INCA Press (Portland, OR) is the imprint of Institute for New Connotative Action, an artist-run initiative founded and directed by Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas.

A.R.T. Library Program Questionnaire gathers insights from librarians and publishers within the Program's distribution network to reconsider and reflect on what it means to make art books public today.

• How do you characterize the books that you publish?

INCA Press’s mission triangulates aesthetic and embodied experiences with social engagement and intellectual and theoretical framing. Specifically, the press supports writing and programming wherein deeply-felt aesthetic form meets political engagement with relevant and urgent issues, framed through theoretical work. INCA Press publishes experimental and contemporary art books—books as art, books on art, artist’s writings, and interdisciplinary inventions—and programs educational series that share artistic research, production processes, and the circulation of books with diverse publics. The goal of INCA Press is to support writing that emerges from visual arts but eschews its traditional boundaries between categories of artmaking and discourse.

• How would you define the audience for your books?

The audience for INCA Press is an art audience, that is, anyone with potential stakes in art. So, everyone. INCA Press consciously makes books for a future audience of readers in order to document and archive dissent for the record.

• Has the way books are distributed changed in the last five years? (If so, how does it affect what or how you publish?)

Small press publications cannot compete with monopoly resources, and thus must operate on the margins.

• When did you start participating in the A.R.T. Library Program?

INCA Press began participating in the A.R.T Library Program in 2015.

• How do you decide what to donate to the program?

INCA Press donates a percentage of each print run.

• How does the A.R.T. Library Program complement your distribution strategies?

INCA Press hopes to reach wide, diverse, and unexpected reading audiences, and as such, is very honored to support the A.R.T. Library Program.