ABOUT
CALLE SOLEDAD PRESA
(San Antonio, Texas) is an artist-run experimental rasquachismo press, founded by Diana Lizette Rodriguez.
The press is created from the landscape, location-time meditations inside the Central Public Library which is located on Soledad Street.
Calle Soledad es Rasquache. Trabajando con lo que tenemos. Lo visible y invisible. We work with what we have in hand and publish everything by hand. We work with the ephemeral. Ungraspable conditions of image & words.
The press works on multiple projects, physical objects such as poetry books, art books/prints, Códex/Códices, Record Tapes, journals & notebooks. Everything that is made is one of one.
Some projects consist of not publishing anything at all. Instead it is a developing of a relationship with other artists/poets. These projects stem from the traces of those things that are not documented, oral history and the reframing of archiving & publishing. THE THINGS THAT CAN NOT BEEN SEEN BUT ONLY TRANSMITTED IN A SINGLE TIME & SPACE.
How many stories/words/images throughout history have not been documented? Dismantling a stretch of time to emphasize the importance of process and care.
Calle Soledad Presa teaches poetry, visual art & bookbinding workshops across Texas.
The vision of the press is alive and always transforming with the living expression of life. Moving through the impermanence.
Calle Soledad Presa honors all bookmakers specifically the Otomi People who have inspired, given their wisdom and aided the presses vision. We also honor the artists/theorists like Tomás Ybarra-Frausto who have contributed their years of work for a press like this to exist.