler, Áfrika Star Press, Alberto Feijoo, Alexander Gross, Ana Buquerin, Ana Bustelo, Anoche Press, Araña, Another Press, Arrre Estudio, Atelier Burano, Bandiz Studio, Bàrbara Alca, Belleza Infinita, Bouquet By, Brillo Editorial, Britney Press, Bruise Studio, C’èlacrisi Editore, Caja Negra Editora, Caniche Editorial, Carmen B.Mikelarena, Cataldo Lucchese, Ceramiqs+*Jewel, Cielo Santo, Club Social Creative, Comisura, Cover Crop, Cthulhu Books, Dalpine, Davit Ruiz, Dito Publishing, Do The Print, Doscincocinco, Ediciones Jeje, Ediciones Valientes, La Gilda, Editorialsupremacía, Erika Achec, Errant Journal, Estonian Academy Of Arts (EKA GD MA), Faw, Fidèle Éditions, Fotokino, Fulgencio Pimentel SL, Gimmefive Publishing, Handshake, Highchair Editions, IED Madrid, Inés Cardó, Javier Lozano, Juan Nadie Colectivo, Julie Legrand, Kudla Press, La Mosca Ediciones, Le Mur Bookstore, Letra Escudo Casa, Libros Walden, Llamp Edicions, Louis Porter, Luis Yang / Amorcito, Lux Meteora, Manuela Lorente, Marta Cartu, Mono.kultur, Superb00ks, Nacho García, Nimia+Feli Punch, No Libros, Not.true.ai, Obra, Ojos De Buey, ORP Pepe Medina, Cristina Llanos, Óscar Puré, P+4 Publications, Paperside, Paripé Books, Phree, Postfirebooks, Progresso, Puchi Award, Spector Books, Quintal, Raum Editions, Realmente Bravo, Ricardo Cases, Rocío Madrid, Rubén El Rulas, Sayo Senoo, Set Margins’ Publications, Shibboleth, Sprint, Terminal Ediciones, Terry Bleu, Tunica, Turismo Studio Books, Uou.impresiones, Valiz, Books And Projects, Wences Lamas, x_x.
Olmedo y Quito es un volumen atípico y honesto de Daniela Delgado Viteri que captura, a través de la palabra y la imagen, la historia invisible de un barrio vibrante en sus contradicciones; de una ciudad que se autodestruye víctima del fuego y la corrupción. Olmedo y Quito iba a ser el archivo digitalizado de Walter Zambrano, sus películas y fotografías. Pero de todo ese material, rodado “sin orden, sin solemnidad, sin violencia y a la vista de todos”, solo quedan treinta fotos, todas de incendios en el barrio. Y cuando no quedan imágenes, quedan las palabras y los encuentros entre Daniela y Walter. Palabras de diferente naturaleza que forman un collage narrativo: crónicas y reflexiones de esos encuentros —reales o imaginarios—, artículos del periódico local, transcripciones de una radio para insomnes, llamadas telefónicas, diálogos ficticios con personajes fantasmas, una carta que nunca se envió, pantallazos de webs…
Puchi Award es un proyecto editorial de La Casa Encendida y Fulgencio Pimentel. En el otoño de 2024, lanzará su próxima convocatoria con un planteamiento renovado y una periodicidad bianual, aumentando su dotación económica a 10.000 euros. Ese tiempo extra permitirá un mayor cuidado en el desarrollo de los proyectos seleccionados. Además, el premio se encauzará en el ámbito gráfico, pasando a centrarse en el cómic y el álbum ilustrado.
A critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006
Out of the Grid. Italian Zine 1978-2006 (Les Presses du Réel, 2024) is a critical compendium of a hundred Italian fanzines printed between 1978 and 2006 that show a wide spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communicative strategies in self-publishing. Edited by Dafne Boggeri and Sara Serighelli, it also offers an overview of Italian society and youth culture during a period when the cyclostyle, photocopier, and offset machines were used to give visibility to new forms of musical, artistic, or literary expression.
