A Grammar Built with Rocks (Paperback)

Paperback. Featuring writing and artistic practices that trace the racialized and gendered relationship between bodies and land, A Grammar Built with Rocks explores artists engagement with sites of physical dispossession and socio-ecological crisis, highlighting how creative research methodologies can serve as radically new place-making practices. The publication brings together a range of feminist-decolonial texts and visual contributions that explore how movement, transience, and improvisation offer alternative ways of being-together while being-in-place.Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme with Fawz Kabra, Jheanelle Brown and Julien Creuzet, Carolina Caycedo, Ryan C. Clarke and Cauleen Smith, DAARDecolonizing Architecture Art Research with Nicole Perugini, Demian DineYazhi, rafa esparza, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Tia-Simone Gardner, Raquel Gutierrez, Suzanne Kite with Mahpiya Nazinn, Candice Lin, Sandra de la Loza, Jumana Manna, K-Sue Park, Christine Rebet, Susan Silton, and Asiya Wadud.The book also includes a reader, with grounding texts, sources of inspiration, and research references, by Jason Allen-Paisant, Dionne Brand, Suzanne Cesaire, Lisa Lowe, Camila Marambio and Cecilia Vicuna, Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, M. NourbeSe Philip, and K. Wayne Yang. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…