Small Book of Endangered Gestures

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9 x 12.5 cm
64 Pages
Softcover
First edition of 381 copies
Riso-printed in Berlin, Germany
2026

The Small Book of Endangered Gestures is a pocket-sized reference guide for concepts currently under threat by authoritarian shifts around the world. Pairing censored words with gestures proposed by AI, the book operates as an absurd lexicon somewhere between speculative sign language and technical error. 

"These imperfect fingers may represent one of the last visible traces of imperfection as a sign of the human. Their contorted gestures reaching for concepts under ideological threat feel deeply honest. Endangered Gestures emerges at the moment when every image must become suspect, interrogated not only for what it depicts, but for the systems that produce it. The work captures this threshold with remarkable clarity and timeliness."
— Jury statement for Endangered Gestures video work, Prix Ars Electronica 2026.

The Small Book of Endangered Gestures was shortlisted for the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award in 2026.

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