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Queer Exhibition Histories
Isbn 9789493246133
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 23432
€ 27.50
'Queer Exhibition Histories' comprises case studies highlighting the countless efforts, both large and small, of LGBTQIA+ artists and curators, centring on queer art exhibitions and their modes of documentation and archiving. Often, the legacy of these projects largely depends on personal archives, memories, and paraphernalia, with the overriding notion, or need, for public display. In these contexts, ‘public’ is relative in events that were either short-lived, held under the veil of domestic spaces, or kept exclusive for those ‘in the know’.
288 p, ills bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Sensing Earth - Cultural Quests Across a Heated Globe
Isbn 9789493246249
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 23431
€ 22.50
'Sensing Earth' states that our environmental issues are in the first place a matter of culture and aesthetics. Technology and science are not enough to solve these problems. Our globe is facing an escalation of ecological problems, with no quick solutions in sight. We seem to be caught in a spiral of health issues, burnout, sensory overload, depression, and somatic deprivation. Artists faced with these crises are looking for ways to articulate the ongoing emergencies and explore possible ways out. However, the arts and culture are caught in a double bind. Artists and cultural initiatives need circulation to let ideas intersect and create meaningful connections. However, this globalized system also contributes to the planet’s ecological decline: by countless journeys from one biennale, international residency, touring exhibition, and networking event to the next. After the Covid-19 pandemic ‘business as usual’ seems to prevail.
290 p, ills bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Eduardo Chillida - Catalogue Raisonne of Sculpture IV (1991-2002)
Isbn 9788415042822
Publisher Nerea
Idea code 23213
€ 113.70
The fourth and final volume in a comprehensive series on Eduardo Chillida (1924–2002), this imposing instalment follows the method of its predecessors, which collectively analyse the artist’s output from the beginnings of his career as an artist in 1948. This final book covers the Spanish Basque architect-turned-sculptor’s body of work from 1991 until his death in 2002. Besides an introduction by Ignacio Chillida and Alberto Cobo and an essay by Christa Lichtenstern (“Chillida and the Cosmic Opening-Up of Sculpture”), it contains an addendum including works that were not registered at the time of publication of the relevant volumes and incorporates all previous addenda.
444 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 35 cm, hb, Basque/Spanish/English
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Yoshitomo Nara – Slash with a Knife (new edition)
Isbn 9784898155691
Publisher Little More
Idea code 23437
€ 27.70
A new edition of the classic book by Yoshitomo Nara first published in 1999, ‘Slash with a Knife’ has it all: striking paintings that return the viewer’s gaze, whimsical drawings and doodles, and sculptural works that breathe life into diverse materials and spaces. Nara’s signature caricatures range from adorable and sweet in appearance to grouchy, chiding, or just plain sinister. Some of them hold knives. Nara first emerged in the art world during Japan’s pop art movement in the 1990s, and although the imagery of Japanese manga and anime is often mentioned in reference to his work, he deftly subverts this interpretation through a juxtaposition of evil and innocence.
152 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Alexandra Bachzetsis - Show Time Book / Book Time Show
Isbn 9789464460414
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 23382
€ 42.00
The practice of Alexandra Bachzetsis unfolds at the intersection of dance, performance, the visual arts and theatre, generating a conflation of the spaces in which the body, as an artistic and critical apparatus, can manifest. On the pages of her first comprehensive monograph, the Greek-Swiss performer, choreographer, and artist stages over two decades of work. The volume contains a wealth of images and includes new essays and contributions by Michel Auder, Julia Born, Hendrik Folkerts, Amelia Jones & Tawny Andersen, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Paul B. Preciado, Joke Robaard, Dorota Sajewska, Safiya Sinclair, Adam Szymczyk, and Arnisa Zeqo, among others.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Everybody Talks About The Weather
Isbn 9788887029857
Publisher Fondazione Prada
Idea code 23394
€ 105.95
The project is conceived by curator Dieter Roelstraete for the historic palazzo of Ca' Corner della Regina, Fondazione Prada's Venetian venue. More than fifty works by contemporary artists and a complementary selection of historical artworks trace the various ways in which climate and weather have shaped our histories and how humanity has dealt with our everyday exposure to meteorological events. The exhibition design created by New York-based studio 2X4 entwines the artistic dimension of the project with a series of in-depth scientific spotlights developed in collaboration with The New Institute Centre For Environmental Humanities (NICHE) at Ca' Foscari University in Venice.
