When we started TCI, we selected a small number of books to be in a lending library in our office, each of which somehow reflected our ethos. These are those books.
Software for Artists Book: Building Better Realities
Various, 2020
Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis
Paul Soulellis, 2020
Worksheet: On using the internet mindfully
The Creative Independent, 2019
The Artist’s Way
Julia Cameron, 1992
Sober 21
The Creative Independent, 2021
PRESENCE, Issue 1: IN THE MIST
various, 2020
Sci-Fi Sundays Selects
Sarah Hotchkiss, 2020
I Trust My Guitar (Etc.), No. 2
Rachel Aggs, 2014
I Trust My Guitar (Etc.), No. 1
Rachel Aggs, 2011
DIY Guitar For Beginners
Rachel Aggs, 2017
Midwinter Day Day
Cortney Cassidy, 2019
Suddenly
Photography by Allen Frame and anonymous found photographs and drawings, 2020
ScarJo
Christine Smallwood (words), Mark Sussman (words), Chris Santa Maria (art), 2015
Princess of the Apocalypse
Harmony Tividad, 2020
On feeling healthy
The Creative Independent, 2019
On finding your voice
The Creative Independent, 2019
El Caracol (Spanish)
The Creative Independent, 2019
El Caracol (English)
The Creative Independent, 2019
How do you use the internet mindfully?
The Creative Independent, 2018
On dealing with creative anxiety
The Creative Independent, 2018
On making a living as an artist
The Creative Independent, 2018
Hyperobjects for Artists
Laura Copelin, Peyton Gardner and Timothy Morton, 2018
The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology
Robert Motherwell, 1989
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Edwin A. Abbott, 1884, 1984
Peter Fischli & David Weiss: How to Work Better
Nancy Spector, Nat Trotman, 2016
Vegetation
Francis Ponge, 1987
Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment
Paper Monument, n+1, 2012
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport, 2016
Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings
Yoko Ono, 1964, 2000
Exercises in Style
Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright, 1947, 1981
Individuals: Post-Movement Art in America
Walter Abish, Laurie Anderson, David Askevold, Vito Acconci, Robert Horvitz, Nancy Wilson Kitchel, Alvin Lucier, Bernadette Mayer, Adrian Piper, Alan Sondheim, 1977
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Mason Currey, 2013
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Anne Lamott, 1995
Voyage Around My Room
Xavier de Maistre, 1794, 2016
Tell Them I Said No
Martin Herbert, 2016
Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews
Calvin Tompkins, Paul Chan, 2013
Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century
Marjorie Perloff, 2010
The Wave in the Mind, Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
Ursula K. Le Guin, 2004
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