About

Colonex:centrics. A series of books on contemporary art and music examining people, practices and movements from the space in-between, neither mainstream nor underground. Providing a space to examine ex:centric expressions that have transformed their field of cultural production yet eluded the scholarly and popular attention they deserve, the series seeks to redress this gap and consider works that led the way whilst staying under the radar, that sit on the periphery yet point towards the centre. Works published in this series explore the sonic and extend beyond it to critically assess how sound’s capacity to transgress borders can be understood as itself an ex:centric practice.

The series is thus designed to listen to the ways that cultural production can transform our ways of thinking about what takes place at the centre or extreme margins, on either side of the ex:centric.

people: those who have started out from beyond the enclosure of the mainstream, those who point to futures, parallel worlds in art and sound, those who have developed a body of work that challenges the centre ground to move close to them.

practices: methods, styles, approaches, technologies, outlooks, attitudes that fray the edges of sonic and cultural practice; resolutely experimental, these modes or moves ripple out in wider changes. for example, sampling, noise, intermedia, DIY, field recording, new ways of listening to sound, new ways of thinking about the borderlands of accepted musical habits.

movements: capturing moments where groups, individuals or dispersed networks create something unifying that is properly avant-garde, designed to drive on cultural production and/or change wider attitudes, politics, practice.

series editors:

  • Greg Hainge (University of Queensland, Australia)
  • Paul Hegarty (University of Cork, Ireland)

advisory board (with more tbc):

  • Andy Bennett (Griffith University, Australia)
  • Robert Crouch (artist and curator, VOLUME)
  • Felicity Colman (Manchester School of Art, UK)
  • Lawrence English (sound artist and curator, room40)
  • Helen Frosi (artist, director SoundFjord)
  • Gary Genosko (University of Ontario, Canada)
  • Jane Grant (University of Plymouth, UK)
  • John Matthias (University of Plymouth, UK)
  • Alan Licht (sound artist)
  • Robin Rimbaud (sound artist)
  • Marina Rosenfeld (artist)
  • Holly Rogers (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
  • Matthieu Saladin (Université Paris 8, France)
  • Jamie Stewart (sound artist, Xiu Xiu)
  • Kathryn Weir (Director of Cultural Development, Centre Pompidou, France)