448 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Joan Mitchell - By her Friends
Isbn 9782378964283
Publisher Les Presses Du Reel
Idea code 23375
€ 30.10
Influential American painter, Joan Mitchell (1925–1992), was a leading figure in the abstract expressionist movement of the mid-20th century. Breaking boundaries as a female artist, Mitchell achieved critical acclaim in a male-dominated art world. This book provides an intimate portrait of the artist through a collection of previously unpublished conversations with Mitchell’s closest friends. From artists, art historians, and personalities such as Paul Auster and Zuka, this book brings together Guy Bloch-Champfort's interviews, revealing new character traits and stories about the artist. The author was a close friend of Mitchell and the coordinator of her estate after her death.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Dove Allouche - Periodic Table
Isbn 9789464460407
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 23414
€ 24.00
Since his earliest experiments, Dove Allouche has been committed to making visible the matter that comprises planet Earth and its immediate universe. Through slow, carefully considered processes, sometimes involving scientific technologies, he seeks to reveal what lies at the limit of the perceptible. The result is a body of work that is often enigmatic, with multiple interpretations. The 96 photographs in this book correspond to the atomic spectra of the chemical elements, sorted by symbol in alphabetical order. Although the coloured lines are the result of a rigorous scientific process, they are meant to be discovered as abstract works, open to the imagination of each individual. This is the 9th artist's publication in conjunction with the yearly summer exhibition in the area of the Mauvoisin Dam in Vallais, Switzerland, curated by Jean-Paul Felley.
192 p, ills colour, 20 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Thomas Trum - Daily Spins
Isbn 9789492852861
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23407
€ 65.00
Thomas Trum works at the intersection of art and design. Most of his work evolves around a material research of paint and techniques to apply it. Using the studio as a place for experiment, he investigates unconventional ways to paint on paper, canvas, or walls. His method is often based on trial and error, where the outcome of his actions is never predetermined, keeping enthusiasm and velocity as part of the end result. Paint is his muse, whether in research or expanding public spaces with colourful large-scale work. Designed by Team Thursday, ‘Daily Spins’ presents nearly 600 artworks in the clearly recognisable, vibrant abstract-geometric visual language of the artist.
640 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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E IL TOPO. History of an artists’ magazine with an unusual editorial strategy.
Isbn 9791281232020
Publisher a+mbookstore Edizioni
Idea code 23396
€ 81.70
The publishing project E IL TOPO reconstructs the evolution and achievements of the artists’ magazine of the same title, produced from 1992 to 1996, and then from 2012 to the present. It is composed of a boxed set containing two volumes, as well as eight artists’ posters. The first volume is the anastatic reprint of all 33 issues of the magazine, in the original size. The second volume reconstructs the conceptual matrix that has given rise to this unique example of independent and collaborative publishing, with essays by Anna Cuomo, Françoise Lonardoni, and Giorgio Verzotti. The magazine E IL TOPO was founded by Gabriele Di Matteo and Franco Silvestro together with Armando della Vittoria, Piero Gatto and vedova Mazzei, in Naples in 1992, but its editorial team has always been international, transgenerational and anti-hierarchical. Over the years, the group has been composed of about 20 individuals, in a fluid configuration that has brought together different artists and authors, in many cases for work on specific projects and exchanges: Stefano Arienti, Massimo Bartolini, Vanessa Beecroft, Maurizio Cattelan, Mark Dion, Jimmie Durham, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, John Lurie, Eva Marisaldi, Miltos Manetas, Amedeo Martegani, Cesare Viel, Luca Vitone, among others. The unusual editorial strategy resides, for the most part, in the intrinsic power of discontinuity of meaning, but also of play, irony and détournement. E IL TOPO is still an international “movement” today, transmitting a libertarian attitude whose modus operandi tolerates no preset roles, but is always open to multidisciplinary and multi-authorial contributions.
928 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Aria Dean, Bad Infinity: Selected Writings
Isbn 9783956796470
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23388
€ 18.00
Compiled here for the first time, the selected writings of Aria Dean give a sharp critique of representational systems. A visual artist and filmmaker, Dean has also emerged as one of the leading critical voices of her generation, through a body of writing that maps the forces of aesthetic theory, image regimes, and visibility onto questions of race and power. Dean’s thinking embraces a definition of “Black art that luxuriates in its outside-the-world-ness,” as she writes in this volume, which works to elucidate “Blackness’s proclivity for making and unmaking its own rules as it produces objects” of cultural necessity. Originally published in November—of which Dean is a founding editor—as well as in Texte zur Kunst, e-flux journal, and in exhibition contexts, the essays compiled in Bad Infinity were written over a six-year span that charts our rapidly evolving forms of subjectivity and sociality.
