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Varamo Press and Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine
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Varamo Press
Varamo Press embraces the unexpected and values the arbitrary circumstances in which writing comes into being. Snatching, wording, printing, it gives a paper form to various kinds of literature that have a fleeting life elsewhere. Each book having its own mind and gravity, Varamo Press develops publications on a case-by-case basis with the care they require.
Varamo Press is an artist-run, independent publishing house founded in 2018 by Mette Edvardsen and Jeroen Peeters. In 2022 Varamo Press launched the series Gestures, small format books that come with a grey cover and a unified design, experimenting with the essay genre.
Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine
Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine acts as the publishing house for a series of books developed from the project with the same title, a performance project in which a group of people dedicate themselves to memorizing a book of their choice and forming a library of living books. A series of unique books rewritten from memory and made into new editions, an essay series called Afternoon Editions with singular new texts written on invitation, the larger publication Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine - A book on reading, writing, memory and forgetting in a library of living books (eds. Mette Edvardsen, Kristien Van den Brande, Victoria Pérez Royo, Runa Borch Skolseg co-published by Mousse Publishing), and The Appendixes #1-4, an editorial series by Mette Edvardsen, Léa Poiré and Victoria Pérez Royo.
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Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine – The Appendixes #1-4 (2024)
The Appendixes #1–4 is an editorial series by Mette Edvardsen, Léa Poiré and Victoria Pérez Royo that developed out of the project Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine. For a two-year residency at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers* (2022–23), they came together as a small work group, shaping the work process, hosting presentation formats and making this publication series on paper as four cahiers. The cahiers comprise a collection of commissioned texts and contributions created for this context, selected documents and traces from work sessions and encounters organized during their residency, texts read together and republished for this occasion, a collection of references, notes in progress, unfinished thoughts and loose fragments – on paper, between pages.
The Appendixes are organized around four themes: (1) The gesture of writing, (2) How to organize a library, (3) Orality and (4) Translation. In addition to being published on paper, the editorial series also consisted of other formats of presentations, exchanges and meetings organized as workshops, fieldwork, performances, conferences, collective readings and oral publications, taking place during their residency at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers and in the vicinity.
Gestures (2022-2026)
In 2022 Varamo Press launched the series Gestures, small format books that come with a grey cover and a unified design. The series experiments with the essay genre and provides a platform for shorter texts we'd like to make available for wider readership and unexpected encounters. Gestures include commissioned essays as well as translations, reformulations and yet other alternative editions of existing material.
Afternoon Editions #0-5 (2010-2021)
Afternoon Editions is a series of commissioned texts that extends from the project Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine. They are published in a stapled and easy to produce format. Afternoon Editions is dedicated to sharing content in various forms, related to books, memory, reading, writing and publishing. It is about circulation and exchange of ideas.
