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We stop everything, we think and we watch films!
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The Fire Sermon
Heesterveld 57, Amsterdam (NL)

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It's a Book
HGB, Leipzig (GER)

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7-8 December 2019
Artist Self-Publishers’ Fair
ICA, London (UK)

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Printing Plant Art Book Fair
Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam (NL)

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We stop everything, we think and we watch films!
Dirty Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)

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Zine Camp
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An (informal) conversation
Heesterveld 57, Amsterdam (NL)




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Hello! · Aug 2020 · by Lost Dad

about

LOST DAD

Lost Dad Publishing is an artist-run publishing house based in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. Through this platform, we publish printed matter and organized live events mainly focusing on artistic research through fiction, comics, poems, essays and experiments.

Born from a vision of interdependence, we see publishing as a shared space, a space where individual research and practice can co-exist with collective struggles and ideals. Our main interest is to facilitate the circulation of artistic research, the ideas it may explore and to extend the reach of artist's voices.

Lost Dad Publishing is David Haack Monberg, Léo Ravy, Leslie Lawrence & Sun Chang




Publishing · March 2021 · by Léo Ravy

The Counter Proposal



This poem takes root in a dis-agreement between a group of artists and an academic institution regarding the rent of their studio. Following the disagreement, a debt was put on the shoulders of the artists by the institution and - after making dinner for the head of the institution - they were given the possibility to make a counter proposal regarding how to settle it. Threatened with losing their studio they offered what they had, free creative labour.

Their offer was laid out in a tiny book. It was handmade, had a painted cover and started with the word Hello. ‘The Counter Proposal’ is the ghost of this original. It serves as poetic witness to a moment of precarity which led a group of artists to take on a debt they knew to be illegitimate.

Text & Layout: Léo Ravy
Painting: Leslie Lawrence
Year: 2021

Price: 10€
Dimensions: 3,8 x 5,5 cm
Edition of 10
Cover: Hard

The Counter Proposal

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Exhibition · Oct 2020 · by Lost Dad

The Fire
Sermon



The Fire Sermon inhabits a world where artists adopt outlandish personas against the backdrop of a society in permanent crisis. This short film follows Solid Mercury and Dead Stirnerman, the hosts of an artistic television broadcast, who try to turn the ever-changing situation to their advantage to support their show.

The Fire Sermon was exhibited at Heesterveld 57 in Amsterdam South-East. As Amsterdam entered Gedeeltelijke lockdown, Lost Dad Publishing presented the exhibition online for viewing from home.

An exhibition at Heesterveld 57, Amsterdam (NL) by Leslie Lawrence and Sophia Simensky featuring Janina Fritz and Constantin Dichtl.

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Publishing · Dec 2019 · by Sun Chang

Transcription



This publication is based on a conversation between Félix Navarrete, Sun Chang and Sara Santana López. While talking, the conversation was visualised in a collective thought mapping centered around the question - “What is the essential feeling of being together?”. Without being comprehensive, we hope for this publication to work as a bridge between us three and those who are reading, so that the conversation we held might keep on growing through your interpretation.

Author: Sun Chang, Sara Santana López & Félix Navarrete

Design: Sara Santana López
Year: 2019

Price: 6€
Pages: 
1
Dimensions: 12 x 19,5 cm
First print: 30 copies
Cover: Soft


Transcription

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Program · Ongoing · by Lost Dad

Kinoclub
Fallow



In agriculture, to put a field in fallow is to render it "unproductive" for a given time. Fallow is a process of regeneration of the soil where it is conscidered to be "resting" but demands intensive care. Imagine the soil takes a break and goes to the spa for a while.
This practice was very common before industrial farming came into place and was important for the fields to stay healthy. In addition to this, fallow fields were an essential part of the local commons as they could be used by the community, especially for seasonal grazing for example.

Inspired by this process, we organize fallow screenings in our studio to invite our space to rest and become a commons for its visitors. You. Us. The programmation is open to anyone interested in screening a film, a video of any kind or even in adding a performative element to the events in themselves.

