Melon #3 - Meals for the Final 72 Hours: Living and Eating through Ongoing Collapse
In a time of extreme politics, escalating conflicts, climate crises, and systemic risks, many governments are encouraging their citizens to stockpile food, water, batteries and survival kits for 72 hours. But what happens after the first seventy-two hours?
“Meals for the Final 72 Hours” moves through “eatable” weeds, wetlands, rivers, military rations and food sovereignty, exploring how people continue to live and eat through conditions of ongoing collapse. It presents how artists, researchers and practitioners think beyond stockpiling and survival skills to transform the preparedness into a form of everyday resilience cultivated through ecological and political awareness, collective practices and the cultivation of relationships with our environment.
EDITOR: Yen-Ting Kuan
CONTRIBUTORS: Tiffany Lay, Alice Strete, Kari Robertson, Yoana Buzova, Giulia Bellinetti, Anna Kooi, Anastasia Eggers, Chaeyoung Kim, Florian Cramer
DESIGNER: Jhen Chen
PRINT RUN: 800
SIZE: 10 cm x 14 cm
PAGES: 110 pages
PRINT: Risoprint (Orange, Brown & Gold)
BINDING: Perfect Binding
PUBLISHING DATE: July 2026
LANGUAGE: English
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Melon #2 - Two Faces of Asian Delicacies: Crisis Food and Colonial Blends
Melon #2 - Two Faces of Asian Delicacies: Crisis Food and Colonial Blends, this issue invites readers to look beyond the fashionable image of "Asian food." What appears today as trendy, comforting, or exotic often carries longer histories of colonial extraction, agricultural reformation, and ecological transformation. Many ingredients that now circulate globally as delicacies were once emergency foods, wartime substitutes, or byproducts of imperial trade.
EDITOR: Yen-Ting Kuan
CONTRIBUTORS: Yen-Ting Kuan, Giulia Bellinetti, and Florian Cramer
DESIGNER: Jhen Chen
PRINT RUN: 500 (2nd edition)
SIZE: 10 cm x 14 cm
PAGES: 32 pages
PRINT: Risoprint (Fluo Pink & Brown)
BINDING: Pamphlet Stitch
PUBLISHING DATE: January, 2026
LANGUAGE: English
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Melon #1: On Foraging in Palestine, Japan & Maastricht
Melon #1: On Foraging in Palestine, Japan & Maastricht looks at foraging as more than a means of survival—it’s a quiet, everyday act of resistance. From occupied Palestine to rural Japan and urban Maastricht, foraging reveals how access to land, freedom of movement, and alternative ways of living are deeply entangled. In contested or urbanized landscapes, it becomes a way to reclaim connection—with nature, place, and one another.
EDITOR: Yen-Ting Kuan
CONTRIBUTORS: Yen-Ting Kuan, Alaa Abu Asad, and Asako Iwama
DESIGNER: Jhen Chen
PRINT RUN: 500 (3rd edition)
SIZE: 10 cm x 14 cm
PAGES: 48 pages
PRINT: Risoprint (Green & Brown)
BINDING: Pamphlet Stitch
PUBLISHING DATE: January, 2026
LANGUAGE: English
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Institution-Making on Moving Ground: A Case Study of 900mdpl (2017–2022)
This publication offers a self-reflective enquiry into the evolving practices of 900mdpl, a small yet multifaceted institution encompassing an international residency, a biennial exhibition, a traveling transient museum, a series of public programs, and multiple publications. Rooted in Kaliurang, Indonesia, the study examines how the situated cultural values of this volcanic village inform its decolonial approaches to institution-making. Central to this research is laku—a generative, embodied Javanese mode of learning—proposed as an alternative methodology. By grounding its analysis in laku, the essay develops a new vocabulary for understanding the intricate entanglements between local cultural values, contemporary art, and curatorial practice.