152 p, no ills, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Fieldnotes Issue 5: high variance
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Publisher Fieldnotes
Idea code 23351
€ 15.00
The fifth issue of ‘Fieldnotes’ is an invitation and exercise to unlearn the human language. It is not interested in words placed in the correct order, which are limited to performing their functions within a closed system. With new writing and artwork from Josephine Pryde, Fred Moten, Ren Ebel, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos & Fionn Petch, Marie NDiaye & Jordan Stump, Dana Ranga & Christina Hennemann, Sirkhane Darkroom, Lauren de Sá Naylor, Eileen Myles, Markéta Fagan, Sam Cottington, Margaret Tait, Luke Fowler, Sarah Neely & Peter Todd, Mary Ruefle, John Smith, ‘Hal Washington’, Dabin Kim, Alex Aspden and Philip Ewe.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Helen Khal: Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s
Isbn 9781915609212
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23366
€ 24.95
Helen Khal: Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s is a reflective exhibition catalogue; part archive, as well as a living testament to the late Helen Khal (1923-2009). A polymath, an artist, educator, and writer, Khal was also the co-founder of Gallery One, the first modern and contemporary art gallery in Lebanon, which opened its doors to the public in Beirut, in 1963.The catalogue follows on from an exhibition detailing Helen’s life and practice as a catalytic lens through which to explore the work of a group of artists whom she was close to, in life and in art, including: Chafic Abboud, Yvette Achkar, Etel Adnan, Huguette Caland, Simone Fattal, Farid Haddad, Saloua Raouda Choucair, Aref El Rayess, and Dorothy Salhab-Kazemi.The publication seeks to address the exhibition’s themes of love, sex, and motherhood, the relationship between visual art and the literary landscape of 1960s and 1970s Beirut, and the galleries and studios in which public collaborations and private kinships were forged.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Future Book(s) - Sharing Ideas on Books and (Art) Publishing
Isbn 9789493246270
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 23367
€ 28.20
What is the future of the book? And, specifically, what is the future of books on art, design and architecture, and cultural-critical publications? We asked a large number of international interested individuals to respond to this question. Journalists, artists, architects, curators, translators, designers, philosophers, sociologists, teachers, book scholars, publishers, printing houses, distributors, booksellers, historians and art-historians, critics, policymakers, editors, students, and many others have enthusiastically shared their views with us, looking ahead five, twenty or seventy-two years (to the year 2100). At times utopian, wildly fantasizing, at other times with realistic scenarios, in both text and images, exciting for anyone who loves books and/or is involved in books and cultural content. Each section of this publication will be designed by various young designers, to celebrate its scope and diversity.
496 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Dora Garcia – Inserts in Real Time: Performance Work 2000–2023
Isbn 9783947858538
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 23353
€ 30.80
'Inserts in Real Time' is the first monograph on the performance work developed by artist Dora García over the past twenty years. The book contains a conversation between the artist and curator Joanna Zielińska; a selection of her performance scripts; her performances to date, listed, illustrated, described, and contextualized; and three newly commissioned texts – by art historian Sven Lütticken, performance theorist Bojana Cvejić, and Dora García. The publication is co-published with M HKA, Antwerp, and accompanies Dora García’s exhibition 'She Has Many Names'.
328 p, ills colour, 22 x 26 cm, pb, English
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To Live As An Asian Woman
Isbn 9789083318813
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 23354
€ 12.50
‘As an Asian woman, born in Germany and living in Europe since, I have encountered and witnessed racist sexual objectification. Each time I speak up, most people stand in solitary with me, however, some react aggressively; they either scoff or denounce me. Thus, as an Asian female artist, feel a strong sense of responsibility to address racial discrimination through my work. The racist and sexist comments collected in this book are based on what I have actually heard myself. It allows the reader to take account of this very sad, aggressive rejection of the human dignity of Asian woman happening every day.’– Seulbin Roh
44 p, no ills, 13 x 20 cm, pb, Korean/English
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Footnotes to Triangular Cartographies - Processing Process
Isbn 9783947858347
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 23363
€ 26.40
In her travel writings, Ana Hupe maps historical relationships while immersing herself in Yoruba philosophy. A detail observed along a boulevard of imperial palms in Cuba connects the gardens of the Portuguese court in colonial Brazil to an ancient currency in Nigeria. In this book, the notes become the body of the text, thereby relaying an intermittent incursion into the universe of invisible and poetic forces. Coincidences can also be recognised as synchronicities that increase speculative capacities. As an encounter between the visual arts and anthropology, art history, literature, and philosophy, Hupe’s project moves through these countries on its way to other destinations and destinies.