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Publishing · Sept 2019 · by Andy G. Vidal



The vibration-environment is a term that conceives sound as an immersive scenario. In close relationship to this, the abat-voix, as a surface used in churches to direct priests’ voices towards the public to make them distinct, becomes a clear example of sound deployment within a political dimension. Thus, listening to the abat-voix refers to the questioning of the vibration-environment and the questioning of the relationships between noise and the physical and contextual vibrations occupying spaces and bodies.

Listen to Passages on background noise, version for heaphones.


Author: Andy G. Vidal

Design: Darío Dezfuli
Year: 2019

Price: €12
Pages: 
36
Dimensions: 11 x 18 cm
First print: 30 copies
Cover: Soft

Noisification:
Listening to
the abat-voix

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Hosting · Sept 2019 · by Lost Dad

An informal
conversation



An informal conversation with artists Huang Jing Yuan and Song Yi to discuss collaboration, self-organization and their social effects.

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Publishing · July 2019 · by Sun Chang

Permanent Alienation: Discontent
or Impetus



‘Permanent Alienation: Discontent or Impetus’ is a double-sided critique of the global system. By juxtaposing the socialist communist society with the post-capitalist model it aimes to reveal a permanent conflict between individual freedom and social convention and illustrate the basic necessities of quotidian experience.

Author: Sun Chang

Design: Sun Chang
Year: 2019

Price: 8€
Pages: 
64
Dimensions: 12 x 19,5 cm
First print: 25 copies
Cover: Soft


Permanent Alienation: Discontent
or Impetus

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Publishing · July 2019 · by Rachele Monti



Where is Pan in our grey cities?
He seems to have gone missing.

In this story panic is not only fright, and Pan demonstrates this to us. Without his presence that wanders about the valleys and the woods of Arcadia, everything would wither. The Pan-panic disseminates a far more complex variety of panic than the one we know today. Where is this panic that allows us to howl with joy?

Author: Rachele Monti

Design: Brent Dahl
Year: 2019

Price: €7
Pages: 
32
Dimensions: 10,5 x 14,8 cm
First print: 50 copies
Cover: Hard

Panicorgasm

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Publishing · May 2019 · by Leslie Lawrence



This book reads a historical-materialist conception of four main types of group decision-making through an egoist-anarchist perspective. It aims to see if there are principles to group decision-making that can avoid being negated by the philosophy of Max Stirner. From this, the intention is to speculate on a method of organisation that synthesises the extreme egoist regard for individual autonomy with the necessity for democratic control within groups.

Author: Leslie Lawrence

Design: Leslie Lawrence
Year: 2019

Price: €12
Pages: 
116
Dimensions: 18 x 11 cm
First print: 50 copies

Cover: Soft

Several uniques
and their properties

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Publishing · May 2019 · by David Monberg



At the downfall of the Islamic State, the destructive crusade bulldozing through the land of Levant had come to a hold. On the steps of Trafalgar Square in London, Boris Johnson had, in defiance of the caliphate, ordered the digital reproduction of its architectural victims. The Black Standard had quite possibly achieved Herostratic Fame. Shrouded by a satin cloth, stood a physical manifestation; the finest of virtual archaeology. It was an empty shell of Egyptian marble, a memory that observed the shape of the real but had no actual substance. In the age of historical simulation, where artefacts are homonyms and ruins are caught in the act of transforming between the physical and digital realm, the subjective historical artefact of our memory has been destroyed.

Author: David Haack Monberg

Design: Lost Dad 

Year: 2019

Price: €8

Pages: 
64
Dimensions: 11,8 x 18,5 cm 

First print: 50 copies

Cover: Soft

Viscosity

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Publishing · Feb 2019 · by Jason Harvey



Small book of powerful poetry and images.