AUTHOR: Mira Asriningtyas
EDITOR: Emily Shin-Jie Lee
DESIGNER: Jhen Chen
PRINT RUN: 500
SIZE: 11 cm x 18 cm
PAGES: 104 pages
PRINT: Risoprint (Green & Black)
BINDING: Perfect Binding
PUBLISHING DATE: 2025
LANGUAGE: English
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Mimesis: The Non-Standard Poetry Book
(Not) Jammed is an interactive installation consisting of a dot-matrix printer, Scott, that records speech and prints it on the spot. Mimesis originates from a poetry night held on 30 June 2023 at Limestone Books, hosted by artist and poet LDH. On this evening, seven poets read their works, while Scott—operated by the DuctTape Collective—acted as the eighth poet, interpreting what was being recited. The book also includes a foreword by Florian Cramer, an essay by theo ploeg, and the DuctTape Collective’s Navigating Authorship Flux in the Making of Mimesis, which explores the notion of authorship in the realm of hybrid human–machine creation.
AUTHOR: DuctTape Collective, Florian Cramer, theo ploeg, LDH, María Voth Velasco, Jody Aikman, Jean-Shelia Messi, Britt van Baaren, Malu Ebenau, Scott the Dot-Matrix Printer, Polina Slavova, Nai-Syuan Ye, Merle Findhammer, Doğa Gönüllü, Pascal Walters, Richard Voetelink, and Chen Jhen
EDITOR: Merle Findhammer
DESIGNER: Doğa Gönüllü
PRINT RUN: 500
SIZE: 12.5 cm x 20 cm
PAGES: 160 pages
PRINT: Offset
BINDING: Stitch-bound
PUBLISHING DATE: 2025
LANGUAGE: English
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Atlas of Queer Anatomy
Artist Kuang-Yi Ku and STI specialist Prof. Dr. Henry de Vries reimagine the human form, dismantling the patriarchal, heteronormative, and Western-centric frameworks of classical anatomy. Atlas of Queer Anatomy raises critical questions about the way bodies are understood and represented, offering fresh perspectives on the diversity and fluidity of human anatomy. What does it mean to visualize the transmission of STIs as an interplay between human bodies and microorganisms? How can intersex anatomies challenge the rigid binaries of traditional medical education? Why are gender-affirming surgeries so absent from anatomy textbooks, and what happens when we redefine "original bodies"? What stories do body odors tell about our symbiotic relationship with invisible ecosystems? And how do sex toys expand the boundaries between the human body and machines?
AUTHOR: Dr. Henry de Vries & Kuang-Yi Ku
DESIGNER: Tzu-Yen Chen
PRINT RUN: 600
SIZE: 17 cm x 23 cm
PAGES: 176 pages
PRINT: Offset
BINDING: Perfect Binding
PUBLISHING DATE: 2025
LANGUAGE: English
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I, too, do not know what I am doing: Notes on Bibliomaniac Fantasy
The first part of this publication compiles notes from the three-day event Bibliomaniac Fantasy, recorded by Limestone Books colleagues Maximilian Yust and Elinice Adeyemi, together with interviews conducted with participants after the event. The second part introduces Firebrat Library and features interviews conducted by Adeyemi with various members of the Limestone Books community library.
AUTHOR: Maximilian Yust & Elinice Adeyemi
DESIGNER: Liou Yuh Chyi
PRINT RUN: 500
SIZE: 11 cm x 18 cm
PAGES: 136 pages
PRINT: Risoprint (Crimson & Green)
BINDING: Perfect Binding
PUBLISHING DATE: 2025
LANGUAGE: English
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Tropical Reading: Photobook and Self-Publishing 2nd Edition
Tropical Reading: Photobook and Self-publishing (Second Edition) emerges from Fotobook DUMMIES Day’s field research across Southeast Asia, offering an insider’s exploration into the realm of photography practitioners, artist collectives, independent publishers, art bookstores, spaces and organizations. This publication is the first monograph focusing on Southeast Asia through the lens of photobook and self-publishing.