252 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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Tomás Saraceno - Spiders in Motion, Rainy Commotion
Isbn 9788412279283
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 23319
€ 27.95
Born in Argentina and based in Berlin, Tomás Saraceno creates projects in dialogue with forms of life and life-forming, rethinking dominant threads of knowledge in the “Capitalocene” era and recognising diverse modes of being. This book, published to accompany a solo exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London, presents his ongoing research on proverbs. The proverbs collected here are an invitation, an exercise in collective memory, for some to change habits and not the climate. Saraceno pursues the question of whether such popular sayings carry the knowledge to forecast other climates. What if we could all re-learn how to read the weather without relying on the digital cloud?
110 p, no ills, 11 x 15 cm, pb, English
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Figures of Absence. The Films of DORE O.
Isbn 9783910298064
Publisher Strzelecki Books
Idea code 23300
€ 28.65
Aiming at a long-overdue reappraisal of Dore O.’s avant-garde film practice, this publication honours the work and legacy of one of Germany’s most experimental filmmakers. In the 1960s, the painter Dore O. became one of the first and few women in Germany to turn to experimental film in such a consistent and self-determined way. She was actively involved in exploring new forms of cinema while developing her own signature, tone, and film methodology. 'Figures of Absence' exposes the formal rigour and inventiveness as well as the cultural connotations and historical ramifications of a cinematic vision that has been relegated to the purely personal, diaristic, and even nonintellectual realms.
248 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Alex Silber - Heading into Time works 1971-2021
Isbn 9783907112618
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 23337
€ 50.05
Alex Silber belongs to the first generation of Swiss artists to work with multiple media, installations, and performances. Since the beginning of his artistic practice, he has been fascinated by the medial aspect of images and texts. What is it that makes an image come to life? In a world marked by both an intoxication with images and iconoclasm, Silber has shaped his reflective approach to visual information into a distinctive voice of the contemporary world. The German title of this book, ‘In die Zeit gefallen’, does not imply that his oeuvre has taken a tumble down the rabbit hole of time. Rather, it is work on time, in time. It is the not-yet-fully-arrived, and that which is on its way.
290 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, pb, German/English
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The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism - Part One
Isbn 9783943620177
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 23342
€ 15.30
This book collects the papers that were presented at ‘The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Part One’ conference in Los Angeles in November 2012. The conference brought together an international array of philosophers, critical theorists, media theorists, art historians, architects, and artists to discuss the state of the mind and the brain under the conditions of cognitive capitalism, in which they have become the new focus of laboring. How have emancipatory politics, art and architecture, and education been refined by semiocapitalism? What might be the lasting, material ramifications of semiocapitalism on the mind and brain?
272 p, ills bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Hee-Seung Choi - Act of Alignment
Isbn 9789492852922
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23345
€ 24.50
Artist Hee-Seung Choi started to rethink the concept of togetherness as a process for ‘Act of Alignment’ while experiencing the Covid-19 lockdowns abroad and alone. She encourages introspection and a deeper understanding of our connection to the world by delving into the concept of alignment, both physically and metaphorically, as a means of finding harmony within our surroundings. Utilising various mediums, such as drawing, photography, video, sculpture, installation, and personal essays from the artist herself, Choi captures the subtle and intimate aspects of everyday life based on her observations, experiences, and interpretations.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Anton Rooskens - Beyond Cobra
Isbn 9789492852854
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23347
€ 39.95
This monograph examines the life and work of inventive Dutch artist Antoon Rooskens (1906–1976). With more than 100 works from Rooskens, it showcases his earlier pieces to show the development of his personal style, his involvement with the experimental Cobra group, as well as his later experiments with abstraction. Art historians Marguerite Tuijn and Eliane Odding worked closely with the van Rooskens family and an advisory of Cobra experts to provide a detailed overview and analysis of the artist’s work and life. Also included are previously unpublished photos, letters, articles, and works from Rooskens’ personal estate.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Yvonne Rainer - Remembering a Dance – Part of Some Sextets 1965/2019
Isbn 9791280579119
Publisher Lenz Press
Idea code 23374
€ 32.25
Parts of Some Sextets, Yvonne Rainer's 1965 performance for ten people and twelve mattresses, represents a turning point in the American choreographer's oeuvre. "My mattress monster," as Rainer calls it, was built in her formative years with the experimental downtown New York group Judson Dance Theater. In this work, she asserted her exploration of "ordinary" actions as well as her disregard for narrative constructions to create an intricate choreography that unfolded with a new scene every thirty seconds. More than half a century after its premiere, Rainer, in collaboration with choreographer and dancer Emily Coates, directed the 2019 revival of the piece for the Performa 19 Biennial in New York, grappling with the changing contexts of a new presentation of her radical performance. Remembering a Dance: Parts of Some Sextets, 1965/2019 delves into every aspect of this dance, from its original manifestation to its reconstitution.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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