antipodes café's manifestoWith a deliberately artless fashion, this anti-book intertwines handcrafted and industrial materials, production, and printing processes to introduce the ‘yuyo manifesto’ in form and content. The collaboratively concocted list of attributes of the so-called "unwanted plants" defining this pronouncement for social criticism lays bare strategic concepts found across antipodes café’s oeuvre and modus operandi. Featured in languages of places and people related to the organization in the past decade, this puzzling edition invites to apperceive it in its appropriation. Following those instructions and using the included tools, one can put the manifesto into action by both stamping it on the fore edge of several books and/or by germinating it. The pamphlet was printed using a Risograph –with two green inks based on non-edible rice bran oil– on Nepalese wild-crafted artisan paper made from wild Daphne shrubs and containing seeds from ten wild flowering plants from the Americas (Antirrhinum, Petunia, Penstemon, Melampodium leucanthum, Monarda, Papaveraceae, Digitalis purpurea, Chamaemelum nobile, Dianthus repens and weed silene)
