Critical and Creative Inquiries
We produce well-researched publications, texts, talks, artwork, workshops, and walking tours related to social, political, and environmental themes. We are experienced in teaching and particularly enjoy bringing complex topics to life for broad audiences through visualisations and engaging narratives.
On Plural Studio
1001 ACCURATE MEMORIES by ALEX HEAD (2025)
WORK TAP (2023-2025) Fifth Edition
SPONGE ZINE #1 Assessing the Threats - Tech in Activism, Plural Studio (2025) Fourth Edition
SEEING FIRE | SEEING MEADOWS by ANNA KOSTREVA (2023)
What constitutes public space? The very idea of public space is somewhat fluid and difficult to generalize. For some, it is simply a game where the appearance of striving for the common good is used to create specific social and economic outcomes. For others, it is the very foundation of the democratic process. Acknowledging that these definitions are not mutually exclusive serves as the opening premise for the conceptual heart of the publishing wing of the studio.
Insofar as it legally or historically belongs to the public, (public) space is the place to articulate demands and shape our world. As such, it will always be contested. The goal of centering books and publishing within our work reflects a shared interest in what artist Andreas Siekmann calls “the game of publicness.” To us, this means keeping an eye on the use of public-space, because, for instance, the more a society becomes determined by private corporate interests, the more aestheticized are its politics. This is demonstrated by the way political theatre demonizes minorities in the name of preventing crime, rather than demanding social infrastructures through taxing the super-rich—who, in the meantime, prop up violent political extremists for their own interests.
Yet as writer and author Huw Lemmey puts it, politics is about structures, not gestures. And the artwork plays an important role in the game of publicness by reflecting the times, as Nina Simone said. We believe it is crucial to document and archive the critiques and analytical tools of well-developed liberatory theories for future generations. Our intention is that readers of the works we publish may continue to explore new positions in relationship to publicness.
As founders, we have attempted to begin this process with four works: an architectural sci-fi novel, Seeing Fire | Seeing Meadows by Anna Kostreva (2023); a collection of public statements around censorship, WORK TAP (2023-2025); the twice peer-reviewed guide to digital security for activists, SPONGE ZINE #1 (2025); and a new work of creative non-fiction: 1001 Accurate Memories by Alex Head (2025).
We look forward to developing new book projects with other practitioners that bridge human creativity and the drive towards plurality, prosperity and survival.
Collaborations
RICOCHET - CULTURAL EPIGENETICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHANGE by ALEX HEAD - LJÅ FORLAG (2021)
HERE COMES TROUBLE, AN INQUIRY INTO ART, MAGIC AND MADNESS by ALEX HEAD - ZK/U PRESS (2016) Third Edition
THREE PATHWAYS TO GET ANYWHERE by ANNA KOSTREVA - ROUGH BEAST (2015)
BERLIN: A MORPHOLOGY OF WALLS by ANNA KOSTREVA - ARCHIVE BOOKS (2014)
Impressum
Plural Studio
Anna Kostreva, Alex Head
GbR 23/394/00834
Berlin, Deutschland
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