before sunset is a 24 Hour Book made by Studio The Future with MULU OFFICE. The 24 Hour Book series is a publishing experiment by The Future Publishing. For each edition, they invite a maker, studio, or collective to join them. Together, within 24 hours, they move from first idea to finished book. Each publication is the result of this shared, time-compressed process.

TOKIO PRESENTS collects photos by MULU OFFICE made during their stay in Tokyo for the 2025 Tokio Art Book Fair, brought together with a collection of city maps recorded throughout the trip. The Japanese term genzaichi (“you are here”), written in kanji, denotes a spot of location, while in Chinese it can be misread as “currently”, shifting emphasis from place to time.

IASPIS Floorplane is a collective project that invites audiences to re-imagine and re-puzzle the institutional space of IASPIS’s floor plan through a tangram-like game.

Contributed artist:
Ships at Sea, Liu Chao-Tze, 15:36 25-9-2025
Cook, Liu Chao-Tze, 20:44 25-9-2025
Circles have no ends, Eva-Teréz Gölin, 15:03 29-9-2025
Rooster, Nur Horsanalı, 11:21 30-9-2025
BBQ, Rayan Elnayal, 13:17 30-9-2025
Floor Plan, IASPIS Open Studios, 13-20:00 3-10-2025
Old woman slapping a neo nazi with her handbag, Leif Ockborn, 15:15 3-10-2025
The Song of the Stag Beetle, Max Ockborn, 15:22 3-10-2025
Horse smoking a cigarett, Lena Bergendahl, 15:36 3-10-2025

This Chinese edition of The Concept of Non-Photography is the first translated work of the French philosopher François Laruelle to be published in the Chinese-speaking world.

If philosophy has always understood itself and its World according to the model of the photograph, then how can there be a “philosophy of photography” that is not viciously self-reflexive? By thinking the photograph “non-philosophically”, Laruelle discovers an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological and aesthetic conditions. Challenging the customary assumptions made by any “theory of photography” that leaves its own “onto-photo-logical” conditions uninterrogated, and utilizing the concept of a “generalized fractality” to interrogate artistic creation, The Concept of Non-Photography exposes a rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to philosophy, science and art.

Originally published in English as “The Concept of Non-Photography”, a bilingual edition, by François Laruelle. © Urbanomic/Sequence Press, 2011. The Traditional Chinese edition is translated from the French text of the third revised edition (2015).

This book is a playground where artists from Poland, Japan, and Taiwan came together to play with their art. They circled around the concept of “the world”, bringing in their own ideas and attempting to approach the topic from different, sometimes opposing, angles. During ten intense days of creation, they finally printed and bound an edition of 300 copies. They worked in Tokyo, with a window view overlooking Shibuya Crossing. This daily observation inspired the metaphor of the book as an intersection, where they meet to play.

TOKYO DISPLAY Ⓢ collects photos by MULU OFFICE during a six-day stay in Tokyo for the 2023 Tokyo Art Book Fair. True to its title, the book focuses on displays in the urban landscape—street signs, shop windows, food models, interspersed with city views glimpsed from hotel windows.

YANYI is Lee Jay En’s first attempt at drawing comics, as a way to record ten years of life and friendships in the Yancheng First Public Market in Kaohsiung. Although Lee passes through the market every day, putting it down on paper feels like making a rubbing of life itself—revealing a deeper understanding of the tiles, the corners, and the relationships among people in the market. More than a comic book, Lee sees this work as a kind of storyboard, presenting the market through the perspective of everyday observation. As each panel unfolds through reading, the narration of time emerges— a quality unique to storyboards. The book does not have a clearly defined main character, each chapter depicts different people spending their own time in the market, shaped by their work patterns or by their particular sense of time. The speech bubbles were written by the characters themselves by hand, so that each person’s handwriting conveys their individuality and depth. The scale of time shifts from story to story, yet for the market, it all amounts to just another ordinary day. YANYI is Lee Jay En’s first attempt at drawing comics, as a way to record ten years of life and friendships in the Yancheng First Public Market in Kaohsiung. Although Lee passes through the market every day, putting it down on paper feels like making a rubbing of life itself—revealing a deeper understanding of the tiles, the corners, and the relationships among people in the market.

More than a comic book, Lee sees this work as a kind of storyboard, presenting the market through the perspective of everyday observation. As each panel unfolds through reading, the narration of time emerges— a quality unique to storyboards.

