A poignant conversation between the artist Jelsen Lee Innocent and the filmmaker Lunise Cerin on Haiti, living in diaspora, and what we owe (and what we can do for) where we come from. This publicaton uses beautiful Cerin's short film "Victorine" as both the starting point for the conversation and the raw visual material that Innocent has deconstructed and collaged.

Edition of 100
Softcover

Perfect bound
40 pages
140 x 185 mm

2025

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This salient delineation between a struggle that is imposed and implicitly purposeless versus continuing to work at something that is sometimes needlessly difficult, may not always make sense to others, and can seemingly have a ceiling that can not be exceeded was deeply affecting for me as well as very funny… [also] sometimes we make typos and just live with them. — Other Books, Los Angeles

A debrief with myself and the sibling of pile. It feels so good to process and shed all of these experiences from my time at Nasjonalmuseet in connection with the opening exhibition in 2022. The content is at once very specific but universal to artists who face the public in their practices or jobs in the cultural field. — Jessica Williams

Edition of 100
Softcover

Untrimmed, sewn binding
44 pages
90 x 148 mm

2024

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(be)longing, so far is a limited edition pseduo–catalog of the exhibition series produced at House of Foundation in October 2023 containing photographic documentation, bilingual press releases, annotated and bilingual transcriptions of three public talks, and commissioned texts by Kathy Cho, Håkon Lillegraven, Victoria Durnak, and Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor.

(be)longing was a six-part exhibition spanning over one year by the artist and publisher Jessica Williams at House of Foundation in Moss between 05.11.2022 to 10.12.2023. 

(be)longing is collaborative, ever-evolving and experimental. 

(be)longing encourages the practices of openness and radical empathy as tools for understanding. 

This publication was given to all the artists and contributors of the project. A few copies addititonal copies are in the collections of art institutions and private collections.

(be)longing, so far

Jessica Williams

Edition of 40

Softcover

Spiral bound

130 pages

210 x 297mm

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Your Lips Are Wet With Venom reflects on love, intimacy and sex as something inseparable from politics, history, capitalism, class, assimilation, power, colonialism. Dehumanization. Racialisation. Etc.

These reflections are presented in the form of song lyrics in varying styles, tone and genre, and are to be considered free to be used by the reader, myself or other artists alike in/for music making. The work deals/spawns from experiences and (thoughts/meditation) on growing/dating up as a indigenous person of color in a (white) European country. (and) Then going back to my country of birth/origin. As a consequence, love has been a difficult, growing concern to the point where it’s really (consuming) entangled with the world at large, political views and affiliations, and more difficult the more I think about it. — Vicente Mollestad

Your Lips Are Wet With Venom 

Vicente Mollestad

Edition of 100
Softcover  

Staple bound
16 pages
210 x 297 mm

2023

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The things I'm afraid to ask for is the companion piece to an artwork especially produced to be part of the yearlong experimental exhibition (be)longing at House of Foundation.

The artwork, a photographic installation, is equal parts therapeutic exercise and creative challenge; a reckoning with deep-seated traumas in the form of an artwork that directly requires submission to those fears. The artist publication, a "manual" consisting of three small booklets, tackle the rational and understood parts of creating art, while the artwork itself contains only the emotional and felt parts. Together they reveal a multifaceted depiction of trauma, and suggest new ways to learn and feel. 

Three loose booklets are contained in a specially made folder in three colors. Please note that these will be sent out randomly. 

The things I'm afraid to ask for 

Robin Mientjes 

Edition of 100
Softcover

Three booklets in a folder
48 pages total
130 x 195 mm

2023

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Brown Babbel is a collection of short texts embedded in a chaotic and intricately detailed visual meditation on obscurity, abstraction, repetition and density. The work is not one that is searching for or portraying acceptance, but rather flaunts a specific, individual vision and way of being. The texts are both older and created especially for this occasion. 

Brown Babbel 

Shaon M

Edition of 100

Softcover

Perfect bound

58 pages

110 x155mm

2023

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E Eu Com Isso? – What have I got to do with that? is a book that demands the viewer to engage and look closely. 

The origin of the work is a fragile, intimate text once removed from an email almost a decade ago. Too important to delete forever, the text was uncovered, built upon and is the basis of the artist’s exploration of blackness through conversations and correspondence with family and friends. 

E Eu Com Isso? – What have I got to do with that? 

