Presenting all bodies of work in the Xenogenesis exhibition curated by Annie Fletcher, this publication includes many materials and graphics from The Otolith Group’s (Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun) broader practice, including performance, lecture, and research material. The outcome of over four years of collaboration, research, and conversation, the publication is not a chronological exhibition catalogue or retrospective but a cross-section of their work which includes substantial contributions from the artists in the form of writing and direct engagement with its production.

The publication also brings together essential thinkers, scholars, art historians, and writers from disparate fields who know and have worked with the Group and those writing from a contemporary perspective. They include Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva, Annie Fletcher, Anselm Franke, Shanay Jhaveri, George E. Lewis, Mahan Moalemi, Fred Moten, Grant Watson, Vivian Ziherl, and the late Mark Fisher, each of whom reflects on a particular aspect of the Group’s practice with supplementary materials such as archival images, documented conversations, early lecture performances as well as other accompanying texts and examinations of their research sites.

The chapters of each of the works have been designed with their own visual identity inspired by the rich production and materials of the Otolith Group, with the circle and the lines used in the logo, as a graphic element that recurs in various forms as a common thread throughout.