The book does not have a clearly defined main character, each chapter depicts different people spending their own time in the market, shaped by their work patterns or by their particular sense of time. The speech bubbles were written by the characters themselves by hand, so that each person’s handwriting conveys their individuality and depth. The scale of time shifts from story to story, yet for the market, it all amounts to just another ordinary day.

ender is a series of records from a family trip to Okinawa. It is also a souvenir brought back from the journey. The word “ender” comes from the Okinawan dialect, meaning “a kind and gentle person.” The grayish- blue book cloth resembles the Okinawan sea in spring , carrying a breeze tinged with moisture.

神聖の充滿—AN ULTIMATE GUIDE TO ZEN LIVING is a collection of photographs of Buddha statues taken by Liu Chao-Tze between 2016 and 2020 in Europe. These statues are often found in garden sections, surrounded by tropical plants and artificial turf, or appear in home décor sections as flowerpot or candle holders—settings that are both absurd and captivating. Moving through museum shops, antique stores, flea markets, supermarkets, and residential windowsills, the book offers glimpses into various European cities. It reads like both a travel journal and a scripture returning from the “West”.

Building upon the content of AN ULTIMATE GUIDE TO ZEN LIVING. Vol.1 & Vol.2 (2017), this complete edition includes all photographs collected over five years. Printed on Bible paper and bound in PVC leatherette with sewn binding, it comes in black and white inner cover options. Small enough to fit in your hand, perfect for carrying anywhere.

TOKYO DISPLAY Ⓛ collects photos by MULU OFFICE during a six-day stay in Tokyo for the 2023 Tokyo Art Book Fair. True to its title, the book focuses on displays in the urban landscape—street signs, shop windows, food models, interspersed with city views glimpsed from hotel windows.

Derived from the 21 THINGS series, MUSEUM SHOP prints tourist photos from museums worldwide(2016– 2024) onto acrylic keyrings. These keyrings symbolize museum shop souvenirs and serve as “mini-windows”, merging the museum’s browsing experience with window shopping. This juxtaposition displays the visual similarities between museum and shopping mall presentations, reflecting the interconnectedness of consumer and cultural spaces.

SHOP: HOW DO WE SHOP, organized by gideon-jamie, is part of the People of Design Showcases Series, a key event of Singapore Design Week curated by Hans Tan together with a team of designer-curators. Ten showcases presented across the Bras Basah.Bugis Design District creatively examines the rituals of daily life through the lens of design, where each showcase delves into a specific activity such as Eat, Sleep, Shop, Read, Heal, Make, Plant, Commute, Display and Design. Through new works and collaborative projects, visitors will discover imaginative design possibilities shaped to offer fresh perspectives on the world around us, inspiring new ways of thinking, seeing, and experiencing daily life. SHOP is presented in partnership with Bugis+ and Bugis Street and is co-organised by gideon-jamie and Hans Tan Studio.

RELICS MAGAZINE was a namesake exhibition accompanying the book RELICS MAGAZINE at 0.3025m2 Book, Yancheng First Public Retail Market, Kaohsiung. Within this compact exhibition space, visitors encounter a display of disassembled defective copies of the publication remnants of the printing process. Here, a story of things that beyond the objects, things that left behind reflects in another dimension, inviting viewers into a new narrative.

The name “CLOUDECK” is an ambiguous combination of languages, representing various meanings such as ‘the upper surface of clouds as seen from an aircraft’, ‘the axis component that connects cameras or other optical instruments’, or even ‘a lookout that provides a panoramic view of the surroundings’.

In the exhibition Katalog, the multifaceted meanings of CLOUDECK serve as a theme, through a mapping method inspired by the principles of tilling-transformation puzzles, that aims to create an exhibition catalog that is itself an exhibition, exploring the intersection of book-space and gallery-space and the unfolding composition of the book. In CLOUDECK: Katalog, the exhibition space becomes an extension of the book’s time and space, and the exhibition itself also takes place within the book’s unfolding. After the physical exhibition at Celsius Projects in Malmö is ended, it will continue in between the pages of the catalog, traversing geographical boundaries and beyond, an exhibition in Malmö has just begun.

The MENU Performance is a cooking performance inspired by Ulises Carrion’s 1975 article, The New Art of Making Books. The performance features a menu of dishes named after sections quoted from the article, offering the audience a sensory experience that combines food and publishing. DISH LIST Bowl-shaped porcelain with four hollows, original use unknown, maker unknown, Japan / Porcelain plate with high base, plates for food, maker unknown, Japan / SHEN DENG (Magic Lamp) sauce boat, maker unknown, China / Sugarcane straw, JU TIAN CLEANTECH, Taiwan / Mr. Baking food wrapping paper, China / VARMBLIXT serving bowl with lid, IKEA, Sweden.

The performance was published at Celsius Project in Malmo, Sweden, on June 17th, 2023, from 3:00 PM to 11:00 PM, as part of the ‘LJUSA NÄTTER II’ event organized by Anti bokhandel.