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Manual / Issue 14 / Shadows, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor-In-Chief, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Andrea Achi, Emanuel Admassu, Anita N. Bateman, Makeda Best, Gina Borromeo, Rashayla Marie Brown, Shuriya Davis, Akwaeke Emezi, Tayana Fincher, Melanee C. Harvey, Kate Irvin, Sade Lanay, Dominic Molon, Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Kevin Quashie, Matthew Shenoda, Kelly Taylor Mitchell, Leslie Wilson

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Shadows. This anti-visibility is not the same as being invisible, rather it is the power to operate against systems of imperial domination, including the gaze. It asks: How do we force the gaze to surrender? What if explanation were off the table? By enabling a petit marronage that can be expressed in the visual and symbolic use of shadow, the gaze is challenged. This issue of Manual and the accompanying exhibition (opening at the RISD Museum Fall 2020) posit that the right to opacity de-burdens contemporary work by artists who identify as …

Manual / Issue 13 / Storage, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor-In-Chief, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Christina Alderman, Isaac M. Alderman, A.H. Jerriod Avant, Matthew Bird, Hannah Carlson, Wai Yee Chiong, John Dunnigan, Maria Morris Hambourg, David Hartt, Elaine Tyler May, Claire Mccardell, Denise Murrell, Ingrid Schaffner, Holly Schaffer, Tanya Sheehan, John W. Smith, Mimi Smith, Sassan Tabatabai, Allan Wexler, Fred Wilson

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Storage. Manual 13 opens with an introduction by Fred Wilson, who confides, “You can look at all the opulence on display in a museum and begin to understand that something nefarious might be behind it. Storage, for me, is where the action is.” "Museums usually make choices for viewers, their curators presenting what they think most important within a category. They can be so good at doing this that visitors sometimes don’t realize there’s anything else to see: they don’t realize the nature of the decisions behind an exhibition, and they accept …

Manual / Issue 12 / On Further Review, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor-In-Chief, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Anita N. Bateman, Laurie Anne Brewer, Elon Cook Lee, Becci Davis, Jessica Deane Rosner, James Gabbarelli, Ronnie Goodman, Bethany Johns, Kevin Mcbride, Walter Mettling, Nell Painter, Allison Pappas, Pamala A. Parmal, Susan Scanlan, Lorén M. Spears, Shiyanthi Thavapalan, Nick White

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. On Further Review. This issue uncovers narratives once central to objects’ histories but that now have been systematically obscured, inadvertently overlooked, or otherwise lost. Softcover, 96 pages. Published 2019 by the RISD Museum.(On Further Review) contributors include Anita N. Bateman, Laurie Anne Brewer, Becci Davis, Jamie Gabbarelli, Bethany Johns, Elon Cook Lee, Kevin McBride, Walker Mettling, Jessica Rosner, Suzanne Scanlan, Nell Painter, Allison Pappas, Pamela A. Parmal, Shiyanthi Thavapalan, and Nick White.

Manual / Issue 11 / Repair, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor-In-Chief, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Markus Berger, Gina Borromeo, Linda Catano, Thomas Denenberg, Daniel Eatock, Brian Goldberg, Ramiro Gomez, Kate Irvin, Anna Rose Keefe, Olivia Laing, Steven D. Lubar, Lisa Z. Morgan, Maureen C. O'Brien, Barry Schwabsky, Sharma Shields, Jessica Urick, Liliane Wong

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Repair. "Can we find in the detail, in the stitch and the weave, an ecology of care, a model for activating new forms of life, ones that might reject or reimagine an economic and cultural order based on novelty, disposability, and the monadic self? Can they help us learn to live together in a broken world?"
—Brian Goldberg and Kate Irvin, from the preface to Issue 11

This volume complemented the exhibition Repair and Design Futures, on view at the RISD Museum October 5, 2018 through June 30, 2019. Softcover, 96 pages. …

Manual / Issue 10 / Polychrome, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor-In-Chief, Amy Pickworth, Editor, David Batchelor, Gina Borromeo, Nicole Buchanan, Catherine Cooper, Darby English, Mara L. Hermano, Elon Cook Lee, Josephine Lee, Dominic Molon, Maureen C. O'Brien, Risd Museum 2017 Summer Teen Intensive Students, Elizabeth A. Williams

