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editions
✹edition 001
✹expanded edition 00
XEROXED: wearable pages, readable garments is a garment publishing platform that investigates the relationship between body, garment and publication through the development of wearables and published objects. Specifically, XEROXED explores the potential of the printed garment as a publishing medium for the circulation of contents related to social critique, counterculture, dissident practices and radical design culture. In XEROXED, the political agency of the garment is explored through the act of “publishing-wearing”.
For the development of its volumes and editions, XEROXED collaborates with artists and practitioners, and carries out its research in independent archives, libraries, and collections that host grey literature, non-mainstream publishing and ephemera explicitly positioned in the margins, outside or in opposition to, the capitalist cultural production; conceived within countercultural, subcultural, and alternative channels. The extracted material constitutes the research backbone of the XEROXED publishing catalogue.
The XEROXED published objects are an ever-ending experimentation into the relationship between garment and publication, text and textile, paper and fabric. A percentage of the materials used comes from deadstock and second-hand garments, and the pieces are printed with water-based or waste inks.
The development of the XEROXED research and editions is made possible through the weaving of a widespread network of archivists, contributors and local suppliers. This enables the platform to function as a space where experimentation in artistic publishing merges with the dissemination of counter-hegemonic knowledge.
Founded by Alia Mascia