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Looking back to the May 6 launch of “Nude Ascending a Staircase,” the latest issue of prompt:, by Sam Lavigne and Georgica Pettus! Thank you all for joining us for the reading and gathering at Wythe Hotel. Special thanks again to Alessandra Gomez for hosting us!

If you missed the oral rendition of these selected prompts—scraped from the website CivitAI for producing sultry, steamy, stimulating, still-rendering images—get your hands on a copy of the book at the link in our bio!

✨ taken in Wythe Hotel by @promptcolon

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We hope you’ll join us on Wednesday, May 6, 7:30–9:30 PM at the Wythe Hotel (@wythehotel) to celebrate the launch of Nude Ascending a Staircase by Sam Lavigne (@samlavigne) and Georgica Pettus (@georgica), the sixth issue of the collaborative artist book series prompt: (@promptcolon).

Drawn from an archive of text prompts scraped from the generative AI platform Civitai, the project traces the strange gap between desire and its algorithmic rendering. These inputs—part smut, part source code—pair with images that never fully resolve, suspended as shifting abstractions: beige noise, kaleidoscopic forms, orificial buds, floating protrusions. The result is an open-ended vision of bodies in the process of becoming.

The evening will feature a reading by the artists, followed by a conversation on their collaboration moderated by prompt: publishers Mira Dayal (@miradayal) and Nicole Kaack (@kaackattack).

The publication is now available for preorder! If you’d like to pick up your copy at the event, use code PICKUP on prompt:’s website to waive shipping.

RSVP at the link in the @promptcolon bio

🗓 Wednesday, May 6, 7:30–9:30 PM
📍 80 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn
🍸 Complimentary drinks

Many thanks to Alessandra Gómez (@alessandrrraaa) for hosting us as curator of the Wythe Hotel Art Program! ⭐️ taken in Wythe Hotel by @promptcolon

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Please join us this Thursday, April 3rd, at 6pm PDT/ 9pm EDT for "Palestine in Print: Publishing and Archiving as Tools for Resistance," a hybrid event with @letterformarchive. RSVP at link in bio!

Prompted by artists’ responses to the genocide in Gaza, Palestine in Print examines the critical role of print media in protecting and archiving endangered voices, histories, and traditions. Artists Ren Allathkani (@folkloren_) and Kate Laster (@howlingmoondog), our publisher Nicole Kaack (@kaackattack), and archivist MJ Fair will present recent publications that center communities allied with Palestinian liberation:

Passport of Witness (2024); a zine by California Jewish Artists for Palestine (2024); Prints for Palestine (2024); and art and zines by Librarians and Archivists with Palestine.

While employing distinct strategies and materials, each of these projects emphasizes that publishing can itself be an act of resistance. A moderated dialogue will explore the role of printed matter as a tool to preserve communal memory amid and against censorship, while also attending to the key roles of archivists and librarians in engaging wider networks.

Audience Q&A will follow. We're excited to share and discuss these projects and hope to see you there, in person or online!

Images:
--Passport of Witness (2024), photo by Sun Young Kang
--a zine by California Jewish Artists for Palestine (2024), courtesy Kate Laster
--Prints for Palestine (2024), published by prompt: and designed by @katy.e.n; this print features an image and words by Omar Abboud (omar_abb), alongside prints by contributors Morgan Bassichis (@morgankindof), Zachary Schulman (@zacharyschulmanphotography), Saj Issa (@saj_issa), Collin W. Elliott, Kate Laster, and Mahdi Sabbagh
--photo of a book from the Prisoners' Book Collection of the Nablus Public Library, courtesy MJ Fair
--installation by Ren Allathkani at SOMArts, photo by Claire S. Burke @somarts @folkloren_ by @promptcolon

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2 years ago

STORE FOR RENT: Kazimir Malevich, Black Square, 1915

In August, celebrating the launch of prompt:’s fifth issue, Provenance Research, prompt: editors Mira Dayal and Nicole Kaack led a walking tour of “artworks” of the lower east side, playing a humorous associative game of conflating street-based objects and renowned works of art.

The tour featured “works” by Thomas Hirschorn, Barbara Kruger, Byron Kim, Theaster Gates, Ghazahleh Avarzamani, Sable Elyse Smith, Bernd and Hill Becher, and Nina Katchadourian among others.