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Polychrome. "In art, especially, polychrome invites us to the dialogue that colors are always having amongst themselves. A history of polychrome could be a series of poems exchanged among colors. The exchange might exhibit something like perpetual newness, again and again revealing differently bent hues and movingly novel blends. It would be a short-line poetry, excruciatingly sensitive to tone. Its speakers would have no names, so it would confuse the psychology of human orientation. In this connection, a warning against rendering polychrome as a pure positive seems in order: the parties to …

Manual / Issue 9 / Out Of Line, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor-In-Chief, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Fida Adely, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Stefano Bloch, Mimi Cabell, Namita Vijay Dharia, Douglas W. Doe, Jared A. Goldstein, Lucinda Hitchcock, Jan Howard, Kate Irvin, Douglas Kearney, Amber Lopez, Jeffery Moser, Sheida Soleimani, Craig Taylor

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Out of Line. The nineth issue. This issue of *Manual*—themed Out of Line—is a collection about the way that lines disrupt, point outward. In poetry, the attention to detail one takes in crafting a line is all about making the line disappear, making something it holds to take front stage. . . . The space between the lines creating the image . . . the space around that argues for the importance of all that the lines hold. Manual 9 (Out of Line) complemented Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now, …

Manual / Issue 8 / Give And Take, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor-In-Chief, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Mary-Kim Arnold, Emily Banas, Pia Camil, John Dunnigan, Claudia J. Ford, Kate Irin, Josie Johnson, Dom Molon, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, Alexandra M. Peck, Robert W. Preucel, Wendy Red Star, Jessica Urick, Kelly Walters

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Give and Take. The eigth issue. Manual 8 (Give and Take) explores interaction, transaction, and social exchange and indebtedness.

"The earliest known use of the expression “give and take” can be traced to horse racing. It referred to races in which larger, stronger horses carried more weight, and smaller ones, less. Implied therein is an accounting for relative capacities. In such a race, the goal remains the same—crossing the finish line first—but introducing this variable highlights the relationship between the competing horses. A win is only meaningful if each horse can be …

Manual / Issue 7 / Alchemy, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor-In-Chief, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Markus Berger, Rachel Berwick, Stephen S. Bush, Ca Conrad, Florence Friedman, Doreen Garner, Michael Grugl, Kate Irvin, Mimi Leveque, Dominic Molon, Douglas R. Nickel, Emily J. Peters, Elizabeth A. Williams, Bryan Mcgovern Wilson, Diming Stella Zhong

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Alchemy. The seventh issue. Manual 7 (Alchemy) prompts the unexpected and emergent to manifest.

"To engage as an alchemist/artist is to be the perpetual student of the present moment, to synthesize culture, so-called science, and the implications of existential borders into a discipline that is repeatable, a practice. Art and alchemy are not singular, unified pursuits. Their practitioners are trans-disciplinary, disjointed, and solitary in their practice, and their labor and the ordering of their lives become porous, overlaid in the pursuit of other-than or beyond-dominant modes of understanding.

"Alchemy and art are …

Manual / Issue 6 / Assemblage, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor, S. Hollis Mickey, Editor, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Eric Anderson, Taylor Elyse Anderson, Bob Dilworth, Christina Hemauer, Roman Keller, Mariani Lefas-Tetenes, Simone Leigh, Leora Maltz-Leca, Ingrid A. Neuman, Tara Nummedal, Todd Oldham, Britany Salsbury

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Assemblage. The sixth issue. An assemblage is both an act and a result-the work of gathering and conjoining as well as the state of having been gathered and conjoined. This issue of Manual pieces together works made out of practical necessity and others that marry dazzling embellishments for optimal effect, examining how history (or one version of it) was (and is) pastiched from disparate sources, how fashionable textile samples were collected, and more (always more). An assembly of assemblages, an assortment of intended and unintended interrelationships, Manual issue six is the sum …

Manual / Issue 5 / Unfinished, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor, S. Hollis Mickey, Editor, Jen Bervin, Jean Blackburn, Gina Borromeo, Laurie Brewer, A. Will Brown, Bolaji Campbell, Dennis Congdon, Jeremy Diller, Jan Howard, Kate Irvin, Maureen C. O'Brien, Emily J. Peters, Siebren Versteeg, Elizabeth A. Williams, C. D. Wright

