Published by MGLC and Mousse, Crack Up – Crack Down extends the discursive focus of the Biennial on graphics and satire: featuring commissioned essays from Emily Apter on the micro-politics of memes, David Crowley on punk as a platform of dissimulation in Poland and Hungary, Vid Simoniti on the cult Bosnian satire Top lista nadrealista, among other Balkan precedents, and Melissa Constantine on the affective infrastructures of satire. Book presentation will be held in November 2019.