Provenance Research compiles a crowdsourced series of vernacular photos that suggest comparison to works of art, attesting to how artworks linger in the mind and enmesh themselves in a viewer’s daily reality, both high and low. The publication takes its cue from an Instagram account (@provenance.research) collaboratively run by prompt: editors Dayal and Kaack.

Thank you to @bungee.space for hosting our launch! Issues of Provenance Research are available in store at Bungee Space and on prompt:’s website.

Photos: @veryverylightcombat taken in Lower East Side by @promptcolon

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Join us at @storm_bookscandy on October 24th at 7pm for the launch of “Prints for Palestine,” a fundraiser series of risograph prints archiving the work, words, and activism of pro-Palestine Jewish and Palestinian artists, writers, and performers within the wider community of prompt:, an artist press based in New York. Translating a selection of Instagram posts into print, the series documents social media’s role as a space for response and collectivization throughout the ongoing genocide. By preserving in print content that can be hidden, removed, or otherwise suppressed in its original online form, the series also reflects on this period of rampant censorship—algorithmic, institutional, and systemic. The resulting prints construct a mini archive of a year of protest, solidarity, grief, and mourning. This event will include short readings of the featured texts.

Proceeds from sales will be donated to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), an organization that is working on the ground to provide food, water, medical supplies, medical treatment, and other necessities to families in Gaza.

Prints for Palestine includes contributions from Omar Abboud (@omar_abb), Morgan Bassichis (text) (@morgankindof) / Zachary Schulman (photo) (@zacharyschulmanphotography), Saj Issa (text and artwork) (@saj_issa) / Collin W. Elliott (photo) (@n1frame), Kate Laster (@howlingmoondog), and Mahdi Sabbagh (@mahdi_nyc). Thank you for all of your work.

The prints were designed by graphic designer Katy Nelson (@katy.e.n), typeset in fonts by Palestinian type designer Hasan Abu Afash, and produced in Brooklyn by Small Editions (@smalleditionsnyc).

Kindly RSVP at link in bio with a donation of $5, which may be used toward the purchase of a print at the event. Prints are also now available via the prompt: website for those who cannot attend. We hope to see you there! by @promptcolon

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Join us on Thursday, August 29th, at 6:00 PM at Bungee Space for a launch celebrating the release of prompt:'s latest issue Provenance Research.

Provenance Research compiles a crowdsourced series of vernacular photos that suggest comparison to works of art, attesting to how artworks linger in the mind and enmesh themselves in a viewer’s daily reality, both high and low. The publication takes its cue from an Instagram account (@provenance.research ) of the same name collaboratively run by @promptcolon editors Nicole Kaack (@kaackattack ) and Mira Dayal (@miradayal ) from 2018 through 2021.

Returning to the project’s origins, a humorous associative game of conflating street-based objects and artworks, Dayal and Kaack will lead a walking tour of “artworks” found on the block surrounding Bungee Space. T͎h͎e͎ ͎t͎o͎u͎r͎ ͎w͎i͎l͎l͎ ͎d͎e͎p͎a͎r͎t͎ ͎f͎r͎o͎m͎ ͎B͎u͎n͎g͎e͎e͎ ͎S͎p͎a͎c͎e͎ ͎p͎r͎o͎m͎p͎t͎l͎y͎ ͎a͎t͎ ͎6͎:͎1͎5͎ ͎P͎M͎.͎

RSVP suggested, link in bio.

#provenanceresearch #prompt: #nicolekaack #miradayal #publicationlaunch #walkingtour #bungeeevent #bungeespace #3standardstoppage #3ssstudios

prompt: is a collaborative artist publication directed by Nicole Kaack and Mira Dayal. Each issue brings together artists, writers, or scholars who have not previously worked together and are chosen by Dayal and Kaack because of their mutual interests in a particular form of research or subject matter. Collaborators work together over a period of several months to produce a publication presented as an archive of correspondence or a draft for future work. taken in Stanton Street by @promptcolon

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We're thrilled to share a preview of Provenance Research, the fifth issue of prompt:, a collaboration among prompt:'s editors and community! The publication compiles a series of vernacular photos that suggest comparison to works of art, attesting to how artworks enmesh themselves in a viewer’s daily reality, both high and low. Issues will be available at the New York Art Book Fair next week, and are now for sale on our website! @printedmatter_artbookfairs