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Unfinished.The fifth issue. Loose threads unknotted. Ideas unrealized. Outlines left bare. Function unperformed. Patterns uncut. Luster removed with time and wear. We rarely examine unfinished things. The unfinished is easily overlooked in favor of the fully rendered and complete, but consider those sketchy lines, those fraying ends: the unfinished has potency. The unfinished offers evidence of process, reveals traces of technique, trembles with latent possibility. The essays, images, and projects presented in the fifth issue of Manual attend to the fluid potential of objects that are in some way incomplete.

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Manual / Issue 4 / Blue, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor, S. Hollis Mickey, Editor, Lawrence Berman, A. Will Brown, Linda Catano, Spencer Finch, Jessica Helfend, Kate Irvin, Dominic Molon, Maggie Nelson, Ingrid Neuman, Margot Mcilwain Nishimura, Karen B. Schloss, Anna Strickland, Louis Van Tilborgh, Oda Van Maanen, Elizabeth A. Williams

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Blue.The fourth issue. Indigo blue, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, cerulean blue, zaffre blue, indanthrone blue, phthalo blue, cyan blue, Han blue, French blue, Berlin blue, Prussian blue, Venetian blue, Dresden blue, Tiffany blue, Lanvin blue, Majorelle blue, International Klein Blue, Facebook blue. The names given to different shades of blue speak of plants, minerals, and modern chemistry; exoticism, global trade, and national pride; capitalist branding and pure invention. The fourth issue of Manual is a meditation on blue. From precious substance to controllable algorithm to the wide blue yonder, join us …

Manual / Issue 3 / Circus, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor, S. Hollis Mickey, Editor, Gina Borromeo, Alison W. Chang, Michelle Clayton, Jim Drain, Daniel Heyman, Andrew Martinez, Ellen Mcbreen, Thangam Ravindranathan, Rebecca Schneider, Susan Smulyan, Gwen Strahle

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Circus. The third issue centers on the theme of "Circus." Includes analyses of various pieces in the museum's archive, a fold-out poster by Jim Drain, and a selection of artworks owned by the museum that loosely address said theme.

Softcover, 62 pages. Published 2014 by the RISD Museum. Manual 3 (Circus) contributors include Gina Borromeo, Alison W. Chang, Michelle Clayton, Jim Drain, Daniel Heyman, Andrew Martinez, Ellen McBreen, Thangam Ravindranathan, Rebecca Schneider, Susan Smulyan, and Gwen Strahle.

Manual / Issue 2 / Lorem Ipsum, Amy Pickworth, Editor, S. Hollis Mickey, Editor, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor, James Allen, Alison W. Chang, Kenneth Goldsmith, Daniel Harkett, Cyrus Highsmith, Jan Howard, Kate Irvin, Antoine Revoy, Nancy Skolos

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Lorem Ipsum.The second issue. In potently meaningful and deliberately meaningless ways, this issue, “Lorem ipsum,” celebrates text. The standard placeholder text used by designers and printers, lorem ipsum isn’t really Latin. Mangled over centuries of use, the passage has become meaningless and untranslatable—and yet it is highly useful in that in its incomprehensibility, it occupies space. Over the centuries and across many inventions and innovations in type and printing, lorem ipsum has acted as a space filler and form shaper in conventional printing, desktop publishing, and electronic typesetting. Join us as …

Manual / Issue 1 / Hand In Hand, Amy Pickworth, Editor, S. Hollis Mickey, Editor, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor, Robert Brinkerhoff, Maureen O'Brien, Sheila Bonde, James Mcshane, Elizabeth Williams, Kate Irvin

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Manual, a journal about art and its making. Hand in Hand. The inaugural issue of The Manual, a twice-yearly publication by the RISD Museum. The theme of this first issue is “hand in hand,” a phrase first recorded in the 16th century. Its early usage described the clasping of palm to palm, but the term has since come to encompass more than this literal meaning. To be hand in hand is also to be connected, joined, concurrent, well matched. Thumb through these pages to find rigorous, imaginative musings as artists and academics make solid contact, gesture wildly, and put their …