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Fluxus, Again! A History of a Radical Experience 1952-1962-2022
Isbn 9788885449992
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 22471
€ 26.90
Fluxus was a cultural, visual, and social adventure that began in 1962. But the journey to that point started a decade earlier, in 1952, thanks to John Cage at Black Mountain College. As the 1960s progressed, linguistic and formal experiments emerged between Europe, the United States, and Japan that formed an innovative paradigm outside of the accepted aesthetic conventions up until that time. Through narratives and detailed explorations, this volume tells the story of this remarkable post-war period, bringing it into the present moment. The book relies on iconographic and archival materials belonging to Luigi Bonotto, one of the most relevant Fluxus collections in Europe.
108 p, ills bw, 21 x 21 cm, pb, Italian/English
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See All This 26: We are all meat
Isbn 24683981
Publisher See All This
Idea code 22436
€ 19.95
Inspired by the work of artist Francis Bacon, who blurs the lines between human and beast, the magazine offers its meatiest issue to date. To set the tone, the colours of the pages were inspired by ‘Humanae’, a photographic work-in-progress by artist Angélica Dass in which she documents humanity’s true skin colours, seeking to demonstrate that what defines human beings is our inescapable uniqueness and, therefore, our diversity. Experience flesh in all its manifestations, be enchanted by mythical creatures and demigods, and explore our loving relationship with other animals. With a short story by Terry Bisson, a poem by Anne Sexton, photographs by Edward Weston, and more.
190 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, English
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MacGuffin 11: The Chain
Isbn 24058203
Publisher Macguffin
Idea code 22446
€ 22.35
From charms and chokers to shackles and fetters, 'MacGuffin 11' explores the many manifestations of that most contradictory of objects: ‘The Chain’. Worn with love since time immemorial, it is also the ultimate symbol of slavery and suffering. Linking together royals and rappers, provocative punks and crashed cars, cycling skirts and classic scarfs, caged wrestlers and medieval warriors, hyperlinks and haunted houses, Baltic protestors and Cuban revolutionaries, 'The Chain' features Inigo Laguda, Jacqueline de Jong, Harris Blondman, Scheltens & Abbenes, Olivia Ahmad, Rab Messina, Kai Lobjakas, and many more.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, English
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The Art of Critique
Isbn 9791280579102
Publisher Lenz Press
Idea code 22475
€ 27.95
We live in a moment in which institutions, including those central to the art world, are facing a surge of public scrutiny. Propelled by social media, profound questions about how institutions operate—whether structurally, politically, or financially—have become an increasingly prominent part of public life and discourse in recent years. In this context, The Art of Critique revisits the artistic practice of institutional critique to ask what it means today, and to consider its ability to respond to the urgent social, political, and economic issues of our time. Taking works by Tracey Emin, Andrea Fraser, and Sarah Lucas in the collection of the Frans Hals Museum as a departure point, The Art of Critique uses a feminist approach to broaden and challenge traditional art historical definitions of institutional critique.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Tale of Cinema - Hong Sangsoo
Isbn 9780645454703
Publisher Fireflies Press
Idea code 22438
€ 14.30
In the fourth title of the acclaimed DecadentEditions series, Dennis Lim explores the oeuvre of South Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo via his 2005 film. Forty minutes in, we realise we’ve been watching a film within the film. The ‘real’ characters leave the cinema and find themselves reenacting what they just saw, as a chance encounter invites a suicide pact. Is it life imitating art, or the other way around? Dennis Lim is a film curator, teacher, and writer. He is currently the Artistic Director of the New York Film Festival.