Hironori Akutagawa, Darren Bader, Uta Barth, Katie Bell, François-Joseph Bosio, Louise Bourgeois, André Cadere, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Alex Da Corte, Marie-Michelle Deschamps, Sarah Goodridge, Andreas Gursky, Hans Haacke, Gordon Hall, Leslie Hewitt, Lauren Halsey, Ellsworth Kelly, Anselm Kiefer, Agnieszka Kurant, Yayoi Kusama, Zoe Leonard, Édouard Manet, Teresa Margolles, Ana Mendieta, Piet Mondrian, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Catherine Murphy, Isamu Noguchi, Georgia O’Keeffe, Liliana Porter, Seth Price, Gerhard Richter, Bernardo Salcedo, Richard Serra, Lieko Shiga, Stephen Shore, Robert Smithson, Valeska Soares, and Luc Tuymans

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Nora Chellew, Mira Dayal, Curtis Eckley, Maxine Henryson,
Nicole Kaack, Trevor King, Virginia L. Montgomery, Tyna Ontko, Suspended Reason, Shreya Sahai, Cristóbal Sciutto, sgp, Pallavi Surana, Al Svoboda, Daniel Terna, Grace VanValey, Joseph Wilcox, and Nechama Winston

@noras_account @miradayal @azzedinepariah @maxinehenryson @kaackattack @trevorkingartworks @skinnyaliens @tyna.ontko @suspendedreason @sahaiwithani @__s.gp @pallavisuranaa @al.svoboda @danielterna @grace_vanv @joseph_wilcox @nswinston by @promptcolon

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We are delighted to be tabling again at the New York Art Book Fair in April! 📚 Swing by to pick up a freshly printed copy of our newest collaborative artist book, Provenance Research, featuring images contributed by our readers, based on the joint Instagram account @provenance.research. 👯 We'll also have some other fun creations to share - stay tuned! 🎉 @printedmatter_artbookfairs @printedmatterinc
Also looking forward to visiting friends and neighbors @yuchenyuchen @cara_the_org @endlesseditions @gravelprojects and others 💓 by @promptcolon

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🗓️ Lil’ reminder that the submission deadline for “Provenance Research,” the next issue of @promptcolon, is this Friday, March 1‼️

📒 “Provenance Research” takes its cue from an instagram account (@provenance.research) shared by me and Mira Dayal (@miradayal) from 2018 to 2021. Each post compares a historical artwork to a photo of an object taken in our day-to-day lives, paying homage to works that linger in our minds and become part of our every day.

📨Submission details:
- Send in images you have taken that resemble other artworks.
- Your submission should include your photograph; the artist, title, and date of the work that it resembles; and a reference photo of the original work.
- Submissions should be emailed to promptcolon@gmail.com by March 1.

✨ We look forward to collaborating with you by @promptcolon

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Catch issues of prompt: at the Jersey Art Book Fair this Saturday and Sunday, Feb 3–4! Head on over to the @newpoeticsoflabor table to page through our publications and be sure to linger with New Poetics’ gorgeous suite of photo zones.

#jerseyartbookfair taken in Historic Railroad Station At Liberty State Park by @promptcolon

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Collaborate with us! 👯‍♂️ prompt: is opening a call for submissions to our upcoming issue, which will be titled “Provenance Research.”

The project takes its cue from a collaborative instagram account (@provenance.research) opened by prompt: editors Mira Dayal and Nicole Kaack in 2018 and in active use through 2021. Each post included a photo found or taken by Dayal or Kaack and suggested a comparison to a work of art, acting as testament to the enduring presence of artworks that linger in the mind and enmesh themselves in a viewer’s daily reality, both high and low. 🧠

We invite you to submit images you have taken that resemble other artworks, for possible inclusion in an upcoming book. If chosen, your photograph will be credited to you and you will receive one copy of the full edition of 200. Your submission should include your photograph; the artist, title, and date of the work that it resembles; and a reference photo of the original work. Submissions should be emailed to promptcolon@gmail.com by March 1, 2024. 📒 by @promptcolon

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We had such fun sharing our publications at @rehearsalartbookfair! Thank you to everyone who visited us, and to @bungee.space and @accentsisters for organizing this lovely event.

You can learn more about our recent issue by @kate.the.duck and @annaplesset, our risograph print edition Prints of Protest, and all of our past issues at the link in our bio. ✨ taken in New York, New York by @promptcolon

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