HumDrumPress

HumDrumPress is an experimental publishing imprint and extended publishing practice that works through collaborative means to question the boundaries of 'publishing' - publishing here understood as practice, methodology, physical output, artistic and design practice, and research discipline - and to experiment with the development of more horizontal, sustainable and public models of publishing. In doing so, HumDrum Press seeks to explore new, networked ways of documenting and disseminating voices, ideas and contexts, and to better understand the role of publishing and publishers in the current political, economic and environmental climate. While the printed pamphlet is our preferred form of publishing, we remain eager and interested in understanding publishing through a variety of different formats and modes of communication, including but not limited to: essay, novella, handbook, manifesto, letter, blueprint, poetry, photography, illustration, performance, conversation, sketch, installation and more, and as individual, collective or accumulative instances of publishing. At the heart of HumDrumPress is an understanding of publishing as a commons and publishing as a public or community good. The imprint is therefore shaped and shared by our network of collaborating individuals, organisations and institutions. Our aim is to build and maintain a publishing home for such networks and knowledge, from both temporary and longer-term collaborators and partners, to create a supportive, sustainable print framework and accompanying series of live programmed events. Through the work of the core HumDrum team, in partnership with our extended network of friends and collaborators, we seek to activate live events, visual communication, the written form and subscription-based formats to reimagine the artistic and social role and value of the printed press.