216 p, ills bw, 11 x 15 cm, pb, English
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Diasporic Threads - Black Women, Fibre & Textiles
Isbn 9781399919449
Publisher Common Threads Press
Idea code 22391
€ 13.10
'Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fibre & Textiles' highlights Black women's contributions to art and history through fibre-related mediums. The author, Dr. Sharbreon Plummer (Baton Rouge, LA) is an artist, strategist and storyteller that centres the stories and creativity of Black women. Sharbreon's upbringing in southern Louisiana informs her interest into how culture and ancestral memory act as influencers of contemporary art-making. This new publication surveys the history of Black women and textiles in North America, and spotlights five artists through a series of interviews, paying careful attention to the intersections of race, art, and cultural memory.
52 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Artistic Ecologies - New Compasses and Tools
Isbn 9783956796333
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22488
€ 22.00
'Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses and Tools' aims to both analyze and speculate about potentials of artistic ecologies, collective learning, and engaged pedagogies to engender new institutionalities. Going beyond tensions between individuals and institutions, 'Artistic Ecologies' examines avenues for collective learning. If learning for life is emancipation—understood not just as a matter of power but of freedom—the essential question that emerges is: "What knowledge makes us free and how can institutions help produce it?" In search of an answer, this publication’s textual and visual contributions explore sites and practices through which new institutionalities can emerge.
256 p, ills colour, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Josée Pedneault - Contre-jour
Isbn 9789083227412
Publisher Free Pony Press
Idea code 22456
€ 34.00
Contre-jour emerges from a photographic experiment carried out in Japan where artist Josée Pedneault created a visual calendar materializing the duration of her trip. Seventy-five photograms exposed daily to the sun are combined with a series of nighttime photographs of cherry blossoms. Contre-jour captures the light of day through the continuous movement of the Earth on itself and around the Sun. Through opposites and contrasts, the book-object offers in every detail of its structure a meditation on time and a contemplation on the cyclical measures that punctuate our lives. An essay by Safia Belmenouar accompanies the publication.
200 p, ills colour, 15 x 23 cm, pb, French/English
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Quadra Minerale
Isbn 9788492772766
Publisher Rosell Meseguer
Idea code 22439
€ 43.00
In the compendium ‘Quadra Minerale’, science and art intersect through Rosell Meseguer’s attentive and reflective gaze. Appropriating the dictionary format, she offers a simplified reading of some of the elements of the periodic table and their derivatives. The volume thus takes the concept of traditional treatises as a way of learning to look at the practical applications of these substances. Technology, geology, biology, politics, economics, and art come together, drawing new associations that find commonality in everyday life. Deeply linked to the history and practice of “mineral colonialism”, it seeks to expand geopolitical readings on the subject and the problems derived from it.
416 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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Bibliothèque d’un Amateur. Richard Prince’s Publications 1980–2020
Isbn 9788897753711
Publisher Viaindustriae
Idea code 22440
€ 40.85
This book is not a proper catalogue raisonné, but rather an invitation to browse the library of an amateur. It allows us to consider an important aspect of Richard Prince’s work, addressing books as well as the notion of a collection and its incompleteness, revealed here by the “ghosts” of missing books. It encompasses his library and his production of artists’ books over the past four decades, the direct result of an avid book designer and collector who is also widely recognised for his painterly and photographic practice. His zeal for bound works is expressed in many instances where he photographs tomes from his own collection, transforming the publication into an infinite library.
368 p, ills colour, 12 x 16 cm, pb, English
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also vol. 1 Art for (and within) a Citizen Scene
also vol. 2 Be Water, My Friend:
Isbn 9789493148871
Publisher Framer Framed
Idea code 22413
€ 25.00
Two volumes combined in a single publication. The first examines art which is primarily active in the context of daily processes. By shifting our attention away from artistic practices based on object production and individual successes, what can other kinds of practices bring about? Artists and cultural practitioners mostly from South/East Asia connect and share their insight and experience through lively conversations and co-creation in digital workshops. Through anthropological fieldwork and critical analysis, the second volume looks at different forms of socially engaged artistic practices in China that address social issues while avoiding explicitly opposing political authorities.
