Website
Type Of Publisher
Press
Year Established
2015
Address
NY, 11226
Name
Tom Haviv
Title
Co-director
Mission Statement / Editorial Focus
Kaf curates work that moves towards and away from text, work that places value on the space between words, letters, discourses, languages. Kaf means palm in Arabic, Cuneiform, Farsi, Hebrew, Phoenician, Urdu, and many other languages. Kaf is the letter K in each. It signifies touch, vulnerability, intimacy. The hand lifted before it is clenched. Kaf shares its name with mount Qaf, the fabled goal of the Hoopoe and its followers in the Sufi poem The Conference of the Birds. It is half of Kafka, the Czech author of empirical impasse, cruel absurdity. Like the Hoopoe and Kafka’s K., we travel by wandering, without preconceived destination. Kaf is an inquiry into the very possibility of itself, as well as a sustained meditation on the political, geographic and cultural borders that obscure this possibility.