At the end of 2019, Fotobook DUMMIES Day conducted interviews with photography practitioners and publishers across Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Manila, Laguna, Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and Yangon. The paper spaces they created through books reflect the abundant visual and cultural landscapes of Southeast Asia, while simultaneously revealing a resilience shaped by the unseen boundaries of censorship and the absence of governmental support.
The second edition restructures its narrative through the distinctive way of working in Southeast Asian communities, divided into two chapters: A “Dots, Islands” and B “Nets, Oceans.” It aims to represent individual-driven and collective publishing practices, underscoring their adaptive and collaborative characteristics. The book features conversations with practitioners and publishers, in-depth interviews, and comprehensive observations on the landscape of art publishing in Southeast Asia.
Originally published in Taiwan in 2022, Tropical Reading saw its reissue in the Netherlands in 2024. The second edition includes four additional online interviews from 2022, featuring artists and publishers from Bandung, Kuala Lumpur, Phnom Penh, and Singapore, along with an introductory foreword by Photobooks & author Matt Johnston.
AUTHOR: Fotobook DUMMIES Day
EDITOR: Jhen Chen, Joanna Lee, K.Chen, Simon Scott, Valentin Marmonier
DESIGNER: K.Chen
PRINT RUN: 400
SIZE: 14 cm x 20 cm
PAGES: 344 pages
PRINT: Offset
BINDING: Perfect Binding
PUBLISHING DATE: 2024
LANGUAGE: English
Perverted Norm, Normal Pervert
In the project, “Perverted Norm, Normal Pervert,” artist Kuang-Yi Ku collaborates with scientist Dr. Joris M. Koene, associate professor in the Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The scientist’s research demonstrates the “gender fluidity” of a non-human species, which is the starting point of this project at some level. Koene’s expertise lies in the hermaphroditic reproduction strategies of snails, and he has a well-equipped breeding facility for freshwater snails. Using this system, Koene’s research has revealed various aspects of snail reproduction. From his research, we find that part of the nature in snail’s sexual activities, which are taken for granted, may seem abnormal in human society. However, some sexual activities of snails are becoming normal in the context of human society. That is to say, in this case, the definition and boundary of “normal” and “pervert” are fluctuating and unstable. Such “fluidity” reflects the affinities and differences among different species; in the meantime, such fluidity prompts us to rethink the rigidity of human society’s perception of sex. In this project, Ku first focuses on four particularities of “sex” to compare and contrast the sexual activities between snails and humans, taking scientific knowledge as the basis for the following visual art creations.
AUTHOR: Kuang-Yi Ku, Dr. Joris M. Koene
DESIGNER: Yu-Tzu Huang
PRINT RUN: 400
SIZE: 12 cm x 19 cm
PAGES: 144 pages
PRINT: Offset
BINDING: Stitch Binding
PUBLISHING DATE: 2023
LANGUAGE: English & Chinese
Cut from a Bigger Cloth
Cut from a Bigger Cloth reflects the path that brought Addoley Dzegede to making textile work based primarily on the history of wax print and how Dutch manufacturers copied Indonesian batik through an industrial process, making a cloth that eventually became so identified with Africa that many don't realize its origins.
The book is divided into sections, including photos from Addoley's family archive of studio photographs in the years following Ghana's independence from British colonization, and one photo possibly from before (of Addoley's great-great-grandfather). Some of the wax prints that family members and her father’s friends are wearing are still made today by Vlisco in Helmond. There is a section of risographs based on drawings she made of batiks in the Quai Branly collection and at the Victoria & Albert Museum. And there are her musings on how she became interested in these histories, trains of thought made during research trips, examples of her work over the past 7 years, as well as a section with natural dye recipes from the Color + Conquest course she taught at Piet Zwart Institute.
AUTHOR: Addoley Dzegede
DESIGNER: Karoline Świeżyński
PRINT RUN: 200
PRINT: Risoprint & Digital Print
BINDING: Stitch Binding
PUBLISHING DATE: 2023
LANGUAGE: English