356 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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The Curatorial Condition
Isbn 9783956795343
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22489
€ 22.00
In spite of the heightened interest in the curatorial since the late twentieth century, the structural conditions and potentials underpinning its special sociocultural status have yet to be defined. Taking this as a starting point, Beatrice von Bismarck’s The Curatorial Condition outlines the curatorial—that field of cultural activity and knowledge that relates to the becoming-public of art and culture—as a domain of practice and meaning with its own structures, conditions, rules, and procedures. Von Bismarck focuses on the relations created by the curatorial—relations between human and nonhuman participants. Rather than foregrounding partial definitions of the activity of curating, the subjectivization of the curator, and the presentation format of the exhibition, she emphasizes the interplay of all these factors.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Stefano Calligaro - Poetricks
Isbn 9783945900574
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 22421
€ 15.30
Stefano Calligaro presents a selection of his ongoing work of literal “poetical-tricks” consisting of modified words and common terms, silly but clever verbal glitches that challenge established social and cultural codes through visual simplicity and a precise but deliberate (mis)use of language. The series originated with the aim of becoming a “visual ecology of signs and meanings”, in contrast to the hyper-spectacle often seen in art and culture in general today. “Poetricks” are simultaneously artworks, minimal poems, and tools the artist uses to question and redefine the essence, meaning, and boundaries of art, language, and poetry.
208 p, ills bw, 9 x 13 cm, pb, English
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ORLAN Manifesto - Bodies and Sculptures
Isbn 9782490505401
Publisher Manuella Editions
Idea code 22388
€ 25.50
The artist Orlan has played a pioneering role in the history of performance art, feminist art, and new technologies. By stepping outside the frame, she made her own body the raw material of her art. This book is published with an eponymous exhibition in Toulouse which examines how Orlan has used sculpture and the plasticity of the body to question social phenomena. Her body of work encompasses not only sculpture but also photography, video, performance, video games, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and robotics. The book highlights the critical issues at stake in Orlan’s practice, which has always been sensitive to the periods in which it was produced.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, French/English
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William Scott
Isbn 9791280579133
Publisher Lenz Press
Idea code 22474
€ 30.10
Born in San Francisco, William Scott has developed his artistic practice while working at Creative Growth, an art centre where people with developmental disabilities are given the opportunity to work and advance creatively as artists. His own colourful works take inspiration from popular culture, combining text and image in highly detailed paintings, drawings, and sculptures. He explores the intersections of community, cultural memory, faith, and science fiction as he reimagines the social topography of his native city. Covering the last 30 years of Scott’s practice, this monograph offers a comprehensive selection of works plus unique insight on his creative and transformative approach.
160 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Emily Kocken & Ruta Butkute - How To Make Sculpture Move
Isbn 9789492852588
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code
€ 30.00
Sculpture, choreography, and installation are the main pillars of Ruta Butkute’s art practice. Her method is guided by a reflective approach to the physicality of sculpture and the relation to the performers, audiences, and the spaces in which they interact. Departing from the principle that an object has a function hidden inside, she redefines the origins and functions of materials and forms in order to evoke their intricate capacity to move. During her Rijksakademie residency (2014–15) in Amsterdam, Butkute started to translate sculpture into different mediums. Over the course of several years, she developed a new medium she calls ‘sculptural performance’, which places objects, sculptures, and space in a transformative field, enabling the direction of movement.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Charlott Markus - Some Things Bleak
Isbn 9789083165875
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 22451
€ 40.00
'Some Things Bleak', a publication about seeing versus not seeing, about gender, class and climate, a work about representation and reproduction. In short, a vehicle for perception and togetherness. After leaving an artist in residence in Japan spring 2019 and being back in Amsterdam Markus felt the need for silence and contemplation. Intuitively she built a studio setting in the forest and a photographic process began. It started with a found tarpaulin; the same kind of blue tarp that is a common sight in Japan and if one looks closer most often a shelter for someone homeless appears.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 34 cm, hb, English
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Composing Interactions
Isbn 9789082893540
Publisher V2_
Idea code 22402
€ 45.00
'Composing Interactions' brings together aesthetic considerations, practical guidelines for project development, and an overview of sensors, circuits, and processing algorithms. Marije Baalman applies her extensive experience as an artist and as an engineer to guide the reader through the creation process of interactive digital artworks. She elaborates on different techniques for creating meaningful interactions and presents detailed case studies of a range of artistic work from the field to illustrate the techniques in practice.
