Druing their Studio Residency at anorak Nicolas Helm-Grovas and Anna R. Winder will work on the translation, research and editorial preparation of a collection of texts by the Spanish video and performance artist María Ruido. The book, titled Sex and the Factory, will be published by b_books in Berlin in 2027. Sex and the Factory gathers theoretical essays, scripts and interviews from 1999 to 2025.
The texts focus especially on the relations between labour, gender and the image, and the changing forms of all three under capitalism. In them, Ruido develops investigations into the imaginaries of labour in postfordist capitalism, the mechanisms that construct memory and their relations to different historical narratives, and decolonial imaginaries and their emancipatory possibilities.
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Nicolas Helm-Grovas (*1988, Vigo) is a writer based in Berlin. He is the author of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Towards Counter-Cinema (Brill, 2026). His writing has appeared in publications such as Oxford Art Journal, Radical Philosophy, Discourse, New Left Review: Sidecar, Burlington Contemporary and Public Review. With Kodwo Eshun and Oliver Fuke he is currently editing a three-volume collection of writings by Peter Wollen for Verso.
Anna R. Winder (*1995, Aarhus) is an artist, writer, librarian, and publisher. She is part of the b_books collective, which runs a bookshop and a publishing house, and is the librarian at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry. Together with Elbe Trakal, she is the founding co-editor of Fat Vampire Press. She lives and works in Berlin.
