TORO LIBRIS LLC is a new imprint out of Barrio Logan in San Diego. Our first release portends a left-of-center series of new and unusual titles in the fields of cultural criticism, contemporary art and literature. Proof of Concept is the first release in the CREATIVE WORK series. The Nuevx Mestizx series is expected in 2028.

TORO LIBRIS is proud to announce its first title. Proof of Concept is a retrospective exhibition catalog of the media works of Armando Rascón. Tracing the development from early Super 8 film to the advent of activist media works and the ephemera that has defined his practice from 1976 to 2026, the book illustrates the artist’s penchant for a range of subject matter from California’s postcolonial history to queer activism set against earlier backdrops of collaborative experimental sound works dating to the late Seventies and early Eighties. The book incorporates plentiful WebAR codes to supplant sound and video moments for the reader.

Prefaced with a poignant introduction by Los Angeles’ own Armando Durón, the book is accompanied by a series of comprehensive essays that chronicle distinct phases of the artist’s life by feminist cultural critic Norma Alarcón alongside renown curators Dan Cameron, Daniell Cornell, Rosalía Romero, Victor Zamudio-Taylor and Claudia Zapata.

The book includes full color plates and documentation of a full range of spectral media installations that now exist in picture form only. The book’s focus is on the elliptical nature of Rascón’s postcolonial studies at the intersection with the changing social landscape of the twenty-first century. Ultimately, Proof of Concept exists as an examination of a physically fictive exhibition awash with a lifespan of extant works and their extinct ephemeral counterparts.