The object
How it's made
transXperience was made to be held. Not a file, not a feed: paper, ink, thread and a run small enough that someone can count it. This page is the production side of the project, written for the people who still ask what a book is printed on before they ask what it costs.
The short version
- Two colours, high contrast
- Binding
- Simple binding, or hardcover on the premium edition
- Run
- Limited, produced to order
- By hand
- Ten objects, signed by the collective
- Inside
- 12 sections: an intro, 10 chapters, a conclusion
- Language
- English, with passages in Portuguese
- Illustration
- Original, made for this edition
- Sound
- 16 songs, at least one per chapter
Three editions, three different objects
The same text exists as three physical things, and the difference is not packaging. It is how much of the object a human touched.
transXperience for all, 34,90 €. Simple binding and a high-contrast two-colour print. The reading edition: the one meant to be carried, annotated and lent out.
transXperience for you, 59,90 €. A premium hardcover finish, with access to the digital gallery. The edition that stays on the shelf and survives being opened a hundred times.
eXclusive transXperience, 800 €. An individually crafted art object, signed by the collective, made almost entirely by hand. Ten of them exist. Each one carries a lifetime all-access pass and a listing in the physical art gallery.
Printed to order, not to a warehouse
Nothing is printed before it is wanted. Every edition is produced to order in a limited run, the eXclusive tier almost entirely by hand, and shipping begins once the print run for the pre-sale window is complete. It is slower than a warehouse and it is the point: no pallet of unsold copies, no pulping, no guessing how many strangers will want a poem this year.
What is actually on the pages
Twelve sections: an introduction, ten chapters and a conclusion. The chapters are Time, Childhoods, Equity, Transmutation, Adultescence, Bonds, Consolidation, Distractions, Restructuring and Regress. Each one opens with a theoretical and philosophical epigraph that runs against the informal, spoken texture of the poems that follow.
The text is signed by several creative pseudonyms (Iguru D'Oxum, Guita Guevara, Transgorina Magmatic Universalis and others) presented as the same poetic subject wearing different expressive masks. The illustrations were made for this edition and exist nowhere else.
Why paper, in 2026
A screen can show you this book. It cannot give you the weight of it, the resistance of a page that does not want to turn, the smell of a print run that was finished last week. Those are not nostalgic details. They are the part of reading that the file format quietly deleted.
The project is about identity, time and transformation inside an analog-digital society. Printing it was the argument, not the format.
The sound has a body too
Sixteen songs were composed alongside the text, at least one for each chapter, moving from ambient and spoken word into experimental territory. Three 30-second previews play on the home page: The Messenger, Transformation and The book.
Where to see it on a table
The exhibition and book launch happen in Berlin in November 2026. Visitors move through the ten chapters room by room, with readings and listening stations. The pre-sale closes on 15 October 2026, ahead of the launch.
Questions people actually ask
Is transXperience a printed book or a digital one?
Printed. It exists in three physical editions, all produced to order in a limited run. The premium edition adds access to a digital gallery, but the book itself is a physical object.
What makes the eXclusive edition different?
It is an individually crafted art object, signed by the collective and made almost entirely by hand. Only ten exist, and each carries a lifetime all-access pass and a listing in the physical art gallery.
How is the book structured?
Twelve sections: an introduction, ten chapters and a conclusion. The chapters are Time, Childhoods, Equity, Transmutation, Adultescence, Bonds, Consolidation, Distractions, Restructuring and Regress, each opening with a theoretical and philosophical epigraph.
What language is it written in?
The first edition launches in English. Translations into other languages are planned for 2027.
When does a pre-order ship?
Once the pre-sale print run is complete. The pre-sale closes on 15 October 2026. All three editions dispatch worldwide in the order the orders were received.
Who made it?
Igor Arnold de Almeida and Eugenio Santiago explore the relationship between symbols, meaning, geography, mythology, time and the transformations that the individual brings about within themselves and, consequently, in the universe.