Conversation, Book Launch, Archive & Moving Image
Queer Exhibition Histories (Valiz, 2023), edited by Bas Hendrikx, traces the countless efforts, large and small, of LGTBIQ+ artists and curators who, over the decades, have tried to capture their vision and the claims of the collective through exhibitions and related materials that, in many cases, have been relegated to oblivion. This is because, in these contexts, the notion of “public” is relative: they were short-lived projects, held in domestic spaces, or limited to a very restricted circle of people. They were not only artistic but also discursive, activist, educational, and community projects. Its author, Bas Hendrikx, is a curator specializing in participatory projects, digital art, and queer art history, and currently holds the position of Curator of Participation and Engagement at KANAL-Centre Pompidou (Brussels). On this occasion, he will present numerous audiovisual documents with a special focus on the European and Spanish scenes, in dialogue with activist-librarian Javier Pérez Iglesias (Director de la Biblioteca de la Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad Complutense).
Aperitivos Musicales hosted by Bea G. Aranda
Friday Funday is a monthly radio program with two years of experience on the reference radio in the underground scene of Madrid, Radio Relativa. The digital station already enjoys 18,000 unique users, peaks with 100 simultaneous listeners, and with its main listeners in Spain, Germany, the United States, and the Netherlands. Friday Funday brings an unbiased view of musical genres and invites each month the most representative characters of the cultural scene. For Libros Mutantes 2024, it presents a 2-hour musical appetizer with luminous and sensual electronic sounds, featuring some of its outstanding guests: DJ Alex Cosmos (Siroco, Café Marula), journalist Bea G. Aranda (El País), and designer Juan Vázquez (Koln Studio, Involve Records, Dialektik).
Sesión de escucha
The Institute for Postnatural Studies is an artistic experimentation center founded in Madrid in 2020. Its objective is to explore and problematize postnature as a framework for contemporary creation, through publications, exhibitions, and hybrid projects. On the occasion of Libros Mutantes 2024, its members Gabriel Alonso, Yuri Tuma, and Matteo Guarnaccia offer a listening session based on the concept of acoustic ecology. As they themselves explain, acoustic ecology provides us with a basis for the implementation of new coexistence experiences that are based on actively listening to the voices of those around us, human and more-than-human, technological and organic sounds, imagined and real. Made you listen invites us to navigate from sonic imagination from a dark space through meditation, theory, and sound.
Thoughts on archives, data, relations
Designer Manuel Bürger understands his profession from a social and experimental perspective. His projects approach visual communication from a narrative and conceptual standpoint, with an aversion to clichés and a preference for less-traveled paths. He works between Berlin and Paris, but on this occasion, he comes to Madrid to present at Libros Mutantes a talk on the importance of data and archives in the practice of design.
Club Graphics was born in 2017 as an archive that visually collects the roots of club culture and electronic music in Spain. Its mission is to create a catalog with designs, aesthetics, and trends of this cultural movement, respecting its essential values and expanding its history. The ultimate goal is to value the work of the entire creative and artistic community that has remained in the shadows in a scene often stigmatized. Art director and multidisciplinary creative Carlos Llorente, who is also behind the musical alias Blastto, will present the project.
LM After Party ☻
Libros Mutantes 2024 expands its field of action with an afterparty at Sala Villanos de Madrid. A session headed by four names blending avant-garde music with an electronic heart and mutante spirit: Alexander Gross, DJ Hidrataccioni, Rata.deinternet and Sangrr.
On the night of Saturday 27 April, the mutantes will emerge from La Casa Encendida and crawl to Sala Villanos (formerly Sala Caracol) to celebrate another of their legendary afterparties: a celebration of electronic culture with a fanzine soul lead by four artists.
Aperitivos Musicales hosted by Bea G. Aranda
On Sunday, two different but complementary proposals: two reference selectors who present exclusive sessions for the occasion only with vinyl from their private collections. Pure magic. The first is Nono, a researcher of avant-garde music at the intersection between art and technology. She is the director of Delicalisten, a platform for musical and artistic curation, and curator of the Soundset Festival (Conde Duque). Next up is Paloma de Casso, with sessions in national reference clubs such as Dabadaba (San Sebastián) or Café La Palma (Madrid) and one of the responsible for the electronic music festival Sync!, which takes place annually in Carabanchel.
