Lula Valletta (1991) is a cut-up artist, freelance curator and bibliophile, stuck in purgatory. She has a long standing history in DIY publishing and printmaking. In Portuguese her name means Squid and like a squid she shares its many tentacles being active on all sorts of fields within the arts. Desperate of being born about 75 years too late, she tries to pick up where the hobbyhorses of the avant-garde left off; rejecting the logic, reason and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality and anti-bourgeois protest. She has been cutting and pasting since kindergarten. At the age of 18, she wandered off to Berlin for the sake of art, only to return 8 years later arm aber sexy after years of being a GlueHead. Together with underdog poet Mr. Pelham she forms the cut-up collective Arpsianism. She gave the world the C.U.M. (Cut-Up Manifesto) and strongly believes that collage is the basis of all art and creation. Specimens of her collage art have been self-published in a series of booklets; an agglomeration of collages into blobs and misprints. Bur-Rose is the umbrella for all things published by Lula Valletta. The zines and tape releases on her label Bur-Rose reflect her own artistic practice and interest; from cult to punk subculture, collage, noise, surrealism and other chaos; if she likes it, she’ll publishes it. Her work has been exhibited in many solo and group shows in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and beyond.

To make a living Lula is a teacher at KABK, Grafische Werkplaats Den Haag and Art-S-Cool. This is an inspiring and rewarding job, because the kids she teaches, being unspoiled and untamed, unknowingly share her Dada-beliefs. She also assists in the editorial design of artists' zines and publications. She is the creative director of Riso print room Stencilwerck in The Hague, editorial designer for CCC (Counter Culture Chronicles) and Casioli Press. Oh, and she is also proud to be a board member of Extrapool in Nijmegen, an amazing initiative focussing on art, sound and print.

Frustrated with the lack of cool in The Hague she felt obliged to co-found HOK; an underground art space in The Hague. If that isn’t enough Lula curates exhibitions all over Europe - mainly focussing on the art of collage. And under the name Mitraillette she presents a monthly underground radio nonsense program at Radio Tonka. To top this list of bragging off she is the initiator and director of The Hague’s very own artbook festival The Other Book.