Moniker Press

25.02.23

Nunca há Nada | There Is Never Nothing
by Luciana Freire D’Anunciação

Nunca há Nada | There Is Never Nothing is a collection of poems that look into the performativity of the poetic language as potential to expand Luciana Freire D’Anunciação’s performance art and dance practice. They are based on the improvisation technique of paying attention to the smallest events from the continuous stimuli exchange between the internal and external worlds in the present moment. Poetry here becomes a medium for creatively documenting performances she did or witnessed — and after the fact chose to frame it as such. Most of the texts were written during the second year of the pandemic. Some of them she wrote first in English, some in Portuguese, some in Canada and some in Brazil. Later she translated them embracing the oddness of translation gaps and the impossible literal translations. This also reflects her condition as a Brazilian immigrant living in Canada, who reconciles two languages, two cultures, and two art disciplines (poetry and performance) as well as pursues never-ending questions around identity and sense of belonging.

Written and translated by
— Luciana Freire D’Anunciação

Mentor and editor (Portuguese)
— Magno Almeida

Editor (English)
— elika mojtabaei

Design and Layout
— Erica Wilk
— Luciana Freire D’Anunciação

Edition of 150
Risograph printed and co-Published with Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC – 2023

09.07.22

so that we don’t perish by the truth
by Emily Neufeld

There is a particular smell in abandoned houses, especially on dry, sunny days. The dust that hangs in the air, capturing the light, is part soil, part plaster dust, part dry pigeon shit, part microbes, part human cells, part stardust. It makes it easy to remember that human habitats are interwoven with the lives of so many other creatures. 

‘so that we don’t perish by the truth’ is a collection of four zines and loose prints, compiling together Emily Neufeld’s research and exploration of homes throughout Canada that are in their last days of functionality: Homes slated for demolition in the lower mainland, abandoned farmhouses on the prairies, empty homes in small fishing villages in Newfoundland and Cape Breton, and in mining ghost towns in British Columbia. Her work is a sort of funerary right, and acknowledgement of Canada’s colonial history. This risograph printed publication combines photographs, ephemera and collaborative writing in a non-sequential reading experience. Featuring Laura Cuthbert Gaaysiigad, Jane Walker, David Ng and Nura Ali, who have each responded to the accumulated material from a location they have an intimate relationship with.

Edition of 130
Risograph printed and Published by Moniker Press
Vancouver, BC – 2022

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