608 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Italo Zuffi 96-22
Isbn 9788875709891
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 22408
€ 36.65
Italo Zuffi’s practice has developed over time through sculpture, photography, video, and performance, and is marked by contrasts and oppositions that can act on the body as well as on the sculptural form: between construction and destruction, softness and rigidity, fragility and competition. The Italian artist also explores mechanisms of power – especially of today’s art system – as they are reflected both in the institutions that represent and support them and in society in general. This monograph covers the period from 1996 to 2022 and features a series of contributions in the form of conversations, a detailed selection of works, and an anthology of texts retracing his life and career.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 23 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Liminal Places. Seven Spatial Stories to Return Home
Isbn 9789493148758
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 22410
€ 17.00
The spaces we design are intuitively connected with stories – stories we have lived, heard from others, and imagined ourselves. When we write these stories, we implicitly design spaces. Spatial stories can therefore be told or written as much as they can be developed through architectural methods. In this book, architect and writer Chiara Dorbolò explores the state of transition of liminal places as a universal metaphor for personal life, making explicit the different roles physical space plays in the human experience of the world. In doing so, she touches upon themes ranging from a feminist critique of the architectural profession to the difficult relationship between city and nature.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Durable Discussions
Isbn 9789493148888
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 22411
€ 19.50
This volume comprises seventeen essays written by designers and artists from the Disarming Design Department of Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. Engaged in social, material, and political struggles, the individuals retell their personal histories, writing across objects, events, places, and habits. By performing research through writing, they sense and transform the poetics and politics of the everyday. Spanning language, typography, aesthetics, weaving, cooking, landscape, speculation, and pedagogies, the essays offer perspectives in thinking about art and design as emancipatory politics and as a practice of hope – making what is deemed impossible, possible.
432 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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You can go anywhere - Josef & Anni Albers Foundation at 50
Isbn 9782958329808
Publisher Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
Idea code 22427
€ 73.10
This 50th anniversary box set contains an extensive series of essays written by staff and collaborators who have contributed to the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation’s work. Josef Albers (1888–1976) was a German-born artist and educator who taught at both the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College. The collection reveals the broad scope of how the foundation has carried on the couple’s legacy over the years. Also featured are the non-profit’s many donations to international museums, including rarely shown artworks. With contributions by architects Manuel Herz and Toshiko Mori, designers Paul Smith and Christopher Farr, and many more, plus archival material and art.
