The point of departure for the book Black Ark with Lee "Scratch" Perry (1936–2021), a Jamaican musical and visual artist who was based in Switzerland, is a detailed inventory of photographs and writings (Spring 2021) from the Black Ark Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, where Lee produced his music from 1973 on. He was a seminal pioneer of dub, an electronic subgenre of reggae that uses sampling, looping, remixing, reverb and echoes to create new songs as well as rework  and appropriate pre-recorded songs and tracks.

Black Ark Studios was one of the cradles of dub. It's also where Lee "Scratch" Perry's musical approach found an enduring visual counterpart in the form of continuously evolving mural paintings and drawings  as well as shape-shifting assemblages of records, instruments, found objects, posters, newspaper and magazine clippings, and appropriated books. The artworks form actual layers upon layers that are rhizomatically intertwined with the studio building itself  as well as with the furniture inside and with Perry's biography and persona.

21 x 28 cm (hardcover, cloth binding)
600 pages
Edited by Andreas Koller and Lorenzo Bernet.
Texts by Ishion Hutchinson, Kodwo Eshun, Lee Scratch Perry.
ISBN: 978-3-907236-66-6
published in February 2026
English edition