FAS Publishing
The world is filled with objects, images, narratives, and voices competing for attention along the highways of contemporary media culture. Visibility itself has become a currency. Our point of departure is different. We are less interested in producing more noise than in exploring the quieter territories that often remain unnoticed. We seek out the side roads, the peripheral spaces, and the overlooked phenomena that can reveal unexpected ways of understanding the world.
Our publishing practice is rooted in the artist’s book as a distinct artistic form. Through photography, text, documentation, performance, and conceptual inquiry, we produce publications that function not simply as containers of information but as spaces for thought, perception, and experience. The books are conceived as works in their own right—places where ideas unfold through the interaction of image, material, sequence, and time.
A recurring interest throughout our publications is the relationship between the seemingly insignificant and the profoundly meaningful. Many projects begin with ordinary materials or overlooked situations: melting ice, fragile threads, paper fragments, drops of water, hidden religious artifacts, physical borders, institutional spaces, or constructed environments. Through sustained observation and artistic investigation, these subjects become gateways to broader questions concerning faith, language, memory, politics, ecology, identity, and human existence.

FAS Publishing SE is a small independent book publisher run by the artists Carl Johan Erikson and Karl Johan Stigmark, it was founded in 2000. At the beginning the main focus was on audio works, from 2017 the publisher started publishing artists´ books. Recurring media in FAS Publishing SE are photography, text, sound, artists´ books and performance.