Marina Dubia 

Edition of 100

Softcover

Perfect bound

80 pages

110 x 160 mm

2023

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pile is both a publication that could be put together by the public and a live publishing workshop that was activated for four weeks as part of the exhibition I call it art at the National Museum in August 2022. 

The work is a meditation upon physical prints, the past, the future, and artistic value. 

pile was nominated to be included in the Norwegian catalog for artistic publishing (katalog for kunstnerisk publisering). It fulfills all the following criteria: "Norwegian" "imporant" and "artistic publishing".

pile

Jessica Williams 

Edition of 500 

Softcoever

Post bound

23 pages

210 x 297mm (when folded)

2022

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A distributed sadness is a visual essay that explores where the digital and physical worlds meet. The work can be read as a poetic critique of the attention economy, with a text by Sara Sølberg.

Performatively produced at the new National Museum in Oslo in August 2022 as part of the opening exhibition I call it art.

A distributed sadness Petter Buhagen 

Edition of 100

Softcover

Perfect bound

56 pages

145 x 195mm

2022

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Antiphony collects scanned notebook pages from the project of the same name, which has been performed since 2014 in English, Norwegian, Dutch, Italian and Icelandic. 

This publication was performatively produced at the new National Museum in Oslo in August 2022 as part of the opening exhibition I call it art.

Antiphony is an answering service that takes over an art institution’s phone number. Callers can choose among a variable amount of words. The conversations can be short or long, they can be pleasant, abrupt or interrupted. You can call at any time, participants may be available or not available. None of the conversations are recorded, but the project participants are taking notes in a dedicated notebook, which becomes the only documentation of the piece.

Antiphony

Hanan Benammar 

Edition of 100

Softcover

Spiral bound

32 pages

148 x 210mm

2022

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This second expanded edition of Oslofjord by Jessica Williams is a close collaboration between the artist and Issue Press. 

Images have been both reworked and added on the five year anniversary of the original publication. In 2016 the artist started seeing and collecting a very odd type of beach plastic on the islands off the inner Oslofjord in Norway. This book is her collection: an oddly aesthetic and terrifying testament to the carelessness of humans and the relentless force which is nature.

Oslofjord

Jessica Williams

Edition of 400

Second edition

Softcover  

Saddle stitch

48 pages

203 x 254 mm

2022

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This publication by Kirsty Kross is a collection of three A3 risograph-printed posters with specially designed vinyl stickers made on the occasion of her performance at the new National Museum in Oslo. 

Each poster and sticker combination directly refers to a place that has an impact on the artist: Queensland, Berlin, and Norway. Everything is carefully packaged inside an envelope, signed and sealed by the artist. 

The publication was performatively produced in August 2022 as part of the opening exhibition I call it art.

Kirsty Kross

Edition of 100

Set of folded A3 posters

Unbound in envelope

Sealed and signed by the artist

162 x 229mm

2022

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Reimagining the data center as mycelium is a publication that aims to identify and contextualize concepts and networks that we cannot see, yet affect our everyday lives. The specific lens and motivation for the work is a proposed Google hyperscale data center outside the town of Skien in Telemark. This data center would be the very first of this scale in Norway. 

Featuring interviews with Tom Erik Økland, Ingrid Burrington, Stian Mathisen, Bjørnar Løkstad, Dag Hareide, and a reprint of "The Questions Concerning Technology" by L.M. Sacasas.

Reimagining the data center as mycelium Jessica Williams 

Edition of 1000

Softcover

Saddle stitch

48 pages

225 x 320mm

2021

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Inheritance is a pair of slim riso-printed booklets in mirrored versions of red and black. Together they beg the question: "What is the shape of sorrow?" 

A visual study of presence and absence. Nostalgia, disassociation, longing. Holes and/or abstract shapes where there once was something.

Inheritance

Jessica Williams

Edition of 100

Nested booklets 

Saddle stitch

32 pages plus insert

115 x 150mm

2022

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Vlad Molodez (b. 1998) is a Siberian-born artist based in Norway. He researches the topics of introspection, his inner roots, and co-existence with nature through documentary photography. Since 2019, Vlad has been working on the project Siberia in faces, exploring the place where he grew up, as well as the republics of Sakha, Buryatia, Altai and Tuva through the faces of local youth.

