SPARK
An irregular publishing project shaped by conversation and the cultural conditions that surround it, but rarely enter the frame. It operates in the space between structure and drift, holding context where coherence falters and nothing settles cleanly. The focus isn’t the work itself, but what accumulates around it: delay, exhaustion, distraction, refusal, time that doesn’t add up. What’s printed is rarely complete, and always slightly out of step. Some things get lost in the process. Edited by Utkan Dora Öncül.
Current Stockists:
Draw Down Books, Connecticut, USA.
Pon Ding, Taipei, Taiwan.
Events:
Dallas Artbook Fair, Dallas Contempoary, Dallas, TX, March 2025.
Jersey Artbook Fair, Mana Contempoary, Jersey City, NJ, February 2025.
Taipei Artbook Fair, Huashuan Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2024.
I Never Read Artbook Fair, Kaserne, Basel, Switzerland, June 2024.
Other Islands Artbook Fair, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, April 2024.
Spark Presentation, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, May 2022.
Press/Features:
Public Announcement, 2024. Instagram.
Cargo Newsletter, 2024. Instagram.
Cargo Newsletter, August 2024. Instagram.
Issue 5
Carve Your Path Issue
featuring Benjamin Edgar Gott, Tom Winslade, Ezekiel, 109 Montrose, Minji Seo, Suffo Moncloa, Nicole McLaughlin, Federico Sargentone, Olgaç Bozalp, Codie O’Connor, Marc Morro, Michelle Watt, Younès Klouche. cover illustration by Maxton O’Connor.
edition of 100. 64 pages. 55gsm newsprint. 2024.
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Issue 4
featuring Ben Denzer, Bráulio Amado, Christopher & Kathleen Sleboda of Draw Down Books, HolyVulture, James Goggin, Jean Marc Caimi & Valentina Piccini, Nikki Juen, Nino Francis, Paul Soulellis, Rosie Matheson, Sasha Filiminov, Simcha Davis, Somnath Bhatt, Timur Celikdag, and Vanessa Gregorchik. front and back cover photography by Erica J Liu, back cover illustration by Leo Horton.
edition of 50. 48 pages. 55gsm newsprint. 2022.
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Issue 3
A Subjective Guide to Genuine Conversation
featuring Alice Taranto, Can Altay, Courtney Malick, Drew Litowitz, Elie Andersen, Harold Benett, Leo Fitzpatrick, Rachel Berger, Rob Alderson.
edition of 15. 2 color risograph. 11x17 folio. 2022.
(sold out)
Issue 2
featuring Leah Maldonado, Lucas Mascatello, Nejc Prah.
edition of 50. 4 pages. 55gsm newsprint. 2021.
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Issue 1
featuring Erica Bech, Mark Bohle, Zak Jensen.
edition of 50. 4 pages. 55gsm newsprint. 2021.
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Almost something irreverent. nearly nothing. still here.
based in Austin, New York and sometimes Istanbul.