450 p, ills colour & bw, 26 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Johann König,The Blind Gallerist
Isbn 9783956796272
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22487
€ 20.00
Andy Warhol, Isa Genzken, On Kawara, Rosemarie Trockel—from childhood, Johann König has been surrounded by great artists and their art. At the age of twenty, König found a gallery, although he can hardly see anything. What does it mean not to be able to see and to become a gallery owner? How can you access art when you can’t rely on your eyes? What is seeing at all when the world around you blurs? As a child, Johann König was given indian cassettes by Gerhard Richter. Growing up Johann’s father Kasper took him to the Städelschule (where Kaspar König was professor and later rector) and to Jeff Koons’s studio in New York. At the age of twelve, a tragic accident threw him completely off course. In the midst of this crisis, and in its lowest point, König realized that art would be his salvation. Today in Berlin, from a concrete church built in the 1960s, he runs one of Germany’s most spectacular galleries.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Lost Zone. Hiking the dawn of Metaverse
Isbn 9788897753766
Publisher Viaindustriae
Idea code 22441
€ 20.45
Starting in the mid-1990s, Active Worlds remained the most popular user-created virtual environment on the internet for a full decade. Brimming with precedent and potential, this online zone was a worldbuilding exercise and infrastructure that held the promise of a self-electing global citizenry amidst a virtual construction of their own imagination and creation. Architects Andrea Belosi and Joana Rafael embarked on an expedition through the remains of its principle territory, AlphaWorld. Four avatars were enlisted to walk several hundred digital kilometres across the entire world in relay, exploring the ruins of our recent digital past in order to gain insights into our hybrid present.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 22 cm, pb, English
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The Earthly Community
Isbn 9789082893533
Publisher V2
Idea code 22452
€ 15.00
Historian and political theorist Achille Mbembe explores what remains of the human subject in an age when the instrumentality of reason is carried out by and through information machines and technologies of calculation. In ‘The Earthly Community’ he discusses who will define the threshold or set the boundary that distinguishes between the calculable and the incalculable, between that which is deemed worthy and that which is deemed worthless, and therefore dispensable. Are we capable of inventing different modes of measuring that might open up the possibility of a different aesthetics, an alternative politics of inhabiting the Earth, of repairing and sharing the planet?
144 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, English
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C’è tempo per le nespole - New Stories from the First World War
Isbn 9788885449831
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 22469
€ 40.85
Exactly a century after the establishment of commemorative monuments and parks built in Italy in the aftermath of the First World War to honour the fallen, the exhibition initiated by the ICCD in Rome, curated by Francesca Fabiani and Alessandro Coco, raises questions around the theme of the monument and memory by proposing a selection of contemporary works. These are the result of heterogeneous projects ranging from performance to installation, and from documentary photography to illustration. The eight participating artists, each through their own language, have activated new narratives for exploring not only military but also cultural and social aspects of the First World War.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist 1
Isbn 9783947858354
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 22378
€ 11.00
‘Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist’ is a series of small chapbooks designed to bring collaborators, audiences, and readers together as part of the project ‘Nothing of Importance Occurred: Recuperating a Herball for a 17th-Century Enslaved Angolan Midwife at the Cape’, initiated by South African artist Wendy Morris. Through speculative investigations of plants-as-archive and storytelling-as-method, the project focuses on retrieving a library of botanical-medicinal knowledge that perhaps informed Morris’s enslaved ancestor. The ‘Fieldguides’ invite collaborators to shed light on this from multiple angles. The first edition features South African storyteller and author Nadia Kamies.
48 p, ills bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist 2
Isbn 9783947858408
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 22379
€ 11.00
‘Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist’ is a series of small chapbooks designed to bring collaborators, audiences, and readers together as part of the project ‘Nothing of Importance Occurred: Recuperating a Herball for a 17th-Century Enslaved Angolan Midwife at the Cape’, initiated by South African artist Wendy Morris. Through speculative investigations of plants-as-archive and storytelling-as-method, the project focuses on retrieving a library of botanical-medicinal knowledge that perhaps informed Morris’s enslaved ancestor. The ‘Fieldguides’ invite collaborators to shed light on this from multiple angles. The second edition has Rachel O’Donnell, an expert on Latin American practices.
48 p, ills bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist 3
Isbn 9783947858415
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 22473
€ 11.00
‘Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist’ is a series of small chapbooks designed to bring collaborators, audiences, and readers together as part of the project ‘Nothing of Importance Occurred: Recuperating a Herball for a 17th-Century Enslaved Angolan Midwife at the Cape’, initiated by South African artist Wendy Morris. Through speculative investigations of plants-as-archive and storytelling-as-method, the project focuses on retrieving a library of botanical-medicinal knowledge that perhaps informed Morris’s enslaved ancestor. The ‘Fieldguides’ invite collaborators to shed light on this from multiple angles. Joshua Cohen and Johanna Lot are the guest contributors of the third edition.
44 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, German/English
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