Siberia in faces

Vlad Molodez

Edition of 50

Softcover

Saddle stitch

16 pages

140 x 190mm

2023

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It me is an artist book by Jessica Williams. This full color book, bound with a vinyl cover, is printed to be the exact size and shape of an iPhone. A decade worth of screen shots, this book takes a deep dive into internet culture and identity politics through the examination of emojis, click-bait titles, memes, and selfies. 

What emerges is a work which represents the fleeting oversimplification of information and identity in the current era. The implications of which are a lack of nuance and loss of cultural specificity. 

The experience of moving through the pages of this artist book mirror the experience of swiping through social media or a dating app as advertisements creep uping up and down the pages. — Printed Matter, NYC

It me

Jessica Williams

Edition of 200

Vinyl covers 

Screw post bound

124 pages

71 x 144mm

2019

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Breaking Bread and Language aims to carve out a space where people can practice their specific language constellations without it being aligned, compared or corrected into the idea of language that the nation state has. Both a guide and a testimony, the book and associated work are generous and intimate. Featuring illustrations by Hanna Habtezion.

Breaking Bread and Language 

Makda Embaie

Edition of 100

Softcover

Perfect bound

52 pages

120 x 180mm

2023

å falle mellom stoler (to fall between chairs) is a project that encourages a discourse that surpasses the aesthetic of ethnic integration as proof of racial progress in Norway.

In this publication, Innocent has centered a diversity of African Norwegian voices, seeking to engage within realities too often dismissed or unconsidered while navigating mainstream Norwegian society. This work is intended to both instigate and contribute new and direct critical language, constructive political expression and empathic debate within the African Norwegian community.

å falle mellom stoler 

Jelsen Lee Innocent 

Edition of 100
Softcover 
64 pages
150 x 200 mm

2023

cheat sheet candidly documents debilitating auto-immune illness with generosity, directness and dark humor. Júlía was just 22 years old and still in university when her body mysteriously started failing her. Her sudden diagnosis and multiple surgeries resulted in a forced move out of New York City and home to Iceland, along with a sober re-evaluation of almost every aspect of her life. 

How would she continue to produce creative work, much less survive in a capitalistic society that devalues and displaces disabled bodies?  Her “cheat sheet”, from which the artist book of the same name is adapted, is both a timeline and a (failed) resume, a litany of gore and the story of her young life; it is what she has prepared for the doctors and nurses who still cannot 100% confirm she has Chron’s disease.

cheat sheet 

Júlía Hermannsdóttir 

Edition of 200
Softcover

Perfect bound
104 pages
120 x 180 mm

2023

The Space & Its Double is a hand-held companion to a series of performances by Niels Munk Plum entitled ()New Loop() at the new National Museum in Oslo as part of the opening exhibition I call it art. 

Intricate drawings, playful texts, and a serious look at performance as a medium offer the viewer alternative ways of being and seeing when entering institutions such as a museum. 

Performatively produced during the exhibition, this publication comes with one of three 5-color posters and a random pair of vinyl stickers designed by the artist.

The Space & Its Double

Niels Munk Plum

 
Edition of 100
Softcover  

Saddle stitch
44 pages
150 x 210 mm

2022

A tragicomic take on learning a new language as a creative, non-white immigrant.

Featuring: an "Association Game" featuring 10 other voices from countries as diverse as Sweden, Brazil, Japan and Palestine. A short essay on why I left the USA.

Texts in both Norwegian and English with very unusual design solutions. Overlays of varying shapes, sizes and opacities standing in as a metaphor for a plurality of languages, layers of learning and meaning, etc. 

Printed and bound (cut, folded, sewn, stapled, glued) on residency at Pamflett.

Å finne stemmen

Jessica Williams

Edition of 100

Softcover

Perfect bound

85 pages

160 x 230mm

2017

Oslofjord bears witness to an intrusion of the artificial into the organic... Every image is saturated with a weird, phantasmagorical intensity. Williams' book depicts a slow-moving violence that affects the very categories by which we make sense of things. — Bladr, Copenhagen.

Oslofjord

Jessica Williams

Edition of 200

Softcover

Loop staple bound

225 x 320mm

2016

Bilingual (EN/NO) readymade with interchangeable risograph printed cards. The interactive sign can be hung on the wall.

Though it was only a dozen, the first edition of this artist multiple sold out immediately. 

Chores for curators, chores for people

Jessica Williams

Second edition of 100

Found object with printed cards

120 x 220 x 10mm

2022

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