Hot off the press! Bethan Hughes’s artist book Elastic Continuum expands the Processing Process series.
Elastic Continuum traces the tangled lives of a rubber-producing dandelion and the artist who followed its roots—unfolding a story of plants, politics, and power across regimes and continents. Interweaving the biographies of women and flowers caught in imperial and scientific systems, the book offers a poignant counter-narrative to the extractive gaze, reimagining how we relate to the natural world.
K. Verlag is delighted to present Remembering Forward, a book of love, philosophy, and language—gathering four decades of writing by Eva Meyer, many in English for the first time.
Emerging from a deep tradition of feminist publishing and collaborative thought, Remembering Forward brings together essays that move fluidly between philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, and political theory. Meyer’s writing unsettles fixed identities and linear narratives, offering instead a language of conjunction, multiplicity, and becoming. With contributions by Vivian Liska and Laurence A. Rickels, the book offers a vital space for thinking otherwise—where memory opens toward possibility and thought is inseparable from relation.
K. Verlag is honored to share Remembering Forward, a book created in secret as a gift of love—featuring four decades of writing by Eva Meyer, now available in English for the first time.
Eva Meyer, Remembering Forward. With an introduction by Vivian Liska, afterword by Laurence A. Rickels. Translated from German by Catherine Kerkhoff-Saxon and Wilfried Prantner, Jonathan Blower, and Michael Saman, among others. Design by Flo Gaertner / magma design studio, Karlsruhe.
Radio Ballads: Songs for Change traces new forms of collective song and care, weaving together the voices of those who sustain life through unseen labor, intimate resilience, and creative collaboration in times of crisis.
Taking its name from the original BBC Radio Ballads of the 1950s and 60s, this publication reflects on four contemporary commissions developed between 2019 and 2023 through Serpentine Civic Projects. Artists Sonia Boyce, Helen Cammock, Rory Pilgrim, and Ilona Sagar worked in long-term collaboration with carers, social workers, organisers, and residents in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Together, they explore how creative processes can hold space for experiences of care, illness, grief, and resistance.
Radio Ballads: Songs for Change traces new forms of collective song and care, weaving together the voices of those who sustain life through unseen labor, intimate resilience, and creative collaboration in times of crisis.
Edited by Layla Gatens, Elizabeth Graham, and Amal Khalaf. With artistic contributions from Sonia Boyce, Helen Cammock, Rory Pilgrim, and Ilona Sagar, the publication also includes newly commissioned and previously published texts by Sanah Ahsan, Camille Barton, adrienne maree brown, Jemma Desai, Priya Jay, Rae Johnson, Gail Lewis, Layli Long Soldier, Staci Haines, Saidiya Hartman, Aisha Mirza, Meenadchi, and Jackie Wang, as well as a foreword by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and insights from many practitioners. Design by Elisabeth Klement.
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Elastic Continuum
Rubber is one of the most ubiquitous materials in our daily lives, yet we rarely stop to consider its origins. If we do, we might picture it as something impersonal—an industrial product tapped from distant trees or churned out by synthesic chemistry. Elastic Continuum tells a different story. At its center is Taraxacum koksaghyz, a little-known dandelion subspecies hailed as a strategic resource and rubber alternative. By assembling the improbable biography of this resilient plant, artist Bethan Hughes has unearthed a complex history of empires, experiments, and entanglements.
The book unfolds along two braided paths: one follows the dandelion’s east-to-west trajectory through sites of political ambition and wartime scarcity—tracing its role in Soviet laboratories and Nazi-occupied Poland to Cold War-era research in the US and recent EU sustainability projects. The other traces Hughes’s own west-to-east journey as she encounters the plant in living form and archival documents—across breeding facilities, mountain valleys, scientific laboratories, herbaria, and vernacular networks of memory. Together, these threads form a lyrical, deeply researched account of vegetal persistence, human intervention, and the quiet power of overlooked species.
Evocatively designed and published as part of K. Verlag’s Processing Process series, Elastic Continuum expands upon Bethan Hughes’s multi-part audiovisual installation Hevea. Blending fragments of the artist’s own writing with archival finds, visual documentation, and an in-depth editorial conversation, the book becomes both companion and extension of the installation. At its heart are the intertwined biographies of the Kazakh dandelion and the many women—scientists, workers, caretakers—whose lives became interwoven with its story through shifting regimes and geopolitical upheaval. What emerges is a poignant counter-narrative to the objectifying, extractive gaze: a layered, intimate exploration of how we might learn to see and relate to both the industrial and the natural world—otherwise, and in conjunction.
Bethan Hughes’s audiovisual installations, sculptures, and texts explore the unnatural ecologies generated through industry, commerce, and technology. Her work has been exhibited at venues including LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón (ES); gnration, Braga (PT); Kunstpavillion, Innsbruck (AT); nGbK, Berlin; Ars Electronica, Linz (AT); haubrok foundation, and HAUNT/frontviews, both Berlin.
In parallel with this release, we’re pleased so share the artist's limited-edition silkscreen print Dandelion Fever, launched in 2024 as part of a joint fundraising campaign to support the production of the book. Please don't hesitate to order one or both of these items and we'll be glad to ship them to you straight-away.
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