"Hello this is a book (36 pages) which i have called "Thoughtful Professional Meditations". once purchased you can enjoy" – Jason Harvey

Author: Jason Harvey

Design: Jason Harvey
Year: 2019

Price: €6
Pages: 
32
Dimensions: 10,5 x 14,8 cm
First print: 250 copies
Cover: Soft


Thoughtful
Professional
Meditations

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Publishing · July 2018 · by Lost Dad



This publication tells the tales of the year of the swan - participants of the Dirty Art Department, a masters program hosted by the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam (NL). As part of their masters program, the year of the swan wandered to Athens (GR) by many means of transportation, before settling down for 2 months in the Greek capital, and lost dad publishing joined for the ride! Daddy Issues #2 shares collective thoughts about the individual learning experiences of art students after spending 9 months together.

Editors: Dani Andres, Léo Ravy
With contributions by Anna Laederach, Christopher Lawrence, David Haack Monberg, Jeroen Kortekaas, Jean-François Peschot, Pierre Bujeau, Quentin Dupuy, Rachele Monti, Sara Daniel, Sun Chang, Tom Kemp, Tomasz Skibicki, Walter Götsch

Design: Léo Ravy
Year: 2018

Price: €12
Pages: 64
Dimensions: 14 x 19,5 cm
First print: 50 copies
Cover: Soft

Daddy
Issues #2

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Exhibition · July 2018 · by Lost Dad

Academia
Biennal 2018



Several groups which participated in the wandering school residency were invited by Christian Jankowsky to present the results if their stay in Greece at the Academiae Biennal 2018 in Fortezza, IT. The exhibition features ongoing research, films and publications by the Dirty Art Department, M^C^O and Lost Dad.

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Publishing · May 2018 · by Lost Dad



Inside the Stoa42 space, guests are invited to play a game. They choose Past, Present, or Future and join an artist from the group in the space. Although the topics are collective experiences, it is a meeting between two independent viewpoints, so the introduction remains personal. The attempts to communicate shared experience are unavoidably subjective. Through these parlour games a new collective understanding is generated, but what is being discussed cannot be heard by those outside the room. Again, the problem of communicating a shared experience to the outside returns. However, there is a third party in the room listening to the discussion. They work to mediate the speculations, thefabulations, the misunderstandings created by the introductions, and attempt to live-type a new description of collective experience for the benefit of the audience outside the space. In this way the practices of the group come to new shared representation through a series of texts; autonomous in their own right but marked by an almost impossible attempt to fully incorporate the other.

Editors: Leslie Lawrence, Léo Ravy
With contributions by Dani Andres, Sara Daniel, Jason Harvey, Selma Köran, Jeroen Kortekaas, Leslie Lawrence, Rachele Monti, Jean-François Peschot, Léo Ravy, Tomasz Skibicki

Design: Léo Ravy
Year: 2018

Price: €6

Pages: 64
Dimensions: 12 x 17,5 cm
First print: 50 copies
Cover: Soft

Introducing...

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Program · May-June 2018 · by Lost Dad

Είσοδος δωρεάν
@ Stoa 42



From May to June 2018, Stoa 42 hosted a series of events organized by Lost Dad in collaboration with artists and designers from the Sandberg Instituut. A rapid succession of short term exhibitions, performances and events, created especially for the space by Leslie Lawrence, Leo Ravy, Dani Andres, Walter Götsch, Rachele Monti, Sun Chang, Jean-François Peschot, Tomasz Skibicki, Anna Laederach and David Haack Monberg.

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Publishing · April 2019 · by Walter Götsch



This is the story of a human who became a monkey just to become human again. The time and place are significant, since it is on this modern context, ancient ideologies are re-established. It all starts with Hanuman arriving to Delphi, Greece. A village filled with ancient artifacts, myths and concepts of human existence. To this day the Delphic Maxims, the 147 aphorisms inscribed in Delphi, are still relevant to someone who want to symbolise human excellence, inner self-control, faith and service to a cause.
Hanuman also knew this. Since he set foot on Greek soil, his body and mind was fixed on trying to unlock the essential knowledge once given by the Sages.

NO TIME TO WASTE!!! (????)

Author: Walter Götsch

Design: Walter Götsch
Year: 2018

Price: €4
Pages: 
12
Dimensions: 14,8 x 21 cm
First print: 50 copies
Cover: Soft

The story
of Hanuman
in Greece

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